And Bogle was the anti-salesman...

> have there been secular changes in the investment picture such that (some of) Harry Browne's insights and conclusions no longer apply We past peak working age populations in US EU and China. The pie only grows for everyone with young people taking out car loans, educations loans and mortgages. Whe...

Google's too big. No more government protection in the form of patents. For more content Bitcoin solves this? https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1862633099906937251 Doubt vaccines cause autism, but also doubt this is good https://old.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1h2r1w9/cdc_just_published_its...

> deflation is a rare event

Will be dumping LTTs when Fed starts buying long again. If they dont I'm screwed. That why I keep asking why some countries have 20% inflation with 20% rates instead of 2% and 2%

Thats the problem with communist fantasies, in practice people abuse power. Maybe Vinny wouldnt, but he's not the type that works to acquire power. Congressmen should be selected at random from qualified pools. And term limits. I was auto-banned from dozens of subs including "pictures" and...

Leftists already have reddit as their echo chamber. They never actually move to Canada either.

Random crypto content
https://www.arscyni.cc/file/crypto_cult_science.html

Bitcoin doesnt seem that different than a gold ETF.

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/che ... -privilege

In Nigeria they are still using Megacorp controlled apps. Maybe pumping bitcoin is good for US hegemony if it gets people into the apps

Megacorp (Amazon, Walmart, Home Depot, Kroger) are the US gov and they'll only take the company scrip

https://old.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/1g6a25g/xray_evidence_of_black_maths_scholar_portrait/ Random content: Elon making things awkward. https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1859596285549920658 Javier Milei: President of Argentina. Lex Fridman Podcast https://old.reddit.com/r/lexfridman/comments/...

They havent been, but non-nerds do not operate outside the matrix. The bitcoin ETFs make that worse, paradoxically. As has been the case for years the only person I know IRL who needs bitcoin uses it for drugs. When my plumber offers a bitcoin option that'll be a shift. If they pull another pandemic...

the jabs are patented. And they dont have to tell you exactly what formula they mandated. or hopefully im wrong

Whats gov gonna do. Cut spending, raise taxes, or inflate. No free lunch for them if CPI=money supply. Thats whats egregious about the ibond rate. Capped at 10k and they still give you nothing.

Some of this will be case by case. If grocery store profit margins are 2% and liquor store margins are 15%, ur not going want a blanket 3% tax

Also many folks dont want the tax code simplified because they've figured out the loopholes

Nothing changes without term limits for congress

Land value tax https://old.reddit.com/r/georgism/

The banks must buy unsold treasuries. Yield curve control. Whats worrying is if the Fed wants the 30 year at 2%, but they bypass the market aka us here trying to sell. eg Chase buys new treasuries at 2% then the Fed buys them from Chase. I dunno the mechanisms but in 2020 the Fed set up more "s...

Maybe Goldman and Morgan are trading it back and forth like mortgages in 08. When it pops, fed bailout. Blame Trump.

Why is ETH up twice as much as BTC over the last 5 years, priced in gold.

Lots of Adderall for that test? srs q. wait a week :) US is stronger than ever as of yesterday and best case for crypto would be collapse/civil war where people need to trade crypto between states. Bitcoin and gold should do well tho because Gov is going to pay for everything with inflation and most...

Fixed 1.2% Get rekt savers. https://tipswatch.com/2024/10/31/treasury-sets-i-bonds-fixed-rate-at-1-20-composite-rate-falls-to-3-11/ Tried to sell a slug of EDV yesterday and maybe Im lucky it didnt go through. Looking like a Trump win is priced in, unlike last time. Anybody doing leveraged. https://...

Cut back to .5 oz. kratoms getting bred stronger like weed.

Also Asness says no small cap premium

" Could it happen again?" Could what happen again. Trump plays golf while states use martial law to wipe out small business and close schools and gyms? Walmart stays open with reduced hours so everyone has to pack in? CDC today recommends a jab every 6 months so we're at about 8 total. ngl...

^ Agreed. Although I still consider myself a bad person despite being vegan and taking the carts back. Narcissists dont have the headspace to model what other people are thinking. They're buried under their own issues. The problem is they figured out how effective arrogance and bullying is. Have a r...

In person and paper. And while Im fantasizing, required to watch a video about why the minimum wage cant be $100/hour, in order to vote.

Watch them lower the fixed then rates cook off after Trump wins. Like last time

They both print like crazy, why is china 2% 10-year rate and russia 16% 10-year?

Ah, jargon. Where would law and econ be without it. I think they're saying crypto (alternative currencies) limits the ability to inflate. Gov has a solid grip on the offramps at the moment so political unrest is still the limitation. I dunno whats happening outside the US. Are people using bitcoin f...