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  1. Is it just my computer? or is anyone else not able to view Money & Markets video in full screen mode? Full screen button has no effect.

      1. Gerdt,

        Thank you for your suggestion, I changed to Firefox and it worked.
        Thank you
        Al

      2. We are compatible with Firefox and Safari, but not for Chrome or browsers that have a Google core.

    2. Same for me for a while now. I used to use the European Mirror which allowed full screen, but that link has gone away…

      1. What’s the name of the man who gave the mass formation lecture you mentioned? I would love to listen to that. Thanks Catherine.

      2. Sarah,

        I took the advice of Gerdt Kernkamp and changed my browser to Firefox and it worked.

  2. I am not supporting my Alma Mater (Delft University of Technology) for giving an honorary doctorate to Frans Timmermans for his contribution to the Energy Transition (ahumahum)

  3. Each week as I listen to the ~two hours of the Money And Markets, I mean to make comments, but end up forgetting about them by the time I get to the end, and by then it’s on to other things.

    This week I decided to comment as the things come up, after pausing the presentation.

    In the first segment, I would assemble the following facts, which are Putin not bluffing about his hypersonic missiles, nobody really fighting that hard in Ukraine nor showing their whiz-bang weapons, and the fact that the US is not rattled by the non-bluff by Putin:

    All the above could be true, but actually the US could simultaneously be in possession of weapons that they know are better than Putin’s, and he may actually know this as well, but his is a bluff to get us to reveal the underlying technology that goes with the pending UFO play. We may actually have things that do as UFOs are reputed to do, but if we use them, we would be revealing something that we’ve been trying to keep secret. That double-bind again. This game might be trickier than anyone is imagining.

    You and John often talk about stacking functions but I believe there is a corollary that involves stacking screw-ups. The IRS Army militarization is a stacked screw up in my opinion. The IRS starts out as one of the least admired agencies, and we have a government that inveighs against citizen weaponry. I don’t know how you put the two of those together comfortably. It’s hard to imagine there are hundreds of thousands of people with challengeable tax deductions, omissions and errors whose amounts are sufficient to risk potential armed conflict. If the IRS makes too big an issue out of too small an item, you are certain to have retaliation in the worst form. Most of us can certainly remember Granny Clampett grabbing her shotgun when word of revenooers coming around was in the air. The IRS exist principally as a threat to big cheaters, even if they persecute small cheaters on occasion. As with all bullies, the game is over when violence is met with violence. With US federal government at historical lows in trust and approval, this seems like an exceptionally bad move, sort of like the mistress of misinformation.

    The metaphor of Wall Street Cowboys, while interesting, is not as good as Wall Street Privateers. Pirates were originally subcontractors of the British Crown, enlisted to harass and threaten Spanish shipping. As the pickings became lush, people like Blackbeard enjoyed very high lifestyles. When the need was gone, The Crown turned on the privateers, persecuting them as illicit pirates, a la Pirates of the Caribbean. I think this is what will be going on with the people that are running all the tricky investments that the government wanted to experiment with. And Crypto Buccaneers.

    Lastly, while I claim only amateur status in chart-reading, the divergence of TLT and GLD are clearly manifest between May and September 2020, not Spring, 2021.

  6. Following on your comment about linking your body to digital currency a la Face Pay: If you connect your body to a financial system your body becomes a ‘coin’ in someone else’s purse, which is the definition of slavery.

  7. Catherine has long described Australia as being the “lucky country”, and the story regarding the CBDC pilot program triggered a thought. I’ll grossly oversimplify but this is the general premise:

    Phase 1: Gain complete authority over an isolated population via gun control, covid lockdowns, and CBDCs.

    Phase 2: Release the untapped wealth of Australia’s natural resources while importing massive amounts of cheap labor from Asia to drive the boom. No risk of a runaway reaction due to the complete control grid created in phase 1.

    Phase 3: Use this as a model to convince other populations to beg for their country to adopt the “Australia Model”

    Perhaps Australia was the “lucky” country after all

    1. Apparently the recent Zero Covid lockdowns in China are motivating migration of elite talent, not just cheap labor, to other countries in the APAC region, including Singapore and Australia.

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