“But we see that she herself once seemed to be the mistress of the world, such as Rome remained. Distressed in many ways by immense pains, the desolation of the citizens, the pressure of the beasts, the frequent collapses... Where is the Senate? Where are the people? All the pride of Secular dignities has been extinguished... For the Senate is wanting, the people have perished: yet in the few that are, the groans of pain are multiplied every day; Rome is already burning empty.” -Pope Gregory the Great, in a homily in 593 AD.

Diocletian (born 245 AD) was the Roman Emperor from 284-305 AD. His rule is considered the end of the Crisis of the Third Century. He brought stability to the Roman Empire, notably by splitting the Empire into East and West administratively. However, not all of his reforms would prove long lasting. Just as Kamala Harris is promising price controls to keep inflating prices low, Diocletian promised the same thing with his Edict on Maximum Prices.

Trump was nearly assassinated on Saturday, July 13, 2024. This would have thrown the Republican Party into disarray, because the the president has become like a Roman Emperor, progressively replacing the political power of the Senate. For long term success, Republicans need to dominate Congress so that it doesn’t matter if a Democrat is president, because the House and Senate can over ride a presidential veto and impeach the president if they don’t like him. In fact, we have precedent for Congress dominating the president. Following the Civil War, Radical Republicans took over the federal government while a Democrat was president.

Julian Assange is free, Ukraine bombed Russian families vacationing on the beach using American weapons, Norinchukin Bank is selling US government bonds, and Bolivia had a failed coup de etat.

"A city for sale and doomed to speedy destruction if it finds a purchaser!"

-King Jugurtha of Numidia

To everyone making fun of the protestors, their unifying factor isn't Marxism, it is that they don't think we should be bombing women and children in Gaza. They'd go away if the unpopular war weren't being waged and they didn't have to pay taxes to Israel

On Friday April 26, 2024 Republic First Bank went bust. It is based out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The bank bailouts that started in March of last year and went into November appear to have awoken from hibernation. Is it a bear market for banks?

As of yesterday, Wednesday, April 10, 2024, it now takes ¥153 to get $1. The Bank of Japan can strengthen the ¥en by selling US government bonds. They could then sell the dollars that they get from the bonds for ¥en on the open market for less than ¥153. It is a cheap trick, but it will yank around the Federal Reserve, who will need to be the lender of last resort to the US government if Japan and China are selling. That means more inflation for the USA, and a weakening US dollar. Talk about YinYang!

Who did P Diddy diddle? Who did Diddy do?

Perhaps the blackmail operation tied to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell is falling apart.

As of February 15, 2024, Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom were in a recession. Jamie Dimon is selling shares of JP Morgan and Berkshire Hathaway is holding cash. Druckenmiller is buying gold. The stock price of New York Community Bank fell 60% in the first week of February. They bailed out Signature Bank. With the Bank Term Fuding Program allegedly expiring in March, are we about to be in American recession?

Food is getting expensive in the European Union. Decades of printing money, raising taxes, and controlling the economy have made everything more expensive. The more money people spend on food, the less they can spend on consumption and investment. European farmers themselves are facing higher prices, and have spontaneously united across Europe to protest their impoverishment by the government. They have even potentially inspired more trucker protests in Canada. They’d be happening in China too, but they have less freedom. Revolutions find fertile ground in hungry bellies and empty pockets.

Steven D’Antuono was the head of the Detroit FBI’s field office in 2020 when the Michigan State Capital building was stormed by protestors and when the FBI foiled a plot to kidnap Michigan Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer. He was then transferred to head the Washington, D.C. FBI field office right before the Republican “insurrection” of January 6, 2021.

The Bank Term Funding Program (BTFP) is the name for the money that the Federal Deposit and Insurance Company and the Federal Reserve loaned to banks going bankrupt, starting in March 12, 2023. A couple of more banks have been added since then, but the bulk of the money is due in March 2024. The banks don’t have the money, so they’ll have to sell what they own, US debt and mortgage backed securities. Also, the Reverse Repo market funding the federal government should be tapped out by March. With the biggest historic buyers of US debt, the Federal Reserve, Japan, and China, currently being the biggest sellers, who will buy the US debt that the banks and Treasury are selling? So, either we play another round of musical chairs, or the music stops; but, at some point, the music stops. Fun times ahead.

Historically, the most universally desired commodities became money, such as salt (salary), tobacco, alcohol, copper, silver, and gold. Another unusual example is the cow in ancient India and rural Mississippi during alcohol prohibition.

The new president of Argentina, Javier Milei, wants to use the dollar ($) instead of the Argentine peso to escape Argentina’s high inflation. Both he and the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, also want to use bitcoin with a ₿. However, it is physical bitcoin, the Spanish Dollar, that they should consider. El dólar argentífero es bitcoin fisico. The silver dollar is physical bitcoin.

Houthi rebels in Yemen have attacked shipping going through the Bab al-Mandab Strait between Arabia and Africa, connecting the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean. The Suez Canal then connects the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, and the Israeli port city of Haifa. It is the most direct shipping route from Japan, China, and South Korea to Europe. Several shipping companies have rerouted their ships around Africa. This will increase the cost of trade between Europe and Asia and Israel and Asia. This could be used to divide the West, led by the Anglo-American Empire, from Israel and increase pressure on Israel to stop bombing Palestinians in Gaza.

Putin flew to Arabia and met with with delegations from the UAE and Saudi Arabia on Wednesday and the next day he flew back to Moscow to meet with delegations from Oman and Iran. All 5 nations are major energy producers. The petro-dollar is based on oil (energy) producing nations exclusively selling their oil for dollars. That appears to be ending.

SBF and CZ have both been sued, with SBF going to prison and CZ paying massive fines. They were leaders of promoting crypto currencies through FTX and Binance, respectively. FTX is finished and Binance may be on its last legs. Will crypto survive the hype?

On November 24, 2002, The Observer and The Guardian published Osama bin Laden’s letter to the American people. Yesterday, November 15, 2023, the letter went viral and The Guardian removed the document. Luckily Bryn Mawr College published the letter. The following is the text of the letter and an introduction to the text.

If the three biggest buyers of US Treasury debt, the Federal Reserve, the Japanese, and the Chinese, are all selling Treasury debt, then who is buying Treasury debt? For now, it appears to be the Reverse Repo market. However, with only $1 trillion left in the Reverse Repo Market, the interest on the federal debt nearing $1 trillion annually, and $8 trillion of the $33 trillion of federal debt maturing next year, how long until the Fed has to turn around and act as the lender of last resort?