Is a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) a good idea for the USA?
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Loading ...i ran into an old friend this evening. he’s a merchant seaman, and has been working on the boats that service the offshore oil industry in the gulf off the louisiana coast (morgan city and thereabouts). he’s “on the beach,” and tells me that layoffs are widespread in his business and the associated oil industry.
…one more data point on the way down…
hi my li friend….fyi tulving went bankrupt back in 2013/14 and is also under criminal investigation. when I retired our dealer company here in 2008 we went with tulving which was good for the times. I think they messed up their hedge book in the declining market from 2011 at least that’s my impression and tanked. in 2013/14 after a bit of research I suggested to the group of 19 [family and friends] we go with texas metals for our g&s needs. they have been without doubt a 5 star operation. 3 day delivery after payment posts like clockwork. limit orders bid or offer can be placed also which is a feature not common to dealers. I love it. texmetals are the perfect dealer imho… best of cheer 
wj
Good question. I ordered some car parts last drop and always get them with different but few select places but took longer for delivery, I don’t buy in mass though the bigger orders ” once” or trade like 2011 traded silver for gold a week early but knew I’d probably be working if I didn’t do it early as they always do that to me were in person. Who knows in the future in person may be the best way if you can find someone you can trust and can trust you to show up when they get it in.
Is Texas Metals still a good dealer? How about that Monex company tats always on TV? Just today a friend of mine asked who we can trust these days.
I hope so. We have too many people in office chipping away at the constitution little by little. Meanwhile it can take up to a half a ounce to feed a family of four a month now.
re part:
“the use of Russian-made rocket engines to send U.S. military satellites into space, telling exasperated lawmakers they are moving quickly to end the practice and rely on American-made rockets for the launches.”
Comment:
The name of the game for the past 100 years was to funnel USA tax dollars, and USA consumer dollars on to other nations. Its pure global welfare, take from the rich and give to the poor nations, and there was ONLY, ONE way Americans can fight or resist, or short circuit or stymie them was to………….
You know the answer.
But its too late now anyway to resist. The damage has grown to a point where its all changing automatically. The global establishment is on the hot seat. BLM bureau of land management? They were and are enforcing foreign global goals. On the hot seat now. The INS? Also on the hot seat. The foreign influenced White House?
Also on the hot seat as per Trump. Thanks to him, the silent USA majority finally has someone that is willing and able to “do something” and give us someone to vote for who is patriotic, and cares about the country.
Even if he does not get in, their whole Rube Gold global financial system is failing and in reverse, trying to right itself anyway, even if Hillary gets in, nothing will stop this reversal transition going on.
the great battle between hard asset gold and silver vs: fiat paper of the bankster style. my bet as I know your aware is on the ounce….I really like farmboy’s conclusion that ‘in the end wealth will be measured by the ounce’. rings true to me brother. frankly I haven’t wavered since 1999 beginning entries other then kicking myself in the ass for bypassing the 2011 conversion at the 32 marker. 
just like a freakin immature newby I were after trading since the 1970s! bah!
cheers wj
imho oathkeepers is the org to belong to …cops past military and civilan. this is a righteous group imo and people of like mind and kindred spirit. my optimism abounds thru my anger at some louts but in the final stretch I believe the constitution will stand the test and the pack of disgusting libtards we barely put up with these days will fall into the pits of zool!
best of cheers wj
Phil’s Story – Possibly the Funniest Clean Story of the Year
The pastor asked if anyone in the congregation would like to express praise for answered prayers.
Suzie Smith stood and walked to the podium. She said, “I have a praise. Two months ago, my husband, Phil, had a terrible bicycle wreck and his scrotum was completely crushed. The pain was excruciating and the doctors didn’t know if they could help him.”
You could hear a muffled gasp from the men in the congregation as they imagined the pain that poor Phil must have experienced.
“Phil was unable to hold me or the children,” she went on, “and every move caused him terrible pain. We prayed as the doctors performed a delicate operation, and it turned out they were able to piece together the crushed remnants of Phil’s scrotum and wrap wire around it to hold it in place.”
Again, the men in the congregation cringed and squirmed uncomfortably as they imagined the horrible surgery performed on Phil.
“Now,” she announced in a quivering voice, “thank the Lord, Phil is out of the hospital and the doctors say that with time his scrotum should recover completely.”
All the men sighed with unified relief. The pastor rose and tentatively asked if anyone else had something to say.
A man stood up and walked slowly to the podium. He said, “I’m Phil.”
The entire congregation held its breath. “I just want to tell my wife the word is sternum.”
Pentagon defends use of Russian engines to launch satellites
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senior Pentagon officials on Wednesday sought to defend the use of Russian-made rocket engines to send U.S. military satellites into space, telling exasperated lawmakers they are moving quickly to end the practice and rely on American-made rockets for the launches.
But Air Force Secretary Deborah James and Pentagon acquisition chief Frank Kendall failed to stem sharp criticism from several members of the Senate Armed Services Committee who view Russia as the chief geopolitical threat to the United States.
Led by the committee chairman, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., they said using the Russian engines enriches President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle and puts U.S. national security in jeopardy.
McCain, his voice rising at times, asked James and Kendall if they knew the names Sergey Chemezov and Dmitry Rogozin. Both are Russians targeted by U.S. sanctions, he said, yet their positions in Russia’s space and defense industry allows them to personally profit from the sales of the Russian RD-180 engines. Each engine costs roughly $30 million.
I think they have to manage the retreat, their own policies scream long gold etc and they are running out of metal.
We can bet that they will hit the PM’s at times brutally, scaring the liveing day lights out of leveraged punters.
They were all over the mkts after the FOMC…. but it seems as of now the mkts are bigger than the Scum.
Hard to see them giving up even at a 542-1 paper gold claim to phyzz at the Comex but it does seem that pm shares have been on someone’s radar for the last few days.
Can’t believe I’m encouraged by the action with the HUI at 120. I’d sure love to see that final washout having happened when the HUI went under 100 last week.
Something in the SM/financial system appears to be breaking. I guess we’ll find out soon enough.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-01-27/fed-back-pedals-hawkishness-hints-policy-error
The SM didn’t seem to like it much. All not well in economic land?
Could happen oh Guru of all Guru’s, swami of all swami’s! 🙂
CNBS not talking about gold today which is a good thing. I don’t know. PM shares just seem to be acting different than what has been the norm for a long time.
Could all change tomorrow I guess.
We’ll see, we’ve been through this war for a very long time my friend.
Yes action so far well outside norm.
Only guess is that they are gonna print to infinity, as backed into a box, so why fight any more….it has become too obvious, that is all they have left.
The free men and women under pressure to pick up the slack of a declining living standard and nation are being threatened left and right with increasing government overreach for decades. The bigger is grows the more dangerous it gets.
As long as they know the men of this country will do nothing about the outsourcing of land and jobs and increasing dictator motivated attacks on the constitution they can single out the few that do and kill them to send a message to the rest that they’re in power not the people. It’s easy to get bottom feeders to do their dirty work what other choice do they have. It appears that if they were murdered that the order came from somewhere to target these individuals out so if the case yep you can bet there will be a covered up. It will be there fault you watch. We wouldn’t of killed you if you would of just waked on by but since you challenged our authority you’ll suffer the consequences. You watch. They tried that on you too and glad they lost.
The rest of you serfs who pay our bills just go back home or suffer the consequences. I hope this isn’t over and the people make them see that they too will suffer the consequences and the rest stay safe.
Sad part is as increasing civil unrest even domestic due to the effects of a declining economy unravels more people just trying to survive are going to get caught up in it including good cops just trying to do their job. Not saying this was the case here.
I have no doubt other countries see it as a weakness in men here who are allowed to be bullied and pushed aside by a increasing corrupt system and see it as a clue to move in and take what they have. After all who’s stopping them but a few they can single out? American men are now just spoiled lazy and easily led by the likes of Obama and other opportunists in Gov., there not gonna do anything about it. Meanwhile in Sweden the cops went on the run while trying to save a 10 year old boy from being Gang raped by muslim refugees but too many of them, no guns no back up they didn’t save the boy but ran for their lives. But hey no guns are the answer to stop violence. Sad thing is even when evidence it’s no so like this is clear the libs continue to push to disarm the public then next cops.
1150 Friday or me name ain’t wannacaa! 
wj
Interesting. This feels a little different this time don’t you think?
Whatever it was it didn’t seem to be too pm negative.
I guess we could get a delayed smackdown tomorrow, but seems like we’re doing better than the norm.
Who is Morgan-Stanley and why its 31-trillion in derivatives should concern you.
Buried deep in the report is Table 2, which broadens the landscape beyond just the commercial banking units of the mega Wall Street firms to what is lurking in the holding companies. In Table 2 we learn that Morgan Stanley ranks right up there with the other big boys on Wall Street, holding $31 trillion notional in derivatives. (See chart below.)
Adding in Morgan Stanley’s derivatives, the total rises to $247 trillion in notional derivatives with just these five banks holding 93 percent of the total. Equally noteworthy, the table shows that within Morgan Stanley’s $31 trillion in derivatives there are $1.6 trillion in notional credit derivatives – those pesky instruments that took down the big insurer AIG in 2008 and almost took down Morgan Stanley.
Who is Morgan Stanley and Why Its $31 Trillion in Derivatives Should Concern You
and these poor souls were ‘BUSHWHACKED’ by murders imho. too much of this very detrimental police behavior going around these days. looks like the bottom feeding thugs are progressing to the cop shops fed and state. now we watch the coverup and then the facts that squeak out and make more sense then the ‘party line’ of lies. and on and on it goes but more people are becoming aware of protecting their safety in this nation and it sure as hell don’t rest with the fed. 
wj
Colombia will never be home . I return to FL soon .
