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over a million people protested the Trump admin on april 5th 2025, MSM reported them as in the "tens of thousands" Many gopers believe that a significant number of those who were protesting where paid to do so.

Collusion is not a crime

I apologize for giving you the impression that I am only now contemplating inflation. I have been aware of "fractional reserve banking" for over a decade. I had a neighbor, whose full name escapes me, who was held Phds in both physics and economics who had some fairly radical ideas about the...

I am thoroughly confused by "inflation" as a term used to describe the economy. When we complain about the price of eggs or gas being high it is, and had been, routinely blamed on "inflation". But to my way of thinking inflation is a measure of the increase of discrete units of currency in...

to my second grade brain, the rhetoric about "Inflation" was really about the price of consumer items. Those prices rose because of a lack of availability due to both a rise in demand post lock down and a rise in consumers wealth due to both not spending during the lock down and the monies that...

So my first grade brain is now fixating on the supply side of inflation. if there is not enough of the "things" that the population in general "wants" to purchase, then the price of those "things" increases. Higher prices means that the currency the population possesses has a lower purchasing...

This is complex, there are many articles that point to public debt as a driver of inflation and some indicating that the lower the unemployment rate the greater the pressures on inflation. Is there a desired unemployment rate to stave of inflation? And are tax cuts pushing up inflation rates. my...

Dr. Diana Pusalka on St Theresa and St Francis

My sign for today's #handsoff , #april5 protest

I am wondering if inflation could be curbed, in part, by destroying currency. For instance, anytime law enforcement seizes cash could that cash be destroyed. And seizures of goods and properties (provided they are not illegal substances) could they be sold and then the cash destroyed? Also any...

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