On a "core" basis, excluding volatile energy and food categories, consumer prices rose 0.2% from a month earlier and 2.5% from a year ago. Can anyone logically explanation why food is so volatile that it has to be excluded from “core?” I understand a flock has to get wiped out after avian flu and the price of eggs goes up. But how often does that happen? Other consumer goods can have supply chain disruptions. It’s because food and energy are essential commodities that can’t be papered over. It’s all bullshit.

Fuck yeah it is. "These ETF flows suggest this isn’t just a short squeeze," said Nic Puckrin, co-founder of Coin Bureau. "They point to institutional allocators treating bitcoin as a geopolitical crisis hedge, or potentially even as a hedge against future inflation." https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bitcoin-tops-73000-as-etf-inflows-point-to-geopolitical-crisis-hedge-171838788.html

Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq avoid steep sell-off as oil spikes amid early Iran fallout Nothing stops this train

Yes, yes I did! 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🏒 🥅 🏒

Some say “We’re in a bear market.” I say “Yee-haw!”

Venezuela was more about Guyana than it was about Venezuela

@TFTC @MartyBent and Dave bringing the 🔥 despite the cold.

Jeffery Epstein’s banker is worried the charade is blown. "Everyone we know believes in Fed independence ... anything that chips away at that is probably not a good idea," Dimon added. "In my view, it will have the reverse consequences. It will probably raise inflation expectations."

Your company makes cardboard, cotton candy placards?

The price of corn rising on the news of the DOJ serving J Powell with a lawsuit. That doesn’t sound like a risk on asset. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/powell-says-justice-department-served-001428935.html

Why do the geopolitical powers that be allow the tax haven of the Cayman Islands to exist? They allow it because it provides the elites with an avenue for outside money; outside of the regulated and taxed system. Bitcoin is the digital Cayman Islands. It will be allowed to exist because the elites will want an exit from the fiat ponzi system.

We are silent when we see that all the money of all the nations has come into the hands of a few men; which we seem to tolerate and to permit with the more equanimity, because none of these robbers conceals what he is doing. - Cicero

Where once the Gracchus faction had been run by eminent elder statesman, it was now in the hands of young firebrands. 4th Turning vibes

Vote with your money Not with a politician

Families that could trace their lineage back to the original senators… were known as patricians and by both custom and law these families monopolized all political and religious office. Anyone outside this small aristocratic clique was called plebeian. All plebeians- whether poor farmer, prosperous merchant, or rich land owner- were shut out of power.

With limited oversight out in the provinces, the Roman publicani tax farmers soon gained a notorious reputation that wherever they went there was neither law nor freedom.

Thieves of private property pass their lives in chains; Thieves of public property in riches and luxury. -Cato the Elder

Fuck grass. Touch ice.

Inflation is taxation WITHOUT representation

Can anyone smarter than me figure out a way that we can zap sats to Bill and Keonne’s federal prison commissary account so they can get some extra food, writing material or whatever they need? #pardonsamauri @walker @MartyBent @ODELL @HODL @calle @jack @jack mallers @Derek Ross @Gigi @jb55 @Max