The trick is to survive
Quid Pro Quo
The S&P 500 is 3% off all-time highs.
Whole lotta nothing this week re: the ongoing Wexner/Epstein/Maxwell intelligence operation.
Not surprising.
An embarrassing and pathetic own-goal for the Administration.
What part of “belonged to intelligence” do people not get? Epstein was clearly working for the Mossad and CIA.
They’ve known who the perps are for years, yet no prosecutions. Read this.
So why the lack of prosecutions?
Intelligence agencies don’t want to punish wealthy, powerful perpetrators - they want to own and control them.
"The Epstein Files™ release will be the litmus test of whether [Trump] is truly committed to eviscerating the Deep State or if his actions are designed to do nothing more than cement the faction he leads within it as its ruling elite."
The GOP House Judiciary Committee has deleted their tweet:
Ha ha! The abrogation of justice is funny!
"This stuff would be funnier if it wasn't so evil."
Nick Bryant acquired the Epstein ‘Black Book’ in 2012, and in 2015 Gawker published it (Peter Thiel helped sue them out of business later.) The unredacted version of the ‘Black Book” has been available to anyone interested here since 2020. The flight logs have also been available for years.
There’s no ‘there there’ with Bondi, or apparently anyone at the DOJ.
This is the closest you’re going to get to the truth I’m afraid:
“In December, Popular Information reported that Chinese crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun purchased $30 million in crypto tokens from World Liberty Financial (WLF), a new venture backed by President Donald Trump and his family. Sun’s purchase resulted in a cash windfall for Trump.
On Wednesday, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Sun sent a joint letter to a federal judge, asking for a stay of Sun's case. Today, the judge granted the SEC's request…Sun's purchases have sent more than $50 million to Trump”
The U.S. Economy Depends More Than Ever on Rich People “Then inflation struck, and prices rose sharply. Most Americans turned to their extra savings to keep up with their rising bills. But the top 10% of earners kept most of what they had saved up…Affluent people also found themselves with assets, such as stocks, that suddenly were worth far more. The net worth of the top 20% of earners has risen by more than $35 trillion, or 45%, since the end of 2019, according to Federal Reserve data.”
Speaking of Rich People…
As of 2023, the Federal Reserve reports that the 12 Federal Reserve branches had 20,790 employees. THIS DOES NOT INCLUDE THE ECCLES BUILDING APPARATCHIKS - apparently that is classified.
These 20,790 Fed employees averaged $137.7k just in salary, more than 91% of Americans that year.
All in (again, excluding the D.C. outfit) the Fed in 2023 had 1,816 "other officers" (all with 'Senior' or 'Director' in their title no doubt), AVERAGING $282K just in salary! Again, that's more than about 98% of Americans pulled in in 2023.
They are completely out of touch.
OpenAI Co-Founder Sutskever’s Startup Is Fundraising at $30 Billion-Plus Valuation “The round marks a significant valuation jump from the $5 billion that Sutskever’s company was worth before [in September 2024]…It isn’t generating revenue yet and doesn’t intend to sell AI products in the near future.”
The FDIC will no longer disclose how many assets are held at "problem banks," which I interpret as meaning that the amount of those assets is about to spike.
Which is worse - them lying to us, or them withholding the facts?
I've heard several smart people lately talking about tariffs or something, and saying "sure, prices would spike up," then quickly adding - "but that would just be a one-time thing, not higher inflation." No big deal.
People have to survive on price levels, not rate of change.
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