Business & Finance Economic Fallout: Pandemic, Brandon, Money Printer Go Brr, Ukraine.

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Wargamer08

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Sobek said:
The AfD gets so mich hatred from the German NPCs and mainstream media they might not manage though. It's makes even TDS look good by comparrison. The AfD can't even help victims of pedophiles without people attacking them for "being Anti-LGBT". No joke.
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We're a couple cycles of failed or made to fail leftist responses to this kind of economic crisis before anything not stinking of socialism is considered.
 
Agent23

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Nice analysis from Matthew Piepenburg and Palisades Gold Radio.
Germany on the verge of recession.
Arab states trying to get rid of the dollar.
The war is a "convenient distraction" from massive debts in the west, western media are outright propagandists, sanctions having massive unintended consequences and no one is talking about it:
 
Agent23

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Cherico said:
God damn it.

Ok the problem with gold is that in a real crisis you end up over paying for everything.

Silver for day to day transactions gold for high value stuff.
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Put stocks and commodities, gold included, on a blockchain and pay in fractions converted into normie fiat.

The most important freedom, IMHO is economic freedom, fuck the media, fuck politics, if we can get the exchange of goods and services out of the hands of the Swamp we can be free.
 
Rhyse

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Agent23 said:
Put stocks and commodities, gold included, on a blockchain and pay in fractions converted into normie fiat.

The most important freedom, IMHO is economic freedom, fuck the media, fuck politics, if we can get the exchange of goods and services out of the hands of the Swamp we can be free.
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If you can't even buy a toothbrush without involving a third party; you're a slave.
 
Arch Dornan

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Oh, lovely. They've sent me a mo-ron.
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Bassoe

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An excellent article I found.
The West’s Hollow War Economy by Malcom Kyeyune said:
To look at WWII propaganda posters today is to glimpse another world. Aside from encouraging young men to join the armed forces, they stirred patriotic sentiment and stressed the necessity of shared burdens among the civilian population. Each country offered its own paeans to national unity and collective sacrifice, from America’s “When you ride alone, you ride with Hitler!” to Japan’s “Luxury is our enemy!”

The contrast with early-21st-century wartime propaganda couldn’t be starker. In the wake of 9/11, George W. Bush urged Americans to return to the shopping mall, a message emblematic of a slow-rolling cultural and martial decay in the West. We had reached such levels of comfort and prosperity that the most productive response to a national tragedy was to visit Disney World or buy extra consumer goods.

In 2022, however, calls for shared sacrifice have returned, but rather than inducing solidarity, they elicit disgust and unease. On March 10, President Biden stated, “There will be costs at home as we impose crippling sanctions in response to Putin’s unprovoked war, but Americans can know this: The costs we are imposing on Putin and his cronies are far more devastating than the costs we are facing.”

The absurdity almost beggars belief: Apart from the fact that runaway inflation long predated Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it is hardly like Americans were ever given a choice about the US response to the crisis in Eastern Europe. Not to worry: A recent Bloomberg Opinion piece informed those of us who earn less than $300,000 a year that we could take the edge off the “sting” of inflation by riding the bus and eating lentils in place of meat.

Fact is, Western economies had been quietly falling apart for the better part of a decade. Their structural inequalities and failures heighten the pain inflicted on workers and consumers by today’s policy choices—and render the calls to sacrifice all the more enraging. German producers, for instance, experienced a 26 percent rate of inflation in February—this, before the effects of Russia sanctions had even been priced in. Few people alive can even recall the last time we faced a financial crisis of similar scope.

“Calls for shared sacrifice have returned, but rather than inducing solidarity, they elicit disgust.”

Worse still, our ruling classes don’t appear to be fully cognizant of the second- and third-order effects of their actions. They only react to events in anger, and if these reactions harm ordinary Americans or Europeans more than they do Russia’s rulers, then that’s just too bad. European dependence on Russian natural gas, for example, wasn’t something that happened suddenly—it had been a known security risk for years. But nothing was ever done until it was too late.

We are used to talking about a conflict between the “somewheres” and “anywheres,” but this conflict—embodied by the Brexit vote, the rise of populist parties, and the election of Donald Trump—occurred during a time of peace. Now there is war, and we are ruled by people who, for the longest time, spat upon the ideas of shared sacrifice and national unity. The “anywheres,” who believe even national flags are too redolent of racism, parochialism, and resistance to the postnational order, are forced to appeal to those very same flags, in an attempt to goad others into accepting runaway inflation and energy austerity.

Hearing these very comfortable and arrogant people tell us that we must make sacrifices, and that we must embrace each other in solidarity, strikes one—at this late hour—as completely disconnected from everyday reality. Vladimir Putin is asserting that this is a national conflict between the Russian nation and the West. But are we in the West supposed to fight for “freedom” at the behest of people who we know consider democratic referendums illegitimate? Are we to sacrifice our wellbeing for the superiority of market capitalism, at a time when the supermarkets are empty and people are struggling to afford basic commodities?

Ironically, our ruling class more closely resembles the leadership of the Soviet Union during its twilight years. By that point most of its citizens no longer believed in the self-justifying state narrative, or its redemptive powers. Consider, for example, how many Americans still sincerely mouth such clichés as, “Hey, it’s a free country.”

There will likely be no outpourings of patriotic solidarity in the months and years ahead. Our elites have sown the wind, and as food and energy insecurity make ordinary life unbearable, they will soon reap the whirlwind. Russians may very well manage to weather the crisis with some semblance of political unity intact; it wouldn't be the first time for them. But for us in the West, the outlook is bleaker: mass protests, strikes, sporadic political violence, demonstrations over gas prices, and outright food riots appear more and more possible.

We can all admit one thing in the end: Bush’s request that we simply shop to defeat the terrorists wasn’t the nadir of Western geopolitics, as we once thought. At least, we could actually afford to shop back then.
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bintananth

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strunkenwhite said:
Well, it's not exactly a long term solution, but there is an overabundance of deer in the northeast and midwest where a lot of the big population centers are. And the problem is short term.
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And yet some people will still say "Why would you do that!" with apoplexy when someone goes out in search of turning Bambi into dinner even after their brand new Mercedes was totaled by a deer darting into a suburban street.
 
Agent23

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bintananth said:
And yet some people will still say "Why would you do that!" with apoplexy when someone goes out in search of turning Bambi into dinner even after their brand new Mercedes was totaled by a deer darting into a suburban street.
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I am told by reliable sources that the UK has lots of bunnies because they hunted all their foxes and other rabbit population controlling predators.
Sounds like they will be enjoying free range rabbit stew soon.
 
bintananth

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Agent23 said:
I am told by reliable sources that the UK has lots of bunnies because they hunted all their foxes and other rabbit population controlling predators.
Sounds like they will be enjoying free range rabbit stew soon.
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The US sorta did that with wolves, coyotes, cougars, and bears (i.e.: every predator big enough and/or quick enough that's not a human or a large dog).
 
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