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We need Big Short 2: "The Big Long" where it's shown that the investment banks that were overcollateralized after the bailouts were able to take over the residential real estate market at collapsed prices, leading to today's lack of affordable inventory for first-time homebuyers. Or, maybe it would be called "Rinse/Repeat, Gimme that Fed Leverage" in deference to the real Vampire Squid...

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Great writing Jim.

You are quite the wordsmith.

And also find it interesting you posted this tonight after I mentioned trading.

It does give me some pause about it.

Am well aware of how that thing works.

Kabuki theater and people moving tons of digital money around.

The prop firm business has exploded in the last 10 or so years.

But let me talk about my reasons.

It is going to take some cash to get out of dodge even more so that my wife is back home after the Cancer docs. worked her over.

Them guys ticked me off pretty good and am struggling with bitterness and anger right now.

So after 10 months at the big name hospital down in marys land.

After months of pleasant sounding words of a good out come. I get her back with bags to poop in and to pee in. Yeah sure they burned, poisoned and cut the cancer out.

I picked her up the last week of June got her home was were happy together and sad at the same time.

My hearty wife is now a skin and bones shell of the wombman she was.

In her heart though she is strong like a LION MAN LET ME TELL YA.

She will not quit never has ,never will I love her man .

July 1 we got home and went to a friends house on the 4th.

All seemed well.

Then that night she called to me ,she could not catch her breath.

Called the ambulance and off to the Hospital we go. The Ambulance guy was pretty much an arrogant dickhead seemed more like a cop than a medic.

Get the the hospital and turns out she had a heart attack.

Oh man what?

So they put her under pumped in some concoctions and put her on a breathing tube for a day.

Then we woke her up.

One side note about Nurse , they have been great all along. Men and wombmen who actually give a shit.

That was comforting.

Next they say they can go in through her leg to have a look for blockage and put in a stent.

Ok ,so am sitting in that waiting room downstairs at the cath. lab.

Many steel table with folks lined up for the deal. A factory like.

The nurse comes out and tells me thing did not go so well.

Been through this before when my younger brother died.

The Nurse comes out to break the ice that things are not so hot.

Then the "Doc" comes out and tell me.

Well when we put the tube in her leg her arteries are so frail from a year of chemo and other crap that it split wide open and they had to put the stent in her leg.

So now we gotta go back in 2 weeks to try again n the other leg if that fails then open heart. YIKES! man it just keep getting more nuts.

Promises, nice talks about how it will be ok. Yeah right!

So this bring me back to the trading idea to get cash sort of quick.

But now am wondering what is my faith in?

Have also grown tired of my christian friends who all came around with their proclamations about rebuking the devil and claiming complete healing like some TV holy ghost extravaganza.

Then as time goes but they adjust their prayers to guide the doctors hands.

My bad man for all my claims of being a follower of Christ Jesus and my form of Godliness but lacking any power.

What have i done??

Where is the power of the Holy Ghost like Stephen , Paul or the other Apostles had.

Was it just for that time in his story or have we fallen so far off the path we are not even close to being able to given that gift?

Lotta questions not many answers but we will not quit or deny our Faith and trust in the God we can not see with our eyes.

So not quite sure the direction right now.

Do have a decent gas piping job this week. But it is gonna take 100 times that.

Anyway thanks for listening I know you got things going on too and appreciate your time.

Peace and Blessing.

In the end God wins!

The end of the race is near and we gotta finish it strong.

Love this lady!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9rUUz8cMDM

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Hi, Kevin. Great to hear from you. God bless you and your family with abundant blessings. Eternal Father, please heal Kevin's wife. Amen.

Thank you for your kind words about my writing and for reading my stuff. Not all that many do, but it's Nock's suggestion that we not write for the masses, but for the remnant. Few do, so the market is pretty open as far as supply. Demand for such writing, well, it waxes and wanes.

The post about a lack of decency on Wall Street amongst the trading houses (banks), in Hollyweird amongst the film producers, in the District of Corruption amongst gooferment people, in the Arrakis Bay Area amongst tech billionaires, and elsewhere (London, Vatican) amongst persons who know better, is not meant to discourage you from trading. It is possible to use any tools for good or for evil. Money is a tool.

Jesus does not condemn the use of money. It is the love of money rather than of God that is the root of all evil. Money is mentioned in many places in the New Testament, and Jesus extols the virtue of the widow who gave her tiny coins out of her faith. Jesus performs a miracle in order to satisfy a tribute taker due to an error by a disciple, so a fish is brought up with a coin in its mouth. One sees that God has power over the affairs of man, including over the results of trading and the inspiration to trade wisely.

In alignment with that purpose, here is the channel of Youtube videos from my friend, the late Courtney Smith. May they inspire you to trade wisely and well.

https://www.youtube.com/@CourtneySmithTrading

The great truth is that we can do all things through Jesus Christ who strengthens us. It is also true that God loves us. Very important: God makes better plans than any of us. I don't know God's plans. In the New Testament, Jesus says that significant future events are known about, but the exact timing is known only to the Father. Not even the Son has some knowledge. So I want to be very humble here in saying that I don't know what the plan is, or what the lessons are, or what to expect. But I do know that you have done very well, brother. You have stood tall and spoken against evil. You have asked the right questions and you have stood forth for your wife in these important days. You are a good man.

The difficulty with bitterness and anger is not that you are not justified. You are abundantly justified. The difficulty is that it hurts you in your soul, it is spiritually dark material, and so it is important to thrust it from you through the act of you forgiving them. I know that is very hard. Jesus knows how very hard it can be. Jesus was placed atop the cross by soldiers who then nailed Him to it, while Mother Mary and the Apostle John watched. And Jesus forgave them, saying, "Father forgive them for they know not what they do."

I don't say that you must or that you are compelled to forgive, because that isn't how it works. You have free will. You can hold onto anger and bitterness. You may feel, as I once felt (about having eleven bones broken by the police in Houston) that holding onto it would serve some greater purpose later, give you the impetus for action. I repent me that choice. I wish to report that it also doesn't work that way. It isn't about healing them through you forgiving them. It is about healing you, your soul. Because the enemy, Satan, doesn't have any understanding of love. God is love. Satan can use hate and anger and bitterness and darkness to work all kinds of additional evil. But love is beyond his understanding, which is why God always wins.

You have done the right thing in bringing your wife home, and in strengthening her with your love. I pray for her healing. Eternal Father, please heal her. Amen.

Sadly, they sometimes don't even bother to send ambulance guys. Several times that I called for an ambulance for my parents a cop showed up. One time the call was because I was at breakfast with my mom and dad, and dad had a stroke. I saw it happen. The left side of his face collapsed. I immediately had him swallow an aspirin and called for help. And they sent a police officer. He was there, harumph, to make sure it was safe for the ambulance crew to come to the house. After he radioed it was clear they sent the ambulance. I still have trouble understanding them.

The nurses are trained to care about patients. They have actual training in bedside manner. Doctors have become arrogant and indecent, and I have written about them elsewhere.

Put your faith in God. If God wants you to be successful at trading, you will be. If not, you will find the resources you need elsewhere. I believe God wants you to be a successful trader. God knows all of your needs and all of the goodness in you. You can be a trader who has decency, which would make you a rarity indeed.

I am a witness to healing through the Holy Ghost. I have cast out a demon with the power of the Holy Ghost and in the name of Jesus Christ. I know that we can do all things through Jesus Christ who strengthens us. And I know that we live in a time of little faith. I don't know what else to say about this topic.

I don't believe you lack power, Kevin. I believe you have much power. And I pray: Eternal Father, please let my faith strengthen Kevin. Amen.

At the time of the Resurrection, St. Thomas was away. Upon his return, Thomas was told that Jesus was risen indeed, and Thomas asked to be shown the wounds, to put his finger in the holes where the nails had been, his hand in the side where the spear of destiny went in. This inspection of the wounds was allowed, and Jesus said that for Thomas, seeing is believing. And then Jesus said how much greater it is to believe without having seen. You have great faith, brother. God's will be done. Amen.

The race continues, and we get up and keep running. Very nice video, my friend. Thank you for sharing it. Inspiring. God bless you and your family. Amen.

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Jim,

You gave me tears of joy brother.

You put forth some gushing living water right there.

Am deeply humbled , grateful... and can not find words to describe it.

Not only is there the literal words ,but within those words is life.

What you say is true , forgiveness ,forgiveness, forgiveness.

Let no bitter root come up with in me.

Am feeling like right now the storm has been stilled.

Am going to sit with what you said and also with what the Spirit is prompting.

His prompting and your words are in agreement.

Seek first His Kingdom and His righteousness, the other things will be in order and in time.

Thanks again for spending you time!

Blessings and peace on your house!

Kevin

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Praise God, brother. Praise Jesus. Amen. I am blessed to be able to share words to shine more light into the dark places. I know we wander into darkness, and it can be overwhelming. But like you say, there is life in forgiveness. There's a saying that I've heard. I cannot walk your path. But if I may lift up my light and shine it where it illuminates your path, that will be enough, God willing. Thank you for the blessing brother. Amen.

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We are now all victims of "The Sting".

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Does anyone think the housing bubble will burst and houses will be worth half of the money they are now?

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When you say “money” you are maybe talking about the USA dollar which was defined in 1792 as one-twentieth of an ounce of gold. It was $20 to buy an ounce of gold in 1913 when the Feral Reserveless scam was started. It is $2505 to buy an ounce of gold today. So it may be that the money will be worth fewer houses. The wreckers have wrecked the dollar and with it they have wrecked the economy.

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I see what you’re saying. With BRICS maybe our money will be worth a lot less but the rich conglomerate into buying houses out there like crazy(we buy ugly houses) Will be able to buy them so they will still be very expensive no matter what.

What a shame.

These poor kids inherited a mess, and they are the least likely to be strong enough to get out of this mess. But you never know. These young guys are sick of the rampant, feminism and many are strong enough to protest against Israel.

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Anything that cannot last very long won't. The longest run ever for a fiat inflationary money was from Anno Domini 1260 to AD 1368. When the British got there with their east India company about AD 1600 they were very excited about it. The predecessors of the freemasons wanted it very much and they orchestrated a whole bunch of chaos and shenanigans to get their "bank of England."

The American "dollar" has only been entirely stripped of its relationship to gold or silver since 1971. It doesn't have much longer on the world stage, unless it is returned to some sort of redemption. How that would look depends on who wins the current battle for global domination, and that is going to be very fiery and hot for quite a while. Could be radioactively hot in the events.

Nevertheless, as I mention in my essay "Free market money" it is possible today to use other things besides feral reserveless nothings. So that would be my recommendation to folx who want to hold onto something of value. It is also wisdom to hold onto things like precious metals, ammunition, real estate, and stored food. The road ahead is rocky and strewn with potholes and pitfalls.

God made this world to be occupied, and God made mankind to occupy it. So, please have faith that it will all work out. Some large number of actual money changers are infesting God's creation, and seeing them whipped out onto the streets (literally and metaphorically) is one of the blessings set before us. Many more blessings will be poured out, as promised in Malachi chapter 4.

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I See Not T Rump in your forked Tails?

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