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Bill’s commentary:
“Is the dollar now the global hot potato that hyperinflates?”
The Federal Reserve has just reported the largest year over year rise in history of the velocity of the M2 money supply with a 10.6% increase from one year ago.
The Velocity of Money is defined by the Federal Reserve as:
…’the number of times one dollar is spent to buy goods and services per unit of time. If the velocity of money is increasing, then more transactions are occurring between individuals in an economy.’… (FRED 7/27/23)
“CV19 Vax is a Crime & Coverup – Ed Dowd.”
Former Wall Street money manager Ed Dowd is still a skillful number cruncher. Dowd made billions of dollars in profits by being right on the data. He’s right on the data again in his recent wildly popular book “Cause Unknown” The Epidemic of Sudden Deaths in 2021 and 2022.
Bill’s commentary:
“Rest in Peace Principe!”
You may have noticed very little posting this week. My wingman and amigo passed away Tuesday suddenly (and no he was not vaxxed!). We have been riding partners for nearly 17 years. When I first got to Costa Rica back in late 2006, I was looking for a horse to trail ride and came across Principe’. He was sound and stable (most of the time as the Spanish do have a tendency at bad tempers). I loved his natural gait as he “paddled” while trotting. Each Saturday, the endurance Arabians would ride to a mountain top and back down. None of the Spanish horses could make it to the top except Principe’. He was normally number 8 or 10 out of 30 horses to the top …and ALWAYS dead least to get to the bottom because gaited horses lift and take such short steps naturally. After a couple of years, while on a Sunday bar hop with our horses, one of the best trainers in the country asked me if he could train my horse. I rode, while the trainer tapped his fetlocks and lower shoulders. Within a year, Principe’ had Paso Espanol (Spanish walk), passage, piaffe’, and could change leads on every other step at a canter. After getting him here in the states, a young woman was able to get him to change leads on each step, this is a feat that maybe only 2,500 horses on the planet can do?! Over the years, my rough math tells me we went nearly 20,000 miles together, many of those miles kept me sane in an increasingly insane world. He spoke horse, I spoke English, so we decided Spanish, and only Spanish would be our language choice. Once here in the States, I worked on a ground routine at liberty (no halter) with him that eventually stretched out to more than 3 minutes. Principe’ was an absolute carrot slut and would do anything for a carrot. He was a very quick learner as long as the carrot supply held out! Something many do not understand, is that your animal, any animal can teach you things …if you listen? There were several additions to his repertoire that he taught me and we continued with. For his last 6 years, never did he wear a saddle, nor had a bit in his mouth. What a dream, bareback and a hackamore was all that was required! He’s had a 3 yr old on him and an 80 year old, he always knew who was on him and whether he could push it to a scale of 11 out of 1-10. Maybe his best trait was being “drunk broke” where he would ride under you if you were ever off balance. His last gift to me was helping train 2 separate service/protection dogs. You can never ranch train any dog in good fashion if you need to divert attention to your ride. He had no jitters around dogs, was a push button ride, and I believe he fully understood the what and why of running with two dogs. We rode together nearly every day since 2012 through all sorts of weather conditions and terrain. I looked forward to the ride each day, he liked it too though maybe it was more so the carrots?
RIP my friend, I will miss you so much! Relajarse en paz mi amigo, voy a extranarte MUCHO!”
Bill’s commentary:
“Erik with some common sense for you!”
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Bill’s commentary:
“Geopolitics have always been a huge factor in economics and finance. More so today, but the logic that lead them in the past has been thrown to the curb…”
The July NATO summit in Vilnius had the feeling of a funeral, as if they had just lost a family member – Ukraine. To clear away NATO’s failure to drive Russia out of Ukraine and move NATO right up to the Russian border, its members tried to revive their spirits by mobilizing support for the next great fight – against China, which is now designated as their ultimate strategic enemy. To prepare for this showdown, NATO announced a commitment to extend their military presence all the way to the Pacific.
Bill’s commentary:
“At least they are finally saying the quiet part, out loud! It’s opinion …but if it is their opinion it must be fact? “
Facebook parent Meta is shifting away from current affairs and politics on its social media platforms, and will instead focus on short-form videos and content from influencers vs. news, the Financial Times reports.
Bill’s commentary:
“Geopolitics have always mattered. This will without doubt be the “Asian century”…”
In his book, The Asian 21st Century, Kishore Mahbubani (Mahbubani), a former diplomat who served as Singapore’s permanent representative to the United Nations and president of the UN Security Council, pointed out the biggest thing happening in the world yet no Western media would talk about it – the arrival of the Asian century. In an exclusive interview with Global Times (GT) reporters Li Aixin, Qian Jiayin and Yu Jincui, Mahbubani shared his insights on why he believes the American century is over, the Asian century is coming, and how the US has focused on the wrong “battlefields,” at the book release hosted by Beijing-based think tank CCG. The China-US contest will not be in military dimension; it will be in economic dimension, Mahbubani said.
Bill’s commentary:
“Erik finishes with “We don’t know how to fix it, but without gold and guns—any fix is beyond our reach.” and he is absolutely correct!”
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Bill’s commentary:
“This was funny on M.A.S.H. when Klinger kept trying to get his section 8 dismissal, it doesn’t seem quite as funny in real life …especially since our tax dollars are being used to theoretically “protect us”. Does everyone also get a “participation trophy” to bring home to Mommy? “
The Dossier has acquired a new Department of Defense (DOD) memo that goes into great detail on the topic of “care of service members who identify as transgender.”
The document, which is not classified but has long remained unavailable to Americans, is being published here for the first time for public consumption.
The 34 page memo details the enormous perks granted to service members who identify as transgender.
Bill’s commentary:
“Not trying to beat a dead horse, but what about the debt on all the underwater commercial real estate?”
Following the failures of several regional banks earlier this year, we’ve been closely monitoring the commercial real estate (CRE) sector, noticing increasing risks in the office space market. CRE lending standards have tightened considerably in response to the Federal Reserve’s aggressive interest rate hikes over the past sixteen months to combat inflation. Furthermore, depressed office-badge swipes and other occupancy metrics indicate a downshift in demand for office space.
Bill’s commentary:
“You mean like the JFK files where no one alive in 50 years will even remember it?”
A parliamentary investigation into the collapse of Switzerland’s banking giant Credit Suisse will keep its files confidential for half a century, Reuters reported on Sunday, citing a parliamentary committee document.
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Bill’s commentary:
“Is this how one reasons after consuming magic mushrooms? So I guess war is a “good thing”? Stimulus for “the global economy”? Why not stimulus for our own economy? “
Doubling support for war-torn Ukraine is the “single best thing” to help the global economy.
Source: US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Sunday, 16 July, speaking on the sidelines of the G20 Finance Ministers’ Summit in India, as reported by European Pravda, citing AFP.
Details: Yellen said a “key priority” is to “redouble our support for Ukraine” as it defends itself against Russia.
Bill’s commentary:
” … And the debt on all that real estate will never be repaid either!”
In just three years, the pandemic forced companies to rethink how their workforce conducts business, stripping away the crowds and bustling environment metropolitans like San Francisco, California were known for having.
Now, as some things return to normal, many workers who commuted to San Francisco continue to work remote and the Golden City is struggling to keep businesses intact, leaving many buildings vacant.
Bill’s commentary:
“So ‘sudden or unexpected deaths’ are occurring in animals that were vaccinated for Covid? WOW, what a coincidence? Maybe it’s part of the “animal population control” program?”
A nearly 7-year-old African elephant has died following a 12-day battle with a viral infection, the Dallas Zoo announced Tuesday. The elephant, Ajabu, died Monday evening of elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus (EEHV). Ajabu had previously faced the infection in March 2021 and survived, the zoo added.
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Bill’s commentary:
“Do you still wonder if there is a plan to undermine the United States sovereignty?”
While it took the Biden administration the better part of six months to drain the US oil supply down to a precarious 20-days of emergency reserves (a 40-year low), it will take decades to refill – if that happens at all, Bloomberg reports.
Stroll through the West Hackberry oil facility on the US Gulf Coast and there’s not much to see: some pipelines and other industrial equipment. But buried deep beneath the surface are storage caverns so massive they’re tall enough to house the Empire State Building with plenty of room to spare.
Bill’s commentary:
“What if Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche is correct?”
What if Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche is correct? The Dutch virologist said at the outset of the Covid-19 episode in 2020 that vaccinating the world in the midst of an epidemic was insane because it would train the virus to evolve more dangerously while disabling human immune systems.
Last week he issued a warning that the world was within weeks of just such a new and deadly immune escape variant outbreak that would bring on a shocking wave of sickness and death among people who received multiple Covid-19 vaccinations. This would happen on top of an already accelerating rise in latent vaccine adverse reactions manifesting as aggressive cancers, blood disorders, cardiac injury, neurological disease, and much, much more.
Bill’s commentary:
“Erik with many good points.”
Bill’s commentary:
“How fitting is this? Yellen does mushrooms …if she even peeked at the national debt then this was a very BAD TRIP!”
It’s been several days since US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen left Beijing, and much has been said about her efforts to repair the US-China relationship.
But politics aside, her Beijing visit resulted in one unexpected success – she managed to dramatically boost business for a Yunnan restaurant chain while bringing jian shou qing, an unusual yet highly sought-after mushroom prized for its unique properties, into the national limelight.
Bill’s commentary:
“What would our lifestyles have been if we didn’t recklessly borrow all of this money?”
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“Destroy America for One World Government – Alex Newman.”
Award-winning journalist Alex Newman, author of the popular book “Deep State,” contends everything you are seeing from open borders to pushing the transgender ideology to war is all part of the push to destroy America and Christians for a One World Government hell on earth.
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Bill’s commentary:
“Imagine that? We have said this for years and been called “conspiracy theorists” for even having the thought. ALL markets are rigged and it starts with gold and silver as they are direct competitors to the world’s fiat currencies. It all starts with suppression of gold’s (and silver) price so they can point at gold and say “see, dollar good …gold BAD!” Rigging the juniors (and even majors) is child’s play because the volume is thin, and regulators look the other way. You may remember 2+ years ago when some of the juniors tripled in price in just one or two days, this I believe was a cleaning up of naked shorts and allowed a “reload” (re short) at much higher prices to rinse and repeat the scam. As the global Ponzi is about to fail, these riggers are about to get the religious experience of their lives! Gold will again be seen as “money”, which will make high quality gold and silver bearing properties “banks”. The train is now leaving the station. You either get on board now and take a ride to the greatest redistribution of wealth in human history, or …wallow with no purchasing power in the debt-based currency system as it bankrupts into a vortex that will take everything paper straight to hell!”
Hycroft Mining Holding Corporation (Nasdaq: HYMC) (“Hycroft” or “the Company”), a gold and silver development company that owns the Hycroft Mine in the prolific mining region of Northern Nevada , announces that it has been working with Shareholder Intelligent Services, LLC (“ShareIntel”) for several months to review the trading of the Company’s common stock in order to track, identify, and monitor for potentially illegal short selling activities and deploy solutions to help combat any such activities.
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Bill’s commentary:
“Governments can and will go broke, gold and silver cannot…!”
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Bill’s commentary:
“But, but, they tell us we are not even in a recession? Yet?”
A growing number of U.S. firms are collapsing under the weight of higher interest rates as corporate bankruptcies reached their highest first-half levels since 2010, new data show.
In the first six months of 2023, there were 340 corporate bankruptcies, topping every other comparable span in 13 years, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence. That’s up 93 percent from the same time a year ago and higher than in 2020, when there was a spike during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Bill’s commentary:
“This is the new “Be all you can be”?”
Diversity is our strength. Except, apparently, the more diversity the military seeks, the less strength it requires.
That seems to be the lesson of the Army’s physical fitness standards, which do not apply to people who are getting “gender-affirming” care.
Bill’s commentary:
” Mr. Smith is correct, the math leads to a brick wall…”
Now that debt is rising faster than “growth,” and “growth” is dependent on speculative credit-asset bubbles, the collapse of the Keynesian dream looms large.
Bill’s commentary:
“Normal is Over”
Analyst and financial writer John Rubino has been warning for years that a systemic crash was always in the cards because of the enormous unpayable debt buildup. The debt for America has never been more extreme. Now, there is a new wrinkle in the equation for an elite class wanting to hang onto power, and that is war – a nuclear war. Rubino says, “These neocon chickenhawk psychopaths who are running Biden’s foreign policy are going to try to extend U.S. domination around the world. 5% of the world’s population is going to rule the other 95% of the population in perpetuity. They see this as a ‘New American Century’ to be imposed by force, and they are willing to risk nuclear war to do that. It’s baffling.”
Bill’s commentary:
“Liberals will never debate you …”
The popular conservative social media account Libs of TikTok has already experienced censorship on tech giant Meta’s new text-based app Threads, according to a screenshot shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Bill’s commentary:
“Surprise!”
In the absence of official scrutiny of Washington’s spending spree on Ukraine, The Grayzone conducted an independent audit of US funding for the country. We discovered a series of wasteful, highly unusual expenditures the Biden administration has yet to explain.
Bill’s commentary:
“A good read by Jonathon Turley on censorship.”
As a long-standing free speech advocate, the last few years have been alarming and, frankly, depressing. The censorship efforts of the government are, unfortunately, not new. However, what is new is the support of the media and the Democratic Party in such censorship. That was on display on various channels after the recent opinion finding that the Biden Administration had violated the First Amendment in “the most massive attack against free speech in United States history.” However, the New York Times immediately warned that the outbreak of free speech could “curtail efforts to combat disinformation.” Yet, no one expressed more simply and chillingly than CNN Chief White House Correspondent Phil Mattingly who stated that it “makes sense” for tech companies to go along with government censorship demands.
Bill’s commentary:
“So why exactly would anyone be so vehement about no “hand counting” ballots? There can only be one answer …”
Colorado legislation supposedly aimed at increasing election security effectively outlawed hand-counting ballots in most of the state, and election officials are the ones who requested the ban.
The Colorado Election Security Act (SB22-153) was drafted in response to Mesa County clerk Tina Peters allowing election skeptics to replicate hard drives to check for evidence of fraud. SB22-153 contains a number of provisions, with the state government mostly focusing on those outlawing replication, and banning people convicted of insurrection or sedition from becoming election officials.
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Bill’s commentary:
“Erik stomping on two social landmines, climate change and vaccines …”
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