Below find the contents of my commentary response email while also remembering:
- this blog's disclaimer (see very bottom of the page);
- I am not qualified, certified, or entitled to provide anyone advice;
- to have a Merry Christmas and/or Happy Holiday;
- that anonymous charity is a true Gentleman's calling.
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i had to stop listening because there was too much self-promotion at the beginning, but when it offered to let me read the note that he wrote i skimmed it -
facts are facts - the us fed now owns more treasury debt than any other sovereign nation in the world, china, britain, etc. that is true -
also true, those 14-17% of americans on food stamps are a continuing flow of inflation via debt monetization as they exchange a parallel cash currency for products - on the other hand, we must ask ourselves if the world casts the US into a confidence crisis would our money be more, or less valuable? our debts more or less impactful? as an inflationist, i believe that people who hold money are actually in favorable position because they can generate flow to offset relative declining flow against real property - for those without cash coverage on their notes, the above is actually the very reason why i would recommend any unsophisticated investor that is around my age to treat houses not as investments, but as expensive necessities - in paying down a mortgage you earn 4-8% compounding interest by not owing the bank that same interest - addition by subtraction, as it were -
in my view, gold bugs are late to the party, while silver remains cheap relative to its industrial applications -
ultimately, currencies and economies built in fiat money are confidence based, and are therefore the very definition of ponzi schemes - many times i have posited that governments do not act to protect their citizens, but to keep them indoctrinated in a system through bank debt, taxation, and some semblance of a legal system etc., to keep them believing that everything is real, even if it isn't - that everything is fair, even if it isn't -
all of the above noted, i'd rather own my house than a stock i'd want to hold for 10 years, i'd rather have knowledge of how to grow food than have dehydrated milk stuffed in the floor boards, and i'd rather own guns than gold - in other words, preparing for every eventuality, even if rooted in fiscal misappropriation, extends well beyond the small, incestuous world of bankers and their political toys -
