I expect you all to take off the 25th in celebration of the birth of Jesus of Nazareth (I know - it was actually on "yom kippur" but recognizing His birth and all that that means as regards Ransom, Rescue, Redemption and Restoration can/should be done every day). My prayers for all here: I hope you are able to surround yourself with those you love and who love you and that you reflect on our Loving God who only wants good for His children - but allows us to make the choice for ourselves.
PS - If you are looking for a great Christmas story try reading Isaiah 53 as a prophecy of the Miracle of His coming and a mandate on His Mission.
"Glory to God in the Highest - then on earth: Peace among men of good-will" Luke 2:14
Let me get this straight. The Democrats are accusing Republicans of being Democrats? That is hilarious!
They are accusing us of being Confederates but the Confederates were all Democrats. Democrats were the insurrectionists who pulled out of the Union in 1861 because Abraham Lincoln was a Republican and hated slavery.
Apparently Democrats in 2023 believe Americans are stupid and do not know their history. Oh, I think I have this figured out. Never mind.
I think maybe Americans are becoming more stupid, in part because of our schools but also technology isn’t making the average American smarter. There are other reasons too, of course.
Years ago I worked for I.B.M. Every pencil, notepad and office utensil had one word etched on it…THINK!
The company had already learned that computers make people dumb. Instead of using their common sense and logic people quickly just rely on what their device tells them. This often leads to terrible ends.
America is finding out the hard way just how far astray we can go. Sound logic and common sense seem to be lost arts.
Thats true especially the way technology is erasing information. Dumbing down everything to only what we are allowed to believe. They are the 'disinformation' police.
The South pulled out of the Union because the Union imposed an unfair taxation regime, choosing to tax agricultural exports (the main product of the Southern economy) rather than imports of manufactured goods (most of which went to the Northern states).
Had Lincoln imposed an import tax, the Northern voters would have tossed the rascals out. The South, outnumbered, were left in an untenable position (not having the votes to toss out the rascals) and followed the only path left to them, secession.
The real cause of the war was economic. While Lincoln did not care for slavery, his and his government's positions in that regard were inconsistent. Lincoln and the Northern states particularly did not want to be overrun by hordes of freed Southern slaves.
For a very interesting take on Lincoln, his life and his presidency I recommend Thomas J. DiLorenzo's "The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War," with a foreword by Walter E. Williams, one of the most distinguished Black economists in American academia. You will learn a lot of things that aren't in the history books.
I agree totally. However, the fact is the Civil War South was Democrat Party and anti-Republican until well after WW-II.
What is funny is the South was always conservative. What changed was the Democrat Party going progressive too far too fast. Just like Reagan, the party left him.
And historically, Blacks always voted for the "party of Lincoln." Until the Democrats started making them promises that they could not keep even if they wanted to, and of course they had no plan to even try to keep those promises. That has worked for them for ~75 years, but the Blacks like the Latinos and most other minorities, are moving to MAGA/A1. Not the desiccated corpse that is the GOP, but the new ideas of Trump and his fellow anti-communists.
Trump is even talking about having a rally in NYC. There have been quite a few recent 'man on the street' interviews in The Bronx where one person after another, mostly minorities, say they plan to vote for Trump -- in one of the bluest of blue districts. I'll bet he could fill Yankee Stadium to its full 55,000+ capacity. Imagine that! 55 or 60 thousand crazed New Yorkers screaming out "TRUMP, TRUMP, TRUMP!"
edit: Justin Timberlake sold out the house with 89,023 tickets sold for each of two shows in 2013, with a concert seating arrangement similar presumably to what Trump could use for a rally. Make that 89,000 crazed screaming New Yorkers!
As a lifelong Massachusetts libtard (I donated to Liz & Bernie for years) it's shocking 2C libs twist themselves into bloodthirsty warmongers. I will always be grateful to Q//45//Anon Truthers for redpilling me & so many others. MAGA = Death to Global KM SWAMP Creatures + Rebirth of We the People Sovereigns Worldwide. Of course this Mil Ind Complex shock is minor compared to hard truths about Satanic Frazzle Drip Reality. When will the systematic Satanic Blood Sacrifice curtain get pulled back for Collective Masses?
5th Gen Info WW3 gets lonely. How do I celebrate Xmas (yet again) w/ an entire fam of zombie normies every one of whom remains completely committed to staying lost in the Matrix ? I've lost intimate rel-ships that were supposed 2b lifelong. It's 4 yrs of wandering this insane labyrinth.
The story of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is a good place to start red-pilling normies. He was a Democrat, so most of them will be sympathetic to a story that paints his life and untimely death in a positive manner, and they might be more curious than if you start right in on Q and Trump. Here is a decent place to start:
This is in response to the Harry Dent post about the coming 2024 crash of our economy. I think he is totally bonkers and is fear mongering.
If we honestly study the 1929 crash we find the truth of that situation. The market was pumped up with nothing but hype. The companies we priced based on the public’s over zealous expectations. There were too few earnings behind the hype.
Today we have the opposite. The companies that make up the markets are making money and the earnings are there to pretty much support the valuation. The idea that we might repeat the 1929 crash is ludicrous…we did that again in 2000 with the NASDAQ where the earnings were not there and the hype was rampant. Yes, the DOW and S&P 500 fell but not like the high tech. Since then we have gotten back to established earnings in the NASDAQ as well as the DOW.
So, a crash is going to be hard to create but the demise of our economy is upon us thanks to the Democrats and Rinos with their deficit spending. The problem is we are in a slow collapse that no one seems to see. What prevents the fast collapse is the business of America that actually supports our Socialism and has for well over 100 years.
If we study the stock markets since they came into existence, we see compound annual growth of almost exactly 8% over more than 125 years including the depression and collapses since. However, that 8% compound growth faltered in 2000. If America was still on the old growth curve the DOW would be at 57,000 today instead of at 37,000. We are slowly being hurt by our Socialism because it is robbing our Free Enterprise system faster than Capitalism can keep up. The markets are still going up but not like they used to or like they are capable of. This is what Donald Trump knows to be true and what he can fix. Meanwhile, Joe Biden is working overtime to spend America into oblivion. And there you have the bottom line that no one sees due to all of the BS we get each day to confuse us and to change the subject. Somehow we need to tell the Capitalism story so the public understands why Democrats are either stupid or corrupt. They surely do not have our best interest at heart.
So, Harry Dent doesn’t get it. And he supposed to be an economic guru. Go figure.
TY Jeff ... Tis the season ... It is said: Essenes prepared for many years (more likely: many lifetimes) of purification to pave the way for the arrival of this Christed One ... more than likely: those of us purifying ourselves to walk in cosmic love, light & consciousness are doing s/t similar for the coming generations of Christed girls and boys who will evolve to usher humanity into the coming Golden Jubilee of healing our planet & celebrating the dissolution of satanic illusions of scarcity consciousness & ephemeral power.
Gay’s little diversion show will not only backfire as her extended time clearly demonstrates the ‘rules (plagiarism) are for thee, not me’ and that Harvard’s corruption goes clear to the top. This will eventually expose enough to lead to Harvard’s collapse.
Same thing applies to the 14th amendment debacle in the Colorado Supreme Court as the dissenting opinions are covered; only a matter of time before it, too, backfires. Election interference is the most obvious goal to the vast majority now.
The Red Sea issue must be watched carefully because it is impossible (as our Tiger states) to actually know. The same thing applies to the 2024 stock market....anyone with any common sense realizes where this is going. The mergers are further proof of corporations beginning to panic.....they are NOT too big to fail. This AND the relocating Gaza residents to pro-Hamas countries has OBAMAs handprints all over it!
Migrants, currently military age males are being sent all over the country, again Obama’s hand seen as this was one of this tasks in the 16 year plan.... migrants are not migrants. They are Illegal aliens. Criminals the minute they stepped foot on our land without going legally through the immigration system.
One thought in opposition. Corporations do not panic. They evolve to match the times. Yes, they are not too big to fail, but they take years to fail unless they figure out how to change efficiently.
Look at the “Nifty-Fifty” from the sixties. Over 25% are kaput or close to failure. Polaroid, Kodak, Woolworths, and Sears are not players any longer but many of the others have continued to grow earnings at over 12% annually and pay a dividend to boot.
So, I love your post but do not sell corporate America short. They know how to circumnavigate the political quagmire and survive. Joe Biden is just a bump in the road. The markets are making new highs despite that clown. The problem is the new highs are far lower than they should be if we ran a fiscally sound ship of state. The good news is Trump knows how to get us back on a stronger foundation.
Excellent counter, Jim, and I do concur with all that you stated here. My issue actually, and what prompted the panic comment, is when governments and corporations are so closely entwined; first, it’s fascism, and 2nd, if the corrupt governments are revealed to be supporting (say, child trafficking, for example), then the corporations are likely involved, either knowingly (Disney) or unknowingly, and the exposure of this will impact their bottom line, won’t it? It’s mostly global corporations behind the World Economic Forum and it’s how infiltration of the world’s governments was done in part. I’m trying to see how government corruption faces justice and their corporate partners don’t? Thank for giving us much to consider!
We could discuss all this for months and likely bore everyone. But there is one point that I find critical to what you are concerned about with corporations.
The government has created the way business is reacting in order to survive. The annual trade deficit is balanced by the annual budget deficit. This, the Congress generates a market for our treasury bonds yearly.
This, by the way, is why Trump accurately stated that Mexico would pay for the border wall. Our $70 billion trade deficit would easily fund the wall several times over with the dollars generated from Mexico buying bonds as they do annually. Dollars in Mexico sitting in a bank lose value while bonds bought with the same dollars grow at a compound rate.
So, once we factor in the real money flows we see how corporations need to get more foreign business and are forced to jump through hoops to get it.
China is playing with $500 billion or more but they did not like the 2% return. The better return comes from buying politicians! There is the real story. Our budget deficit is what funds crooked politicians in both parties. And, that is the game Trump is trying to end. So, the Left knows he has to be stopped no matter what it takes. Trump is in grave danger and he knows it. But he still pokes the canal in the gut daily. I love it!
Thank you for your response, Jim. My husband is better with the financial details of the market and I’m familiar, however, it’s (obviously) not my area of expertise. I truly appreciate you taking the time to explain the international aspect of the US markets, as I suspect I’m not the only one reading these posts without the knowledge you possess! I suspect it does take experts to see the ‘real’ money flows and your explanation just helped fill in some of the knowledge gaps. Thank you very much, Jim, and God bless you!🙏🙏
I remember an anecdote told by one of my professors at the Michigan Business School in the late 70s, about the risk of extrapolation and all those glorious 'hockey stick' projections. This was from a Xerox shareholders' meeting, where the CFO put up a projected long-term growth curve with some particularly impressive numbers. So impressive, in fact, that one of the analysts in the audience asked a penetrating question: "Do you know what the projected GDP of the United States is forecast to be in (final year of projection)?" CFO said, "Well, no; I'm sorry I don't know that number." Analyst: "Well if you meet your projections, Xerox's sales alone will exceed the entire GDP of the country."
And that exact same situation existed with Cisco Systems in early 2000. The shares are still well below the highs back then. But, Cisco is a great company…just not over-priced.
Long term the key is the share price compound growth must match the earnings compound growth. And, this is easily seen long term by looking backwards with 100% accurate data. The question becomes, “What is likely to change in the future to disrupt the annual trends?”
This is better analysis than I have read ANYWHERE else. Bravo!!!
"I have little idea what’s really going on in the Red Sea, but I do know that the US Military is complaining to the media about the Biden Admin’s lack of response to it—specifically, the supposed Commander-in-Chief.
"What this tells me is two things:
"1. Whatever IS happening in the Red Sea is, at least so far, failing to trigger a US MIL response under the framing of National Essential Functions.
"2. Biden either has no desire to interfere with the Red Sea chaos—and other chaos in the region—or, more likely in the view of many of us around these parts, no ability to do so."
Trafficking in Illegals to vote and riot in the 2024 FAKE ELECTION with FAKE non US Natural Born Citizens Candidates Vivek and Haley, not eligible to be president or VP, that the GOP has funded to help their Uniparty friends on the other side of the isle. Then robbing US Born Natural BORN citizens of their Constitutional rights and replacing us with Illegals brought in with LIMO driver at Tax Payers Cost to the airport with airline tickets WE THE PEOPLE pay for. Taken to states to be housed on US Taxpayers dime, and no doubt shipped to republican gov states, since they are all in this shit together. Now the requirements for education in jobs has been dropped so that these ILLEGALs can work in the US and take US CITIZENS jobs. Grants specifically earmarked for illegals to incentivize employers to hire them over us. Biden admin is screwing every US citizen 6 ways to Sunday with the help of their PEDO friends on both sides of the isle. Time to get the screw right on back. Biden admin wants to cut your life earnings by taxing you more and giving it to illegals. How many of us are for this BS? LOCK THEM UP.... LOCK THEM UP!!!! Call your Election commissions and demand Vivek and Haley be removed from the ballot. They are not eligible to be on them
I will not vote for Haley if she pulls off her goal to displace Trump on the ticket. I don’t think she will. I’m not as convinced of Vivek’s evil as many on this platform are. But, weren’t both of them born in the US and doesn’t that qualify them to run? As I side note, there is no part of me that believes Obama was born in the US.
The constitution is clear that a Natural Born Citizen is a person born of two US Citizens at the time of their birth. Neither Vivek or Haley meet that qualification. The law is clear that neither can hold the office of the Presidency or VP. That rule was put in place to ensure that the President and VP would be loyal ONLY to the United States and not influenced by their Parents birthplace. A 'citizen' is not the same as a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN. Haley is an Anchor baby and Wamaswamy's dad isnt even a citizen of this country. Wamaswamys education was finance 90K by the brother of George Soros who is basically a front for George Soros. Ramaswamy paid to have that info hidden and erased from the net however the company he paid revealed it so that lie didnt go over well. If he had nothing to hide, why did he pay to hide it.
Sorry Catherine, but the Constitution is not clear and does not define the term 'natural born citizen.' Further no court capable of setting precedent has ruled as to the definition of the term.
From Wikipedia (yeah, yeah, I know -- but in this case I believe they are right):
"The U.S. Constitution uses but does not define the phrase "natural born Citizen" and various opinions have been offered over time regarding its exact meaning. The consensus of early 21st-century constitutional and legal scholars, together with relevant case law, is that natural-born citizens include, subject to exceptions, those born in the United States. As to those born elsewhere who meet the legal requirements for birthright citizenship, the consensus emerging as of 2016 was that they also are natural-born citizens."
Birthright citizenship is where at least one of the person's parents is a US Citizen at the time of that person's birth. Not both, only one is required. So if you are born in Canada to parents of whom one is American and one is something else, you have birthright citizenship in the USA.
I don't know about Nikki's or Vivek's parentage, but Obama's mother was a US citizen (nobody has challenged that fact) so Obama is a natural-born citizen of the USA, wherever he was born and whoever his father was. Even if many of us wish he was not.
I disagree BILL and Ill take the word of a Constitutional Attorney by the name of Kris Ann Hall over yours. She has laid it out and made it very clear. Kris Ann Hall did challenge Obama but the fix was in and no one came forward for fear of being called a RACIST in my opinion. Obama was neither a citizen nor was he born in the USA according to his Grandmother and other members of his African tribe. Grandma stated back then that she witnessed his birth in KENYA. False documents and the deep state put him in. A crackhead ho that got everything covered up by a deep state fake news cabal.
While some constitutional issues are truly difficult, with framing-era sources either nonexistent or contradictory, here, the relevant materials clearly indicate that a “natural born Citizen” means a citizen from birth with no need to go through naturalization proceedings. The Supreme Court has long recognized that two particularly useful sources in understanding constitutional terms are British common law3 and enactments of the First Congress.4 Both confirm that the original meaning of the phrase “natural born Citizen” includes persons born abroad who are citizens from birth based on the citizenship of a parent.
No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.
The Qualifications Clause set forth in Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 requires the President to be a natural-born citizen, at least thirty-five years of age, and a resident of the United States for at least fourteen years.1
Like the age requirements for membership in the House of Representatives2 and the Senate,3 the age requirement for the presidency set forth at Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 ensures that persons holding the office of President will have the necessary maturity for the position as well as sufficient time in a public role for the electorate to be able to assess the merits of a presidential candidate.4 In his Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, Justice Joseph Story stated: Considering the nature of the duties, the extent of the information, and the solid wisdom and experience required in the executive department, no one can reasonably doubt the propriety of some qualification of age.5
The Framers appear to have adopted the requirement that citizens be natural born citizens to ensure that the President’s loyalties would lie strictly with the United States. By barring naturalized citizens from the presidency, the requirement of being a natural born citizen, as Justice Story explained, protects the United States from ambitious foreigners, who might otherwise be intriguing for the office; and interposes a barrier against those corrupt interferences of foreign governments in executive elections, which have inflicted the most serious evils upon the elected monarchies of Europe.6 Article II, however, provided an exception for foreign-born persons who had immigrated to the colonies prior to the adoption of the Constitution.7 Justice Story explained that this was done out of respect to those distinguished revolutionary patriots, who were born in a foreign land, and yet had entitled themselves to high honors in their adopted country.8
While the Constitution does not define natural born Citizen, commentators have opined that the Framers would have understood the term to mean someone who was a U.S. citizen at birth with no need to go through a naturalization proceeding at some later time.9 British statutes from 1709 and 1731 expressly described children of British subjects who were born outside of Great Britain as natural born citizens and provided that they enjoyed the same rights to inheritance as children born in Great Britain.10 In addition, in the Naturalization Act of 1790, the First Congress provided that children of citizens of the United States, that may be born beyond the sea, . . . shall be considered as natural born citizens . . . .11 Consequently, under the principle that British common law and enactments of the First Congress are two particularly useful sources in understanding constitutional terms,12 it would appear likely that the Framers would have understood natural born citizen to encompass the children of United States citizens born overseas.13 Such an interpretation is further supported by the presidential candidacies of Senator John McCain of Arizona, who was born in the Panama Canal Zone; Governor George Romney of Michigan, who was born in Mexico, and Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona, who was born in Arizona before it became a state.14
The main problem is both Democrats and Republicans benefit from the system they have put in place to finance their spending. There is no reason for them to change it. You and I suffer in the long run but it is a slow and not real painful death. It is just a very gradual collapse financed by the Federal Reserve.
Actually, the finances are not difficult to understand. The lack of interest in getting to the truth is lacking. I ask you, who stands to gain in explaining all this? The system works as long as the National Debt just keeps going up and who wants to stop that? I hope you see the game and why we need the right change.
Do not make this complicated because it is not. It is just corrupt to the core and well hidden from view.
I expect you all to take off the 25th in celebration of the birth of Jesus of Nazareth (I know - it was actually on "yom kippur" but recognizing His birth and all that that means as regards Ransom, Rescue, Redemption and Restoration can/should be done every day). My prayers for all here: I hope you are able to surround yourself with those you love and who love you and that you reflect on our Loving God who only wants good for His children - but allows us to make the choice for ourselves.
PS - If you are looking for a great Christmas story try reading Isaiah 53 as a prophecy of the Miracle of His coming and a mandate on His Mission.
"Glory to God in the Highest - then on earth: Peace among men of good-will" Luke 2:14
Let me get this straight. The Democrats are accusing Republicans of being Democrats? That is hilarious!
They are accusing us of being Confederates but the Confederates were all Democrats. Democrats were the insurrectionists who pulled out of the Union in 1861 because Abraham Lincoln was a Republican and hated slavery.
Apparently Democrats in 2023 believe Americans are stupid and do not know their history. Oh, I think I have this figured out. Never mind.
Jim Schout
I think maybe Americans are becoming more stupid, in part because of our schools but also technology isn’t making the average American smarter. There are other reasons too, of course.
Years ago I worked for I.B.M. Every pencil, notepad and office utensil had one word etched on it…THINK!
The company had already learned that computers make people dumb. Instead of using their common sense and logic people quickly just rely on what their device tells them. This often leads to terrible ends.
America is finding out the hard way just how far astray we can go. Sound logic and common sense seem to be lost arts.
Jim Schout
100%
Thats true especially the way technology is erasing information. Dumbing down everything to only what we are allowed to believe. They are the 'disinformation' police.
The South pulled out of the Union because the Union imposed an unfair taxation regime, choosing to tax agricultural exports (the main product of the Southern economy) rather than imports of manufactured goods (most of which went to the Northern states).
Had Lincoln imposed an import tax, the Northern voters would have tossed the rascals out. The South, outnumbered, were left in an untenable position (not having the votes to toss out the rascals) and followed the only path left to them, secession.
The real cause of the war was economic. While Lincoln did not care for slavery, his and his government's positions in that regard were inconsistent. Lincoln and the Northern states particularly did not want to be overrun by hordes of freed Southern slaves.
For a very interesting take on Lincoln, his life and his presidency I recommend Thomas J. DiLorenzo's "The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War," with a foreword by Walter E. Williams, one of the most distinguished Black economists in American academia. You will learn a lot of things that aren't in the history books.
https://www.amazon.com/Real-Lincoln-Abraham-Agenda-Unnecessary/dp/0761526463/ref=sr_1_1
I agree totally. However, the fact is the Civil War South was Democrat Party and anti-Republican until well after WW-II.
What is funny is the South was always conservative. What changed was the Democrat Party going progressive too far too fast. Just like Reagan, the party left him.
Jim Schout
And historically, Blacks always voted for the "party of Lincoln." Until the Democrats started making them promises that they could not keep even if they wanted to, and of course they had no plan to even try to keep those promises. That has worked for them for ~75 years, but the Blacks like the Latinos and most other minorities, are moving to MAGA/A1. Not the desiccated corpse that is the GOP, but the new ideas of Trump and his fellow anti-communists.
Trump is even talking about having a rally in NYC. There have been quite a few recent 'man on the street' interviews in The Bronx where one person after another, mostly minorities, say they plan to vote for Trump -- in one of the bluest of blue districts. I'll bet he could fill Yankee Stadium to its full 55,000+ capacity. Imagine that! 55 or 60 thousand crazed New Yorkers screaming out "TRUMP, TRUMP, TRUMP!"
edit: Justin Timberlake sold out the house with 89,023 tickets sold for each of two shows in 2013, with a concert seating arrangement similar presumably to what Trump could use for a rally. Make that 89,000 crazed screaming New Yorkers!
As a lifelong Massachusetts libtard (I donated to Liz & Bernie for years) it's shocking 2C libs twist themselves into bloodthirsty warmongers. I will always be grateful to Q//45//Anon Truthers for redpilling me & so many others. MAGA = Death to Global KM SWAMP Creatures + Rebirth of We the People Sovereigns Worldwide. Of course this Mil Ind Complex shock is minor compared to hard truths about Satanic Frazzle Drip Reality. When will the systematic Satanic Blood Sacrifice curtain get pulled back for Collective Masses?
5th Gen Info WW3 gets lonely. How do I celebrate Xmas (yet again) w/ an entire fam of zombie normies every one of whom remains completely committed to staying lost in the Matrix ? I've lost intimate rel-ships that were supposed 2b lifelong. It's 4 yrs of wandering this insane labyrinth.
Merry Christmas, Sovereign Yogi! Christ's peace for the new year!
The Nativity story is one of hardship, loneliness, and confusion. You are in the very best of company.
The story of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is a good place to start red-pilling normies. He was a Democrat, so most of them will be sympathetic to a story that paints his life and untimely death in a positive manner, and they might be more curious than if you start right in on Q and Trump. Here is a decent place to start:
https://pepelivesmatter.substack.com/p/the-ultimate-jfk-assassination-report
Glorious... my smile grows every day.
We are winning BIGLY!
Keep it coming.
Merry Christmas!
God Wins!
God Bless!!!
This is in response to the Harry Dent post about the coming 2024 crash of our economy. I think he is totally bonkers and is fear mongering.
If we honestly study the 1929 crash we find the truth of that situation. The market was pumped up with nothing but hype. The companies we priced based on the public’s over zealous expectations. There were too few earnings behind the hype.
Today we have the opposite. The companies that make up the markets are making money and the earnings are there to pretty much support the valuation. The idea that we might repeat the 1929 crash is ludicrous…we did that again in 2000 with the NASDAQ where the earnings were not there and the hype was rampant. Yes, the DOW and S&P 500 fell but not like the high tech. Since then we have gotten back to established earnings in the NASDAQ as well as the DOW.
So, a crash is going to be hard to create but the demise of our economy is upon us thanks to the Democrats and Rinos with their deficit spending. The problem is we are in a slow collapse that no one seems to see. What prevents the fast collapse is the business of America that actually supports our Socialism and has for well over 100 years.
If we study the stock markets since they came into existence, we see compound annual growth of almost exactly 8% over more than 125 years including the depression and collapses since. However, that 8% compound growth faltered in 2000. If America was still on the old growth curve the DOW would be at 57,000 today instead of at 37,000. We are slowly being hurt by our Socialism because it is robbing our Free Enterprise system faster than Capitalism can keep up. The markets are still going up but not like they used to or like they are capable of. This is what Donald Trump knows to be true and what he can fix. Meanwhile, Joe Biden is working overtime to spend America into oblivion. And there you have the bottom line that no one sees due to all of the BS we get each day to confuse us and to change the subject. Somehow we need to tell the Capitalism story so the public understands why Democrats are either stupid or corrupt. They surely do not have our best interest at heart.
So, Harry Dent doesn’t get it. And he supposed to be an economic guru. Go figure.
Jim Schout
Excellent analysis, Jim, and in less than a page! I have read entire economics texts that do not explain the fundamentals of the market as you have.
The reason is they have no reason to actually help investors. Their goal is to sell books over and over again.
Jim Schout
Well done, Jim.
TY Jeff ... Tis the season ... It is said: Essenes prepared for many years (more likely: many lifetimes) of purification to pave the way for the arrival of this Christed One ... more than likely: those of us purifying ourselves to walk in cosmic love, light & consciousness are doing s/t similar for the coming generations of Christed girls and boys who will evolve to usher humanity into the coming Golden Jubilee of healing our planet & celebrating the dissolution of satanic illusions of scarcity consciousness & ephemeral power.
Gay’s little diversion show will not only backfire as her extended time clearly demonstrates the ‘rules (plagiarism) are for thee, not me’ and that Harvard’s corruption goes clear to the top. This will eventually expose enough to lead to Harvard’s collapse.
Same thing applies to the 14th amendment debacle in the Colorado Supreme Court as the dissenting opinions are covered; only a matter of time before it, too, backfires. Election interference is the most obvious goal to the vast majority now.
The Red Sea issue must be watched carefully because it is impossible (as our Tiger states) to actually know. The same thing applies to the 2024 stock market....anyone with any common sense realizes where this is going. The mergers are further proof of corporations beginning to panic.....they are NOT too big to fail. This AND the relocating Gaza residents to pro-Hamas countries has OBAMAs handprints all over it!
Our fearless tiger is correct. We conservatives have espoused support for the pro-war faction of cabal minions for a very long time...right up to 2009 when the installed Manchurian leader did the exact opposite of each statement he made in order to achieve his assigned goals of the 16 year plan. https://www.reddit.com/user/CaptainRoyD/comments/9r01tg/obamagatethe_16year_plan_to_destroy_america/
Migrants, currently military age males are being sent all over the country, again Obama’s hand seen as this was one of this tasks in the 16 year plan.... migrants are not migrants. They are Illegal aliens. Criminals the minute they stepped foot on our land without going legally through the immigration system.
God bless each one here. Merry Christmas.🙏🙏
One thought in opposition. Corporations do not panic. They evolve to match the times. Yes, they are not too big to fail, but they take years to fail unless they figure out how to change efficiently.
Look at the “Nifty-Fifty” from the sixties. Over 25% are kaput or close to failure. Polaroid, Kodak, Woolworths, and Sears are not players any longer but many of the others have continued to grow earnings at over 12% annually and pay a dividend to boot.
So, I love your post but do not sell corporate America short. They know how to circumnavigate the political quagmire and survive. Joe Biden is just a bump in the road. The markets are making new highs despite that clown. The problem is the new highs are far lower than they should be if we ran a fiscally sound ship of state. The good news is Trump knows how to get us back on a stronger foundation.
Jim Schout
Excellent counter, Jim, and I do concur with all that you stated here. My issue actually, and what prompted the panic comment, is when governments and corporations are so closely entwined; first, it’s fascism, and 2nd, if the corrupt governments are revealed to be supporting (say, child trafficking, for example), then the corporations are likely involved, either knowingly (Disney) or unknowingly, and the exposure of this will impact their bottom line, won’t it? It’s mostly global corporations behind the World Economic Forum and it’s how infiltration of the world’s governments was done in part. I’m trying to see how government corruption faces justice and their corporate partners don’t? Thank for giving us much to consider!
Merry Christmas and God bless you.🙏
We could discuss all this for months and likely bore everyone. But there is one point that I find critical to what you are concerned about with corporations.
The government has created the way business is reacting in order to survive. The annual trade deficit is balanced by the annual budget deficit. This, the Congress generates a market for our treasury bonds yearly.
This, by the way, is why Trump accurately stated that Mexico would pay for the border wall. Our $70 billion trade deficit would easily fund the wall several times over with the dollars generated from Mexico buying bonds as they do annually. Dollars in Mexico sitting in a bank lose value while bonds bought with the same dollars grow at a compound rate.
So, once we factor in the real money flows we see how corporations need to get more foreign business and are forced to jump through hoops to get it.
China is playing with $500 billion or more but they did not like the 2% return. The better return comes from buying politicians! There is the real story. Our budget deficit is what funds crooked politicians in both parties. And, that is the game Trump is trying to end. So, the Left knows he has to be stopped no matter what it takes. Trump is in grave danger and he knows it. But he still pokes the canal in the gut daily. I love it!
Jim Schout
Thank you for your response, Jim. My husband is better with the financial details of the market and I’m familiar, however, it’s (obviously) not my area of expertise. I truly appreciate you taking the time to explain the international aspect of the US markets, as I suspect I’m not the only one reading these posts without the knowledge you possess! I suspect it does take experts to see the ‘real’ money flows and your explanation just helped fill in some of the knowledge gaps. Thank you very much, Jim, and God bless you!🙏🙏
I remember an anecdote told by one of my professors at the Michigan Business School in the late 70s, about the risk of extrapolation and all those glorious 'hockey stick' projections. This was from a Xerox shareholders' meeting, where the CFO put up a projected long-term growth curve with some particularly impressive numbers. So impressive, in fact, that one of the analysts in the audience asked a penetrating question: "Do you know what the projected GDP of the United States is forecast to be in (final year of projection)?" CFO said, "Well, no; I'm sorry I don't know that number." Analyst: "Well if you meet your projections, Xerox's sales alone will exceed the entire GDP of the country."
Whoops!
And that exact same situation existed with Cisco Systems in early 2000. The shares are still well below the highs back then. But, Cisco is a great company…just not over-priced.
Long term the key is the share price compound growth must match the earnings compound growth. And, this is easily seen long term by looking backwards with 100% accurate data. The question becomes, “What is likely to change in the future to disrupt the annual trends?”
Merry Christmas!
Jim Schout
Exactly right, Jim, and merry Christmas to you and yours as well!🎄💖🥂🙏🕊✝
This is better analysis than I have read ANYWHERE else. Bravo!!!
"I have little idea what’s really going on in the Red Sea, but I do know that the US Military is complaining to the media about the Biden Admin’s lack of response to it—specifically, the supposed Commander-in-Chief.
"What this tells me is two things:
"1. Whatever IS happening in the Red Sea is, at least so far, failing to trigger a US MIL response under the framing of National Essential Functions.
"2. Biden either has no desire to interfere with the Red Sea chaos—and other chaos in the region—or, more likely in the view of many of us around these parts, no ability to do so."
Trafficking in Illegals to vote and riot in the 2024 FAKE ELECTION with FAKE non US Natural Born Citizens Candidates Vivek and Haley, not eligible to be president or VP, that the GOP has funded to help their Uniparty friends on the other side of the isle. Then robbing US Born Natural BORN citizens of their Constitutional rights and replacing us with Illegals brought in with LIMO driver at Tax Payers Cost to the airport with airline tickets WE THE PEOPLE pay for. Taken to states to be housed on US Taxpayers dime, and no doubt shipped to republican gov states, since they are all in this shit together. Now the requirements for education in jobs has been dropped so that these ILLEGALs can work in the US and take US CITIZENS jobs. Grants specifically earmarked for illegals to incentivize employers to hire them over us. Biden admin is screwing every US citizen 6 ways to Sunday with the help of their PEDO friends on both sides of the isle. Time to get the screw right on back. Biden admin wants to cut your life earnings by taxing you more and giving it to illegals. How many of us are for this BS? LOCK THEM UP.... LOCK THEM UP!!!! Call your Election commissions and demand Vivek and Haley be removed from the ballot. They are not eligible to be on them
https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?&q=kris+ann+hall+constitution+Natural+Born+Citizen+defined&&mid=640AC283079BF10F9C87640AC283079BF10F9C87&&FORM=VRDGAR
I will not vote for Haley if she pulls off her goal to displace Trump on the ticket. I don’t think she will. I’m not as convinced of Vivek’s evil as many on this platform are. But, weren’t both of them born in the US and doesn’t that qualify them to run? As I side note, there is no part of me that believes Obama was born in the US.
The constitution is clear that a Natural Born Citizen is a person born of two US Citizens at the time of their birth. Neither Vivek or Haley meet that qualification. The law is clear that neither can hold the office of the Presidency or VP. That rule was put in place to ensure that the President and VP would be loyal ONLY to the United States and not influenced by their Parents birthplace. A 'citizen' is not the same as a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN. Haley is an Anchor baby and Wamaswamy's dad isnt even a citizen of this country. Wamaswamys education was finance 90K by the brother of George Soros who is basically a front for George Soros. Ramaswamy paid to have that info hidden and erased from the net however the company he paid revealed it so that lie didnt go over well. If he had nothing to hide, why did he pay to hide it.
Sorry Catherine, but the Constitution is not clear and does not define the term 'natural born citizen.' Further no court capable of setting precedent has ruled as to the definition of the term.
From Wikipedia (yeah, yeah, I know -- but in this case I believe they are right):
"The U.S. Constitution uses but does not define the phrase "natural born Citizen" and various opinions have been offered over time regarding its exact meaning. The consensus of early 21st-century constitutional and legal scholars, together with relevant case law, is that natural-born citizens include, subject to exceptions, those born in the United States. As to those born elsewhere who meet the legal requirements for birthright citizenship, the consensus emerging as of 2016 was that they also are natural-born citizens."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural-born-citizen_clause_(United_States)
Birthright citizenship is where at least one of the person's parents is a US Citizen at the time of that person's birth. Not both, only one is required. So if you are born in Canada to parents of whom one is American and one is something else, you have birthright citizenship in the USA.
I don't know about Nikki's or Vivek's parentage, but Obama's mother was a US citizen (nobody has challenged that fact) so Obama is a natural-born citizen of the USA, wherever he was born and whoever his father was. Even if many of us wish he was not.
I disagree BILL and Ill take the word of a Constitutional Attorney by the name of Kris Ann Hall over yours. She has laid it out and made it very clear. Kris Ann Hall did challenge Obama but the fix was in and no one came forward for fear of being called a RACIST in my opinion. Obama was neither a citizen nor was he born in the USA according to his Grandmother and other members of his African tribe. Grandma stated back then that she witnessed his birth in KENYA. False documents and the deep state put him in. A crackhead ho that got everything covered up by a deep state fake news cabal.
Do you have a reference to her work? I'd like to read it.
Also can you point me to where in the Constitution the term 'natural born citizen' is defined, as you say it is?
Thanks.
This is some major evidence you might want to watch
https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?&q=kris+ann+hall+constitution+Natural+Born+Citizen+defined&&mid=640AC283079BF10F9C87640AC283079BF10F9C87&&FORM=VRDGAR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG5oB7bYS4s&t=179s
https://harvardlawreview.org/forum/vol-128/on-the-meaning-of-natural-born-citizen/
While some constitutional issues are truly difficult, with framing-era sources either nonexistent or contradictory, here, the relevant materials clearly indicate that a “natural born Citizen” means a citizen from birth with no need to go through naturalization proceedings. The Supreme Court has long recognized that two particularly useful sources in understanding constitutional terms are British common law3 and enactments of the First Congress.4 Both confirm that the original meaning of the phrase “natural born Citizen” includes persons born abroad who are citizens from birth based on the citizenship of a parent.
Best I can do right now is copy and paste this:
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artII-S1-C5-1/ALDE_00013692/
No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.
The Qualifications Clause set forth in Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 requires the President to be a natural-born citizen, at least thirty-five years of age, and a resident of the United States for at least fourteen years.1
Like the age requirements for membership in the House of Representatives2 and the Senate,3 the age requirement for the presidency set forth at Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 ensures that persons holding the office of President will have the necessary maturity for the position as well as sufficient time in a public role for the electorate to be able to assess the merits of a presidential candidate.4 In his Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, Justice Joseph Story stated: Considering the nature of the duties, the extent of the information, and the solid wisdom and experience required in the executive department, no one can reasonably doubt the propriety of some qualification of age.5
The Framers appear to have adopted the requirement that citizens be natural born citizens to ensure that the President’s loyalties would lie strictly with the United States. By barring naturalized citizens from the presidency, the requirement of being a natural born citizen, as Justice Story explained, protects the United States from ambitious foreigners, who might otherwise be intriguing for the office; and interposes a barrier against those corrupt interferences of foreign governments in executive elections, which have inflicted the most serious evils upon the elected monarchies of Europe.6 Article II, however, provided an exception for foreign-born persons who had immigrated to the colonies prior to the adoption of the Constitution.7 Justice Story explained that this was done out of respect to those distinguished revolutionary patriots, who were born in a foreign land, and yet had entitled themselves to high honors in their adopted country.8
While the Constitution does not define natural born Citizen, commentators have opined that the Framers would have understood the term to mean someone who was a U.S. citizen at birth with no need to go through a naturalization proceeding at some later time.9 British statutes from 1709 and 1731 expressly described children of British subjects who were born outside of Great Britain as natural born citizens and provided that they enjoyed the same rights to inheritance as children born in Great Britain.10 In addition, in the Naturalization Act of 1790, the First Congress provided that children of citizens of the United States, that may be born beyond the sea, . . . shall be considered as natural born citizens . . . .11 Consequently, under the principle that British common law and enactments of the First Congress are two particularly useful sources in understanding constitutional terms,12 it would appear likely that the Framers would have understood natural born citizen to encompass the children of United States citizens born overseas.13 Such an interpretation is further supported by the presidential candidacies of Senator John McCain of Arizona, who was born in the Panama Canal Zone; Governor George Romney of Michigan, who was born in Mexico, and Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona, who was born in Arizona before it became a state.14
As for Obama his documents are fake. This was the grandma story that was ignored.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMffumZJiDo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEbKd0DbBbw
https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?&q=kris+ann+hall+constitution+Natural+Born+Citizen+defined&&mid=640AC283079BF10F9C87640AC283079BF10F9C87&&FORM=VRDGAR
The main problem is both Democrats and Republicans benefit from the system they have put in place to finance their spending. There is no reason for them to change it. You and I suffer in the long run but it is a slow and not real painful death. It is just a very gradual collapse financed by the Federal Reserve.
Actually, the finances are not difficult to understand. The lack of interest in getting to the truth is lacking. I ask you, who stands to gain in explaining all this? The system works as long as the National Debt just keeps going up and who wants to stop that? I hope you see the game and why we need the right change.
Do not make this complicated because it is not. It is just corrupt to the core and well hidden from view.
Great read as always!
2.5 million Honda cars recalled over stalling risk. See the list.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/honda-recalls-2-5-million-vehicles-due-fuel-pump-issue