米ドルと連動して動く仮想通貨、USDTを発行しているテザー社はかなり奇妙な存在である。市場、経済、国家財政に与えている影響は非常に大きい。しかしその割にはほとんど言及されることがない。
また、テザー社のビジネスを見ていると、「貨幣発行益」を手にした者がいかにボロ儲けができるかがわかる。
テザー社が原価ゼロでUSDTを発行する。USDTが売れた分の米ドル等が手に入る。そのほとんど全てが利益となっているはずである（ロスチャイルド家などは西欧各国の中央銀行を100年以上私有してきたわけだから、手にした利益はテザー社の比ではないはず・・）。
2014年にテザー社は設立され、2024年の3Q累計利益は約1.2兆円である。
他の企業の利益・社員数と、テザー社のそれを比較してみる。
- テザー社 2024年3Q累計利益 1.2兆円 社員数100人程度？
- トヨタ自動車 2024年度予想利益 3.5兆円 社員数38万人
- ブラックロック 2023年度利益 7,839億円 社員数2万人
- ファーストリテイリング 2024年度利益 3,936億円 社員数6万人
↑他の大企業との比較から、テザー社のボロ儲けがいかに破格なものであるかがわかる。
こうした利益を元手にしてか、テザー社は巨額の資産を保有している（日本円換算額は2025/1/19時点のレートで概算値を算出した）。
- 82,000ビットコイン（約1.3兆円）
- ゴールド 48トン（約1.1兆円）
- 米国債 約15兆円分（世界16位の保有額）
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USDTを発行し、それを誰かが使用するために買ってさえくれれば、発行した額面がそのまま利益となるのだから、こんなに美味しい商売はない。
普通、こんな商売を欧米でやっていれば、ロスチャイルド家などの怖い集団に潰されるのオチであるが、堂々とテザー社はビジネスを続けている。
テザー社の背後には王岐山がいて、また西洋の国際金融資本と密接であるから存続できているに違いない。
テザー社は、落ち目の米国債を買い支え、トランプ政権が推すビットコインのバブル化に貢献し、アメリカや国際金融資本勢力にとって都合が良いのである。
テザー社は、既存の相場にとって無から通貨を生み出して各種投資を拡大させているわけだから、レバレッジ的な存在である。仮に米ドルや米国債が暴落するような事態が生じた場合、テザー社の存在が相場下落をさらに推し進めることになりそうだ。
しかし、米ドルが一定の強さを維持し続ける限り、テザー社のボロ儲けは続きそうである。
世界の相場、政治、経済に強い影響を及ぼしそうなテザー社や、その類似の存在に今後も注目していきたい。
おまけ
ジャーナリストのホイットニー・ウェブ氏はハワード・ルトニク商務長官候補とテザー社の関係について下記のようにツイートをしている。
https://x.com/_whitneywebb/status/1863731742412009774
Lutnick is deeply involved with a foreign satellite company (Satellogic) that has been a key part of an effort to tokenize Latin America’s forests and turn them into dollar debt sinks and tradable securities (depending on the project) via a blockchain-based carbon market. Other figures linked to Trump in the past, like Steve Mnuchin, are also very involved with the same company. That company is seeking major contracts with govt entities like NOAA, which Lutnick will soon oversee if confirmed.
Lutnick’s Cantor Fitzgerald is a multinational firm that openly embraces “internationalist” economic policy, the UN SDGs – which promote a new form of the same old debt imperialism and a new system based on the internlinking of digital ID w CBDC/PBDC (central bank/private bank digital currency). It is also a long-time pioneer in electronic carbon credit trading.
Lutnick’s close ties to Tether, a de facto PBDC that is openly allied with the US govt and law enforcement and funds the aforementioned satellite firm, is now a leading consumer of US govt debt (i.e. Treasuries). Cantor Fitzgerald is a critical part of the US treasury market. Tether (and to a lesser extent other dollar stablecoins) is doing what the Eurodollar market did decades ago, creating markets outside of the US for dollars and dollar denominated debt. Lutnick is poised to expand this as head of Commerce and Tether (and Cantor) will benefit significantly.
Lutnick has close ties to Israel and was the long-time next door neighbor of Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein, then connected to Israeli intelligence (and arguably other intel agencies as well), was a key part of a major effort to corrupt the Commerce Department in order to facilitate the illicit transfer of sensitive US military technology, esp satellites and missiles, to China. The main group behind this was directly related to the nexus of US-Israeli intel previously responsible for Iran-Contra, but this faction formed ties with the Chinese government as part of a failed attempt to rescue BCCI Hong Kong.
The scandal is misremembered as a “campaign finance” scandal, but was significantly more than that. In exchange for the illicit receipt of technology, Chinese state-owned companies attempted to smuggle banned weapons into the US West Coast at the same time that the CIA was pumping crack cocaine into West Coast urban communities (see Gary Webb). Clinton met w the top arms dealer in China shortly before the smuggling began. After it was partially foiled by the FBI, Epstein/Wexner took over the Iran-Contra airline used to traffic weapons and drugs (SAT) and changed its route to be Ohio-Hong Kong. Epstein had previously been linked to BCCI and weapons smuggling. Some Ohio law enforcement speculated that the new route was linked to organized crime and, shortly before, local police had produced a document linking Wexner directly to the mob.
The Commerce Secretary Ron Brown agreed to cooperate w an investigation linked to Chinagate, got asked to travel to Croatia unexpectedly and then he and many top Commerce officials from the most targeted part of Commerce (the ITA) died in a very suspicious plane crash, so suspicious that Brown’s body was found with a lead snowstorm in his skull.
Even though this was the Clinton admin, most conservatives won’t touch Chinagate with a 10 ft pole.
As a consequence, Lutnick’s deep ties to Israel and proximity to Epstein warrant scrutiny given their efforts to corrupt Commerce for West-East technology transfer. It doesn’t help that Lutnick has direct ties to Chinese state-owned entities.
The BGC Group, which Lutnick controls, has a joint venture with the Chinese state-owned China Credit Trust. China Credit Trust is the largest shareholder in Harvest Fund Management, which created BHR Partners alongside Hunter Biden’s Rosemont Seneca and the Thornton Group, headed by James Bulger, nephew of the infamous mobster James “Whitey” Bulger. This connection became infamous in conservative circles after the release of contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop and the reports produced on its contents (e.g. marco polo). If controversial for Hunter Biden, will the connection to China Credit Trust prove controversial for Howard Lutnick?
For sourcing on any of the claims made in this thread, please see the article at the top of the thread. For more information on “Chinagate”, you can read more about in Vol 2 of my book One Nation Under Blackmail (available for free on http://archive.org)