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unhinged is related to ketamine

I think Elon is very frustrated by the courts and now Congress

no one in DC wants to cut spending or eliminate waste fraud abuse

unhinged is related to ketamine

haha....hadn't heard about that....

no one in DC wants to cut spending or eliminate waste fraud abuse

So true.

Not trying to make an excuse for them, but I'm starting to wonder if we are beyond the point of being able to cut printing. Not like "we don't have the political will", but like "the structure of the monetary system will collapse unless we keep printing".

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I learned recently that Canada had zero bank failures between 1930 and 1933. USA had over 9000 during the same period.

Canada did not have a central bank before 1935.

The country with no central bank had zero bank failures, coincidence or causation?

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Yep. Probably the most prosperous time of US was 1870-1913. I mean this was era that put USA on the map...of course that era we didn't have a central bank.

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Golden age in America according to Milton Friedman

No income tax
Government spending was small
Open immigration because welfare didn’t exist
Immigrants actually wanted to assimilate and learn English

1897 commemorated the diamond 💎 jubilee for queen Victoria in England

USA also surpassed Great Britain as the largest economy

The greatest gains in life expectancy happened during this period

Peace and prosperity

The Spanish American war in 1898 was a trivial diversion

Edit: I forgot to add it was also the most charitable and philanthropic period. Schools and universities and hospitals were built and established. Red Cross was established. Rockefeller and Carnegie and Ford were great entrepreneurs and philanthropists

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I truly think he thought he could man handle and bulldoze his way through with Members. The issue is if Republicans had say a 30 seat majority he would have a solid shot but we don’t. We get 3 flips tops and then it’s over.

Members have there things that they care about and are important to them that they want to keep the money there for. However when everyone has one or two it spirals. Negotiations are critical and it got the House there but the trade off ended up being his tax credits to not have federal land sales

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