But NOW, cuz Drump, government is corrupt and its ok to question the government and how they measure inflation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckGHaBLSn4 The esteemed academic bankers join the social media circus. reddit commies cheering Powell who doubled their rent. He's done as chair anyway in May and distancing from the next round of inflation. prob explains gold's run. He and Trump and all the oligarch...

The wives debate pronouns. Switzerland is the origin of "you will own nothing and be happy" they've never been neutral

ibonds are cash. we're only getting a return on long bonds if they do QE. No one needs to borrow your money and give you a real return. Government took your low risk returns by taking over student loans and mortgages. On top of that, shrinking skilled labor pool

All political philosophies are over-simplifications of complex reality, and try to avoid the fact that human nature isn't good. ergo communism is a non-starter, and libertarians hesitate to accept that sometimes you have to bomb savages. Most important scene in film but I haven't watched the full mo...

china hitting middle income trap. They're pissed that growth is slowing and tariffs mostly targeting CCP is poking the (pooh)bear. Now we find out if they'll simmer down like Japan did after their bubble. Or try to grab resources...

Dividends are priced in to what you pay up front for the asset. You can hold vacant land in an urban core and if you guess demographics right, goes up. (and why we need a Georgist land value tax) unrelated content, commies in shambles. Socialist paradise questions The Science? https://old.reddit.com...

ex-US just HAD a big run up. Foreign tax credit is a nuisance. Gold is global exposure. India and China dont necessarily let you have a slice. https://old.reddit.com/r/ValueInvesting/comments/1m6s5bs/give_me_a_reason_not_to_invest_in_the_chinese/ https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4092...

No ones going to have money to buy when AI takes the jobs. And "AI" is outsourcing, there are billions of people who want white collar jobs in the West. The data centers are only to record everything you do online

"Across the last 5 decades, that puts the Nikkei and gold priced in Yen virtually neck and neck in terms of gains for Japanese investors and savers, rising 811% and 818% respectively since the start of 1974" https://www.bullionvault.com/gold-news/market-fundamentals/japan-nikkei-gold-price...

Build an ADU and borrow against the value to invest. Add value.

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Since people keep asking, conservatives/contrarians were directly and indirectly banned/shunned during the 2020 debt jubilee and cover-story. https://old.reddit.com/r/ChurchOfCOVID/comments/1p7vwy6/remember_when_they_where_over_counting_the/ Should have had a "surge" in new members during ...

I'm underweight stock. But the AI bubble might not be, if it fuels a drone-swarm war. And/or there's timing the bailout, we only had about a month in 2020 to buy the dip. My top concern remains the Fed walking away from long bonds and funding government with only short duration forever. But I think ...

All comics evolve into Carlin with political clapter rants. Or Leno with the same set for 30 years and scrubbing the vids from social media. Its impossible to write years worth of clever jokes, Hedberg was the best and the depression killed him when he realized you need to be a showman not a writer....

Surprised zerohedge links arent blocked on bogleheads. But 100% chance someone will comment its a conspiracy site. 70s was a proxy war with China too. edit1: "You can speculate on the prices of gold and bitcoin, but they are neither equity nor fixed income assets and should not be considered a ...

Everyone reading 1984 but few will change their mind about 2020.

My 90s Stanford undergrad experience didnt feel socialist, but there was never a mention of Rand, Libertarianism, or what inflation is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlONOh_iUXY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDD_N6ZcCV4

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TMF Leveraged long bonds. I'm too much of a coward to do it but HEFA is how OG hedge funds got rich. You count on the bailout.

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> he'd give me a 10% discount for paying in bitcoin What I'm watching for in terms of adoption, but as social trust erodes I'm inclined to use credit cards where you can dispute. There's a problem unfolding in CA with the state not paying out "inflation act" rebates and the HVAC guys are g...

Are all four classes equally volatile. If you have 100 year duration bonds should that be 25%

Not anytime soon, wealth exodus from China may accelerate

Scams are up in LA county (I have another fun story like the car dealer). And AI is faking profiles and reviews. Meanwhile PHYS trades in a narrow range, unlike EDV. If you get enraged by overpaying a little like I do

Whats to stop them from saying you mailed yellow tungsten. And for that matter why wouldnt you

Keen, Mosler and the MMT crew made names for themselves calling economists dumb but the Krugman types just dont want people knowing money can be printed. When AI gets bailed out we'll see what the narrative is this time. something something Trump. IIRC craigr said Trump would be brought in to take t...

A chunk of the "I dont trust CPI or covid (response)" crowd are crazy. Or are they...technovelist is rich by now eh? Its difficult to balance cynicism/realism with paranoia. They ARE out to get you. But its business not personal In other news, six months after I applied the approved contra...

"the [Trump] administration seems to take the approach that grift and corruption was problematic because it wasn't being done openly and brazenly enough... The cover up was the real sin" Well, yes. Imagining politicians and Megacorp have our best interest in mind gave us "covid"....