CAF Note: During the Holiday Season, we typically have Money & Markets and Ask Catherine in the first two weeks of December. This December we will have Money & Markets in the first and the third week. We will not have Money & Markets and Ask Catherine in the second week and the Christmas and New Years Eve weeks. During this time we will be focused on the 2021 Annual Wrap Up. Money & Markets and Ask Catherine start in January on Thursday, January 6th.

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Did young people just push the red button?

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  1. Hello Catherine: My apologies, I don’t know where to put this. You may have a special interest in this program by the Anthroposophical Society of America. They are offering a story telling workshop during the Holy Nights on the Story of Gilgamesh: (you might have to join the society, if you are not a member already.)
    https://secure.anthroposophy.org/np/clients/anthroposophy/event.jsp?forwardedFromSecureDomain=1&event=568&&secureIdCustomer=1

  2. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10246695/Notre-Dame-turned-woke-theme-park.html

    Notre Dame ‘is being turned into a woke theme park’: Cathedral is being revamped with a ‘discovery trail’ and ‘Christianity for dummies’ exhibits, claim critics

    i remember a church in denver was turned into an event space and rave parties were held there. the name? the church nightclub.

    https://coclubs.com/church

    The Church Nightclub, located in Denver’s Golden Triangle neighborhood, has served as a hub of the Denver nightlife scene since 1996. Completed in 1889, this former Episcopal church is now home to dance worshippers every Thursday, Friday & Saturday night. The high-beamed Gothic architecture & stained glass windows are accompanied by new state of the art lighting design and the top-rated Void Acoustics Incubus Sound system. This is Denver’s premium dance club experience that draws the best from international DJs and cutting edge talent weekly. Check out our upcoming events at The Church Nightclub here.

  3. Hi Catherine, I understand there is no “Ask Catherine” the first week in Dec. so I am putting my latest question/concern here. Today an acquaintance told me she is suddenly not allowed to send money via check or money order to Brazil which she has been doing for years. First her friend in Brazil was unable to cash or deposit her personal check, then she attempted to get a money order from a US post office and was shown a list of countries that the US now won’t allow any funds to be processed. So the central banks are now controlling U S citizen’s personal funds outside the US. I don’t know the whole list or the criteria for being on the list. Can you shine knowledge-light on this? Love to you.
    Heather

    1. Some (all?) prepaid VISA cards in the US cannot be used to purchase from non-US online merchants. Some (all?) Canadian prepaid Mastercard have a spending cap (around the $100 to $200 range) on EU purchases.

      Gradual imposition of varying limits could enable data collection on future systemic consequences. If there are multiple currency ‘blocs’ with non-public policy that are currently not reflected in exchange rates, then non-price mechanisms could be used to control transactions.

      https://twitter.com/lynaldencontact/status/1464627886183399433?s=21
      > Rather than continue using their dollar surpluses to keep buying US Treasuries and finance US deficits like they used to, China now makes dollar loans to developing countries that, if defaulted on, give China the infrastructure.

  4. Incredible foresight or leaking the plan early

    “A fourth wave of Covid-19 infections is set to hit South Africa at the beginning of December, says a leading health expert.

    Salim Abdool Karim, former chairman of the government’s ministerial advisory committee on Covid-19, told Bloomberg that the current estimates show the fourth wave starting on 2 December and will last about 75 days.

    The government assumes that the wave will follow a similar pattern ….. that there will be a new variant by then”

    Dated Aug 17 2021

    https://archive.ph/o1F09

  6. What’s this? Another new UFO investigating agency?

    AOIMSG “will synchronize efforts across the Department and the broader U.S. government to detect, identify and attribute objects of interests in Special Use Airspace (SUA), and to assess and mitigate any associated threats to safety of flight and national security,”

    Like the CIA would do, “unpronounceable” will likely conduct “signs in the skies” operations and concoct “explanations” in a neat package for consumption by the ever-credulous public. The apparent gravitas of its head betrays its relationship to any actual threats.

    https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2021/11/23/pentagon-creates-new-organization-to-investigate-mysterious-objects-in-the-sky/

    1. Just a way to not disclosure. Another round of investigation. After all, its only money.

  7. Nordea FX Weekly

    “It used to be “two weeks to flatten the curve”, but somehow it has developed to “imprison the unvaccinated (or worse)”. Lockdownistas have been on parade also over the past week, with “papers please”-systems being implemented in many countries to try to boost the injection rate. Ireland has implemented a semi-lockdown with a midnight curfew. Austria has not only decided to imprison the unvaccinated (albeit so far only in their homes), the entire country is now going back into a lockdown and a nationwide vaccine mandate is launched. The vaccine is apparently so good that you need to force people in to taking it. ”

    https://web.archive.org/web/20211124005013/https://corporate.nordea.com/article/69942/nordea-weekly-papers-please-and-how-to-trade-them

    The result of this truth telling ?

    “Finland’s Nordea bank has suspended two senior analysts from publishing research, the bank said on Friday, and is investigating how a research note equating lockdowns with prison “or worse” made its way onto Nordea’s website.”

    https://uk.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/nordea-suspends-two-analysts-over-covid-research-note-equating-lockdowns-with-prison-2520701

      1. When I read that piece I saw it as a pushback from people in the banking sector. I find it quite interesting that they have been vriting critical stuff about the “pandemic” for several months, mostly in November, but it wasn’t the finance world that reacted. It was a MP in Finland that went banans over this, which made the bank say no no, no more negative comments about vaccines and lockdowns from you guys. I think it was the comments on the Nürnberg Code that the MP found most upsetting.

        I’ve never visited Nordeas web-pages before, It’s not a bank I would recommnend, but since this was such good PR I looked at some of the pieces and I think the are quite interesting. However, Martin Enlund seems to think that lockdownc etc is driving inflation:
        https://corporate.nordea.com/article/69582/week-ahead-inflation-or-dumbflation
        https://corporate.nordea.com/article/69202/nordea-weekly-an-inflationary-vaccine-mandate-is-coming-to-a-town-near-you

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