When rates are below inflation, gold and index funds are morlike just saving. "Investment" implies a constructive effort eg you can beat the real estate market, if you can physically be there and research the neighborhood. Competing with millions of investors using internet-only data is ga...

~5% 2007. Wall St, who insure each others investments and made themselves too big to fail, will get another bailout. What'll be the distraction next time

The impact is here. 40 year high inflation. CPI is a red herring, look at rent and medical. The Fed buys debt now instead of other countries, using new money

^ Never meet your heroes. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/inflation-chart-tracks-price-changes-us-goods-services/ ...since...2000? The AMA should double the amount of doctors. Biden closing the border? https://www.theepochtimes.com/biden-admin-unveils-most-restrictive-border-control-measures-to-dat...

She's always been a pro-mask collectivist/leftist. Their technique is to change the questions. Its not "do masks work." Its do they work so well that the government should use violence if you do cardio without breathing through a sock. Do they work so well that the destruction of normal so...

^ so you're going to make us google it

"Primordial pouch"

https://old.reddit.com/r/catbellies/com ... ial_pouch/

r/catbellies? Sigh.

We're never going to get sustained deflation. Brief bouts so congress can insider trade on it perhaps. Even Japan's money supply is way up, they eat it with their conforming culture and they build new dense housing https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MYAGM2JPM189S We just saw the amount of force that...

A total market fund doesnt sell. Vanguard sweep account 4.5%. That might be the "repo," it wasnt fair that only banks could have a savings account with the Fed https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/uw5kjk/reverse_repos_hit_2t_for_first_time_ever/ edit1: HM Bradley 4.2% https://w...

We're all in this together

> I truly believe that there are participants on this forum whose principal purpose is to break the forum down If that's a consequence of protecting their internal leftist narrative, so be it. Closing schools, muzzling kids. Had to be done, leaders said so. Everyone here believes they have the moral...

He'll be fine. Vinny's irrepressible. > Why did you feel compelled to comment upon--much less discredit--a video You know why. Humans need to pick a tribe, red or blue. Its a powerful instinct, us/them ingroup/outgroup haves/have-nots. Do you have more in common with "empathic/caring" coll...

yes its nice to see flexibility in one's weltanschauung. But Putin could be worse, I dunno, everything's propaganda. What happens if the West defeats Putin and Xi. We just saw the pharma-industrial complex turn on us, and what China had to do keep more than a billion people under control during thei...

https://old.reddit.com/r/redscarepod/co ... e/j8dixr9/

There were also union issues with Alec Baldwin's shooting

^ Cats gonna cat

True, but Trump could be controlled opposition. Known grifter with no understanding of libertarianism. Someone has to come out and say "I'm going to change things" vs "things are going well enough, change not required" He appointed conservative judges, but that may serve Dems as ...

"do not bend"

^ struggle sessions "This strikes me as an illustration of the power dynamic. To take race out of my point, I recall what happened when my godson's middle school adopted a zero tolerance of bullying policy. Fair enough, right? Wrong. What the policy did was shift power from the bully to the bul...

We've blown up plenty of countries. Cleanest dirty shirt in the hamper etc

So the use-case for crypto today is to get around the law. If the law gets more expansive...

https://bombthrower.com/brazilian-socia ... be-vaxxed/

Vinny prob has autism. He's like Data from Star Trek. That shouldnt be interpreted as an insult, its a talent/superpower in many circumstances, and he's a happy dude. Throwing in some random content: https://www.eurasiareview.com/16022022-the-crisis-in-ukraine-is-not-about-ukraine-its-about-germany-...

Its pretty easy to create an EIN and make a 2nd account. also fyi "Treasury does not actually post the interest accrued into the account, even if only for viewing purposes, due to the ‘3 month penalty’ rule for holding the security for less than 5 years. According to the Rep, this is on a rolli...

For example, If they cut the rate to 0 (and your fixed rate is 0) wait three more months and when you sell you'd lose 0. Correct me if I'm wrong

Sell it in the next manufactured crisis. Rate was 1.27% circa March 2020

^ https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/statu ... 1819461632

I dont necessarily object to gain of function research. But its interesting how this story was scrubbed for several days, and how most of family will never hear about it. People are living in different realities if they dont seek out contrarian news sources. When everyone had to read NYtimes, WSJ et...

I was in Jamaica for a few hours in 06. Went to meet a girl who didnt show up (can you imagine, with my charm?) Cab drivers aggressively pushing weed. Security back at LAX was suspicious. Searched my bags and barely missed porn I had folded into a book. Last time I flew (aerophobia). Anyway he shoul...