History is interesting, but it only defines the future if one lets it. It's also a poor excuse for justifying responses to real current problems. We fought two world wars with Germany and one with Japan. They are now our friends. We fought on the same side as Russia did in both of them and now we ar...

Hi gang, read this and just had to post it here. IMHO this is the single best piece on gold I have ever read. Facts and numbers are powerful things. The writer is not hater, not a lover, just some great analysis and excellent nuance one doesn't see usually see from gold lovers and haters. Hope you a...

> then combine this with an agenda. Big sigh. yet, you seem to be the biggest supporter of government and corporate media here =) Some call it https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2021/01/18/gell-mann-amnesia/ Apparently you skim most of what I write. I do not chose to live my life in a perpetual state o...

Washington had his fair share of human faults, as we all do. What was mind blowing, and particularly at the time, was he was not interested in power other than to achieve the revolution’s goals. Hence the American Cincinnatus moniker.

Apparently in the latest spending bill you can have $2500 as an emergency fund with a no penalty withdrawal ability.

QQQ and your favorite SCV or just SC is a great combo. Use the SP 600 vs R 2000 though.

Stuper, The politics board is fun to engage in and we have been foes there but for me I don’t take that stuff elsewhere on the board. The great thing about finance is there is a perfectly rational answer that is math based if properly constructed. As most replies touched upon and was in your opening...

You can also just use a total us bond fund if an itt fund isn’t available.

J, At least in my experience what you described is how a lot of government things occur. You forgot to add the constituents who benefit and sometimes these groups are massive and expect what they want is what is provided. That’s why they vote for it/them. For example, social security and Medicare ar...

You are not trying to be balanced or objective on this topic for whatever reasons. You know that, I know that. And you are being balanced and objective? Do you ever consider that your experiences in the past may color your opinions currently? Those who think they know everything have stopped learni...

From my experience here’s where there is a problem with the military. We stay WAY too long when things are obviously not going well and the cost benefit analysis of military action has swung to the absolute loss side of the ledger. A weird dynamic occurs…all militaries hate to lose. It’s the ultima...

Kbg, Here's my pushback, coming from someone who admittedly is a naive dummy regarding this stuff. You characterize it as 80/20 truth to lies. I'm sure I could spend hours and days researching and come up with plenty of sources that would suggest a different ratio maybe 40/60 or 30/70. When there's...

This is where we are. We have left wing media and right wing media. You are apparently required to pick a side, and then you have to denigrate anything said by the other side, whether it is worth considering or not. It could be an extremely important thing to know, but no, the other side is saying ...

Speaking of data…this is pretty interesting.

https://www.war-memorial.net/wars_all.asp

Our military industrial complex, defense contractor industry, and unfettered lobby will cause us to err to the side of militarism for the obvious reasons. However, you should also realize politicians know how to count votes and they do on this issue. If you are in the group of Americans who think t...

Let’s run down the list objectively as to stated reason and reality. If you have the opinion the war was stupid, we stayed too long and we shouldn’t have gotten involved great. I share that view in some cases. However, this has no bearing on if the government lied to you about why we were getting i...

Let’s run down the list objectively as to stated reason and reality. If you have the opinion the war was stupid, we stayed too long and we shouldn’t have gotten involved great. I share that view in some cases. However, this has no bearing on if the government lied to you about why we were getting in...

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So very, very true...then combine this with an agenda. Big sigh.

SilentMajority wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 10:58 am Hopefully Elon makes enough money here to buy another media company and shed more light on what these unelected spy/police agencies are up to.

Personally, I would prefer billionaires get out of the media biz. Jeff Bezos completely ruined the WaPo.

I say as an American practicing Christian, God willing Russia will win and teach the warmongering American leadership class to stop meddling in other countries' business, most of which they do not because of a selfless desire to spread freedom and democracy to the rest of the world but just to fatt...

Our military industrial complex, defense contractor industry, and unfettered lobby will cause us to err to the side of militarism for the obvious reasons. Well, far far more accurately, the people who inhabit congress and the senate bringing home the bacon for their districts/states with something ...

I saw a bit of Zelenski (sp?) with the big guy. Z spoke about how many people in U are now going to be vengeful for generations. This is a great reason to stay out of European wars. They (all of them) have been fighting for a couple thousand years and they all hate each other. If you ever have a go...

The thing is that your hypothetical would require the US to actually engage in some diplomacy, kind of like in the old days where quid pro quo stuff actually happened. As I understand it these days, the US is basically the big bad bully that just tells other countries what the deal is going to be, ...

The non-partisan observer observes that left and right are both "woke" these days. They just bang on different drums. Casting it in religious terms...heaven help he/she who breaks from ordained orthodoxy. Free thinking/opposing views verboten.

It would seem that the implied threat of "fines and criminal penalties" would be sufficient to persuade cooperation without getting to the point of following thru on said threats. Therefore, the "requests" seem like de facto coercion, so maybe you do want to be concerned. If thi...