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greg schieffer's avatar

Since the Fed is a pimp for the Elites, can you imagine what we should call our elected officials.

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Guy Lindeman's avatar

About investing $1,000 in treasuries and getting $950 back: if you don’t know what else to do, you only have $930 if you do nothing.

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Harold Rust's avatar

After listening to our verbally-challenged president speak this week, the depth of desperation, anger, and vengeance which Democrats are willing to unleash is almost unbounded. They will use all their power plus a full-court press by the press, by the push of University Presidents, and by the pressure of selectively profitable puff businesses to do everything in this election year to hold down interest rates below 4%. After that....Katy bar the door.

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Rapscallion's avatar

Like 'rats leaving a sinking ship'! The Fed is listing badly and Powell and all his cronies have endowed themselves enough to take the last life raft and float off into obscurity. They don't give a damn about us and without our own life raft, we are either going to sink or swim. It is a big ocean, so you better start pulling your compass out now to find the nearest high land!

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Cat's avatar

Here's why everyone who can, should get vaccinated: The hospitals are full of UNvaccinated people. The vaccine usually keeps people from getting severely sick or dying. Covid crowds out heart attacks and broken legs. My nephew with brain cancer had to wait almost two months to get surgery--there wasn't a bed for him. So just stop arguing and do it.

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Ron Nash's avatar

If you are in a low-risk category, the risk of side-effects of the "vaccines" are higher than the mortality risk from the virus. Also, the natural immunity from having the virus is much more effective than the "vaccines" (seeing that most of the new cases are "vaccinated" persons).

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Cat's avatar

Ron, the U.S. has had 850,000 deaths from Covid and 3 deaths linked to the vaccine. And the risk of severe adverse effects from the vaccine are <1.0%. These are facts.

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Cat's avatar

Sorry to disagree, but the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines and very safe and effective (not so much Johnson and Johnson). Getting Covid is much riskier than getting vaccinated (think death and organ failure). See www.unr.edu/nevada-today/news/2021/atp-are-vaccines-riskier-than-covid.

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𝐓𝐢𝐦 𝐁𝐚𝐥𝐝𝐰𝐢𝐧's avatar

I hope your nephew's surgery was successful. I, too, had a family member with brain cancer. People like your nephew should get the priority with the unvaccinated going to the back of the line.

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Cat's avatar

I agree 100% that the unvaccinated should go to the end of the line. Thank you for your concern about my nephew. They couldn't get all the cancer out because it is in the brain stem which they wouldn't cut into.

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Harold K.'s avatar

I'm afraid Dan is still living in the fantasy world of the old days when there were still "free and fair elections". But, with voting machines where results are determined by "algorithms" planted by Deep State, who cares about the will of voters?! I'll put my money on Tom, no doubt.

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Raha22's avatar

Is a stock market crash a choice? Maybe they are both right. Maybe in the near future it goes as Tom suggests, but that can’t last forever; (civil unrest is ugly) which brings me back to the stock market will recalibrate and Dan is correct. My vote is for Tom in the near future and probably end as Dan sees it.

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Karl Newman's avatar

Time to re-visit the the French Revolution and SWIFTLY impose the same fate among the elite and their enablers / co-conspirators ASAP! End of conversation......

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Steve Richardson's avatar

I'm with Dan on this one. The Great Resignation is a very strong signal that working folks are done playing second fiddle to the stock market. The Fed must raise rates and let the chips fall where they may. It will not take much, though, to trigger an overdue correction.

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Steve Kusaba's avatar

Clarida, a rascal or a genius? Is this really a question?

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John K. Tuttle's avatar

Want to subscribe-can’t-not smart enough. Get rid of “sub stack”, give us a phone number so I can pay you- I’m too old to deal with busy, stupid templates like sub stack uses. John T.

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Dorothy's avatar

Our verbally challenged President speaks truths unlike our last President. Maybe people should listen...You might learn something. He's not perfect but anyone is better than what we had.

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𝐓𝐢𝐦 𝐁𝐚𝐥𝐝𝐰𝐢𝐧's avatar

Let's see -- So far this century we have had a stupid President (Bush), followed by an incompetent President (Obama), then a crooked President (Trump), and finally a senile President(Biden). No wonder the country is falling apart before our own eyes!

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Brien's avatar

Tom is right

Here’s why. The world is run by the elite. The Fed is not a populous institution. It is an institution that is run by and exists for the elite. If the natives start becoming really restless, ie unhappy, about inflation, the government knows just what to do. Whip out the sugar tit. That comes in the form of the government’s Goodie Bag - checks in the mail, rulings that you don’t have to pay your rent, free education, loan forgiveness, generous social security and food stamp payment increases, tax credits, the list of potential bennies and perks for the masses is endless. All it takes to express the sugar tit is, you guessed it .... more printed money.

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Geowhizz's avatar

The “goodie” bag for the “elites” after the ‘08-‘09 was far more charitable of course than the paltry “trinkets” and “cake” sprinkled amongst the peasantry.

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