The Inconvenient Reality: How the Government Steals Your Wealth and Your Future.

The Problem You Already Feel

Modern life is filled with a series of tough realities. Everything costs more than it did last year and this cycle seems to continuously grow. Prices never seem to fall back. Groceries, gas, rent, insurance and utilities. The list of things that have gotten more expensive faster than your income has grown is not a coincidence, not a supply chain problem, and not the result of any single political decision.

The reality of ever-increasing expense is tied directly to the decreasing value of the currency the average person earns. In 1963, the United States government held roughly 11 to 15 cents in verified productive assets for every dollar of obligation outstanding. That was already thin. Today it holds less than 2 cents. In sixty years, the genuine productive backing behind every dollar you hold has declined by roughly 83 percent. That number is not a political opinion, its mathematically proven using public data the government releases.

Central banks don’t warn you they are debasing your currency and no government puts a warning label on its currency. The explanations offered for this 83 percent decline include corporate greed, foreign interference, the pandemic, and energy markets. Each contains partial truth. None is the primary cause.

The primary cause is that governments spend more than they earn and cover the difference by printing more money. Every new unit of currency created to cover that gap makes every dollar you already hold worth a little less. That has been happening, without interruption, for more than sixty years.

For the first time, there is now a number that tells you whether your government is actually growing its economy or just printing money and calling it growth.

This number tells you if your politicians are stealing from or working for you.

Growth and Debasement Are Not the Same Thing

The word inflation gets used to describe two completely different events. Understanding the difference is the key to understanding what is actually happening to your money, wealth and future.

The first kind of inflation is real economic growth. A business opens. A new product gets made. More people are working and producing. The economy genuinely expands and creates new wealth. Prices may rise modestly as more people compete for goods and services but wages rise with it because the productive base supporting your income also grew. You are not poorer. There is simply more economic activity and your share of it is larger. This is healthy. This is what prosperity actually looks like.

The second kind of inflation is currency debasement. The government is spending more than it earns. It covers the shortfall by borrowing money from the central bank, who creates this new money from thin air and as a result expands the money supply. Not because more goods and services were created. Not because the economy grew. Because the government’s bills came due and the central bank’s printing press was the easiest and most available tool to use. What happens next is the same amount of real goods (groceries, gasoline, electricity, and rent) now has more currency units chasing it. Prices rise. However, when governments print new money, your wages do not keep up because your employer's actual output did not increase. You are poorer. This is not economic growth. This is the value of your labor being quietly transferred to the central bank that printed the money you are paid in. That money was printed without value, because the value, the central bank claims, is in the economy that uses the increasingly worth-less currency they print.

These two completely different events have always been lumped together under the one word, inflation. The misuse of the word inflation has suited governments perfectly because it lets them present currency debasement to the voters as economic activity (growth). The test between the two is a single question: did the quantity of real goods and services actually increase, or did the price of the same goods and services increase because more currency was created to chase them? If the answer is the second one, that is debasement. Today, and in the foreseeable future when prices go up at the check out line, that’s currency debasement, not real economic growth.

Adding insult to injury, when politicians proudly boast about job and wage creation, they fail to address the economic growth issue. Plainly, if wages go up two percent and prices go up five percent, you are already down three percent in real terms.  Directly, you are working more for less and your wealth, whether that is in investments, savings or just in cash goes down in real value each day. 

A job is not wealth. A job is an income stream denominated in a currency. If that currency is being debased, the job pays less in real terms every single year regardless of what the number on your pay stub says. 

Tracking Currency Debasement to Retain Real Wealth

No existing financial framework separates the abuse of the word inflation in a way that ordinary people can easily see, understand and track. Rating agencies assess whether specific bonds will make scheduled payments. They do not tell you whether the currency those bonds are denominated in is losing its genuine value. GDP figures lump real productive growth together with the price increases caused by money printing. Inflation statistics measure the symptom without identifying the cause.

The Alkaimi Currency Value Index (ACVI) and the Alkaimi Government Solvency Index (AGSI) were built to make that separation visible and public for the first time. The ACVI scores each currency from 0 to 100. It answers the question every worker deserves answered honestly: is the unit in which I am storing the value of my labor a sound store of that value, or is it being eroded by the entity that issues it?

A higher score means the currency has genuine productive backing. A lower score means value is being extracted from it. When a government genuinely grows its economy and its productive assets increase alongside its obligations, the ACVI score rises. When a government covers its spending by printing money, the ACVI score falls. The index separates the two. For the first time.

The AGSI scores government solvency directly with a single ratio. It asks one question: for every unit of currency your government has issued, how much does it actually own? What it actually holds in verified productive assets right now. A ratio above 1.00 means the government owns more than it owes. Below 1.00 means it owes more than it owns.

The new Federal Reserve chairman was nominated specifically for his support of lower interest rates. Prices in the United States have been running above the Fed's own target for over five years, driven primarily by the massive money supply expansion that occurred during COVID and was never fully withdrawn. That is debasement, not growth. Cutting rates now expands credit and money supply further, not because the economy is producing more real goods and services, but because the government needs cheaper money to service debts it cannot afford at current rates. More currency chasing the same productive output. The AGSI ratio gets worse. The ACVI score falls further. The Fed Chairman’s strategy that is supposed to solve the debt problem accelerates the erosion of the currency every American holds effectively stealing wealth from every person whose assets are valued in dollars, or holds US dollars to engage in business, trade or commerce.

Understanding The Scores – May 2026

Currency	Country	AGSI	ACVI	Flag
KWD	Kuwait	30.85	67	CLEAN
SAR	Saudi Arabia	10.09	62	CLEAN
QAR	Qatar	8.40	60	CLEAN
CHF	Switzerland	0.82	58	CLEAN
AED	UAE	4.77	55	CLEAN
EUR	Eurozone	0.040	45	RED
GBP	United Kingdom	0.031	39	YELLOW
JPY	Japan	0.024	17	CLEAN
USD	United States	0.019	13	RED
CNY	China	0.018	12	YELLOW

AGSI: How much the government owns per unit of currency issued. ACVI: Currency soundness score 0 to 100. Flag: Currency Integrity status. Derived from public institutional data. Updated periodically.

Read the table this way.

A.    Kuwait holds over thirty dollars in verified productive assets for every dollar it owes.

B.    The United States holds less than two cents in value for every dollar it owes.

C.    Switzerland scores well because it is fiscally disciplined and conservatively managed. But still owes 82 cents for every dollar of verified productive assets it holds.

D.   Japan scores low despite appearing stable because its debt load is the highest in the developed world and its central bank has been effectively printing money to fund it for years.

The scores reward good economic management and penalize bad management:

1.      A government that genuinely grows its productive base, keeps its fiscal house in order, and issues currency responsibly sees its scores improve over time.

2.    A government that spends beyond its means and covers the gap through monetary expansion sees its scores fall.

The numbers do not care which party is in power. They measure the cumulative result of every fiscal and monetary decision a government has made. As such this is not a political narrative, it’s an economic narrative which educates the citizens of each nation.

The Currency Integrity Flag

Most people have no idea that government gave themselves the legal ability to reach into private bank accounts and steal citizens assets to cover its own obligations. Most depositors have never heard the term. Most have no idea the legislation exists in their country or that it has already been used. The index’s currency integrity flag tells readers if their government gave themselves the ability to steal their citizen’s wealth.   This is not a threat; it’s a practice that has been done before. 

In 2013 the government of Cyprus activated a bail-in and took money directly from bank accounts above 100,000 euros to cover bank failures tied to sovereign debt exposure. Similar frameworks exist by statute in the United States, the European Union, and the United Kingdom. Your bank is not required to tell you this. The index flag does.

Flag	Status	What It Means
CLEAN	No mechanism. No precedent.	No law enables this government to reach into private bank accounts or citizen assets to cover sovereign debts. No historical precedent exists.
YELLOW	The law exists.	A legal mechanism for taking depositor or creditor money to cover government obligations exists in statute. It has not been used yet. The switch is installed and available.
RED	It has been used.	A government has already reached into private accounts at any level to settle its obligations. Once a government demonstrates willingness to do this, the precedent exists permanently.

What Politicians Promise and What the Numbers Show

Every election in every country with a low ACVI score runs on the same promises. Lower cost of living. Affordable housing. Better wages. Cheaper healthcare. The politicians hear the complaints because the complaints are real. What they do not say is that the promised policies they promote to get elected often push the country’s ACVI score lower.

Every new spending program increases the obligations side of the AGSI calculation. Every stimulus that expands the money supply without expanding the productive base reduces the ACVI score.  Every tax cut without a matching spending reduction widens the gap the printing press eventually has to fill. The cycle is not a failure of good intentions. You cannot fix the cost of groceries by printing more of the money that caused them to cost more in the first place.

The ACVI and AGSI make this visible in a way that has never been available to ordinary people before.

When a government announces an economic program, you can watch what it does to the scores over time.

1.     If the program creates genuine productive growth, the AGSI improves.

2.    If the program is funded by monetary expansion, the AGSI falls and the ACVI follows.

The indexes are the accountability mechanism that no government has ever had to face from its own citizens.

This is not a problem unique to any one country. It is a global condition. Most of the world's major governments are running the same playbook. Their currencies all sit in the lower half of the scoring table. Their citizens all feel the same erosion at the checkout line. The problem is systemic and the conventional financial system has no mechanism to measure it honestly because the conventional financial system is denominated in the same currencies being measured.

The indexes use the government's own published data to evaluate the government's own performance. That is not politics. That is arithmetic.

A Different Answer

Pegisai publishes the ACVI and AGSI as standalone public indexes. They stand on their own. Anyone can verify the inputs from the named public sources. Any analyst, any institution, any individual can use them.

Alkaimi has also built something that scores well on these indexes by design rather than by accident. The Digital Title Asset (DTA) is a monetary mechanism backed by verified productive assets held in the real world. Oil reserves, gold, minerals, agricultural land and many others. Real things that exist regardless of what any government decides to do with its budget.

Each DTA is individually insured before it is issued. Its value does not depend on any government's fiscal decisions or any central bank's monetary policy. DTA’s operate inside the existing global banking system through licensed banking partners in multiple regions. DTA’s are currency neutral. Unlike cryptocurrency, DTAs do not ask you to abandon your existing bank or your existing currency, they are a functional store of real, insured value that work inside the monetary system as non-speculative assets.  

The DTA was built because the indexes reveal a gap the existing system cannot close from within. When your government holds less than two cents of real assets for every dollar it has issued, and the legal mechanism to reach into your accounts exists in statute, and the people who could change that have no political incentive to do so, something that sits outside that framework entirely is not a radical idea. It is the logical conclusion of the mathematical process.

Nations that engage with genuine productive asset-backed monetary mechanisms improve their own AGSI scores in the process. DTAs allow governments to activate productive assets, without currency expansion costs, effectively moving these value pools from stranded to active. Through this innovative use of DTAs, government generate new revenue stream pushing economic development first, without encumbering currency debasement and the long-term effects of debt driven inflation. Their currencies become more sound as the economy’s productive base supporting the government’s balance sheets grows. Alkaimi’s indexes measure this economic improvement the same way they measure the deterioration. Honestly. From public data. Without political adjustment.

The indexes show what the existing system is worth by the arithmetic of its own numbers. Economic growth from the use of DTA’s occurs because trade and growth are backed by something other than a promise.

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ACVI and AGSI scores are derived from publicly available institutional data. All calculations are replicable from named sources. Updated periodically. Not investment advice.