Accepting Reality April 2022 PDF Version

The race to escape reality begins at birth. Reality is replaced with fantasy because it is too harsh to cope with. Every child is born into an eternal power structure. Our world is governed by laws of dominance and subservience. Most people live in an oasis of peace from all of the belligerence and brutality that is actually ongoing. It is easy to see the world as a peaceful place for those who have no direct involvement with it.

Most agree that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Today power is concentrated at the top of society more so than it ever has been in human history. So, those in charge of the world and its people are closer to having absolute power than has ever been the case before. Americans are surrendering their First Amendment rights as if those rights are not necessary and that they will be fine without them. Continue reading →

A Brand New Wonderful War PDF Version
Here are some questions I asked myself. I wonder how other Americans answer them?

I ask myself :

What do I know about the ins and outs of politics in Russia or the Ukraine?

Almost nothing, I haven’t been focused on that part of the world.

What do I know about Vladimir Putin, President of Russia? Continue reading →

What Do We The People Seek From Government PDF Version
It is easy to notice that, not just with government, but in all aspects of their lives, people tend to end up having what is most important to them. Sometimes they end up having just that one thing and nothing else.

If wealth is genuinely what a person wants, especially if that want is out of proportion to anything else, they are likely to have it, or at least end up with a higher than average income. There is nothing magical about becoming wealthy. It takes a lot of sacrifice. To become wealthy requires, giving up many other things in life that are meaningful to people. Be it love, free time, entertainment those things often must be left on the table. Continue reading →

How are folks’ experiences on the internet going these days? How is the censorship going for you? Do you like having all your news filtered … purposefully manicured , and groomed – so that you buy into all that is intended to shape your opinions? How do you like having your First Amendment rights trashed and stepped on? Are you good with  the symbiotic relation between big tech, government and defense agencies?

Americans as a whole seem to love it that way. After all , their congressmen and president serve as their guardians…. keeping them safe. Do Americans want to have guardians or representatives? Continue reading →

Four Ways We Communicate PDF Version

Sometimes the simplest explanation of something can have a profound impact. Years ago Milton Friedman came up with his four ways to spend money.

These are:

Spend your own money on yourself. This the most efficient and productive way to spending money. The buyer gets exactly what he wants. In a free market system, this approach is very common.

Spend your own money on someone else. This is a very efficient way to spend money, but less so than number 1. Continue reading →

Which Masked Man Do You Trust The Most? PDF Version

How To Watch Your Doctor Destroy His Life PDF Version

Lets get something out of the way to start. Doctors who practice medicine are not overpaid. Based on their education, they make no more money than those in other professions that require the same number of years training.

There are doctors who make huge astronomical amounts of money. These kinds do not practice medicine. Doctors who work their way up the corporate ladder do make millions per year. They are not practicing medicine. Patients contribute nothing to their incomes.

Physician’s pay makes up only a small portion of a patient’s healthcare bill. If all patients had to do is pay their doctors, they would all be doing back flips. Doctors get blamed by patients because doctors are the face of healthcare patients see. So, they get blamed for what they have no control over. State run healthcare is what drives up healthcare costs. Continue reading →

Although I no longer use technical analysis for trading it is easy to see that based on technical indicators, the stock market is ready to simply disintegrate. It might as well be held up with toothpicks. Without organized support, the market would have already collapsed. My position for years there has been, that there is an ongoing movement that is designed to concentrate assets into the hands of the world’s wealthiest citizens. The quote below is from a 2019 article, A Nation Of Fools.

“The goal of the asset enhancement initiative is to is to concentrate stock ownership in the hands of a few who then decide what everyone else pays for shares of stock. Is there a theory behind this process? Of course there is. The theory is that high stock prices become a new normal. Keep security prices rising and the economy will follow and so on. Has GDP responded well? GDP is officially very good but how good is it in reality? It is hard to find growing prosperity within the masses who work very hard and come home tired everyday. We do have more working and making less per hour. Government spending is counted. When GDP needs to look good, government spending can be increased in whatever amount is needed for the purpose of publishing good looking numbers.” Continue reading →

The Price Of Safety Security And Freedom PDF Version

What is interesting about safety and and security is that human beings will pay almost any amount to avoid living in fear and feeling vulnerable. They will pay as high a price for the perception of safety and security as the real thing. The difference is not easily discernible.

Does government provide safety and security? It can and does sometimes , but it is more likely to provide the perception only. Who knows the difference? It is the feeling that counts. Where do they look to get it? They look in the same place all animals look. That is  the herd’s leadership. It may be the head male in a pride of lions, or the most powerful male water buffalo. With human beings , it is their government. In any case, to the ordinary herd members, the cost is staggering. Continue reading →

Anyone who reads this blog even occasionally may grasp the value of the circumstantial evidence  I frequently cite, showing that the stock market is not managed solely by the Federal Reserve, but  split second by split second. It is also managed by the media or more accurately by  those who control what the media writes. This is not accepted in the slightest by even the most astute market analysts in the country.

Is circumstantial evidence relevant in economic issues?

Well, in the United State, by way of the  legal system, based circumstantial evidence, defendants are routinely sent to prison. Often criminals are put to death based on circumstantial evidence? Few argue with the with the outcome of trials where circumstantial has been the deciding factor. Are there are in fact bad jury decisions? Are the decisions any better if if these they are handed down from the bench? Think through those two two questions.

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