The best part of having a podcast focused on ethics and hard money is making my kids listen to it on the drive to school. Hard to have a 20 minute conversation with kids about why you shouldn’t lie. Easier to make them sit through my podcast. Leads to lots of great questions like “Dad are you famous?” and “Dad, can you please turn that off?”. “No” is the answer to both questions (since I try to practice what I preach about honesty). https://fountain.fm/episode/ZYkPtpkz1iWGCKl6uT7Z

Presenting: The President’s of The United States Of Amer-Isreal-aca.

In July 2008, oil hit $147 a barrel which is still its all time high. That was likely one of the straws that broke the back of the global economy. The price of oil is upstream of almost everything else in our society. Inflation adjusted (if you take CPI at face value) we would have to hit $214/barrel today to surpass that number. I’m not sure what I’m struggling with more, that much inflation over the last 18 years or that it looks like we might be making a run to break the previous ATH.

The fog of war is already thick. Nothing is ever confirmed until long after the war is over. But, it sounds like the US has bombed a girls school leading to the death of 150 students (unforgivable) sunk a lightly armed navy ship 2000 miles away from the theatre of war and then left 87 sailors to drown instead of rescuing them (violating the Geneva convention). We have bombed civilian infrastructure including water treatment plants. We have destroyed oil terminals leading to massive environmental problems that will never be cleaned up. We have declared that we are pursuing unconditional surrender from a proud population of 92 million which is a deal Iran can’t accept and we know that. My souls cries out for the violence to stop. I was in high school for 9/11 and remote violence is all I’ve seen from my country. It tears at me that my work, my savings my taxes fund this kind of shortsightedness. As I write this oil is nearing $115 a barrel. This war does not serve US interests. When I plugged my nose and voted for Trump it was a vote for three things: Free Ross, less war, and stop persecuting Bitcoin companies. That was naive and it will be my last attempt at voting for a change. But there will be change. This is the boomers last stand.

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“Yea hi, God here….could you guys ruin the white peoples economy by printing money to kill all the brown people so my chosen people can rebuild a temple on this one rock in Jerusalem?….great, thank you!”

The current direct costs of the war in Iran are estimated at $1B per day. Thats ~$2.99 per US person or $234/month per household. That says nothing of the other conflicts we support around the world. It says nothing about the increased costs of fuel food and other essentials. And war destroys capital assuring that the market will be less able to serve people on the other side. It also says nothing of the horrific loss of life on both sides and the generational trauma that creates in the world. None of this will be paid for in current dollars. It is possible only because the US controls a money printer. The war is being fought on the back of unborn generations who will have to service the debts we are incurring now for a war no one voted for. A war with no clear objective. A war our leaders know we the American people do not want. So who is our enemy? Iran or the system of bankers, corporate lobbies and politicians who perpetuate this system? You can defund them today by moving your time and energy into a money they cannot inflate. When they inflate the currency, they are stealing from you in the future to get what they want now without your consent. That’s why I Bitcoin. https://fountain.fm/episode/ylyoGlThi8JTwRDNvzlY

Ok, I know everyone is tired of war, but hear me out: QUABEC! 1. Their flag is ugly 2. We can totally take them 3. It’s annoying how they’re always speaking French in America. (The French have an excuse…they’re actually French. You boys are Americans, act like it!) Who’s coming with me?!

In the past if you cut off energy producers from the global market you quickly choked them out. How does Bitcoin change that dynamic? Does Iran have enough refining/generating capacity to turn oil into Bitcoin at the scale they need to offset exports?

When things are crazy in the world it’s the perfect time to refocus on family.

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