GENIUS FORUMS

I always took pleasure in reading. I seemed to enjoy the thought that maybe I can glean a little glimpse of truth here or there, some sort of fact about the world, anything at all. I searched through philosophy, psychology, science, fiction and nonfiction alike. And I found some gems here and there ...

I have spent most of my life isolated from my kin, suffering in the cold, the heat, humilitated, my body aching nearly every day in pain. I have had a difficult life. I stumbled many times, but I perservered to the best of my ability. I know just how much of a child I really am. I was born on May 21...

I believe that I have caused too much trouble. I will leave my house in exile, and I will not return. I will go somewhere quiet and tranquil. A nice place where I can settle down and finally rest. I have grown very tired, and I don't wish to work anymore. I wish to carry water, chop wood. carry wate...

I am repenting, and I will not be disturbed.

Lately I have been troubled and have let my anger get the best of me. I'm troubled because I know that we in the United States are potentially facing the monumental task of 122 trillion dollars of debt, and I think about this constantly. I cannot seem to get it out of my mind. I can't sleep at night...

What are the people doing in the United States? We have nearly 1.6 trillion in student loan debt, and they don't get anything but a diploma? What work are they doing? Waiting tables? Give me a break. We have 122 TRILLION in unfunded liabilities. So why are we not absolutely drowning in productive as...

The "free market" propaganda is false and does not explain the economy in the slightest. That's part of your confusion. That there is going to be a recession is the easiest thing to predict, since commodity and trading prices always swing and people react irrationally to them both during ...

No disagreement from me on the debt circus. The only difference in my perspective is that I don't see sudden endings. More like a hollowing out but there are many ways to transition away from a collapse. As I wrote before, the system is already supported by fiat from global players. What's left is ...

Transitioning genders is such a huge waste. You have to go through so much effort, pain, debt, and suffering. All for what? A little squirt of dopamine when you look in the mirror and feel like a woman. What a huge waste of time. Take some advice. If you want that same feeling of satisfaction for a ...

Saying the United States is a feeding cancer in need of amputation, may have been a bit hyperbolic. My point is this though. It has been my experience that academic economists tend to focus too much on consumption. Consumption is and always will be secondary to production. The first and foremost mod...

Looks to me it's mostly about gold price starting the reflect the fear of the next recession in the general populace. This generally will follow by a correction because it cannot be sustained for long. Like I said, either this is nothing, there will be no recession (or a minor one), and your CNBC p...

It's not like I was denying or trying to refute how money inflated the economy to overall record credit space or debt. Actually I was indicating that this is how it works instead of being a particular threat. Of course we can discuss the overall stability or outlook of such a system. But it can't b...

You don't get it Diebert. Cheap money has blown the economy up to record proportions. This is the biggest bubble any of us have ever seen or likely will see. And it will all come crashing down on Trump. It seemed like things wouldn't break down under one Trump term, but now it's looking like it will...

Rates averaged 5.69 percent from 1971-2019, reaching 20 percent in 1980 and a low of 0.25 percent in 2008. They are 2.5 now after rising steadily from 0.5 in 2016. source The pause expressed hesitation in light of global developments all increasing the uncertainty. It might hinge as well on the abi...

Still no specifics on time frame, severity or mechanisms.... Instead, you go into referrals to unspecified authority and faith. In other words you have embraced one of the typical "modern" mass religions, without gods but with eschatology, emotion, holy writs and evangelicalism of the end...

Democratic socialists will seize power and enforce policies that will serve to diminish the severity of the depression but instead lengthen it by years, maybe even a decade. This will all come to pass. This was not well communicated, so I'll add a footnote. The democratic socialists will seize powe...

You have only alluded in the vaguest of ways to an impending catastrophe. You are showing what an engagement with paranoid, projecting thinking is. The topic therefore is how that sort of thinking operates and why. All that you have is an ‘imagined scenario’ that you present with no substantial evi...

And make your own 9/11 conspiracy thread. I don't wish for this one to get off topic.

Dear Wondrous & Glorious Child, One's 'two eyes and ears' are exactly what cannot be trusted, since all perception is mediated. And I would draw to your attention that your metaphors *eyes and ears* need to be expressed as *what you imagine to be so*. Eyes and ears are useful with what is direc...

You're asking if it is wise, but what would be wiser? A supremely wise intelligent race of beings or a race of bumbling idiots that on rare occasion spews out a few wise ones. The idea that it's us against the robots is false. AI is us. The sorts of struggles you're talking about are just growing pa...

China's fate is tied to that of the US and the dollar, as well as all the other countries that matter. The dollar is the credit for the global energy/economic system, and a system of credit isn't easily replaced or started. Credit provision requires currency, a national treasury, a lender of last r...

It's hard to say, Santiago. The dollar is a pillar of salt that could crumble at any minute. The gov shutdown has nothing to do with the border wall. Neither side wants to take the blame for what's coming, so they 'shut the gov down' and claim the gov shutdown is causing an 'economic slowdown.' It's...

Yes but you have to make some sort of a case. But why not explain first on what you base your dark outlook Go see for yourself. Go visit China, and just look around. Look at how they live and what they do. Talk to expats who have lived there a while and ask them what's changing. And visit the Unite...

I'm not joking around Diebert. This is serious. I don't cry wolf. If you're invested in the United States, get out now.

And Santiago, this warning is not an opportunity for you to get rich. It's a warning to help protect people from what's going to happen.

Consider yourselves warned.

And to my friends in other countries, stay away from dollars and dollar denominated stocks and bonds. The coming season may not affect you as badly, but you can still get frostbite if you are not careful.