Achieva 4% 5 year IRA CD

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> I do know that the official explanations for the WTC building collapses, especially building 7, cannot possibly be true :O https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2008/11/nist-releases-final-wtc-7-investigation-report South Korea is thriving compared to North, so intervention worked there? Why the d...

Texas just opened a depository https://www.texasbulliondepository.gov/ Do you have a mortgage? Thats big inflation protection 50% equity isnt crazy. See Golden Butterfly https://www.gyroscopicinvesting.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7700 If youre concerned about Armageddon, have a few weeks of emergency ...

> if you had all the different types of currency as an option at the same time - in competition with each other We do? You can buy gold and crypto. Gresham's law "bad money drives out good"...people hoard gold and crypto and trade dollars. But I guess this experiment is underway with the competing c...

Should we have let N Korea (China's pit bull) take over S Korea

Also, would like to hear 'Nam stories...

Hold some yourself + maybe Perth Mint?

Im underweight gold because of real estate and a little bit of commodities.

Whats the problem with the dollar? Just dont hold it, buy stocks n'bonds.

Or your ETF manager locks in a loss for you?

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https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2018/07/single-payer-sympathy.html From the comments "And one thing about the Canadian system: it is a big free rider on the inventions of others, mainly the American medical and pharma industry. Canada does not invent anything, does not produce any significant out...

> if the West changed its interventionist foreign policy to non-interventionism, that the West would run the risk of being overrun by the East Maybe. China is a dictatorship with a president-for-life. As a species, the goal is borders not being necessary because there's a global minimum standard of ...

I hear a lot of trash talked about the NHS, but they seem to take very good care of alcoholics. As in the documentary, Louis Theroux: Drinking To Oblivion

And libertarians want open borders. I agree but that increases the need to stabilize the rest of the world to reduce refugees. Has western civilization (US & allies) removed more dictators than it has installed?