I've been to the Salesforce office a few times and it was clear that Benioff had an obsession with Hawaii - the conference rooms were Hawaii themed and he always "Aloha" when closing an email.
I found an article on the subject:
They've been cooking the numbers since Bill Clinton times..
You can check out this website that has been tracking unemployment, CPI at the legacy standards:
https://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/unemployment-charts
That looks like moderna on the card, so i'm not sure if the pfizer link below would work. I put 008C21A in this site. I'm not sure how good it is.
https://knollfrank.github.io/HowBadIsMyBatch/HowBadIsMyBatch.html
Correct. The gold is rehypothecated - gold is used as collateral for additional debts many times over. The gold is initially leased by the LBMA and many more contracts on that gold is issued and sold on the futures market.
Typically gold is not supposed to leave the vaults, and the banks would settle with paper at the close of the contract. Banks need to pay attention to open interest (which is the total amount of outstanding derivative contracts). If it's too high, they need to shake the tree and prevent a mass of contracts from taking delivery.
For me one of the biggest threats to bitcoin is it relies on rational actors on behalf of the minors, where I don't see them being rational when production comes a lot harder to come by. Plus I think it's important to be backed by something physical.
The storage fees and being less liquid and less of a concern as I prioritize the proxy for wealth/store of value over medium of exchange.
I never really believed they would be pegged to the US dollar as a means to lessen hyperinflation, which is why I thought they would use BRICS when they were announced.
I would be hesitant to have bitcoin as the reserve currency but that's because I'm an old fashion gold bug, On the other hand, moving to bitcoin is a good way to transition to a free gold type of standard.
It's real: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1zraPn29dU
Just some background on this that I thought is relevant, that Alberta has been threatening of pulling out of Canada pension plan and start their own, which they have the legal authority to do so (and historical precedence in Quebec). But Alberta puts a lot more in that they get in return compared to the other provinces so watch this pension fund crumble when Alberta pulls out as this would be severely underfunded.