Comments by "Rune of Svalbard" (@vladimirofsvalbard9477) on "Fox Business" channel.

  1.  @acem82  Perhaps, but I'm not seeing any direct evidence that the greater population are even aware that they are being manipulated. Let alone wanting to change their habits. You have 1.9 Billion daily Facebook logins globally. Self harm for women has been changing age brackets; now 6 to 10. Which was unheard of before social media. That's just one small example though. People want faster, quicker, and more entertaining. Which is what current social media algorithms provide for them. The company name may change, but the coding and software isn't going to go away. It's far too lucrative for data and ad markets. People want dumpster fire stories that engage them, irritate them, and make them feel important in their lives. It justifies radical behaviors we are experiencing. Social media created the demand, now they sustain it.
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  2.  @acem82  I don't have faith in heroine addicts. Yes, I am making an analogy between social media addiction and heroine. What's better than heroine? Fentanyl, which is far deadlier in improper dosing. That's where I see the future of social media going. I largely link the modern health pandemic in the US with social media obsession. People have better options of course in food quality, but they won't use them. Why, because addicts can't behave rationally and logically. Unless you shut off the mechanism of addiction completely, people will just seek out the next high. I'm a pessimist by nature, I prepare for the worst and I have little faith in people. I don't mean to irritate you by saying that, I've just seen too much despair in my experiences with people that I wouldn't know where to start if I was going to cure their ailments..
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  3.  @acem82  I admire your optimism 👍
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  4. There is no "transitory inflation" or "temporary inflation". The ONLY way inflation is temporary, is if the US Government began to DEVALUE the US Dollar and remove it from circulation. People need to get used to $20/h being the new living wage, because it's here to stay. Prices are here to stay!
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  5. Hardly any if that. Most of the inflation we are seeing came from PPP loans and healthcare expenditures during Covid.
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  6. Drugs? Just because she's a pornstar doesn't mean she's on drugs smh...
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  7. Politicians - inflate the dollar, cause shortages, and cripple US energy production by ending Keystone and putting sanctions on Russia. Also Politicians - blame capitalism, blame airlines, and blame oil companies for not meeting demand.
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  8. Oh God forbid we stop putting antimony based flame retardants on everything that are linked to cancer SMH
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  9. The Retirement Crisis is the biggest COG in the machine that broke and nobody from the media is talking about it. Not only boomers, but early Gen X retirees from the Covid 2020 shutdowns and vaccine mandates. Remember how people were going nuts trying to figure out who was buying Florida homes for CASH? Those were Gen X and Boomers paying 401k CASH for those homes, largely because the Feds suspended the 401k early distribution penalty (10%). We had anywhere from 10 to 15 million people in 18 months leave their long term careers. Many switched jobs, some settled for gig work, others retired completely. Unfortunately, due to birth rates and inventory of young people in trades (there was no way in hell) that millennials were going to take over for the people retiring. The Retirement Crisis was coming regardless; Covid simply sped it up by 10 years fast. It will ultimately test this country's endurance!
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  10. As much as I agree that Democrats have done a crap job; Republicans shouldn't become complacent. If you do, I'm fairly certain that you'll be disappointed. Polls have Republicans winning anywhere from 10 to 72 seats in the House from what I've seen, which is an extremely wide margin. Anything short of that is going to be consider a GOP failure. I'm going to be sitting on the side-lines, along with my money and supplies. Whatever the outcome is; the results will be contested. You can be sure of that! Expect blood folks!
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  11. @trumps hairflap Jesus, you're desperate; no life, welfare check, Xanax, and Zoloft I assume?
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  12. Nobody liked Biden. There were simply too many people that hated Trump, because he said mean things. Apparently saying mean things makes you a fascist. But actually building a fascist regime and implementing it is progress to these people?
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  13. To put it simply, the Federal Reserve is buying fortune 500 stocks at TOP price in order to prop up the market and give you the illusion of a recovery; with YOUR tax dollars I might add. As an investor, never in my life has I seen negative metrics across the board that led to a market BULL run. Yet here we are seeing it with our own eyes.
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  14.  @MinhNguyen07  Nope, Fannie Mae does. Ever since the Obama Administration, the government buys up most mortgages. Your bank wants a 10% down payment and pay stubs so that they can sell it to the feds merely days after you close a sale. They own about 3/4 of all mortgages. My home is one of few owned by the bank. I did not meet Fannie Mae guidelines because they have strict stub rules for cpm truck driving, which is what I did at the time. You have to present 2 years of stubs in that case
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  15. Too bad, socialistic polices are inevitable at the point; single payer healthcare being at the forefront. I don't think Americans realize how dire the situation actually is when it comes to public expenditures, public health, and inflation. Healthcare in this country is so expensive primarily because American health is so poor and health services have the highest demand in the world. We have a rapidly aging population without a younger population to replace them or afford the FICA revenue to keep retirees afloat. What you are going to see is a massive retirement crisis where tens of millions are attempting to quit working, claim social security, and fill up the hospitals all within a short period of years. The Feds will have no choice but to raise the age of Social Security eligibility and take measures to absorb the healthcare industry into a single payer program. Capitalism is so convenient to blame whenever the Government can bail out people for poor choices.
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  16.  @Jesus_Is_Lord_And_Savior.  And they sell your info to spam companies. Trust me, scrub all your social media and google accounts and the spam calls will magically stop lol
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  17. God has answered my prayers!!! lmfao
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  18.  @bw6066  Nah, it's been a long time coming. Covid shutdowns and massive spending just expedited the process.
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  19. Generation X and Boomers really need to get up to par with the situation in the US. Young people are not having children. In many cases, your 30 year old (single-daughter) is more likely to have an OnlyFans account than a husband and child on the way.
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  20. If everybody is doing it, then it's systemic. Not a willful act of greed. It's just as stupid as blaming racism for why a huge disproportion of black kids don't graduate HS.
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  21. Well, I would avoid the intuition on your part; not everybody is good with it. He's a pretty solid dude and has some of the best interviews and philanthropic work to date.
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  22. I doubt it. I think people are going to be surprised on November 9th when the results are entirely in. Whatever happens, it will be contested and there will be blood. This is why I'm steering clear of the chaos.
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  23. You're going to blame tens of thousands of people currently renting out their properties at elevated cost, in the name of greed? Believe me you can play that game until the ends of the earth. Doesn't change anything though. Obviously, this is systemic from the resent inflationary freak show. 25%+ bacon 30%+ residential market 55%+ car rental 85%+ coffee contracts Welcome to the early onset of hyperinflation. Blaming this solely on greed is intellectually dishonest if you ask me.
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  24. With 30%+ inflation? That's some wishful thinking Ponce. M0-4 USD money supply is off the charts.
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  25. 30 Million undocumented immigrants.
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  26. Very simple; energy crisis, social unrest, and economic chaos in Europe. Followed by an invasion of Taiwan in November. NATO and the US need to sit down; they're going to have their hands full lol
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  27. If you still think this government is going to protect and serve; as well as only prosecute the wrong-doers. You need a reality check! They only take people to court that won't play ball with them. If these bureaucrats and politicians commit perjury, sell US reserve oil to a foreign company, or buy commodity shares right before a sanction; they get a promotion and a book deal. If I do ANY of those things; I go to prison for 25 years.
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  28. Not this time my friend. The cliff in 2008 were the millions of sub-prime adjustable rates. Now, it's just plain old inflation and scarcity. There's nowhere left for the crash to go (except) the USD itself.
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  29. Well, the workforce lost a considerable amount of competency. Probably when a major chunk of Americans pre-maturely retired in 2020 during Covid. Now people are stuck NOT with the second best employees, but rather like the 19th best. It's truly nauseating to witness how BAD service has gotten. It's not laziness per se, but rather these people are completely unqualified to do most things lol
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  30. Over a ten year period, starting with 3,000 agents in 2022. The IRS is extremely short staffed in labor, as is most of the economy. Lots of money is being lost and they are attempting to crack down on audits in order to generate extra tax revenue that is missing. It's just the math, not a conspiracy. They need people in mass to get more of your tax revenue. Auditing rich people is costly and time consuming, so their new strategy is to use new IRS agents to audit low and middle income Americans at a higher rate to generate lost revenue.
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  31. Let's print hundreds of billions of dollars and pass NEW legislation is order to STOP printing money! Only politicians can come up with this bs.
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  32.  @barbaraatkinson2204  Not really, it's just poor and arrogant incentives that people put in place with money that they don't have. It's easy to make a bunch of laws that do NOTHING when you get a bunch of free money from the Federal Government.
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  33. Oh please, only simpletons buy into the entire Ukraine-Zelenskyy façade. A criminal administration installed by another criminal administration named the Obama Administration. Plus, Zelenskyy and Biden are not friends whatsoever; they have a long history of black-mail between each other. Of course, Americans don't have a memory that lasts more than 30 seconds these days, so...
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  35. I'm not so sure Obama was behind this. I really felt like Jill and Michelle were running the country; into the ground. A resentful man kills his enemies; a resentful woman tortures them!
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  36. I know right; we have to feel every single day of this circus lol
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  37. Democrats have nothing left to run on. The only card still remaining in their deck is 'student loan forgiveness'. If they don't pull that out before Midterms, then it's over. Honestly, I hope they do. Not that I have any loans. Though a Republican house and eventually Presidency would certainly end the forbearance, which will easily trigger an economy catastrophe. People have been free from their loan dues for two years. It's the only reason the market has survived this long under massive inflation. The day the payments resume, is the day that delinquencies pile up and the economy grinds to a halt.
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  38. In ten years, home ownership will be a thing of the past. My wife and I got lucky buying a house in 2020. Watching it GAIN $80,000 in equity in a year was insane. Unfortunately, I don't think anybody will be able to afford a house that doesn't have a large amount saved back or doesn't already have one and is hedging it towards a new home. Everybody will be forced to rent and most definitely if student loans aren't forgiven before Midterms. I don't know what the Democrats are waiting for; it's the only card they have left.
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  39. This is why I only put money in commodities and crypto at this point. Fortune 500 will have a rude awakening when their share prices plummet 90%. This economy is levitating on fairy dust.
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  40. Dear god, if conservatives would give up their religion of blaming Democrats and vice versa for the other side; I think we might get somewhere. If you seriously think that all of America's problems come from POTUS. Then I think you're sense of what the 'problems are' are delusional. The NUMBER 1 problem in America is Social Security and Medicare. With the current population demographics, the CBO projects that 2023 - 2050 will be approximately increase $116 Trillion in spending for these two categories. Newsflash! We are having a domestic birth crisis; Gen X and Boomers didn't have enough children. How am I (a 29 y/o man) and my wife supposed to generate enough revenue in my work life to afford 5 seniors a living? When my child grows up, they will have to create enough tax revenue to care for 8 seniors! Until American accept that Social Security taxes either have to be doubled OR slowly phased out, then you will never fix the problem. By doing NOTHING, Boomers and Gen X generations in office have doomed younger generations to either a debt default or hyperinflation within the next 20 years. There is no escape; thanks mom and dad. My newborn (in 20 years) will have to pay at least 12.4% Social Security, 3% Medicare, 44% Federal, and everything else to afford your freaking retirement benefits. This is the reality if we quit pretending nothing is going on!
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  41. Nala Fitness; Onlyfans I'm not on the site; I just saw somebody else post it.
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  42. The IRS isn't going to hire anybody, let alone 87,000 accountants. Applebee's can't even find enough part-time serves to stay open.
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  43. As much as I hate to say it; international corporations are the ONLY thing keeping the US alive right now. Corporations like Amazon, FedEx, and Walmart have the ability to open a large number of entry jobs in a short period of time. All of which pay more than any small business model that is hiring. The business that these corporations bring with them is ESSENTIAL for this country to continue running at the current moment. Let's face it, America is on life support right now. Go ahead and try to find small businesses around you that would pay a living wage to afford a mortgage or rent; you can't. If the corporations dry up the hiring, then we are in big trouble.
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  44. Americans won't even work an $80k CDL job. You think they're going to work in textiles that pay $40k a year and sell shirts for $50 each?
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  45. How braindead of a parent must you be to let you child run up to Joe Biden?
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  46. There's no fixing it this time. If the FEDS continue raising interest rates; eventually there will be a crash and then hyperinflation. If the FEDS stop raising rates and begin printing again; we skip the early crash and go straight for hyperinflation Weimar Republic
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  47. A Marxist is somebody who believes in the prophecy of the working class rising about the ruling class; so that makes no sense. He's probably the biggest Fascist we've ever had. The use of corporation and government AGAINST the sovereign citizen to achieve a political agenda.
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  48. Afghanistan is the largest opium producer in the world. Doesn't anyone find it funny that the opioid epidemic started with our occupation of Afghanistan and ENDED right before we left? I think the US Government was flying some goodies out of that country for their Pharma buddies ;)
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  49. Too late, this country is fuc*ed on every level from Congress to the culture. I wouldn't be surprised if states started unofficially seceding (just from lack of funds to start). If enough states secede financially, I bet you could starve the Federal Government until they disbanded all their programs. That's the only thing (shy of an armed conflict) that could save this country or at least STOP the insanity.
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  50. The USD value has gone as low as it can without caving the middle class entirely. Wages haven't kept up with inflation for 45 years at this point. There's nothing people can do at this point other than ride out the storm with paid off houses and liquid assets. Any black swan event is going to send the markets into a dark age. After that, we're going to see the beginning of hyper-inflation starting in Q1 of 2024. Expect anything between 20-30% CPI inflation.
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