The restaurant industry is experiencing a slow down in traffic and sales even with rising food and drink prices. Trump signs memo looking into the trade agreements with China. From all the indicators that are now out in the public domain the US economy is in a recession even though the Fed has not acknowledged it.
IRS reports quarterly taxes are down 40% as more individuals are not paying up. Does the Fed have 6200 tons of gold, we don't because they will not allow anyone to audit it . Venezuela and many other countries are turning towards cryptocurrencies.
The central banks are pushing to stop people from using cryptocurrencies, what we are witnessing is the transition into a new currency, a new system.