Comments by "Edward McLaughlin" (@edwardmclaughlin7935) on "maneco64" channel.

  1. "It's just a mask." "It's just six feet." "It's just two weeks." "It's just non essential businesses." "It's just non essential workers." "It's just a bar." "It's just a restaurant." "It's just to keep from overwhelming the hospitals." "It's just to make the cases go down." "It's just to flatten the curve." "It's just a few inmates." "It's just to keep others from getting scared." "It's just for a few more weeks." "It's just church. You could still pray." "It's just a bracelet." "It's just an app." "It's just for tracing." "It's just to let others know you're safe to be around." "It's just to let others know who you've been in contact with." "It's just a few more months." "It's just a large gathering but for protests." "It's just a few violent protests." "It's just a vaccine." "It's just a little microchip." "It's just a blood test." "It's just a scan." "It's just for medical information." "It's just a vaccination certificate." "It's just like a credit card." "It's just a few places that don't take cash." "It's just so you can travel." "It's just so you can get your driver's license." "It's just so you can vote." "It's just a few more years." It's just the NEW WORLD ORDER...... shawn stephens
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  2. Phew, just in time! The UK was in danger of being able to celebrate together this year but here comes the 'development' we were all expecting. It's the "BlowJob's excuse to kill another family Christmas" strain. Get ready for the 'TurboBooster' programme!
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  3. "If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around these banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered" . Thomas Jefferson.
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  4. Just reading a very good book by Orlando Figes: "A People's Tragedy -- The Russian Revolution". He describes the desperate struggle of the Bolsheviks, in the immediate aftermath of their claim to power, with the workers and peasantry alarmed at the extent to which they were suffering; "...there were some Bolsheviks on the extreme left who thought that inflation should be encouraged in order to phase out money altogether. They wanted to replace the money system with a universal system of goods allocation on the basis of coupons from the state." (Does that ring any bells?) Figes goes on to mention an economist of the time, Preobrazhensky, who dedicated a book he had just written, "To the printing presses of the Commissariat of Finance -- that machine gun which shot the bourgeoise regime in its arse: the monetary system." In Figes' own words, "Left wing Bolsheviks saw the ration coupon as the founding deed of the Communist order." Citing another character of the period, a Professor Vasili Vodovozov's accounts are given, of his desperate search for food on a typical day in 1920 Petrograd. It sounds like the accounts that must have stirred Orwell in his description of the near starvation levels experienced by Winston Smith. A man-made hell, of streets crowded with starving people. Again in Figes' words: "The key to this Communist utopia was the control of the food supply: without that the government had no means of controlling the economy and society." We are in the fight of and for our lives.
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  5. Brilliant exposé of the theft that is taking place. The way that language is being malpractised by these people is truly Orwellian. 'Stimulus' is another of their mutant semantic abominations.
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  6. Billy's been sat up two days running. I'm getting edgy now. Edit: back to a solid snooze, all is well, stand down.
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  7. Just to let you know that your daily bulletin is much appreciated.
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  8. The punch-bowl analogy is very telling. Basically, we've been kept on the monetary piss since August 15 1971.
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  9. I like the dog groomer, giving up her shop premises because she was getting fleeced.
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  10. The 'gold as a fetish' cry is a variation on that other favourite of wealthy people who don't want others to have wealth: "money doesn't make you happy". Obviously, having money and wealth is not a 100% guarantee of happiness, but I'd appreciate it if they would just stop getting in my way and let me do the best I can to try and be happy. Weirdly I've noticed that for every £100 I have in my possession, I feel a little happier. As far as 'privilege' goes, I can get that - having money should be the privilege of those who have worked to get it. Another reason I stay out of their fiat system which is perfectly designed for taking away my hard-earned 'privileges'.
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  11. They're shitting bricks to put that wall up at $1799. It truly stinks.
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  12. I watched a young bloke recently, interviewed by Daniela Cambone at Stansberry Research; he confided that he managed to go right through the US college system, gaining his Masters in Economics, without ever hearing mention of the Austrian School.
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  13. music lover forever The media battalions are firing up the national mindset to look upon the 'vaccines' as their lifeboat. This, in response to a viral outbreak of middling status and that has a survival rate of better than 99.8%. I have two relatives who have both had the virus, both back to their previous levels of health after having suffered cold-like symptoms for a short spell; and they are both eagerly awaiting the call to go and get jabbed. Total headspin being done on people.
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  14. RIP Stephen Mitford Goodson.
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  15. Not just gold. Land, food, water, a family and a home, anything. He, Agustin Carstens & Co want everything.
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  16. "There's only one question that matters to me: 'where will I die', so I don't go there" Charlie Munger.
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  17. With him except for his insistence that we are all against Russia. No mate.
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  18. Isn't there a 'Xi' letter in the Greek alphabet? That should be a fun day out.
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  19. I can only afford to live in the piss-ant swamp. Only thing could part me from my precious, is a property well away from the piss-ant swamp.
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  20. Caught the Brecht Arnaert interview in full. Great insight, thanks both.
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  21. inner dinosaur Hope you booked your 4th and 5th jab while you were there.
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  22. Ey up Billy! Nice pirouette to start the day!
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  23. Kerry Wills Copy of my experience. In addition, I've tried to warn friends and family about the recent 'medications' and have tried to inform them that all of this carbon footprint nonsense is yet another part of the enslavement programme. All's we can do is keep on trying.
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  24. Never mind all that. Where's Billy?
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  25. This level of funny money is now just too daft to laugh at.
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  26. Pete Ashford Is where we're at - cancel culture doing what it does!  btw, I just looked at Keynes wiki p and was interested to learn of his Bloomsbury links - so much of our current problems stem from their line of thought in my view. A touch of irony in a quotation of him just before he died: "I find myself more and more relying for a solution of our problems on the invisible hand which I tried to eject from economic thinking years ago." Maybe the macro-economic practitioners of our time should - as it looks he was ready to come round to doing - be more open to the changing of minds in changed circumstances?
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  27. Speeded this up to max so I could catch before I had to leave. Made no difference to Billy.
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  28. Another highly enlightening look at what's going on. (The 'The Death of Inflation' author btw, is Roger Bootle)
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  29. Enjoy your break in what looks a beautiful place. I'd be interested to hear your views on the recent reports of huge gold strikes in Uganda and, I think, Congo. Caused just one of my eyebrows to raise - what, with all the shenanigans we are seeing danced before us.
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  30. Let's look on the bright side: obesity will be a thing of the past!
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  31. There is maneco64 and there is Ivor Cummins. I still retain hope.
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  32. I have to confess, I cracked-up some days ago now. Feel somehow cleansed.
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  33. Gold getting really hammered today. Wish I had some cash to buy!
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  34. I hear Ron Paul just got cancelled on Twitter.
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  35. Darryl Knight Longer it goes, bigger it blows.
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  36.  @pixgaming6911  We don't have to do anything; the Fed is doing it for us. They're flying the dollar into the ground. Manipulate that!
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  37. The Petrified Dollar.
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  38. It seems the only thing that's manufactured these days in the Western World, is fear and despondency.
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  39. And still, people scurry around trying to find the best bank/building society interest rate so as to protect their savings.
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  40.  @nettynoohawk200  Wish I'd written it myself!
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  41.  @putitback4789  CBDC = Digital fiat.
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  42. The Physical Silver Fox All of this, courtesy of 'the pandemic'.
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  43. After some years, I recently bumped into the man who arranged the mortgage I eventually just paid off last year. In the intervening years, we would meet now and then to get insurance sorted out or a better rate on various services; all that kind of thing. He runs a small estate agent's office and he reported business is brisk with lots of demand. Doing OK and 'looking forward to a return to normal'. As I do with most people I speak with recently, I asked him for his views on the current state of the economy. Never once have I had a reply from anyone who is in any way bothered with things as they are, but as my property-minded friend is a man of some means, I was especially interested in how he saw things. "So what's to happen with the fiat currencies?" I asked. "What's fiat currency?" Honestly. Not interested in my potted explanation either. There's where we are at: a professional in his fifties, who every day advises people on what to do with fairly large sums of money - pensions, mortgages and loans, savings etc - totally ignorant of what his 'money' is.
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  44.  @meinking22  The money you refer to is actually currency. So do you regard your 'money' in the bank as a reliable store of value, when we see the consequences of inflation in the form of price rises?
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  45. I want a pint of what Billy's been on.
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  46. We are in the grip of people whose whole mindset is stuck in Keynes mode. I'm pretty sure that Keynes would in today's circumstances - much changed from those pertaining when he propounded his tenets - shake his head at the blind adherence to obsolescence.
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  47. Started work in 1973. Paid NI contributions from then and it was a deal between me and HM Gov: you pay in each week and when you get to 65, we pay you a pension. Short while before I was 65, I got a letter from HM Gov telling me that although I had paid all my contributions, the deal was off and I would have to wait until age 66 to start being paid. Roughly £8,000 of my money was stolen just like that. Worse for my wife. Similar arrangement but she was told she could get paid her pension at age 60 but now has to work until she is 66 and a half. So that's £52,000 that HM Gov stole from her. We are worse off as a couple by around £60,000. How come we let them get away with this? Don't offer the argument about 'changing demographics'; there are offices in Whitehall stuffed with very savvy people who knew this was coming.
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  48. I started to get angry in May 2020 when it became obvious that the 'piles of bodies' we had been assured at each street corner, were massive hype to traumatise the public into lockdown. Now almost two years into this disgusting episode, and people are still listening to each new lie that the same liars come up with.
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  49. So many games being played.
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  50. Digital alchemy.
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  51. Alasdair Macleod has a dit about the house/gold ratio during the Weimar hyperinflation around 1923. He cites a case in which a six bedroom house in a well-to-do part of Berlin, could be had for six ounces of gold.
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  52. Lord Humongus If I forward you my address, can you send me any of the filthy stuff you don't want?
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  53. You say you're immune to the shenanigans but hey this could be new variant price manipulation!
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  54. patty sizer Indeed. So many people looking at this as if it were an event that could prove troublesome for a few months more perhaps. My take: I live on a small island along with around 67 million other people. There are few natural resources. The only thing that came to allow so many to live alongside each other in peace, was the ability to trade freely, to work and to contribute to the collective purse. The restriction on the workings of that system are, with little or no media recognition, being kept firmly in place regardless of intermittent 'easings'. Due to this gradual silent decline, the supply lines are steadily being wound-down. People are being made powerless and in need. The consequences of this ongoing situation are likely to lead to great strife and violence.
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  55. Seems that there is a bit of a generation thing going on. I'm old and not too bright, so as would be expected, the crypto stuff takes some grasping. The main bugbear I have is that we none of us know just how changed our situation might become; this year surely gives the nod to that point. There are not many people left now, who know how bad things can get. The rest of us - in the developed world that is - have been so lucky to have known only surety - we could laugh at the oldies with the massed tins of corned beef tucked away. We knew that our politicians, flakey and specious that they might have been, had to connive within a system that had to look after us, and it did because things always got better. With 2020 showing us that all that is gone and that we are expendable in great and visible number, we might through habit still cling to hopes for the best but more realistically we should plan for the worst and in that worst of worlds my laptop has been taken at knifepoint and anyway, the power is down and don't even dream of a return to being allowed a broadband link. In such a world I can't go to the fields and dig my digital wallet up to buy bread. Yes I know, eternal paranoia. But they've started it.
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  56. Marry gold. Pop round to crypto's place when you feel frisky.
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  57. "...let me hear your body talk, your body talk let me hear your body talk"
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  58.  @maneco64  By coincidence I had just watched it prior to today's!
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  59. When Billy sneezes, the world catches a cold.
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  60. Wish I'd listened to Olivia Newton-John's advice all those years ago.
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  61. Kevin Osborne Well, six months ago I would have said that same thing. This channel taught me there's a bit more to it than that.
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  62. I don't own Bitcoin but I sincerely hope it progresses to be a viable means of fiat-free, international transaction. The Russia/India arrangement looks to be tailor-made for Bitcoin to provide an answer. Why would the two countries not take it on board?
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  63. "I used to buy the FT..." 'But now I'm all right'.
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  64. Well said on the state of the hospitality trade - allowed to re-open as long as it makes sure that pubs and restaurants greet customers as though they might be carrying weapons-grade plutonium. So many people I know have just decided to eat and drink at home or in the homes of friends. This is the latest clever stunt whereby the government can act as though normality can make its way back, when the reality of it is that small/medium businesses are forced to remain essentially unviable
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  65. By way of thanks in response to your stated motivation at the intro' here, for starting and maintaining this channel. I only stumbled across a video of yours around 6 months ago. I am older than you and have spent my whole working life totally unaware of the pernicious way that the bankers and government between them, conspire to cheat and rob people of the money they have after surviving the various tax hurdles. I had heard the term 'fiat currency' but had no notion of its meaning and its workings. I had heard of people who had gold sovereigns as they were handed down to a couple of my friends from grandparents, and although envious, I regarded the whole business as a bit odd and simply outdated and unnecessary. How wrong I was! I now range across a few other channels which deal in matters monetary, to take in wider ideas; however, this is the only one I tune into every day - not least for the book recommends and the occasional history (Bastia and the Austrian school especially). Great work, again thanks.
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  66. Council Tax. Originally the "Poll Tax". Prior to that we had "Rates". Under the old Rates, the highest rated housing was charged at x40 that of the lowest rated. With the inception of Thatcher's Council Tax, that ratio became x16
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  67.  @Zanota85  Not all of a sudden, but by stages. Public access to fuel has already started to be restricted by the recent price rises - that will continue. A catastrophic collapse is precisely what the powers-that-be would want. What better way to make people accept tyrannical rule?
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  68. J C She's sharpening it right now, while we're all occupied with Joe's stumblings.
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  69. "Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first make mad."
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  70. ruster719 Sounds surprisingly sensible. Doesn't sit well with his being fully on-board with the climate crisis nonsense.
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  71.  @AllodialTitle  Scares me too. The really worrying thing is how many people are looking to 'the vaccine' as if it's some kind of salvation from this oppression. They don't seem to be capable of looking beyond their own affairs to realise what is being assembled around them.
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  72. 1:52 President Putin.
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  73. This interview takes things up a gear, Mario. Great to learn of the wider references/philosophy that Brecht brings in. I would really like to hear you interview Alasdair Macleod, Gerald Celente and Gregory Mannarino.
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  74. None of what the Fed is doing to the dollar would be possible without a fabricated narrative concerning a 'virus' for which there is still no proof. I'm not a medical expert so I listen to people who are. One of these is Dr Sam Bailey who has produced a comprehensive explanation of how we are the victims of the biggest scam in history. https://odysee.com/@drsambailey:c/Once-Upon-A-Time-in-Wuhan-Odysee-Exclusive-Comp:2
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  75.  @bobbiecrider6964  Did all that apart from the forgetting bit.
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  76. Everlita Akers Because all previous years have been just like 2020, yes?
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  77.  @cedricvary932  Thanks awfully old chap! I used to borrow money but I am thankfully now, fully recovered.
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  78.  @brettbretterson6062  Tell your friend no. Taxes are theft.
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  79. Given the potential of our downward spiral into societal chaos, the question any responsible stacker has to ask is: if it gets to the really bad stuff, would you rather try and drive out to a safer place, through the road blocks amid total lawlessness with $10,000 worth of gold up the old rusty bullethole or $10,000 worth of silver?
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  80. And still, people are scouring the internet for the best ISA!
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  81. Daily routine: 1. Click on maneco64 2. Click 'like' 3. Watch video.
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  82. Jack Nichols Until the power outage.
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  83. Rod Panhard Exactly. I said as much to a table of friends in the pub the other night, to be told I worry too much and that, come June 21st the whole thing is down and dead. We shall see.
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  84. Just on a short break in Scotland. Unbelievable the extent to which restrictions are still in place and still people going along with it all as if they're on some kind of 'all in it together' mission to starve the virus of hosts and thereby exterminate it. Walking the streets of two towns and they are like palliative care homes - so many recently vacated shops with the windows whited-out. Just a general air of emptiness with no concern shown as to where we might be headed from here. Boldly scrawled poster in a house window: "Stay safe, stay home". We can only wonder how long they have stayed home and how long they plan to keep themselves tucked safely in their little box until someone comes to put them in a smaller one and carry them away.
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  85. That old stupid pet rock stuff getting a little frisky of late, what?
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  86. Mario and Luigi?
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  87. In interview, Thomas Sowell argued for the abolition of the Federal Reserve. When asked what he would put in its place he said, "When a tumour is removed, what is put in its place?"
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  88. Long on tins of tuna.
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  89. d lew Yep. Knocking bet.
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  90. Jake Bullet Egg Zackly my friend. My greatest regret is that I hadn't been woken to this reality until this year and my stumbling on maneco64's literally, nuggets, of wisdom. Amazing and dispiriting that, having been enlightened myself, so many of my friends and family seem to think I'm bullshitting them when I try to bring them into the shiny fold.
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  91. Paul Wiffen The breakout, when it comes, will be something Yellen has no power to thwart.
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  92. "...And if it's bad, don't let it get you down, you can make it....."
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  93. I'm a recent subscriber and I'm finding all of this very interesting. (Where have I been all this time!?)
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  94. Expected a great interview and wasn't disappointed.
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  95. Interesting how - in a world of so many organisations whose members meet in secrecy in order to seize and maintain power over the economies that rule the lives of so many people - that the phrase 'conspiracy theory' is such a widely used term of derogation.
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  96. Lots at steak here!
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  97. In the photo' shown, of Biden at the lectern; why are Pelosi and Komrad K still posing in the doom masks?
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  98.  @crazytruth.3460  Sit down mate, we'll get someone to plug your chair in.
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  99. It's as though the string-pullers were using the texts mentioned here as their playbook.
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  100. John The Accountant Do you have any ideas as to why it hasn't?
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  101. Occasional quick bucks and tactical windfalls are great and to be welcomed. Their pursuit, as a strategy for investment and genuine economic development is the kiss of death.
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  102. The Titanic stabilised.
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  103. Kevin W Think yourself lucky mate - here in UK they charge in litres. I just did the conversion of what my local filling station charges for diesel. £6.91 per gallon. Convert pounds to dollars and that gives a gallon at $9.19.
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  104. Cthulhu Very deliberate, meticulously planned and clinically executed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lctpOxSR-FE
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  105. Cheap Laugh Kennedy Central Bank Digital Currency is NOT crypto and is just fiat, distributed and exchanged by other means. It will be susceptible to government whim just as our present currency is, and will bring much more in the way of surveillance and control over individuals. To paraphrase what the great woman sang: They won't give freedom a chance; that was just a dream some of us had.
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  106.  @dilligafwoftam985  Whooooshhhhh
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  107. No apologies for dropping this in again to like-minded company. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lctpOxSR-FE
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  108. Jt Tee Bullion is illegal where you are?
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  109. That photo' of Jerome Powell? Exude baby, exude.
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  110.  @MolotovAustralia  Clearly a bone of contention.
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  111. Seekin Findin So many doing exactly that, yes. All of this is an elaborate exercise in flushing the reality of working and making money out of people's heads. This should have been so much more difficult but it turns out that most people are very dim and very lazy. They will be brough back to a much poorer earth when all of this is done and they are given their new tasks and their new wage-rate in the Socialist Republic of Slavelandia.
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  112. Rickyw01 ...and the determination of the academies to keep the truth firmly absented from the education system and concealed so that each generation of young people walks innocently into the deceits and clutches of the central banks.
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  113. Another daily gem, thank you. Since discovering this channel I have learnt so much. I hold my hands up in recogition and embarrassment that I didn't know what the real meaning of 'inflation' is until this bloke pointed it out last year.
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  114. That 2140 date by which it is estimated Bitcoin will be mined-out. What about the rapid advances in computing speed we know to be happening all the time? Surely that date is highly dependent on the chug-rate of the super computers which do the mining?
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  115. And what is the most commonly used phrase in comments and discussions regarding things pandemic and lockdown? Yep, I'm told I'm just a 'conspiracy theorist'! My retort to that: "I'm going to put one twenty pound note on 'pile A' for every year in history in which men have gathered in secret in order to plan to gain power over others. On 'pile B' I'm going to put one twenty pound note for every year in history when no such gathering took place. Before we start, which pile would you like to take home with you?"
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  116. He looks like Michael Caine's brother who passed his 11-plus.
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  117.  @WirelessKFC  The weaning process.
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  118.  @michaelwhittaker7960  Very old I'm afraid!
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  119. De$peranto
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  120. The Koof was set upon us to impose total control. That's why no treatment will be allowed to arrest it. The middle-rank viral outbreak that thinks it's ebola.
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  121. Blissfully unaware of the step change. What the kids were at in UK on August 15 1971. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bkt-TPMU_lg
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  122. Rodney Leon Your point being?
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  123. "Carbon footprint" as a concept and the phrase itself, was devised and first used in 2004 in a PR campaign by BP.
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  124. Haha! Love the dig at Mr Christian's syrup! On the gold shift: a really good recent interview - Daniela Cambone with Willem Middelkoop, which suggests something of a gear-change perhaps? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8p3VE1yW0o On the travel thing: have a good journey, despite the ridiculous, criminal fees that have been set upon us common people. The powers that be have clearly decided that international travel is to be dialled-down somewhat. Could I ask, did you have to get jabbed or is travel allowed for us jab-free people?
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  125. Anyone wants to send me silver, my address freely available. I'm willing to take gold also at a push!
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  126.  @themoneyfork319  Indeed.
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  127.  Trump Won  Yes. What's your point?
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  128. Yep, it's on its way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYzRE4QDMpg
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  129.  @jakebullet1731  Exactly. That'd make your eyes water!
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  130.  @inazuma-750-w  She's good for the silver!
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  131. Woke Billy up there at the beginning. Please - a little softer.
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  132. Rachel Too late - the PM's already been bought!
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  133. Poverty is poverty. If I have little money then I am in poverty. If I have lots of income, then I am clear of poverty. There is no such thing as "energy poverty" or "child poverty" or "food poverty". It's a matter of two things: the availibility of funds; and priority. Anyone who simply has no funds is poor and that's the baseline - their children are poor and they can't afford to pay energy bills or buy enough food. Others who do have sufficient income, will be clear of poverty because they have enough to cover their bills. However, others in that income bracket will, through making poor decisions, voluntarily put themselves in the position of not being able to fund basic necessities because they have chosen to use those funds to purchase other things. It is possible to elect to join the ranks of the 'food poor' by choosing to be a member of the 'holiday/clothing/jewellery/cosmetic surgery/latest iPhone rich' The point being that language is being used to categorise poverty into different forms. By this, the case is made that there is some kind of powerlessness in managing one's own finances. Once such a state is accepted, then the follow-on is that one requires 'assistance' - and that comes in the form of state handout. The socialist mindset is stirred-in to our everyday life.
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  134. I wish I could sleep as soundly as Billy in these troubled times.
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  135. Thanks for the mention of how that dreadful phrase "fuel poverty" is being used in the MSM. Which fuel? Is it possible to be unable to pay an electric bill while still topping up the 6 cylinder 4x4? While still taking 3 long-haul holidays per year? While still eating-out 3 times a week? Poverty is poverty.
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  136. Grant Harding The Fed's printing is not going to 'save the dollar'. How could it do that?
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  137. Rates will rise only when the situation is beyond damage limitation. The last thing the BIS and all of its Generals want, is a job only half done.
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  138. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja3yxuywGh8
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  139. john butler And now the O'Stasi won't even allow them to leave their county.
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  140.  @Lori1976  Me too. Google isn't my friend any longer.
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  141.  @Lori1976  Translation of the German surname: Rothschild (duckduckgo)
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  142. All's going downhill while the winter olympics crack on.
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  143. "...when gold became legal again..." The enormity of the act of making wealth preservation an offence? The bankers have been playing their sordid games for a long time now.
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  144.  @stockvaluedotcom  What you refer to is merely the rise in prices which is a consequence of inflation.  Inflation is the expansion of money supply, such as we are now witnessing in its extreme form in the US economy. With every new dollar which is loaded into the system, every existing dollar is made weaker - diluted, so to speak, in its ability to purchase. Quite how this practice has come to be termed 'stimulus' is bemusing.
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  145. All of this is by design. Energy, food and water will all be made to be expensive. That way the proles will not be able to dream of better things.
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  146. Logan Pont See what you did there with that old song title!
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  147. Take a look at what's being planned now. Youtube "Catastrophic Contagion 2025 - Mark the Date, and Be Ready!"
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  148. So, is my understanding of this IMF move correct? On 23rd of August, the BoE will be one of the recipients of this handout of pixie-dust; so beyond all the internally 'printed' currency that has been diluting every ££ in my bank account for months now; this new SDR allocation will pile-in and exacerbate that dilution?
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  149. Failure? What failure? I think the package that Mr Powell has been detailed to deliver is on track. Not what we would ever have hoped to receive, but on its way none the less.
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  150. I look for visual signals. At 25:52 Billy throws one of his shapes. Something's afoot.
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  151. Ricci Rohde What was it that killed Free Market Capitalism in December 1913?
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  152. "...home of alternative economics, contrarian views and snazzy polo shirt collars"
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  153. @Justus Americans Correct and well done! A signed pair of my boxer shorts will be with you shortly.
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  154. Please, please, please take me back to the Seventies!
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  155. Der Kong Give it to me and I won't tell anyone. (Edit. Late again)
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  156. "Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, Governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and, while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some. The sight of this arbitrary rearrangement of riches strikes not only at security, but at confidence in the equity of the existing distribution of wealth. Those to whom the system brings windfalls, beyond their deserts and even beyond their expectations or desires, become "profiteers," who are the object of the hatred of the bourgeoisie, whom the inflationism has impoverished, not less than of the proletariat. As the inflation proceeds and the real value of the currency fluctuates wildly from month to month, all permanent relations between debtors and creditors, which form the ultimate foundation of capitalism, become so utterly disordered as to be almost meaningless; and the process of wealth-getting degenerates into a gamble and a lottery. Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of Society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose." John Maynard Keynes "The Economic Consequences of the Peace" (1919)
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  157. Happy Birthday Billy!
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  158.  @craigb3154  That thought has teased me this past few months. I'd really love to buy me a Gibson L5 and so it would make good sense to go for the loan in the knowledge that the thousands of pounds I owe would reduce to zilch pretty soon. I'm just wary what 'the system' might pull from its bag of tricks on the downward journey that's all.
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  159. Teds World Which Bitcoin is that: the one of six months ago or its impoverished current manifestation?
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  160.  @sang3Eta  I'm happy to hear of that. My reservation regarding Bitcoin is based on its huge volatility. All investments are vulnerable to price decrease, but this factor, coupled with the ever-present possibility of state criminalisation, rules it out as a store of my wealth.
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  161.  @sang3Eta  I really do wish crypto all the best, as I'm virulently anti-fiat/anti central banks. My hunch is that they will simply crush the resistance with the enormous tech resources they can deploy. My suspicion is that the current dip is partly due to similar feelings in many people.
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  162.  @sang3Eta  Hope it does well for you mate; I really do.
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  163. All this destruction to 'wage war' on a middle-ranking viral outbreak, always did look a bit flaky. Look at the situation this way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd4GFaCXAKc
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  164. This is my favourite of the polo shirts. Where do I get one like it?
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  165. Smithsnmoz 'Goes'
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  166. The morning had you and Billy caught in an endearing soft focus! Either that or the chip pan was on fire.
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  167. 'Stimulus package'? Throwing billions at people to fester at home on the sofa watching Netflix, is going to stimulate what? The Newspeak practitioners are on it full throttle now aren't they. Understandable as we're now coming to the last push of our global socialist birthing.
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  168.  @banjerism7281  I'm intrigued by your statement. Could you go further please, as I thought I had grasped how this works?
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  169. Usual daily routine this morning: click on maneco64 thumbnail, click the thumbs-up, then listen and learn some more. Also, just been watching what's going on in Australia and just can't believe it's not coming here; so in need of a bit of light-heartedness I watched this bloke again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1RsiqS1AEw
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  170.  @John-wf5if  I wonder if I could interest you in a lovely little Citroen Saxo? Really economical. Fifteen years old but one careful owner with only 22,000 miles on the clock. FSH. Lovely runner, just a little surface rust. Priced to sell at £300!
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  171. Maybe this is the way forward? If George had gone out and purchased lots of stuff using a credit card over the past few years, only to discover that he can't keep up with the repayments, doesn't it make complete sense that he should start up a fund for those times in future when he might need it? No matter that the bailiff's letters have started, at least George is managing his money, putting aside for that rainy day!
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  172. Great guest. Another one to get in is Prof' Richard Werner who has lots on what the BoJ did and is doing.
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  173. Small and medium businesses with any sense should be very sure regarding their future. It will be short, they are the target of this first stage of the grand design.
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  174. THE FLYING DUTCHMAN "DUH!"
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  175. Leesey R Lockdown makes me lose my shit.
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  176.  @lowbudget1661  Hi mate, can you give a sketch as to what things are like there now? I have heard NZ people bragging about how they 'beat the virus' but I'm wondering how's your tourist trade going to fare?
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  177.  @lowbudget1661  Thank you. You confirm what I had suspected.
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  178.  @lowbudget1661  Back again. Been thinking you might be best one to ask a question been bothering me some time. How on earth did Ardern manage to get so many NZ people to vote for her in the last election? She had clearly identified herself as part of the wrecking crew.
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  179.  @lowbudget1661  Thank you once again. What to say? Best of luck mate, I hope you and yours get to the other side of this shit safely.
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  180.  @lowbudget1661  Oh dear. We are in a fix.
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  181. rational mind Then there's the climate-change/net zero psy-op.
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  182. The ratchet tightens on a weekly basis. None of this had to be. Yes the system was broken, but killing people with a virus and then killing ever more people by criminally locking down society and strangling trade to death, is not the way to mend things. It is clear now, that the target is Western civilisation itself. Its pesky insistence on the rights of the individual - fought for at such great cost - is to be scrapped. The future is to be presided over by a tiny number of families living in unimaginable splendour, all of it provided by the brutal oppression of the masses 'for the greater good'.
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  183. If I watch the BBC News, I will probably die, many painful times, from the virus of doom. If I follow that other pantomime, the Comex; I might be persuaded to sell certain shiny items and put the money in a high-performing ISA. Haha ha!
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  184. Very well said, at the 4:40 mark. I'm sick of this bunch of criminals and the pleasure they seem to be getting from using a middling viral outbreak as a stalking horse to bring down millions of hard-working people, forcing them into poverty. Lift the lockdown tomorrow, let people trade, and the economy begins repairing itself immediately.
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  185. "What do we want?" "Air-con' for Billy" "When do we want it?" "Now"
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  186. thomas owen Keynes would not have been a Keynesian in the world as it is today. He was having misgivings as he neared the end of his life.
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  187.  @Braun09tv  Another one of his dalliances with la-la-land.
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  188.  @Braun09tv  Sounds like you're abusing yourself mate. Clean up after you.
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  189. Lockdown now entering its home stretch. UK mooted to start total national lockdown in next few days. Small and medium businesses, already seriously damaged, will now be brought down to such an extent that the much touted 'recovery' (touted by the MSM to give the impression as a diversion, that it is a possiblity) will be put beyond their means. This is what all of the lockdown process has been put in place to achieve. Completion, end of March, tops. We are now quite firmly in the grip of global, socialist, totalitarian rule. Pax Sino.
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  190. That hat doesn't suit you.
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  191. Skilver The answer is then?
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  192. So the American people's predicament is that the only way they can avert the continuation of the Obama/Clinton regime in the form of a cackling communist psychopath, is to vote for the man to whom a negotiating table is a place for arm-wrestling.
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  193. I hope Billy's enjoying the pool.
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  194.  @jjj3627  I had to ask the question - nothing implied. Now I know what I didn't know before I asked! Why are no bullion stores selling? Plenty to be had in UK.
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  195.  @jimmybrad156  Thank you for the suggestion.
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  196.  @milesmiles8543  Beep Beep!
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  197. Just read the Bastiat book on your recommend. So very relevant to our current situation.
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  198.  @jackfruitearth702  Good to see small traders taking the lead.
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  199.  @llaregubjinks5080  Thanks, I didn't know that. We must hope that code is never broken then?
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  200. We Have To Talk About Billy. This.......erm.......ribbon?
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  201.  Maneco64  Yeah right.
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  202. xxxged Below where?
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  203.  @AllodialTitle  National boundaries don't mean anything to the incoming regime.
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  204.  @pistolpete8539  There's the thing though: he seemed more than switched on. So much so that he did his independent learning and saw the idiocy of the established line in academia. Seems they hate our Mises to pieces! (Sorry bout that)
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  205. Is this just the start? What about Prof' Schwab and all his 'By 2030 you will own nothing, and you will be happy'? Are we heading for absolute state ownership of everything?
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  206. Near the end of this a blackbird starts to kick-off in the garden. There's a cat somewhere abouts.
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  207.  @dave9547  I've searched also, with the same result.
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