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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ggersh who wrote (187588)	5/14/2022 8:52:51 PM
From: sense	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219951

Wholeheartedly agree on the reality that corruption is out of control... That's not unique to recent history... and its only "different" now because the U.S., who used to actually be better.. are now NOT any different or better than others... but exactly all like others in that set of issues... even if the new reality in "equally as corrupt"... is not close the same thing as "equal"... The irony... is those railing against American exceptionalism... only as the benefits if presented to others... in having there be at least one place you could move your $ that was not totally corrupt... is now lost. The U.S. banking system shit the bed in 2008... and since then have been imbibing zombification drugs (QE) that keep that system alive and facilitate the metastization of that corruption as it spreads out to control everything... That reality... isn't a valid criticism of the alternative in actual legitimacy ? Your position has you purposefully advocating for less of what you don't like (in actual legitimacy being better than corruption). You, ludicrously, constantly attack the idea that there should be rules that are made to matter ? And that means you are constantly being pissed off more and more as you get less and less of others being constrained by those rules you don't want ? I find that pretty amusing... Others could, of course, think to try to out-compete the U.S., by making their own systems LESS corrupt than ours is ? But... I guess...that would be too obvious ? And, thus far... there's ZERO risk of that happening... So, I blame you guys... for fostering the continually declining lowered standards that the globalist bankers are adopting... as they too compete to see who can go lowest fastest... But, the rest of yours is in error... thus far... as reality is what it is... and what it is has nothing much to do with your opinion (or mine) about what it should be ? The dollar as the "cleanest shirt in the dirty laundry"... remains true... even as they do all they are in trying to destroy it... Because even as they ruin the dollar... there is also still nothing else out there at all close to it yet... that isn't declining on the same trend in parallel... only faster ? So, I'll disagree also with some of what "The Maverick of Wall Street" was presenting re the dollar, interest rates, inflation, gold, etc... again, not disagreeing with what he's saying re "what would be better"... only noting that in the competition that does exist... the Fed having raised rates by as little as they have... already has the dollar soaring... because no one else is willing to raise rates by that paltry amount... to get them "closer" to a positive real value ? That's just pathetic... So, I think you will see current trends be sustained, and accelerate... without the Fed having to do more to make that happen... as in the competition there is... they're already "winning" by having done what they have... The global economy will crater... but it won't implode equally... Markets will continue to crater... currencies will continue to be debased... and, some will crater and be debased more than others... The dollar is still winning the fight... Pretty soon... it will probably be the only competition left... that actually has any real ability to correct... ? And, that makes sense, too... because, what the competition "should be"... in a global free market with rules based on legitimacy... and competition won based on performance under the rules... has no one stepping up to compete... And that leaves the competition that does exist... as one that is NOT based in systemic legitimacy, or the benefits of the rule of law, with business being conducted honestly instead of on the basis of corruption, with fraud being routine... But, without legitimacy as a component in the competition... it leaves the competition as one based only on power... giving the most powerful the ability to "get away with" whatever they decide to dictate... And, the U.S. and the dollar are winning that fight, now... certainly in Europe... as Russia is unable to compete militarily... and Europe is unable to... do anything without screwing it up... or following the U.S. lead... even with the total moron Biden as the leader... which, again, is just pathetic... And, that's just a fact... that the moron Biden has outplayed the moron Putin... who could not have done worse than he has in making error after error after error in his analysis of the situation... and of his own capacity to compete. About the only thing he's gotten right... are the elements on the economic side... as far as the value of oil, gas, and gold... But, then... the value that has... is only sustainable... as long you COOPERATE with others in enabling the commerce ? Russia attempting to use their oil, gas, and gold... as a weapon, in the way they are... is rank amateur foolishness.. All Russia had to "win"... and make Russia wealthy and successful... was not screw up what they already had going... but work to assiduously to solidify the value it was generating... while using that to grow greater potential. Putin was and is too stupid to see that... So, not only does Russia not improve its position now or in the future... they also do nothing at all that forces any others to compete better... and that's both pathetic and shameful... And, it pisses me off... because wasteful, destructive, and unhelpful... in a way that is pointless... and sustains the general global decline into "less" than we once were...