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Boogaloo:
The Fed wants to sell it’s long term debt into the market.
To avoid upsetting the long term bond market, while the Fed sells it’s long term bonds, the Treasury is going to temporarily reduce the amount of new long term bonds it issues to the market.At the same time, the Treasury is temporarily going to increase the amount of short term T – Bills it issues, so the Fed can buy more short term T – Bills.
The assumption that the Fed has a large amount of long term bonds maturing this year is largely incorrect.
I think the Fed has over $6 trillion in various durations of debt, ranging from short term to long term debt holdings.This amount is large enough to affect the debt markets, if not done carefully.
Note the Treasury and Fed are telling the debt market ahead of time, what it is doing, so as to not upset the debt markets.
Financial Repression:
They are calling it “yield control” or “yield curve control”.
The US government maybe broke but they desperately need to borrow more money to stay in power!
TPTB need to load the poor with more debt.Don’t be fooled!
If you are a saver, you are being royally screwed!The US government is artifically suppressing interest rates, so they can borrow more!
This process is called “Financial Repression”.That is why the Fed is selling most of it’s long term US Treasury bonds to buy short term US T – Bills.
The US Treasury dept is going to issue trillions of extra US T – Bills so the Fed can switch from long term to short term debt.As a saver, that means interest rates will be less than inflation.
That means you will be paying the government to borrow your money!
,Saw on MoA:
Alaska summit was the climax of Russiagate.
Hillary:
Even Hillary Clinton now knows she and her friends won’t ever be prosecuted by Trump.
Zerosum:
Oh, well!
There goes my winter theory all shot to hell!So women were “hot -hot” in the spring, eh!
Like after their spring beauty bath?
Maybe less layers of women’s clothing to unlayer?
Warmer weather better reveals a women’s natural charms?Maybe during the winter months, the women had too many layers of clothing on for a guy to successfully unlayer, before he lost the desire or forgot what his original intentions were or he was just too cold and tired to try?
Or maybe it was just the smell factor?Zerosum:
Yes, and a warm wife/girl friend helped get you through those long cold winter nights too!
This likely had something to do with the higher birth rates back then too!
The Fed – Reducing Bond Maturities:
This week I saw a report that the Fed was going to off-load most of their long term treasury bonds (5 – 7 trillion? in favor of mostly shorter term T – Bills.
The Treasury department was arranging to issue more short term T – Bills to make this Fed switch in maturities, possible.
Naturally they didn’t say why they were doing this!
Kultsommer:
I agree in milder climates, most housing has no central heating because people can layer up for the brief periods of cold they face.
For example, people in north Africa during winter, face cold nights but warm 10 C (50 F) days.
Building their homes wih thick stone/cement walls bridges the daily warm to cold swings they face.
In addition, there is no cheap heating sources available locally.In more extreme climates like Saskatchewan, you need a source of heat in order to survive, because of the extended winter, with cold days and cold nights.
My Father grew up on the pararies and his chore was attending to the furance, day and night, 7 days a week.
They burned whatever they could get, wood, sawdust, or local high ash coal (I worked and fished, in those local coal mines).I once asked my Father, what was the single best invention of his generation (born in 1926)?
Without any hesitation, he said central heating!Kultsommer:
True, well built old homes often had more mass to help better deal with changes in outdoor temperatures.
However, well built new homes have better insulation to achieve the same or better results.
Adding automatic central heating/cooling slaves is a 100% improvement!Zerosum:
I am 100% with you, perfering “reading” over videos!
Reading allows you to quickly go back and re-read previous statements to increase your understanding of what you are reading.
Try doing that with a video!
Videos make emotional manipulation much easier than written text.
Videos distract the message with visuals and sounds.At least with reading, you can actually hear yourself think!
James Çomer, chairman of the Senate’s Blackhole Committee where truth goes to dies.
Senate’s secret weapon̈: “No Arrests” AG Bondi.
Vance: “I would like” means nothing will happen.
If Trump was serious, he would have just turned Obama’s portrait over backwards for everyone to see.
FBI:
So the FBI’s Patel finally fired 3 people!
Wow!“No Arrests” Bondi hasn’t even fired anybody yet!
How much lower do my expectations for her have to go?
Like issue one ticket for jaywalking?ICE:
It seems ICE has quietly slipped back from their quota of arresting one illegal aliens a week, to arresting just one every 2 weeks. Or maybe it is 1 arrest per month, now?
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Topcat:
You got the elephant MMT absolutely correct!
Yes, windmills use oil!
They need gear oil in their gearbox.
They need grease on their 3 windmill blade pinion gears.
They need gas for the maintenance personnel to drive to the windmills to service and repair them.
They may need stand-by diesel generators if left idle for extended time.
Wind turbines need oil to make more wind turbines.
Windmills need oil and gas to be transported from factory to site.
Oil, gas, and diesel, are required to build the wind turbine support base and access roads and hydro lines,I could go on, but my finger and brain are already hurting too much!
Bondi:
Bondi is an “actress” hired to “pretend” to play the role of AG.
Notice the sudden flood of the usual deep state puppets to memory hole deep state crimes to never be seen again.
The Dept of Justice’s sole role, is to protect the deep state from the American people.
Calvin:
The last cartoon frame shows me after my Mother caught me trying to saw a leg off of the kitchen table at Calvin’s age!
US Tariffs:
Tariffs are a tax that you can only impose on yourself.
Nobody can stop you from doing this, anymore than they can stop you from banging your head against a brick wall.Most of the world’s trade already has to contend with existing Tariffs.
Sure, Trump has changed US Tariffs in an attempt to gain more economic leverage.
But note mostly from its vassals only.
This is just government politically distorting reality, as usual.Most of the world’s countries didn’t even bother to react and negotiate.
They just shrugged their shoulders and carried on with their lives.
People forget this.The world will adjust to the US over time.
The actual results will be interesting to see.
It is not the end of the world.Just like we know Bondi won’t arrest anyone.
Trump:
I believe Trump prefers “economic warefare” over “military warefare”.
He can only let existing “military wars” burn themselves out.
Trump is busy waging “economic wars” to further the Empire’s goals.
Trump can’t stop the deep state warmongers from fighting a losing war.
So let them fight and lose. The sooner, the better.Russia is the only party bring peace to the parts of Ukraine it conquerors.
P.S. This round about intersection would work just fine if everybody was riding donkeys or camels, as long as they didn’t have to have rear brake lights!
About that not so brilliant highway round about intersection:
The first warning Sign: The model shows everything running smoothly. You should know better than to believe “models” by now! Garbage in, infinite garbage out.
The second warning sign: What if somebody just moves their foot to the brake pedal and presses it lightly, just enough to activate the rear red brake light?
The third warning: The need of everyone to change 3 lanes in a short period of time thus interfering with everyone else just wanting to go straight!
Yeah! A giant ducking parking lot, horns blaring endlessly, road rage everywhere, where nobody gets to move in any direction! There is a bloody good reason why nobody builds intersections this way!
Topcat:
You left out the best part!
The Russiann defense minister repliedto the British.
Hahahahahaha!Peace Prize:
Trump can’t stop either of the Ukrainian or Gaza wars unless he wants to get himself killed by Congress and CIA.
To self preserve, he has had to go along with both wars.
Trump won’t win any peace prizes by owning the 2 wars.
But he might make his legacy that of Genocide.Trump Economics:
It is all about gaining the US government more borrowing room to pile on more debt in service to the powers that be.
TPTB simply can’t stay in power unless they can load up their tax slaves with even more debt.Right now tariffs have created enough uncertainty that everyone seems to be just waiting on the sidelines, before making any big decisiins, to see how things work out.
So I think economic growth will remain sluggish for the rest of 2025.
Has anyone seen any reports on how busy new US plant construction has bèen lately?Zerosum:
I am guessing the 10% tariff on tarsand crude heavy oil is an effort to further widen the discount on the oil from the tarsands.
Time will tell if the discount widens making tarsand oil cheaper for US buyers.
Certainly, the tarsand oil companies will see less revenue.Imposing Tariffs/Sanctions:
Trump doesn’t have the ability to impose Tariffs or Sanctions on others.
He can only put Tariffs/Sanctions on the US!Saying they are Russian, EU, or Brazilian, is just blaming someone else for what you are doing to yourself!
Media Distractions:
Are we being distracted by conspiracy theories?
Are they black or white hat conspiracy theories?Bondi:
It is 6 months plus and no arrests, day!
To The Last Ukrainian:
They are fighting to the last “poor” Ukrainian!
No rich Ukrainians are being harmed by the war.Aspnaz:
Yes, the US could “self finance” themselves by just printing money, like Lincoln did by issuing “greenbacks”, to finance the Cival War, instead of borrowing from British Bankers, as was expected.
Lincoln got a bad case of lead poisoning for doing this.The bankers fixed this oversight in 1913 by creating the Fed.
So you either, borrow money created out of thin air from the bankers, or you die!
Those are your only 2 choices!Financial Repression:
Just a reminder the US government needs “Financial Repression” to deal with it’s huge debts that it has no intention of ever repaying.
“Financial Repressiin” mean holding interest rates lower than inflation, to slowly but surely inflated the debt away.
Thus Trump constantly demanding the Fed’s Powell lower interest rates, now.
But don’t worry, the US Treasury Dept is now moving to implement “Financial Repression” !
The New Mr. Z:
MofA has a nice photo of the new Mr. Z to replace the old Mr. Z!
Hint: New boss same as old boss.
D.B. Smith:
Moving an RV every 2 hours solves nothing!
Let’s see.
Move the RV 2 feet!
Switch license plates.
Remove license plates.
Put spikes on roads for the police cars.
Call Waynemore taxis, smear sensors to block streets.
Constantly block streets, day and night.
Dump buckets of welcoming solids and liquids on police/cars.EU/US Tariffs:
First, the EU has no control over what tariff Trump applies on the US.
Second, the EU by accepting the 15% tariff rate set by Trump, doesn’t have to alter most of their existing tariffs.
So, did the EU really lose that much of their existing tariff/VAT non-tariff status quo?
No!
Same for Japan.
All of these politicians are merely squabbling over is how much their tax slaves have to pay to whom.Yesterday, Alan Dershowitz shamelessly was calling for a “special prosecutor”.
Today, he shows up in the top 10, on Epstein’s power list!
Coincidence, or enemy action?FBI Raiding Trump’s Florida Home:
The most interesting thing about the FBI raiding Trump’s Florida home, is that Trump knew they would be coming, just not exactly when.
Thus the secure locked file room guarded by the SS.More importantly, the FBI raid allows for any future legal prosecutions to be done in Florida, not in Washington DC.
A very smart legal move by Trump.Palestinians:
Palestinians are the original Jews forced to convert to Muslim.
The new or fake Jews want to exterminate the old Jews
No Arab country wants either) the new or old Jews in their countries.
So the old Jews are screwed as nobody wants them.
The new Jews are behaving like Nazis.Alan Dershowitz:
He is calling for a special prosecutor!
Trust no one calling for a special prosecutor, congress’s dirty trick played on voters, over and over, to ensure no one is ever prosecuted!He is 100% deep state/Dem/Uniparty trash.
Don’t be fooled by his call for a special prosecutor.
He wants to ensure no one gets prosecuted.
He is being a two faced lier.
His record speaks for itself.Celticbiker:
There has always been 2 sets of laws.
One set for the rulers.
One set for the ruled.The rulers are above the law.
The ruled are under the law.All my ancestors came to North America because of the actions of the rulers.
All were driven.Sadly, the same rulers on both sides of the Atlantic.
Dr. John Day:
Google catching a naked man in Argentina reminds me of a photo miscue by the Milwaukee mining equipment manufacturer’s photographer, that I once worked for.
The company featured a big colored photo of a customer’s large dragline with a 360 foot long boom on the front cover of their company’s magazine.
However, a sharp eyed little old lady, using a magnifying glass, spotted the dragline’s operator standing at the top of the boom, taking a leak!
Hummingbird Clearwing Moth:
Today, my daughter saw for the first time, a Hummingbird Clearwing Moth pollenating her impatient flowers!
This moth flies just like a hummingbird or a bumble bee.
Unlike most moths, it flies during the day.
We never knew such a thing existed!Special Prosecutor – Washington’s Inside Joke:
In Washington DC, it, is very hard to be convicted of any crime.
Congress has made everything they do, legal.A “Special Prosecutor” is Washington’s dirty trick they play on voters to ensure no one ever gets prosecuted.
The best Trump can do is lawfare, where the process is the punishment.
If Bondi mentions the words “Special Prosecutor”, then you will know that nobody is going to be prosecuted,Socialism:
If you really want to find out quickly why Socialism doesn’t work, try getting 20 people to dig a hole!
People are the problem!P.S. What did Raul put in today’s TAE? 100 plus!
AI = Artificial intelligence:
AI is only as good as it’s lowest common denominator.
That denominator is less than zero!Think about who is creating AI.
The creators have few if any morals or rules.
They subcontract the work of creating AI to the lowest bidder, I.e. offshore like India.
One AI used people in India, pretending to be AI!
They are using existing data bases to jump start their AI learning.
We know existing data bases are full of errors and corruption.
We know many AI code programmers are fake programmers.
These fakes have no morals, but AI uses them.We know AI doesn’t know when it is lying.
AI can not tell the difference between truth, lies, or deliberate bias mis-programming.
We know AI is being jump programmed by other AI programs.We know AI programs are being de- bugged, the Microsoft way.
The AI creators don’t care who or how many they hurt with their AI programs.
AI creators don’t care about harming the environment either!We know AI is being created and programmed by just a few of the world’s most evil people
So AI is being built by the most evil, corrupt, immoral, dishonest, lying, narcissist people.
AI = Zeros and Ones
Master = Slave
Inhuman = Human
Cruelty = SufferingDon’t you feel better now,0 knowing nothing has changed!
