Raising the stakes...in a battle of wills with vinny? I browse here as a refuge from chaos. not to get more of it

mathjak: QE is manipulating long rates. China isnt buying like they used to https://en.macromicro.me/series/3357/us ... ders-china

Long bonds are the hated asset. You're supposed to buy that. EDV at 5.18% has room to fall and the government cant afford rates higher. Unless they forget long bonds exist and the Fed funds the government with short term only as the new normal. Then only private citizens will trade long bonds and ra...

He doesn’t have time right now to watch the video, dualstow. Howbout you sit down and cool off.

Content: https://www.youtube.com/@thomassowellreacts/videos

> I’ll see you in the Daily Check-in thread? Imagine thinking you can stop vinny content: "Central banks continued to accumulate gold at a record pace,” the ECB wrote. Central bank gold reserves, which peaked at 38,000 tonnes in the mid-1960s, rebounded ito 36,000 tons in 2024. “Central banks w...

Gold wasnt the only money tho. Other things were traded if the local oligarch had all the gold.

edit1: Also starting to think the spice trade wasnt primarily about spice

Bought a Kidde wifi smoke alarm that wouldn't shut off. Woke up entire building. After hours of research, I suggest - Not Kidde, maybe 1st alert - Photoelectric - At least one (if wired interconnected alarms) capable of sending text message alerts -10 year battery. replace 8 years after manufacture ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident tldr "The US government falsely claimed that a second incident occurred on 4 August, between North Vietnamese and United States ships in the waters of the Gulf of Tonkin." That said, last few years revealed metastasizing communism and m...

https://old.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/1l0w9q2/full_footage_of_drones_attacking_olenya_airbase/ Interesting that Russia supposedly invaded just days after the Liberals used the War Measures Act to break up the Convoy https://www.trucknews.com/regulations/federal-use-of-emergencies-act-again...

> Please explain

hyperinflation

Dumped all my PFIX near its 52 week high. Decided it's not logical to hold 10k EDV and 5k PFIX since they offset. Just hold 5k EDV if I want to reduce my risk and put that 5k of PFIX in something else. For now its cash, while I hand-wring some more Thanks for directing me to the fund MJ. Unrelated: ...

painful debate. FOMO. but the apps/off-ramps seem tightly controlled by American companies. As long as they can tax it, its not a currency. Id buy a big dip, but the Little Guy might not have much time to buy assets after a bust. eg 2009 vs 2020 instant printing

"if you were going to downgrade US government debt based on inflation risk the time to be doing that was during Covid"

Questioning the covid response was not permitted at the time. And those bags of money had to be given out to get obedience

DNC & CCP BFF. This guy I follow on FB has started promoting CCP, I think they're scared. https://facebook.com/philngai CCP owns the businesses, tariffs come out their margins. But everything is propaganda, and tariffs are case-by-case, so who knows. "Japan and South Korea are already provi...

Hadnt heard about this

https://www.sco.ca.gov/ardtax_prop_tax_ ... ement.html

botnets practicing and probing. The only evil genius that thinks about this forum is vinny

outside the US people are paying their plumber and barber in bitcoin? with what apps.

Waiting for a dip in bitcoin but as 2020 demonstrated there might not be another dip. Printer turns right on

Luck or did you time it

Its over for bonds. The culture has changed and no one cares if the Fed just prints. Leftists will blame Trump. If the Fed funds gov by buying short duration, rather than buying long from the market, Im cooked. https://old.reddit.com/r/AskEconomics/comments/13jeahq/who_is_buying_argentine_bonds_when...

Gold is your international diversification and insurance for chaos and inflation

or his donors. His base wanting a third term is as grotesque as when they threw DeSantis under the bus.

tempts me to give up and join the Socialists as a closeted libertarian

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzN1A-lu5vw

"While China's government is officially communist, Pew Research Center found that most Chinese people express support for capitalism. Roughly 76% agree that people are better off in a free market economy." That's. . .odd. Is this like how everyone knew Biden was demented but didnt care. 20...

dualstow wrote: ↑Sun May 04, 2025 7:35 pmM-I-L is originally from that province (Hunan).

whats your family's take on CCP

edit1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasui_Kawase

Browne was libertarian. We went apeshit in 2020 and he'd have lost (more) faith in authority. 1.2% fixed on iBonds while M2 has been 7%. iBonds should be giving a healthy return over inflation because they're for the little guy. Well its consolation watching countries like Canada vote for more socia...

bitcoin also doing well CCP is riled up and has influence on American corporate media and social media (bot farms and reddit Marxists). They buried this story about a win for Trump https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250411-panama-deal-allows-us-to-deploy-troops-to-canal "CK Hutchison annou...