I'll be devil's advocate for Slimy Bankman-Fraud. A state bank charter is very hard to get in a hurry. In most states, the charter process can take years. Many firms like this acquire their charter by buying an existing bank, which allows you to assume their charter instead of having to apply for one.
Another big financial player that just went thru the same thing (merging with a traditional bank to gain a charter) is SoFi.
3% per year, every year is compound growth. At his rate, it takes about 23 years for the economy to double. It doesn't take many doubling periods before things get out of hand. Many times it grows more than that in a year. I linked an old youtube in a comment below that explains logarhythmic and exponential growth.
If you can spare 5 or 10 minutes to listen to this old video, it explains it better than I ever could.
"The greatest shortcoming of the Human Race is our inability to understand the exponential function." -- Dr. Albert Bartlett
When an economy grows 3% a year, that is an exponential growth rate. If you've ever seen an exponential curve plotted, you know at some point it starts to go vertical.
This is the reason they talk about the Great Reset. Reserve banking and fiat money that is lent into existence at interest eventually require infinite growth.
Yeah, he's been attempting to monetize fear for a long long time. He used to be wrapped up with some guy named George Ure, and was doing something called the Web Bot project, which supposedly predicted the future, and you could get his critical info for a low low cost on his website, etc. He would use the fortune-tellers scam, where you shotgun a shitload of vague BS, and then claim any near-miss a direct hit.
It is probably far more feasible to set up your own DNS server as a caching server, and manually set the cache expiration time on records to be max limit (which I think is 30 days for linux servers like BIND). Then just surf like normal so the cache builds up records.
In a case where the internet has gone down globally for any length of time, we'll probably have more important things to worry about if it's not back functioning normally within a few days.
The Times would like to issue the following correction: Some mentally ill man who calls himself "Lia," left, is seen on the podium on Thursday night as first placed Emma Weyant celebrates with Erica Sullivan (second) and Brooke Forde (third)
I never even thought about it from this angle but holy shit this is good.