17 Comments

Dissent is not allowed in wartime.

Uh Jane Fonda and most every other rabid hippy lib in the 1960s?

Expand full comment

We're old and we're not rich, but we don't have a mortgage, a home equity line or a car loan. We pay off our credit cards every month. We wear old clothes. As Mark may remember I, too, have a reel mower and mow my own lawn in the summer. We shovel the snow from our driveway ourselves in the winter. My iPhone is 9 years old. We don't have any health insurance payments other than the Medicare premium deducted from our Social Security. We have no chronic illnesses, recurring doctor's bills or drug expense. Our main recreation is pretty inexpensive: walking. We're retired and too old to fight or get drafted. Even our adult kids are now too old. We live frugally on less per month than our SSI checks in a small town in a mid-continent Red state with low taxes and a low cost of living. If SSI is reduced we'll tighten our belts. If SSI disappears we'll tighten more and dig into savings. Our savings are well-diversified, but not immune from a stock market crash. After that?

I'm one of the lucky ones (We worked hard for nearly 50 years...)

Why don't I feel very good about the future?

Expand full comment

Interesting breaks in the wall / narrative:

1. 67% Majority believes Covid came from a lab.

https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/biden_administration/covid_19_cover_up_67_not_surprised_by_lab_leak_confirmation

2. Majority believe the gop and Dems worked together to defeat Trump.

Rasmussen:

How likely is it that Republican politicians in DC worked secretly with Democrats to keep Trump from being reelected in 2020?

55% – of all voters agree it is likely.

67% – Republicans

51% – Democrats

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/03/16/rasmussen-poll-shows-55-of-all-voters-agree-that-dc-republicans-worked-with-dc-democrats-to-keep-trump-from-being-reelected-in-2020/#more-244378

Expand full comment
author

Jim Rickards

@JamesGRickards

·

Credit Suisse was highly aggressive in freezing Russian assets and applying sanctions. Then China aligned with Russia. China is Saudi Arabia's biggest customer. Then Saudi Arabia refused to bail-out Credit Suisse. Now CS is de facto nationalized. See how it all works?

Expand full comment
author

Tyler Rogoway

@Aviation_Intel

·

Amazing how quickly they declassified the MQ-9's MTS-B sensor footage of the Su-27 collision but we still haven't even gotten a single still frame of the 3 objects NORAD shot down over North America during the great balloon hunt.

Quite telling.

Expand full comment
author

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen Admits Joe Biden’s Inflation Crisis is Linked to the Banking Crisis (TGP)

So Yellen says today that Powell has to address inflation. Guess what? That's what he's been doing. Don't expect rates to go down. TL is saying Powell got 90% of what he wanted in this deal.

Expand full comment
author

The collective West is spinning out of control, or rather--out of the control of the Woke establishment:

https://www.foxnews.com/world/european-farmers-fed-climate-policies-shock-political-establishment

Expand full comment
Comment removed
Expand full comment
Comment removed
Expand full comment