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Feb 6, 2023Liked by Joel Bowman

Can we make a balloon filled with our debt and fly it to Davos?

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If anyone bought my trade of the decade last week(AI at $19) you would be looking pretty good today. My thought behind any Artificial Intelligence stock is to buy as much as possible now, due to the absolute lack of human intelligence. Like our current administration, It’s a No Brainer…

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There's crypto AI tokens.

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Yes bro, I own many GRT and OP besides Bitcoin and Ethereum and a few others. Considering the world will be fully crypto in the next few years. I think many will have value. Just my opinion, and I hope I’m wrong with the CBDC, but will see. Always better to be prepared 👍

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Bill if the BLS recalculates how CPI is measured then if it results in lower inflation Powell will get the nod to ease.

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In addition to cutting spending or going deeper in debt, there's a third way; to wit: create more wealth. After all, wealth is made, and without it, there's nothing to tax. And more wealth gives the government (at all levels) more revenue to tax and, therefore, to fund government programs and even to pay its debt.

To enable more wealth-creation, our elected representatives should be able to agree on a list of regulatory impediments that stymie the risk-taking entrepreneurs, whether solo individuals or large corporations and every enterprise between, from making more wealth.

The ingredients to make more wealth are readily available of which the most important is capital. What's impeding these wealth-makers is not fear; it's government regulations of which there are gazillions.

So, to bring down the curtain on this latest Debt Crisis Theater, instead of one side seeking to ravage spending plans and the other side vigorously defending these plans, then both will appreciate the benefit of removing an array of regulations inhibiting wealth-making.

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Feb 6, 2023·edited Feb 6, 2023

Hi Jimm -

The dims and domestic enemies (but again, I repeat myself) in our "government" will NEVER agree to any reduction in regulations in any area of our Society or Economy. In their tiny minds that would equate to a Loss of Control - and no matter how small or innocuous-seeming, nor how obviously BENEFICIAL certain actions would be, relinquishing Control in ANY amount is something they 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗱𝗼 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗰𝗶𝗿𝗰𝘂𝗺𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀.

We must begin to claw back our Freedom while understanding their side has no Morals, no Decency, no Accountability and VERY few Rules...

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Yes my friend, and because they have no Morals, no Decency, no Accountability and VERY few Rules (only Rules for Radicals), they will win because we live by the laws, and believe in God, family and country, everything they despise. Only if we organize and wake the sleeping giant, will we stand a chance. We are awake in this reality, they are Woke in communism…

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Please do not leave out Mom and Apple Pie. Just saying! Florida Jimmy.

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SE: How sad you and Steve are. Just because you have been, obviously brain washed, that only the Republicans are the only true leaders. So, the Dems have tiny minds, taken your freedom, no decency, accountability and very few Rules?? SL: Woke in accountability and Very few Rules except for Radicals. Why don't you tell us all about each one and give examples of each. Then go back and check out the same things on the Republicans. Bet you won't.

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Bill, none of that is important, don't you know the Chinese have shifted the balance of power with a weather balloon? "And now for something completely different!" - Monty Python's Flying Circus

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When the war twixt us the public and them the elite happens, it could get bloody.

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Could be worse than you can imagine. Both sides have a large percentage on DRUGS. Cannabis is a DRUG. Cocaine is a DRUG. Mushrooms is a DRUG. Peyote is a DRUG. Opium is a DRUG. I could go on and on: QRB's, FENTANY, TABACCO if it's Inhaled, our medications were derived and synthetized from natural vegetation. GOD Created everything in seven days, however Time was not started until the third day. GOD is Eternal and outside of time The first two days could have been Trillions or more of our years. You cannot disregard Dinosaurs and ancient skeletons. If they existed millions of years ago, then GOD CREATED them before the third day. Cain was banished because he killed his brother Able. He departed the family and married a woman. It was not a sister and it was not an Angel or Son of God disguised as a woman. It could possibly have been a BONOBO. Look up Bonobo in a dictionary, if you don't know what it is. It's an ape that walks almost upright and makes love instead of fighting. They are not allowed to be taken out of Africa.

Enough Theology. The latest in Florida is some drug is being sold in Florida in Gas Stations. I do not remember if it was cocaine or opium. It is a capsule with a red top on a white bottom. It was on the TV news. But you already know, you can't believe everything you see and hear on the News Media,

I've been on the TABACCO DRUG for 70 years. It is only a drug if you inhale it. It was created for lesions to be used as a paste. Remember now, on the seventh day GOD was finished creating. And He said, "It is finished, and everything is Good."

Oh, by the way, I am like POTUS Clinton, "I smoked it, but I never inhaled it." Just saying! FLA Jim.

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Hi Mr. Ginsberg -

If it doesn't "get bloody", then it would be a huge waste of time and the blowback in particular would make the effort unworthy. Proof? The J6 "Insurrection" and disgusting, illegal aftermath of how the trespassers have been/are being treated.

"The really big show is the one no one wants to see. It’s the clash between the elite and the public."

Speak for yourself Mr. Bonner. This clash, if undertaken in a serious, pragmatic, LEGAL and rational way, is precisely what we need to accomplish if we are to have a Free Country (and World) even 10 years from now...

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I have often thought that a million armed men should converge on whatever prison the J6 patriots are being held in and just force their freedom.

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When something break ( stocks crashing , bonds plunging , banks failures ) first the Elite will go to Congress to ask for easy money « in the interest of the public «  then and only then we will see if Powell side the « Street » or « The Wall « 

I bet big that he will , no doubt in my mind and in his mind , that he ll side both « Wall Steer «  meaning the Elite . Then you ll see gold , silver flying . Till then business as usual .

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They ran so fast that the hounds couldn't catch 'em

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Wow! I havent thought about that song in decades!! Lol

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I like the part where the gator lost his mind. Gave me a chuckle.

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What are all the lyrics? I have the tune in my head but not the lyrics

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Google battle of new orleans lyrics

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Bill, this is one of your BEST missives ever. I concur with this wholeheartedly. Although, it makes no difference with what I concur with, because I am a nobody. Just sitting tight on my corporation until I see which side of the court the ball lands in. I am a manufacturer and right now I cannot compete with China and Japan. China and greater Indonesia are like post-war Japan. Cheap throw away goods at a cheap price; however, Nihon makes better products in the Precision Category than America for the most part, only because we went over there and trained them while we occupied them, they are great at cheap Labour: although that seems to be changing. At least they say it is. I am sure they haven't cut down on Child Labour. I assume they look the other way when their people exceed the Birth Quota. I assume also that the male children and the best of the female children are taught assembly work skills. I also assume there are not many handicapped children or LGBTQ people in China and North Korea. But you know what happens when you assume something: A** out of U and me. I imagine the US Government has greatly relaxed their Buy American Policy. When I was working in the Military

Industrial Complex, 30 years ago the only good precision Ball Bearings came from Japan/Nihon. Our Aircraft. Missiles, Ships, Satellites, Spacecraft, and other Toys all have Japanese Precision Bearings. I certainly hope we never get into a hot war with China. Not because we do not out-gun them, but because our current society relies on them for the cheap goods, food, and medicines we have come to rely on them too much in the last score of years.

The upside is the GRIT of the North Americans overcame PEARL HARBOR and WE can survive most anything that is thrown at us, IF and I say, IF we SECURE THE BORDERS! We seem to be still on Teddy's, WALK SOFTLY AND CARRY A BIG STICK Policy. Just Saying! Florida Jimmy.

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After thought. I was in occupied Nihon just after the Korean (No War). The rate of exchange was

360 Yen per dollar. The last time I checked, last week, the rate of exchange was 360 Yen per dollar. Kind of MIND BOGGLING! (66 YEARS) Just saying! Florida Jimmy.

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Feb 7, 2023·edited Feb 7, 2023

Somehow, I stumbled across Bill's postings while he was locked down at his ranch in Argentina.

I enjoyed those posts very much. I was reading about the experiences of a real person, coping with whatever hand that was being dealt to him that day.

But these reviews of the Kabuki performances in Washington are of little interest to me.

I would like to hear more about if/how life is affected in Laramie, London, Baltimore, France and Argentina, Ireland, by these strange, bizarre trends that are sweeping all over the world.

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It’s all about self-sustainability, the US doesn’t need China, Japan, UK, ect...to buy our treasuries, we can buy our own treasuries and strengthen the dollar through global nit picking. Africa, Australia, and South America can shine in front of the world by collaborating with the US and becoming the “New Front”.

The bridge that leads into the 21st Century is being paved by a global unity of new and innovative world populations. China and Communism will exist independently in a realm only known to distractors.

True life filled with happiness, health, and peace is within reach. The government’s number one priority indeed, saving man and woman kind from the evil perils of destruction. Our Commander in Chief will reign well into his 90’s and reveal to the world the essence of true wisdom.

🥹😂😅🥲🤣

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Hahaha! That’s hilarious!

I like the name Yogi though, like Yogi The Bear, “Hey Boo Boo, F**k the ranger!” or

Yogi Berra, “Pie a la mode, with ice cream.”

I also used to have a Winnie dog named Yogi, he was little light brown Winnie with white spots on his left ear, my Yogi, boy I sure miss him.

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