Its Different this Time

@themopinomicon The debt markets

someone is systematically collapsing all first world nations

@GiaMMacool wtfhappenedin1971.com

Who can explain this phenomenon the best?

@DavidBCollum It's not so surprising when you understand the mechanism...

Nasdaq is up almost 30% since the end of March. Howbowdah?

@rcwhalen @profplum99 "Before 2008 crisis, the firetrucks were all in the station. Now they're all out roaming the streets ready for the next crisis." My interpretation of this quote is they're just papering it over now = 2008 was at the banking level & now it's pushed up to the sovereign level.

@profplum99 This is a non bank problem, today. Wait for it.

Never been richer!

In 1967, Indira Gandhi appealed to Indians: “Don’t buy Gold.” The reason was that India’s foreign exchange position was under stress, imports were becoming difficult, and the currency system needed people to show “national discipline.” But what followed? One of the biggest Gold bull markets in history. From the late 1960s to 1980, Gold exploded higher globally, and in rupee terms the move was even more brutal. This is the real lesson: When governments tell citizens not to buy Gold, they are usually not worried about your jewellery. They are worried about pressure on the currency, pressure on reserves, and pressure on the financial system. Gold doesn’t become important when everything is normal. Gold becomes important when the system starts asking you not to buy it.

@DavidBCollum Never admit a Level 8 issue

Grabbed the wrong graphic. Leaving evidence of dementia here rather than deleted.

Gotta love that price discovery. Gammas getting squeezed must be unpleasant.

With "Non-technical teams now pushing code to production with AI", Coinbase has established the perfect alibi for *when* all people's on-exchange Bitcoin have been lost to hackers

I found the best way to bankrupt the government. It comes from a Russian quantum physicist. --- In 2004, a man named Vadim Zeland wrote a book titled, "Reality Transurfing." In the book, he introduces a concept called “pendulums” that explains why fighting the government never works. The government's operation is absurd. -$39 trillion in debt -Funding wars you never voted for -Printing money whenever they want -Endlessly taxing you in every direction -Selling new bonds to pay off old bonds -Politicians retiring as multimillionaires on $174,000 salaries But here’s the thing… Accountability won’t come from the system. That’s why Zeland’s concept of “pendulums” is so important. A pendulum is anything that lives off your attention and emotion (energy-in-motion). Religions, political movements, businesses, group chats, diet trends… these are all pendulums that feed on attention and energy. If the world collectively withdrew its energy from Buddhism, Buddhism would dissolve. If America collectively withdrew its energy from the Democratic or Republican party, it would dissolve. It’s like food to a person. If you stop giving it food, it will die. Your government is a pendulum, but… there's a key point to understand. The government feeds on your attention and your energy. But that is not its primary food source. Its primary food source is fiat money. The money they print, control, and force you to use. They have an unlimited supply of it. They can tax it however they want. They get to enforce the rules around it. Their money endlessly feeds them, by design. That’s why you can vote whoever you want into office, but nothing will change — because the money hasn’t changed. Their primary source of fuel hasn’t changed. The pendulum stays alive as long as their money stays alive. That’s the key thing to understand. The money is the target. If you actually want to end the government’s fraud, you have to stop using their money. You have to withdraw your energy from their system. You have to starve them. You do that by starving the source of their food. If they can’t eat, they will die. If they don’t have their money, they will die. If the government didn’t have an infinite source of money that they control at will, they could never rack up $39 trillion in debt. But because they *do* have an infinite source of money that they control at will, they have an endless source of food. That’s the target. It was never the politicians. It was always the money. So how do you actually starve the pendulum? Zeland gives us the answer — he calls it “extinguishing the pendulum.” Every pendulum has a script it expects you to follow. The script is designed to provoke a reaction out of you, to get you to swing your energy toward the pendulum. It wants to hook you like a fish. For example, think of a hostile comment you receive online. That comment is a pendulum. It wants your energy. When you defend yourself, think about a clever reply, escalate, hurl an insult back — you feed it. The pendulum doesn’t care if you agree or disagree. It just wants your energy. Complaining about the government only feeds the pendulum of the government. It’s exactly what the government wants. It wants you to bite. It wants to keep you in its frequency. It wants to keep you in its game. So how do you actually win? You don’t. You leave the game. Extinguishing the pendulum means breaking the script. You break the script by offering an abnormal response. When a pendulum tries to provoke you, you do something completely off-script, something that doesn’t fit the game it’s trying to play. You shift to a different frequency and play a different game. Suddenly, the pendulum has nothing to grab onto. The best way to bankrupt the government is simple: You stop using their money. The government’s entire script is dependent on you using their money. Their monetary system is designed to feed them energy. When you work for their money, they tax it. When you spend their money, they tax it. When you hold their money, they quietly steal it through inflation. Here’s the devastating part. To function in modern life, you need money — and the fiat monetary system is designed as a monopoly. They create legal tender laws which mandate the use of their money — and their money only — for taxes and debts. If you don’t pay your taxes in their money, you get fined, your assets get seized, or you get sent to jail. They coerce you into their pendulum under the threat of violence. It’s the trap inside the trap. It’s not just that they feed on fiat money. It’s that they’ve made it illegal to not use fiat money. For as long as fiat governments have existed, there was no true off-script move. You could complain. You could vote. You could move countries, only to find another version of the same system awaiting you. You were always left inside their monetary system. You were always hooked to their pendulum. The only real exit was leaving the grid entirely. You would have to stop using money, close your bank accounts, and disengage from modern life altogether. People’s yearning to live “off-grid” is simply a desire to escape the fiat pendulum. But they made it inescapable. Until 2009. --- Satoshi Nakamoto created Bitcoin to be the off-script move. The abnormal response. The different game. Bitcoin was designed to extinguish the pendulum of fiat. Previously, it could never be done, because there was never a different frequency to shift to, other than going completely off-grid. Bitcoin is, for the first time, the truly different frequency of money that you can shift to. It doesn’t argue with fiat. It doesn’t demand accountability. It doesn’t run for office. It doesn’t ask for permission. It doesn’t try to reform the Fed, or audit gold, or pass legislation. It doesn’t even acknowledge fiat as a worthy opponent. It simply exists as a completely different frequency, governed by a completely different set of rules: 1. The protocol is neutral — it has no political ties. 2. The system is transparent — you can verify the rules for yourself. 3. The supply is fixed — it cannot be inflated. 4. The network is permissionless — you don't need permission from banks and governments to use it. 5. The protocol is decentralized — there is no central party manipulating the system. 6. The supply issuance is based on math — not what a group of elites thinks is best. Every single one of those traits is the dead opposite of fiat. Bitcoin swings the pendulum of money in the opposite direction — and that’s exactly what’s required to extinguish fiat. No matter who you’ve voted for, the government hasn’t changed. The system remains the same, because the money remains the same. The off-script move isn’t to vote with your ballot. That’s the script fiat wants you to follow. The off-script move is to vote with your money. The off-script move is to stop using their money and shift to a different game. That’s how you stop feeding the government. That’s how you starve the pendulum. The best part? Zeland notes that when you extinguish a pendulum, its energy doesn’t disappear. It returns to you. Every dollar you hold in fiat is energy you’ve been losing your whole life — to inflation, to taxes, to a government with trillions in debt. When you shift to Bitcoin, all of that energy comes back to you. What previously went to the government and all their closest friends now flows to you. That difference in energy is the pendulum being extinguished in real-time. It’s the power shifting from the top of the system to you. You don’t have to protest. You don’t have to wait for an election. You don’t have to vote anybody into office. You can stop feeding their system, right now. Bitcoin exists, right now. The network is open. For anybody, at any time. All you have to do is shift. That’s how it ends.

Who's fault is it? Government's or the the governed?

HANTAVIRUS👇🤨

@heresyfinancial The thing is -- if wages don't keep up with the real price inflation then its not likely we'll experience a strong boom & we all know wages haven't been keeping up with real price inflation.

Everyone is waiting for the next Great Recession But what if the printing papered over the numbers? What if the last 3-4 years have been really economically painful and difficult for the majority of the nation? What if the middle class has been working through a real recession since 2022? But here's the big what if... What if that means we are on the tail end of it, and about to experience a boom?

@DrJStrategy Creditor nations will suffer deflation. Debtor nations will suffer inflation. Same as it ever was.

The United States is uniquely positioned to pivot from a fragile post-1945 order by leveraging its foundational "covenantal" identity to reverse civilizational decay, unlike rigid, traditional empires. By combining hard power advantages, AI, energy, and currency, with a "jeremiad" instinct for self-correction and renewal, the country can reform through crisis rather than succumb to it.

@SilverDegen youtube.com/watch?v=40lPMV…

@SilverDegen X-Ray Fluorescence does not penetrate into samples very far especially dense, high atomic number elements like gold. It would've failed ultrasound + Micrometer test & these way cheaper than Sigma.

Brought into my LCS. Purchased from a large reputable online dealer. Passed the XRF but failed the sigma. 22k plated

2023: Corona ended 2026: Hantavirus

@YoungStreete No one believes this poll

There’s no nice way to say this. 89% of Canadians are really, really dumb and easily manipulated.

@WhalePanda The insiders just got the tap on the shoulders to zag it down. Soon they'll get the tap on the shouders to zig it up.

Haven't been online much. What's the narrative this time for Bitcoin being absolute dog shit?

@nvk Here's the cheatcode for the financial market:

As a retardmax, I buy bitcoin and put in a coldcard. I have zero interest in trying to understand financial market.

@LukeGromen @burnera43918259 @EPBResearch 6th largest city according to this video... youtube.com/watch?v=djCwWH…

@burnera43918259 @EPBResearch exactly - no in Detroit goes < 80 mph anywhere on the highways, its amazing. Cleveland same dynamic - we were a top 5-10 biggest & wealthiest city when all our infrastructure was built. And we have a national park 30 minutes from downtown CLE

Cleveland FTW; cheap cost of living v. elsewhere in US; easy to go anywhere due to overbuilt infrastructure; world class HC, arts, and sports (for 2 of 3 major sports at least); sane politics; nice people. The US Rust Belt remains my favorite Emerging Market. @EPBResearch

@TonyWard867811 Higher rates don't ever seem to slow down government spending.

The bond market just told you Britain is broken. UK 30 year gilt: 5.76%. Highest since 1998. UK 10 year gilt: 5.08%. The US 10 year sits at 4.43%. Britain pays 65 basis points more than America to borrow money. Every basis point is your tax. Your pension. Your mortgage. The last time the UK 30 year sat here, Tony Blair was in Downing Street. No banks have failed. No Lehman moment. No crisis trigger. Just this government. This Bank. This currency. This level of debt. The bond market does not bluff. It does not vote. It does not protest. It prices the truth. Bailey is paying 5.08% to fund a state being debased at over 11% a year. The lender loses 5% in real terms. Every year. Guaranteed. This is your pension. Your ISA. Your annuity. Britain is in a slow motion sovereign debt crisis. And nobody on television is calling it. PROTECT YOURSELF NOW.