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https://www.tradingview.com/chart/DXY/e3gatekl-Advanced-Education-Why-the-US-Dollar-is-Going-to-Die/
The above link provides a nice, simple summary of monetary policy during the last century to date. The conclusion is highly debateable!
The West seems determined to wean itself off oil and use renewable energy sources. Again, that's all highly debateable, or perhaps it's the speed at which the transfer from fossil fuels to renewables that is in doubt. I don't know. The main point is that if oil does become much less important to the $US, just how will America prevent the dollar from losing its reserve currency status? We get back to the economists' arguments about fixing currencies to tangible commodities or acknowledging that a currency's strength or weakness depends on the economic output of a country. After all, many African countries have a lot of gold reserves, but are deemed poor. Germany, for example, doesn't have many gold reserves but owns some gold (but nowhere near enough to back its currency), but is seen as a rich country.
So, is Basel III the next step along the way to linking currencies to a basket of commodities, of which gold and silver play a role? Future monetary policy will try to mitigate the rise of Chinese economic power. For the West, it appears that the next step to balancing debt to economic output is to inflate the debt away. They tried the other way around, but failed.
There is a lot to think about here. There isn't a perfect system, and the experts know more and more about less and less. So they're no help.
This SP is well below what it should be the MM is a sleep and needs to get it moving ffs
The problem is, all "The Experts" have their own agendas, so spout what is best for themselves.
Human nature.
We’ll the aren’t you lucky. You can buy lots more at 50% off due to lousy profits this year and wait for it to come right like me. In the end fundamentals, ie profits, will out but you can understand the scepticism now
Yes Mr B, the world is run by 'experts'.
Well, according to Alfred Lord Tennyson, the 'experts' were around in his day, causing havoc just as now. I think that's what inspired him to write 'The Golden Year'.
Ah, when shall all men's good
Be each man's rule, and universal peace
Lie like a shaft of light across the land,
And like a lane of beams athwart the sea,
Thro' all the circle of the golden year?
You might have thought a poem like that made Tennyson seem pretty OK, on the whole. I bet this little number wouldn't pass the Woke Brigade today, though:
Man for the field and woman for the hearth:
Man for the sword and for the needle she:
Man with the head and woman with the heart:
Man to command and woman to obey;
All else confusion.
If Tennyson were able to see my sewing efforts, he would surely change his mind. Ah well, the good ol' days, eh?
It looks like poetry Monday has moved to Sunday again.
Hi Red,
Very interesting read, thank you!
Amazing isn't it how the US can claim to be a guardian of democracy and freedom and yet it felt it did the US ban civilian ownership of gold ,
Although the US were desperate to knock the United Kingdom’s Pound Sterling off it's pediastal as the worlds reserve currency they planned to invade Canada and then take control of the UK in alliance with Germany the UK.
https://aangirfan.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-fourth-reich-bis-donald-maclaren.html
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/revealed-americas-secret-war-plan-invade-canada-15359
As it was WW2 came along and the Yanks were able to bankrupt the UK selling it seaworthy ships and overpriced military junk including "Tommy Cooker tanks which were were unfit for purpose!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_50EGgz5_Xk
https://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=217773
After WW2 the US remained in occupation of the UK to form a buffer zone in order to be able to carry out war with the Eastern bloc if need , this would ensure that our people suffered retaliation before America.
All the US military personal were exempt from paying any UK taxes, even their ow n personal vehicle could be driven on UK roads without the need for insurance , road tax and MOT, of course all their petrol was bought on the airbase so that was also tax exempt!
US base personal who committed crime or broke the law off base could also claim diplomatic immunity and still do!
https://yorkshirecnd.org.uk/us-military-bases-in-the-uk/
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10075756/woman-fled-britain-diplomatic-immunity-death-wife-american-spy/
https://abcnews.go.com/International/us-uk-end-anomaly-allowing-diplomatic-immunity-american/story?id=71916844
The "Brexiteers" claim that the UK was under the influence of the EU and they were claiming back freedom , what freedom , don't they realise the UK is still occupied by more American military personnel than it was during the Norman occupation!
Hi Mr Tibbles
Well, there is a different interpretation to being free in the US if you are black. There are lots of NAZIs there.
I've just found out that my nephew is going to study for a Master's Degree in economics at Munich University this autumn. His father is Irish, from Dublin, and his mother is English, but it has meant that my nephew has an Irish passport, even though he was born in England. Because Ireland is in the EU, he can go to study in Germany for free. He has to pay for his keep, of course, but there are no course fees.
I didn't like to say it, of course, but I wish he was studying something useful! He likes economic history, so I suppose he ought to read something he's interested in. I'm not sure if he could do this on a British passport now we are not an EU member.
Still, we'll soon be able to get some cheap, chlorinated chicken from the US, so that's OK.
Hi Red,
Your nephew is indeed fortunate, another example of how much we have al lost in the UK due to Brexit, the Brexiteers thought they were gaining so much, the reality is quite the reverse as unfortunately due to their stupidity or ignorance!
I feel as though I have been made a prisoner and lost so much freedom, yet I am innocent of any crime!
Hi Mr Tibbles
On the subject of tanks, I visited the Queensland Museum in Brisbane a few years ago. They have the only surviving example of a German WW1 tank, dug out of the mud in No Man's Land somewhere in France. Usually, this tank is displayed in a see-through cover, but when I was there, the cover had been removed for some work to be carried out. The lady curator said that she'd worked at the museum for many years and it was the first time she had seen the tank without the cover. And it was only coming off for a couple of days.
It was perfect timing by me. I took some photos of it because of the rarity of the situation, but it was frankly wasted on me. It's a pity I can't load up the photos on this board for any tank enthusiasts. I took 3 photos which are OK - I'm not an expert. There is a photo on Wiki:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/Captured_A7V_Tank.png
Hi Red,
Thank you for the post, I saved the pic!
I won't go on for too long being a week day!
When I was very young I spent lots of time with my grandfather (Pap) who spoke very little about his time in WW1 to anyone other than myself as a young boy, he made me promise that I would never go to war because he said the ordinary people on both sides always lose so much!
My Pap due to being in the home guard ( supplemented his income as a "Clicker" with £6 per year)got sent out to Belgium with a "Pals unit" at the start of WW1, he lost most of his close friends in action and suffered injury several times, although he never received a medal because e he was shot by friendly (British Lewis guns) whilst he was advancing in no mans land.
Anyway after returning from behind the lines hospital his commanding officer volunteered Pap for duty as a gun loader in one of our tanks, after 3 days training his tank went into action and as soon two shots were fired from their tank the interior filled up with smoke because the tanks extractors had been put out of action by sniper fire. the steersman was forced to open his viewing slot and got blinded by shrapnel so lost control and the tank got stick in a hug shell hole.
So Pap and the rest of the crew bailed out and made a run back to their trenches, several days later the same tank crewed by ( Jerry) attacked our lines, although it got stuck in the mud and the crew bailed out and ran back to German lines, and so it went on!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESKxi4EEDUQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MCmKrf91o4
Hi Mr Tibbles
I think the noise in those tanks must have been terrible.
My paternal great grandfather served in the British Army during WW1 and fought on the Somme. My dad used to say that he always complained of rheumatism and arthritis in his legs because of standing constantly in water and mud for days on end in the trenches. My father was in the Navy, and he also had arthritis in his hips and knees - so I think it was hereditary. I never knew any of my grandparents - they had all died before I was born. My maternal great grandfather was posted to Palestine during WW1, so probably in part of today's Israel. I had an uncle in the 8th Army during WWII - he had so many amazing stories. You couldn't tell him much about life and death.
I really must look into my ancestoral past. A retirement project, I think.
Hi Red,
It may have been that they were prone to rheumatism and arthritis, although what they went through can't have helped , what they suffered in military service may have even brought the condition on sooner in life than it would have otherwise occurred if at all.
Whatever they were certainly brave men that had no real support or counseling/de briefing as is provided today after active service in any conflict.
I also have a second cousin who was a commander in the tank regiment, he did three tours of Northern Ireland as a Saracen commander, he had a few stories to tell and the experiences he went through scarred him mentally, he suffered terrible flash backs to incidents of the past for many years afterwards, he remained deeply troubled by the way our military were ordered to behave in Northern Ireland by the political will of the time.
Those that bring about that wars and conflicts never have to endure them , possibly a discussion for a week end though?