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- Fri Feb 14, 2025 8:31 pm
- Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
- Topic: Attention: Mathjak! Choose Your Tactical Asset Allocation Strategy Carefully
- Replies: 5
- Views: 422
- Wed Feb 12, 2025 12:41 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: MachineGhost?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 165
Re: MachineGhost?
Vinny, this is uncomfortably close to doxxing. We don't need to be investigating each other.
- Sun Feb 09, 2025 1:25 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Harry Dent: ‘Crash of a Lifetime’ Coming in 2024
- Replies: 35
- Views: 117213
Re: Harry Dent: ‘Crash of a Lifetime’ Coming in 2024
As I wrote, global birth rates are dropping, but global population continues to rise, and that's what matters. More people means more demand, which is inflationary. The fact that the rate of "more people" growth itself is falling only means that this inflationary pressure is less inflatio...
- Tue Feb 04, 2025 8:15 pm
- Forum: Gold
- Topic: The GOLD scream room
- Replies: 3841
- Views: 2213462
Re: The GOLD scream room
Wouldn't the split be between physical gold on one side and ETFs like GLD and PHYS on the other?
- Mon Feb 03, 2025 2:22 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Casey Burgat on We Hold These "Truths"
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4798
Re: Casey Burgat on We Hold These "Truths"
Do you have an example of one or two?
- Mon Feb 03, 2025 2:20 pm
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Daily "Check In" Thread For Us
- Replies: 2835
- Views: 1790904
Re: Daily "Check In" Thread For Us
Your B’head initialism of the day: NMI = No Middle Initial. Yes, there’s an initialism for no initial! An older gentleman I know joined the Army way back when, and filled out D (IO) in the middle name blank, meaning D (initial only). Of course the Army considered his middle name to be Dio for the e...
- Mon Feb 03, 2025 10:19 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Daily "Check In" Thread For Us
- Replies: 2835
- Views: 1790904
Re: Daily "Check In" Thread For Us
According to the National Safety Council, in 1950 for every 100 million miles driven you could expect 7.59 deaths. In 2022 that number is 1.33 deaths. source
- Sat Feb 01, 2025 4:32 pm
- Forum: Gold
- Topic: The GOLD scream room
- Replies: 3841
- Views: 2213462
Re: The GOLD scream room
I appreciate you pointing that out! Vinny's question and your response raise the interesting question of what a Bitcoin actually is. They are tokens that allow you to transact on the system. If you have no tokens, you cannot pay miners to process your transaction, and you have no tokens to send to ...
- Wed Jan 29, 2025 11:08 pm
- Forum: Gold
- Topic: The GOLD scream room
- Replies: 3841
- Views: 2213462
Re: The GOLD scream room
Isn’t it, like, decentralized and stuff? That’s why when a teacher raped a student in Beijing, they put it on the blockchain so it could never be erased. I don’t know. What happens when some government (correctly?) deems mining Bitcoin to be defamatory because it involves disseminating information ...
- Wed Jan 29, 2025 3:01 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: US Citizen / Military Vet detained in ICE raid
- Replies: 47
- Views: 8118
Re: US Citizen / Military Vet detained in ICE raid
Where this gets interesting is those members of SCOTUS and members of Congress (mostly among the far right Republicans) that consider themselves "originalists" and treat the Constitution like a sacred near-biblical document that should be interpreted very literally and with what the frame...
- Wed Jan 29, 2025 2:58 pm
- Forum: Gold
- Topic: The GOLD scream room
- Replies: 3841
- Views: 2213462
Re: The GOLD scream room
For BTC to exist, the network that maintains the ownership record must exist. The network consists of a high powered network of computers capable of mining new blocks. There is a lot of hardware, physical real estate and electrical power tied up in that. There’s a fair bit of hardware required to g...
- Wed Jan 29, 2025 1:55 pm
- Forum: Gold
- Topic: The GOLD scream room
- Replies: 3841
- Views: 2213462
Re: The GOLD scream room
All the Bitcoin in the world could fit on a thumb drive. Sort of. A thumb drive is sufficient to store the private keys to a BTC wallet address. However, BTC isn't actually a real digital object. The BTC blockchain records ownership of BTC (like your County Clerk records real property ownership/dee...
- Wed Jan 29, 2025 12:06 pm
- Forum: Gold
- Topic: The GOLD scream room
- Replies: 3841
- Views: 2213462
Re: The GOLD scream room
How big is the world's limited supply of Bitcoin? The question would be what size hard drive is necessary to hold it? I know that there is a lot of computing power and electricity used in creating them. But I'm so ignorant of them that I don't know if there is actually some type of file storage for...
- Tue Jan 28, 2025 10:02 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: US Citizen / Military Vet detained in ICE raid
- Replies: 47
- Views: 8118
Re: US Citizen / Military Vet detained in ICE raid
Haven't there been several other Boomer presidents? Clinton, Obama, GW Bush? Clinton was president 32 years ago and is younger than Biden.
- Tue Jan 28, 2025 1:52 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Birthright citizenship
- Replies: 50
- Views: 8182
- Mon Jan 27, 2025 12:11 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Birthright citizenship
- Replies: 50
- Views: 8182
Re: Birthright citizenship
Good points all, I stand corrected! It was a good question. I have re-framed it in my mind into a variant though - Has it proven to be a better strategy historically for a conquering power to a) subjugate the conquered into a subordinate sub-class, or b) assimilate the conquered into their society ...
- Mon Jan 27, 2025 10:46 am
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Birthright citizenship
- Replies: 50
- Views: 8182
Re: Birthright citizenship
Good points all, I stand corrected!
- Sun Jan 26, 2025 8:05 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Birthright citizenship
- Replies: 50
- Views: 8182
Re: Birthright citizenship
I guess we'll all find out together. It is bizarre though that we would be talking about the birthright citizen status of Native Americans. Talk about paradox. It might seem normal to us today, but the citizenship situation of Native Americans is far from a slam dunk. What we're talking about is tr...
- Fri Jan 24, 2025 11:12 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Mount McKinley or Denali
- Replies: 15
- Views: 10134
Re: Mount McKinley or Denali
Johnny Horton might have to revise "The Battle of New Orleans" too!
- Fri Jan 24, 2025 5:53 pm
- Forum: Gold
- Topic: The GOLD scream room
- Replies: 3841
- Views: 2213462
Re: The GOLD scream room
Whoops yes!
- Fri Jan 24, 2025 11:28 am
- Forum: Gold
- Topic: The GOLD scream room
- Replies: 3841
- Views: 2213462
Re: The GOLD scream room
What we're hearing aren't direct orders from him as our superior; what we hear are his pronouncements. They indicate the direction he'd like to go; where his head is on things.
I'm not saying it's good, but that's the way to be listening.
I'm not saying it's good, but that's the way to be listening.
- Fri Jan 24, 2025 8:01 am
- Forum: Other Discussions
- Topic: Daily "Check In" Thread For Us
- Replies: 2835
- Views: 1790904
- Thu Jan 23, 2025 7:42 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Drill Baby Drill
- Replies: 1
- Views: 713
Re: Drill Baby Drill
To be clear I'm not defending Trump when I describe that literal/serious situation. It's just a matter of adjusting expectations when listening. Honestly I have no idea what to expect out of the rest of the administration.
- Thu Jan 23, 2025 4:51 pm
- Forum: Politics
- Topic: Only in Mississippi
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2046
Re: Only in Mississippi
Vinny, the bill is from a Democrat who's trying to make a point. Nobody is actually trying to pass this.
- Thu Jan 23, 2025 4:50 pm
- Forum: Gold
- Topic: The GOLD scream room
- Replies: 3841
- Views: 2213462
Re: The GOLD scream room
Trump at Davos says he'll "demand that interest rates drop immediately". During a period of sticky-upward inflation. Financial repression. Great for gold. Bring it! When questioned about that later he admitted it was hyperbole, that he just wanted to make a strong statement. Which again m...