Thanks for the tip on Grok, looks like it is worth paying for. I am really frustrated by all of the search engines because it is so difficult to find anything worthwhile. One suggestion on Internet security get a Raspberry PI and build a Pi-Hole to block advertising, tracking and malware. The P-Hole is your local DNS server and blocks requests that are on the curated lists you download. The DNS request from your computer, phone, or Chinese security camera is dropped by the Pi-Hole if it is on the bad list and never goes out to the internet. The instructions are really good and I am blocking over 700,000 known bad actors. I have found that over 19 percent of the traffic on my network is blocked by the Pi-hole and my browsing is so much faster.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE21YjuaB6o
Very interesting presentation. Apart from pm I own some US energy stocks, informed by Goehring and Rozencwajg’s commentaries though I don’t see much in them in the way of recession concerns. Perhaps some of these stocks are depressed enough, perhaps a rotation might even lift them.
Come again?
I’m beginning to think that the people using AI have an unknown screen hypnosis page that comes up when they are alone. Maybe they can MK Ultra people through that. Rachel Maddow can so anything is possible.
I’m waiting to see if there’s going to be some blinks before I light my hair on fire. I’m not smart enough about these kinds of things. I am very disappointed in the ME policy having been there as a target for seven months 40 years ago. Also with Bondi but if a few countries start to blink like Vietnam, the needed reset Bessen talked about a year ago, might end up being a good thing. The feckless, Depends wearing GOP can sink this by doing their typical fall down, roll over, poop pants, then bravely go on Hannity to tell Sean they’re concerned SOP. They can support this by NOT spending and actually cutting but I’m not holding my breath. I do wish he’d replace Hegseth with Doug MacGregor but Doug questions ME policy with facts, data, reason, and LOTS of experience so he’s “anti-semitic.”
I believe the ME policy is not as simple as portrayed and is not regionally isolated. DOGE revealed our government was waging war against Israel, Jews, Christians, and non-Sunni minority religious sects via the funding and arming of Islamic terror groups at the same time we fight those funded by Iran and Russia. See also: Somalia, Congo, and more…
I’ve gave up putting faith in government and people to ‘do the right thing’ years ago. No reason to light your hair on fire under things we can neither control nor influence. There are greater forces at work here.
shalom
Well, yeah. We did pay the head choppers to take over Syria then were shocked, shocked I tell ya when we “found out” they were head choppers. However, since Oct, 2023 we sent Israel tens of billions in weapons, missiles, and money, told them they shouldn’t use it against civilian Gaza Palestinians, sent them more after they used them against civilian Gaza Palestinians, turning a blind eye, and are now obeying whatever Netanyahu tells us. In previous places, I mentioned (based on personal experience with them) there was no way in hell Mossad didn’t know exactly when Oct 7th would happen. If God shows me the replay videos in heaven that they didn’t know, I’ll believe it then. Plus, after seeing the blown up Marine barracks for four months in Beirut where 241 Marine brothers, soldiers and sailors were blown up, then two former CIA analysts admitting Mossad agents told them they knew it was going to happen without warning us, then reading the refused requests by Tim Geraghty to move the Marines out of the barracks before the bombing, I still have a scoonch of animosity towards Israel and our State Department. I see no good guys in the ME and my opinion is to stop funding wars and stop asking how high when Israel says jump. I do like Israel and want them to defend themselves just not with our dimes and blood. I’d just like to have dialogue and honesty about the ME sans the “you’re anti-semitic!” “Oh yeah, you’re a Zionist!” ad hominems in the discussions (I don’t think that’s you btw).
Real Estate Investment Trusts are presumably a horrible investment now because of the over leverage debt in financial system, right?
Some of the REITs in some countries are at 5 year lows and pay very high dividends.
To what extent are the Tariffs really about the U.S. government finding alternative sources of financing to finance government and GDP in the face of imminent AI-driven mass unemployment and concomitant collapsing tax receipts?
Since Desert Storm, I see a long emerging pattern of the West in the ME of attacks upon the oldest communities who bear witness to the Elohim (God) of Israel and the redeemer He sent for the world. I see the very real attempt to erase this part of human history as part of a much larger, multi-dimensional, spiritual battle.
There is so much propaganda that the reality gets lost in the sandstorm.
I have to have faith in YHWH’s larger plan and do my best to walk the narrow path in my interactions lest I bring shame upon His set-part name.
I’m running out of time to finish Sabbath preparations. For the things you have seen, things you have had to do, and brothers and sisters you’ve lost in battle, I keep you and other vets I know in my prayers.
What do you think about Deuteronomy 28:15-68? If the conditions are met, do you think that promise of God to Israel shouldn’t be fulfilled?
how can they pay very high dividends if at five year lows? What am I missing?
The price per share is low, but the REITs generate a lot of income presumably from rents which the REITs then distribute to Shareholders.
Linear Thinkers can’t see Exponential Change. They think that Elon Musk is just going to “Step Back” to run his multifarious companies and everything will return to “Normal”.
They can’t see that Exponential change is coming….
They don’t see the huge Tsunami Wave 
that just appeared on the horizon.
Yeah…Elon Musk is going to Step Back for a while…and then pick up the pieces….
Are you by any chance afflicted by TDS 2.0 ?
Explain to me what things regarding tariffs are the OPPOSITE of what Trump had promised. I’ll be here all day.
@mainiac Perhaps your logic seems to flow like water to you, but it may make you seem less over the edge if you built your case and provided sources than making assertions about motives, character traits, and starting with ad hominem.
We really don’t have time for the group hug talk and making sure nobody’s feeling are hurt . We are Americans, our tax dollars are being used to poison and kill us off. The guy many here thought was duped is fully aware that he murdered children and he’s just fine with that, he’s continuing it. Snap out of it and act accordingly.
There is a reason when the cops show up, they usually believe the calm person. Agitation isn’t convincing of reason.
As 50-80% of BS Corporate middle management, paper pushing, and “knowledge service” jobs are replaced by AI, the world is going to be fighting for “labor” jobs for each country’s citizens.
Trump & Musk know this only too well. Manufacturing brings construction, transportation, and jobs. I restructure companies with AI technologies. Even Microsoft, Google, and the big software giants are at risk. It is now more effective and efficient for a company to hire a few really smart people who can use AI to build the digital infrastructure customized to their business with only the features they need than to continue to be beholden to “Big Tech”.
Corporate America has spent more time avoiding innovation than creating actual value.
It is possible for S&P profits to soar, but this will be through cutting the labor fat - just like DOGE - however, it will represent a new short time high before the implosion caused by the labor market - because unless those who lose their jobs can find new ones in manufacturing and value generation sectors, there will then be a domino implosion.
Europe wants to eliminate their potential rebels by sending them to be sacrificed in Ukraine. That “war” has nothing to do with Russia. Those in power know that the general population will come for their heads with pitchforks, so “Ukraine” is just an attempt to protect their status and their lives.
Trump & Musk are trying to wake up the US & speed our adjustment reaction to lead with AI and manufacturing. I hate to imagine the consequences if we don’t get our heads out of our asses & just continue bickering instead of recognizing the reality of this new world and going after it with warp speed.
Healthcare, Insurance, and enshittified corporations got way too greedy & killed the golden goose. Trump & Musk are doing a spectacular job of giving us a fighting chance. Yes, the odds are stuffed against them. Yes, it’s going to be painful. Yes, we’re going to have to “man up” and grow a pair to get through this.
We have more resources, opportunity, and knowledge at our finger than at any time in human history. We must shift ourselves and our culture toward solving meaningful problems and truly innovating.
The only alternatives are war - complete economic collapse - continuing to print $ and the accompanying crippling inflation (aka civil war).
I much prefer the alternative and am glad we have leaders playing chess instead of the jr league checkers presented by “Harvard”.