A Serious Voice in a Dismissed Debate
When the topic of global financial manipulation arises, the conversation is often brushed aside as “conspiracy theory.” References to hidden elites, suppressed resources, or long-term economic engineering are met with skepticism. Yet not all critics of the monetary system emerge from the margins. Some come from inside the very institutions that run global finance.
Bix Weir, founder of Road to Roota, is one of those insiders. With more than two decades of experience working in the financial services and leasing industries, including stints with Fortune 500 firms such as GE Capital and GATX Corp, Weir understands how money, debt, and capital markets function behind the curtain. Far from a “tin hat theorist,” he offers a serious, documented analysis of how the U.S. dollar transitioned from gold, to fiat, to petro-dollar — and how each stage was engineered not by accident but by design.
Weir’s Road to Roota theory is controversial, but it cannot be dismissed. It presents a credible framework that interprets gold suppression, fiat dependency, and petro-dollar dominance as deliberate steps in a much larger script aimed at reshaping the world order.
At the center of Weir’s theory is an unlikely artifact: a Federal Reserve Bank of Boston educational comic book titled Wishes and Rainbows, first published in 1981 and updated in 2007. On the surface, the comic was a teaching tool to explain scarcity and allocation to schoolchildren, featuring a character named Roota who discovers a land of color (representing wealth).
But Weir sees the story as an allegory — a coded document from inside the Federal Reserve itself. He interprets Roota’s journey as symbolizing the path back to “honest money”: a transition from manipulated fiat currency to a gold- and silver-backed system. In this reading, the Road to Roota isn’t just a comic. It is a roadmap, a subtle acknowledgment by the Fed that the current system is temporary, managed, and eventually destined for collapse.
One of Weir’s most striking claims concerns the official U.S. gold price in the early 20th century.
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For decades, gold was fixed at $20.67 per ounce.
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Yet the cost of mining new gold was closer to $30 per ounce.
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This meant mining was unprofitable, effectively locking vast reserves of U.S. gold in the ground.
Weir argues that this was no accident of policy but a deliberate suppression tactic. By pricing gold below extraction cost, U.S. elites ensured that existing reserves remained scarce while massive hidden deposits were preserved for future use.
This notion of controlled scarcity fits neatly with a broader pattern: governments and central banks consistently use pricing, taxation, and regulation not to encourage free markets but to engineer long-term outcomes. In Weir’s view, gold’s suppression was part of a century-long plan to maintain power while preparing for a future reset.
The collapse of the Bretton Woods system in 1971 marked a turning point in global finance. President Richard Nixon’s closure of the “gold window” ended the dollar’s convertibility to gold at $35/oz. For many, this was seen as a crisis-driven necessity. For Weir, it was another calculated step.
Almost immediately, the U.S. pivoted to a new arrangement: the petro-dollar system. Through agreements with Saudi Arabia and OPEC, oil was priced exclusively in dollars. This forced every nation on earth to hold dollars in order to purchase energy — creating artificial global demand for U.S. currency.
Once the petro-dollar was established, the dollar no longer required gold backing. The price of gold was suddenly allowed to surge — from $35 to over $800 per ounce by January 1980. Weir interprets this as clear proof that gold’s suppression was released once it was no longer needed to stabilize the currency.
Weir’s analysis does not stop at economics. He connects the dots to what many call the cabal — a network of financial elites, think tanks, and political operatives shaping global policy.
According to Weir:
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Computer programs have controlled markets since the 1970s, smoothing volatility and preserving the illusion of stability.
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A small group of powerful elites has exploited these tools to concentrate wealth upward while the public remains in debt.
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Natural resources within the U.S. — oil, minerals, rare earths — have been deliberately hidden or restricted, ensuring dependence on global supply chains.
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Alternative energy technologies have been suppressed to maintain the dominance of oil and the petro-dollar system.
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Events like 9/11 mark inflection points where the struggle between cabal control and reformist counterforces became visible.
Taken together, these elements paint a picture of a managed economy, not a free one. The so-called “invisible hand” of the market is, in Weir’s view, a visible hand disguised — one belonging to entrenched powers pursuing a path toward greater centralization.
The Road to Roota theory culminates in what Weir describes as a process of “creative destruction.” Fiat currencies, over-leveraged and debased, are destined to collapse. When they do, the world will not return to business as usual but will be forced into a new system.
In Weir’s view:
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All fiat wealth (debt, derivatives, paper assets) will be destroyed.
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Gold and silver will be revalued astronomically, potentially in the tens of thousands of dollars per ounce.
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Financial criminals who benefited from manipulation will face retribution.
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A new, gold-backed U.S. currency will emerge, potentially tied to Social Security distributions to reintroduce fairness.
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Globalization will unwind, with domestic production and local sovereignty restored.
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Military drawdowns will occur as the U.S. retreats from foreign entanglements.
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Suppressed energy technologies will be released, ending fossil fuel dependency.
The outcome, according to Weir, is nothing less than a new Golden Age of freedom and prosperity — a system rooted in honest money, transparent markets, and decentralized power.
It’s easy to dismiss sweeping narratives of hidden elites and engineered collapses. But Weir’s credibility lies in both his background and his evidence:
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Insider experience: Two decades in financial services provide him with firsthand knowledge of how markets are structured.
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Documentary basis: He builds arguments on historical records, Federal Reserve publications, and observable policy shifts.
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Real-world resonance: Mainstream economists now acknowledge practices like gold price suppression (via COMEX), interest rate rigging (LIBOR), and the strategic role of petro-dollars.
In this light, Weir is not a lone voice in the wilderness but part of a growing chorus recognizing that global finance is not a neutral machine but a designed system, built and managed by human hands.
Bix Weir’s Road to Roota is not the rambling of a “tin hat” theorist. It is the product of a career spent inside the financial machine, now directed at exposing the patterns that few dare acknowledge. His claims — that gold was deliberately suppressed, that fiat and petro-dollar systems were engineered, and that a cabal steers global economics — deserve attention, not dismissal.
As the world edges closer to another monetary inflection point, with rising debt, inflationary pressures, and calls for a digital currency reset, Weir’s insights seem increasingly prescient. Whether one agrees with every detail or not, his framework forces us to ask: Are we witnessing markets at work, or the careful unfolding of a hidden script?
Either way, ignoring voices like Weir’s is no longer an option.