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Washington Just Turned the Dollar Into a Weapon
Washington can isolate a country from the dollar system. Iran just showed what that looks like. Central banks have been buying gold anyway. Watch why cash is the asset that is guaranteed to shrink. Your dollars still spend. They just buy less every year.... - [deleted]...
A FOOL’S MISSION — WITH US MULTI TRILLION DOLLAR PRICE TAG AND HUMAN LIFE LOSS OF EPIC PROPORTIONS! I am not a military strategist or even a profound academic scholar of military history.... - tjones47...
Americans are a free people. Free people do not have to give anything to anyone. Helping widows, orphans and disabled people is done using Free Will with help from our Republic and churches. As free people, we take care of ourselves.... - reddeЯ...
Equating basic public services with communism completely misses the mark. What I am talking about are elements of a socialist or mixed economy, and there is a massive difference between the two.... - Aaron Oakley...
Paul Ehrlich was such a typical academic. That's not a compliment. He fits right in at the top of every ivory tower. They are conditioned to think they are smarter than everyone around them, despite mountains of contrary evidence.... - onHave you noticed that when workplace performance dips, people's first reaction is to rush to explain it? What they rarely do is slow down long enough to notice how the work started to feel different first. by
Ralph, Thank you. This is a really thoughtful extension of the point and I agree with you on the core issue: more time is often a very blunt response to a nuanced performance problem. What you’re describing at the policy level mirrors what I see inside organizations....