I plan for 0. Work as much as I can and spend as little. Ive seen retirement destroy more people than its helped. 2% nominal is Fed target and their legal power to print is only increasing.

> didn't have lockdowns like China/Straya

Not yet, thats why line gets drawn here

> encouraged

No jab no job. No job no $ for housing and food

I suppose my opinion is known. . .DeSantis can do whatever he wants in exchange for merely claiming he wont lock down the state again. The Left initiated violence and now I'm forced to vote for pro-life and other regressive conservatives because nothing matters if I cant run my small business. The g...

Government needs to be shrunk/obstructed/gridlocked by any means necessary. If thats not what "republicans" are doing here, then its bad. edit1: if you want to expand only the good and smart aspects of government, that negotiation begins with admitting the flagrant civil rights violations ...

Elon needs to buy this place and unban everyone

yeah its that simple. Relatedly, r/ "news" has devolved into leftist rage-porn. https://old.reddit.com/r/news/top/?sort=top&t=week

Unis got 70 billion in direct covid handouts. The NIH etc research grants are from the gov, and the student loans are from the gov. And the assets in endowments roughly track the amount of money printing. Even in the 90s at Stanford, Libertarianism or Objectivism/Ayn Rand was not mentioned once, eve...

Buy the rumor sell the news

I dunno if these numbers are true, that Stanfords endowment went from 30 billion in 2020 to 75B, but in any event it explains the glee with which universities forced the jabs into 18 year olds

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/worlds ... ent-funds/

I dunno whats got him so excited but its contagious! IM FREAKING OUT

A great tragedy of the human experience is that basic scientists are so poorly compensated.

Also the AMA is a cartel, we could have 3x as many doctors and pay less for healthcare.

Age of Easy Money | FRONTLINE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpMLAQbSYAw Not much we dont know in there. Funny seeing Left-leaning Frontline come out with this now, after a decade of financial repression "Jeremy Grantham, Co-founder , GMO LLC: we've been trained to believe that the fed is on o...

> in the event of a serious banking crisis or a nasty recession the Fed could revert to its old habits

Then thats what we'll get. Will the Little Guy have time to buy cheap assets like 2009? He didnt have much time to in the March 2020 crash

I fill my belly with pure ethanol every night, the bugs seem ok with it.

That said id like to work pickled red cabbage into the routine, in case the probiotic and pigment/antioxidant stuff is true

They do this every year right. Anything new this time. IIRC some years ago they went further and closed national parks

The Chinese are known to overreact eh

Maybe feds want a banking crisis to force digital currency, which can be restricted as needed. Pre-2020 I posted here that "FedBux" would be a good idea.

> Can you give more details on your rewards checking account

When rates were zero, LMCU, Consumers Credit Union, and First Bank were paying 3% with 10-15 debit transactions reqd per month

https://www.doctorofcredit.com/category ... -checking/

Well, Vinny is AI, so whos fooling who

Yes. You can create at least one, maybe more accounts with different EINs (Employer Identification Number) and living trusts

And im leaving the cash in vmfxx till december. or back into a rewards checking acct if rates crater.

Whats the inflation rate over last 20 years with deflationary items removed from the basket.

If you plan to retire in an urban core you could look at home & rent inflation there. If you're going to retire in the mojave you might see falling prices

^ Oy thats a super-spreader m8. Over the nose!

One problem with hard/deflationary currency is you get a burger flipper making $50/hour after a few years. Wages (and mortgages) cant adjust down to meet reality. Economic realities are "mean" according to the communists