Not much of a journey as I come from a family of goldbugs that predicts global financial collapse is two weeks away every couple weeks. Family dinner conversations involved a lot of talk of central banking, hyperinflation, gold/silver price manipulation schemes, and end game scenarios for the bubble we are in. This goes as far back as when I was 16 in the mid 90s where I was able to start grasping this stuff that went over my head for years.
I had a front row seat to all the financial crises that goes back to 98 with the bailing out of Long Term Capital Markets and 2008 was a doozy. I was able to see the media lies and tactics they take, which helped prime me for scenarios like Covid and the vaccines.
The opposition to Maduro is clearly CIA so there must have been likely elections shenanigans on both sides. The Biden administration put sanctions on Venezuela but lowered them when Maduro announced upcoming elections so they must have felt confident that they could replace him.
Money itself has a supply and demand curve so the other side of the equation is the monetary supply and money velocity. MV=PQ. This is how Milei is halting inflation in Argentina by restricting money velocity. He is doing that by limiting ATM withdrawals to $45 a day.
Nazis and Commies are one the same, one is a domestic form of socialism where communism is the international version. Both are collectivist drivel. The capital controls in place by the Nazis were not on the side of private property. It annoys me when people think of Nazis as the opposite of communism. If there is a dictator on the "right" I would think Pinochet would be a better example.
He single handedly destroyed the 2nd Bank of the US, which was the equivalent to the Fed. I'm Canadian but studied US history in University and I wrote a paper on Jackson vs. Nicholas Biddle. When you look at it from today's lens - how remarkable his foresight was and resolve to destroy it only for Woodrow Wilson to fuck everything up.
All Central Banks target 2% inflation - which I believe is the highest they could go without revolt. I didn't say they were successful at it, and they hide a lot of the truth by changing the standards in their metrics.
It's sustainable when you own the world's printing press. Your taxes are only to give the appearance that it's going to government spending. It's also there to help minimize inflation and keep it at the desired 2% they are allowed to steal without you noticing.
For more then a decade, I never believed it would be possible for central banks to raise rates due to the Greenspan's put. It could only be temporary, and they will lower rates to hyperinflation and keep it there to always buy yesterday's debt with today's cash.
He would certainly help Ross Perot the election and make it harder for them to cheat. It's the Dems that are fighting against his nomination not Trump so based on this you know which side is he going to steal votes from.
The reason I was thinking is that an income tax could only be possible in a fiat system. If the system was backed by gold - all money would eventually flow to the government (that doesn't produce) over time. In fiat they used the income tax to minimize money velocity that is intrinsically linked with inflation. The federal reserve only wants to steal 2% of your money otherwise you would notice. Now the cats out of the bag - and they are going to continually bail themselves out with more fresh cash reserves.
I always believed the US dollar is a house of cards. All reserve currencies fail due to Triffin's Dilemma, where there is tremendous pressure to export your dollars abroad by sacrifice your long term potential. The Iraq war was a consequence of Triffin as it wasn't to have posession of oil, but the war to price oil in US dollars.
Nattokinase. just don't take this supplement if you are on blood thinners.