Recent content by Bowers3

You asked GratefulPoke but here I am. I love this stuff and spent 10 years in finance. Which probably is a reason not to trust my opinion, tbh. The dollar being weak vs gold isn't inherently a bad thing. It's what that tells us that could be bad. Both are set by markets. A climbing gold price...

My point exactly.

And my point is, despite most of what you said being true (the dollar is actually historically strong compared to other currencies), the United States is in a better position than most countries. Cleanest dirty shirt and whatnot. Real Broad Dollar Index

Man, Whit. I don't know. I mean that's terrible and all, but that post seems pretty antisemitic.

I mean what's the worst that could happen? Everyone on earth dies horrific deaths? Cosmically speaking that really wouldn't be a big deal. ;) We're all good. I don't take anything personally on a damn message board. And I don't think that's what moderates think or act like at all. But that's...

Totally agree with all that. But may I introduce you to the entirety of human civilization history? It’s bloody and for the most part f***ing terrible. We can admit all of the awful things our government has done. But which empire would you pick as better? What era was better? Zoom out.

Are you proud to be an American, bro!? That's a microcosm, bro! You better check your privilege!

The United States is the same as Russia right now. That is a heavy, heavy anti-American bias, sir. I know it ain't perfect and Trump absolutely sucks. But calm down. Jeezth.

I mean I think it's fine to think we're better than the countries in question.

The "there's not a thing anyone in the world can do about it" part was pretty weird. But is there a level of patriotism that you're comfortable with? It feels like it's en vogue to be a self loathing American hyper-focused on all the wrong the United States has done in the past. When is it okay...

I get his sentiment and agree, but he is a little too intense about it. But yeah if Trump talked (typed) more like that it'd be a little less embarrassing.

Graphs like that always garner an emotional reaction. And I'll wager that it'll converge again (barring another crisis). I mean you can directly correlate the divergence points to financial crises. Dot com bubble, GFC, Covid pandemic. But from 2015 to 2024 (2025 data aren't available yet), the...

Yeah I don’t know who he is but he seems to me, someone with zero knowledge, to be connected.

YES. I maintain that the Occupy Wall Street and Tea Party movements of the 2000’s were both right on track. The dismantling of both and the supercharged divisive rhetoric from the media since then has been deliberate. Anyway…