Jim Grant: Gold Is a Defense Against "Monetary Shenanigans"

Gold is not so much a hedge against monetary disorder but an investment in it.  --Jim Grant

Thank you to Ryan McMaken @ the Mises Wire, June 3, 2016.

17:40  Johnson chose poorly on this.  I'm not seeing any upside here, folks.  I've been doing research into emergency coms and emergency backup power for the last two weeks, if everybody wants to know where my head has been, okay?  Like going down the whole ham radio thing and looking at the situation and how we're going to take care of ourselves because we don't have any halfway decent communications.  I'm dead serious.  I haven't felt this way since 2008, and I'm far more seasoned about this stuff now than when I was panicking over 2008.  Back then I was panicking; this isn't panic, this is just deep, abiding vitriol.  We sat here and we held out hope that there was you know I mean look I don't don't get me wrong.  It's not like we can't come back from this.  We can.  But not as the United States of America.  This is going to be the moment in time, if we do this, if we seize Russia's foreign exchange assets, hand them to Ukraine, and the European Union doesn't do the same thing?  It's the ultimate betrayal of America by our leadership.  It's the big win they've been trying to maneuver us into for years, and the only way you salvage that is by breaking it up and by restoring effectively a version of the U.S. Constitution's rule of law and everything else to a group of people and a government not located in Washington DC.  Do you understand?  This is this is the problem.  This decision implies all of these things.  There is no other discussion about this it's not just a deglobalization of the world that's also on the table this also ensures that Putin seizes, nationalizing assets of unfriendly countries, owned by unfriendly countries yeah he's selling possessions in 9/10 of the law the same way that half of Germany's gold is still in Marriner Eccles' Building in DC, built in 1937.  England still won't give Venezuela their gold back go back to the JCPOA they've been setting this up for years since 2015 when the JCPOA I remember arguing with a friend who's a rabid Neoconservative Jew great guy and every other way but when it came to Israel he became a complete freaking rabbit neocon when the JCPOA was signed, he was literally right next to Bebe N. 

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Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry says it’s necessary to prevent the public from “stifling deliberative speech” of public officials & stop “public unrest”

This is unreal pic.twitter.com/3VmmNuKLIS

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) April 21, 2024

I Pledge Allegiance to the United States of Ukraine . . . !@#$%

Democrats chanted “Ukraine” while waving Ukraine flags on the House floor after sending Ukraine $60 billion more of our taxpayer money to protect its borders. Imagine if Democrats cared this much about protecting our own border. This is all madness: pic.twitter.com/untAp1Rkrf

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) April 20, 2024

Start it.  Start a mass effort to expel these traitors from their state offices.  Work to get that done.   

Here is the list of the thieves who voted to transfer America's treasure to well-connected donors and politicians.   

The U.S. Congress waves their little flags, so that they can extend this.

Then, in a few months (or sooner), they'll be back for more. pic.twitter.com/ajV9Mprv8D

— Chris Rossini (@ChrisRossini) April 21, 2024

Rossini adds that, 

The Left always projects. Whatever they call you...it's what they are. Remember, we were told that Trump was beholden to a foreign nation. 

LUONGO: This is literally ritualistic suicide as it implies ... 1) That there is no rule of law in the US 2) Capital will now no longer feel safe being held here.

Seizing Russia's Forex reserves is BY FAR the biggest mistake of the war by the US. This is literally ritualistic suicide as it implies ...
1) That there is no rule of law in the US
2) Capital will now no longer feel safe being held here.
3) Profit from trade with the US will no… https://t.co/JhVFMRZKOS

— Tom Luongo (Head Sneetch) (@TFL1728) April 21, 2024

Seizing Russia's Forex reserves is BY FAR the biggest mistake of the war by the US. This is literally ritualistic suicide as it implies ...

1) That there is no rule of law in the US 2) Capital will now no longer feel safe being held here. 3) Profit from trade with the US will no longer be held in US banks for ease of deployment. That money will go home to prevent seizure. Do you really think the world is watching this and thinking.. "Oh, it's just Russia... they won't do this to us..." Conservatards in the US have been using the talking point for nearly a decade that Obama "sent pallets of cash" to Iran to sign the JCPOA. Evidence of Obama's treason and left it hanging to imply Obama used our tax money to do this. That was a lie by omission... Iran wanted the money "frozen" when Obama kicked them out of SWIFT four years earlier. And all they did was negotiate to get back that which the Americans had frozen. That hope will die here if the Senate passes this and "Joah Bii-DEN!" signs it. Europe thinks they are the big winner in this fight... China will actually be it.