I will say - the gym was packed today. I am a 3-4x/week guy, and I generally go at a later time to avoid a lot of traffic from the different group classes/etc. Didn't matter today, but I know 1/2 landing on a Friday still has a lot of people not starting back to work until the following Monday.

Catching up on some @Simply Bitcoin - love this one! #EndTheFed and the IRS/taxes. Starve the Fraud!

Gold and silver move first, then bitcoin…and how about those margin calls and insolvent banks?

Good one...

Umm...scammers going to scam. Simple yet lucrative example in Washington state.

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This is how the scam works…

It wasn't our year...but a single year was never our time horizon. Future is astonishingly bright.

Ummm....

If only...oh, and this is obviously dated since $35 trillion is so "old news"

I feel like this piece is "preaching to the choir" for most people in my network on nostr? ==== i’m not sure who needs to hear this, but there is nothing even remotely sophisticated about these endless somali and NGO/immigration frauds. not PPP, not food, not autism, and not daycare or welfare or SNAP or free rent. it’s all blatant, hammer in the face stuff. it did not go on for years because the perpetrators were crafty. it went on because the DA’s, prosecutors, police, judges, mayors, governors, and congress critters were relying on this demographic for vote harvesting. all these politicians and purported public servants knew full well what was occuring. they were all a part of it. ====

the servant becomes the master

the corrupt are easy to capture

When my dad died on active duty, my mother started receiving a death benefit intended for me. That was frittered away on a lot of indulgences - none of which made it to me. When I moved in with my grandparents, they gave me control of the money at 12 yrs old. I was taught by them, so I only focused on saving as much as I could and laddering CDs. When I got to college, I read plenty of Money magazine and Kiplingers. By the time I got out of college, I started investing in mutual funds...back in the day I had to send in a physical check. I picked them by again reading Money, Kiplingers, and heading to the library to read Morningstar...spent a lot of time reading forums on Prodigy (yep, dialup). So started investing around 22 yrs old (1990). Stayed steady, frugal, never panic sold...and it served me well. We are not rich - but we own real assets and have no debt...and got 2 kids through college and building their own financial futures. Didn't start buying bitcoin until my mid-50s (Jan 2022), but I'm glad for the extra piece of mind of having an asset they can't debase.