While economics is basically voodoo, it appears you've stumbled onto a fast track to derailing the country.
The federal reserve flipping $600 capital into $5400 of capital also creates $5400 of debt. Possibly more over time as interest weighs of the $5400. The way banks "flip" assets into higher amounts via fractional banking is by loaning it out. It doesn't just become 9x'd on their books magically. Someone has to take on the debt.
I'm not seeing how this is self-financing anything; it looks more like refinancing while causing gigantic inflation of the money supply by 9x. A $1 today is worth $0.10 after this. This is circular investment with leverage, backed by an increasingly unstable government.
Can you explain more on this actually works in practice? Where is any upside? Current debt goes away, but is replaced by 9x as much debt held by the federal reserve or swf?
Thanks for your comment! I came from a model using millions various levels of income (or flipping) in a capital pool which is invested revenue generating assets like roads, bridges, AI build out which intern will off set the debt. The 9x is just a sample but I’m open to any suggestions!
This is a redistribution scheme. It is a transfer of wealth to those who can take the risk to contract for the creation of the wealth generating assets. For example, a regular joe isn't going to start a construction company and win road creation contracts. The contracts would go to existing construction companies with proven histories of creating roads.
This is playing musical chairs with money while at the same time using leverage to do it. The poor get way poorer because what few dollars they do have will be worth less. The rich get way richer because there are more dollars to go into their coffers. The poor don't get many new dollars in their coffers because they have no extra money to play musical chairs with, so they never join the capital pool in proportion nor do they receive its investment dollars.
Any suggestions on where to look to avoid using excessive leverage because several of the comments on this issue said this is leverage and I don’t want to compound the excessive amount of leverage in the economy all ready nor disadvantage the working class! Any tips would be appreciated!
There is no where to look. This is a fraudulent scheme. There is no way this works in any capacity when coupled with fractional reserve banking to increase the capital amount.
Th core of the idea that could maybe work is allow individual citizens to invest into a SWF and get some kind of priority as an early investor. This could allow some alignment of incentives.
But it's not real. A bigger problem emerges. Investors expect returns (especially if you offered favorable terms to jump start the fund), making it not really sovereign anymore. It comes under the whims of investors, which will all be proportionally high earners. Leaving the bottom earners poorer relatively.
Then you need to consider how it's managed, which investments are made, how are investment decisions made in terms of preferred vendors, vendor a vs vendor b. Becomes a nightmare logistically and really just becomes a target for corporate raiders via regulatory capture or even just kickbacks and hush money.
All of this just becomes redistribution with questionable chances for returns with high risks of fraud due to, among other items listed above, extreme moral hazard of the borrowers.
More people are exposed to peanuts today than they were 100 years ago.
What do you think about the possibility that this is similar to rates of other diseases "rising", where really it may be an artifact of access to new populations?
Peanuts were plentiful 100 years ago, and certainly 50 years ago when allergy rates were much lower.
There are also striking geographic differences in allergy rates as well between the US and less developed countries (even within genetically identical populations).
Anecdotally, I also know a bunch of people who developed allergies (not peanut / treenut, but seasonal) a few years after they moved to the US.
It looks like there's something environmental going on. I just don't know what yet.
I'm sorry to hear your situation. Thymosin Alpha 1 (abbreviated TA1) is a peptide that upregulates T cell responses in the body. This directly helps the immune system perform better.
This is hardly a cure all, but has certainly proven to be effective in other cancers (couldn't find references to gliablastoma) and conditions with compromised immune systems.
You may have some difficulty initially locating it. It may technically be illegal - the FDA banned many peptides recently. It is still findable by searching for clinic that supports the use of peptides (they would have sourcing figured out).
Dude you’ve got to talk to someone. Not professionally (maybe that too) - but just a peer To talk to as a friend. The factual shit to ground you and connect you to someone else: where you grew up, how to met your wife, what college was like, your kids, etc.
I love the Walmart checkout machines. They suffered initially from poor software. The update made in the last 4 months or so is 100x better.
I see two frequent problems.
The first is people with a full cart of items. Without the lazy susan of bags, scanning and bagging takes a long time. Not to mention checkers presumably have some training regarding grouping like items and other tricks of the trade Walmart has gleaned over the billions of transactions in their history.
The second is people that are not confident using the software - I hate to generalize, but usually it's older people. Someone unfamiliar or inefficient with the software can slow down the customer flow significantly, even if their cart size is small.
I love it not only because as a millennial that works in software, using the self check and adapting to unfamiliar situations comes easier to me, but also I rarely check out with more than 5-10 items because I go shopping 3-5 times per week rather than once per week.
I thought Walmart dictated to their suppliers that every item had to have an rfid chip in it, and this was years ago.
Perhaps having one on every single item was cost prohibitive.
The way you talk sounds like you're putting a lot of pressure on yourself. If you do that, it will manifest with unhealthy ways - stimulants, breakdowns, etc.
My first year of undergrad was by far the hardest. Weed-out classes are a real thing. It will get easier after year 1.
Taking adderall a few times is hardly abuse, but taking it when you don't need it is definitely a bad habit to begin during university.
I very much prefer targeted ads. I don't have time to research the numerous products released each day that target my demographic. Seeing ads that are specific to my interests are important. I don't prefer seeing the same ad every time, a la youtube. I want variety in my ads, but "revisiting" ads over time is good to me. I have fairly broad interests that I actively engage in - gardening, fitness, gadgets - I want to see the latest products in those areas and be reminded of items I've seen advertised before.
I don't each much meat anyway, but the meat that I do eat is grass fed & finished and raised semi-locally. I prefer the path closer to nature than to the lab.
This is a very disturbing question. Why do you want control over other people, especially with regard to casinos, betting, and porn? All of those are consensual indulgences.
What is an ethical limit and who decides where the line is drawn?
Those are great questions. For one, I think companies in these industries have so much data on individual usage, that they could potentially draw some ethical limit.
For example in the case of casinos and gambling, when one enters the addiction phase and takes unnecessary risks we could be nudged, at least, towards no ruining his life.
How would that work, exactly? I imagine you could extend the concept to anything that humans do in excess, which is just about everything. And then you would be monitoring every aspect of their lives for that point in time when they overindulge. In the meantime, you would have all of their actions mapped in your database, enough to determine their likes and dislikes, their wants and desires to the point where you can do so before they know what they want. And then you can stop it before it happens. With a nudge.
Build things that help people do what they want to do. Don't build stuff to stop people from doing what they want. Unless they want to stop doing those things, in which case build things to help them stop doing those things.
If you are building stuff to stop people from doing what they want and they didn't ask you to, well then you are treading on questions ground. Unless you want to, in which case, well, build it, because you want to.
While economics is basically voodoo, it appears you've stumbled onto a fast track to derailing the country.
The federal reserve flipping $600 capital into $5400 of capital also creates $5400 of debt. Possibly more over time as interest weighs of the $5400. The way banks "flip" assets into higher amounts via fractional banking is by loaning it out. It doesn't just become 9x'd on their books magically. Someone has to take on the debt.
I'm not seeing how this is self-financing anything; it looks more like refinancing while causing gigantic inflation of the money supply by 9x. A $1 today is worth $0.10 after this. This is circular investment with leverage, backed by an increasingly unstable government.
Can you explain more on this actually works in practice? Where is any upside? Current debt goes away, but is replaced by 9x as much debt held by the federal reserve or swf?