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On US Dollar #It'sOn

pI am beginning to believe the dollar is a security. I realize that can be earth shattering but hear me out. How do we determine what is a security versus a commodity. The Howey test, right. Let's dig in.

As you might know, there are four questions to answer for the Howey Test. We are not talking almonds here; that is the origin of the Howey test. I am taking on the almighty dollar. The global reserve currency, which took over from the British pound sterling after the Allies won World War II.

First up, is the question of investment of money. Well, the dollar is not money. Are you shocked, dear reader? Sad but true. The US dollar is at best a currency. It is a worthless piece of paper that if tomorrow the US of A goes bust, you wouldn't even wipe your ass with it. It's too small. So what is the investment of money backing our currency? It used to be gold, as you may have heard. In fact, gold was such good money, things that are top flight are referred to as the "gold standard." But then President Nixon took us off the gold standard in 1971, a "temporary measure", he said. Joke is on us because we are still waiting for real money. More on that later. I think that point is now made; the dollar did require an investment of money, previously gold and now it is backed by the debt-based US economy instead. I refer you to Parker A Lewis's excellent book, "Gradually, then Suddenly." for more on the Dollar vs. Bitcoin. Real money, if you must know.

Second up is the issue of expectations of profit. To tackle this monster, how can the dollar itself be an enterprise that yields profits, we need to adopt the right frame. You may not realize this, my son didn't, but the dollar is issued by a private institution, the Federal Reserve. Surprised? That fact is hidden from the public by design. The better to swindle you with, my dear, said the Big Bad Wolf. The enterprise is the Federal Reserve and their product, their killer app is the US Dollar. And you better believe they expect profits. In fact it is a legal monopoly on money, just like OPEC is a legal monopoly on oil. Funny that, how these so-called democratic regimes look the other way when the monopoly is on things that benefit them but not say Big Tech. We have all heard of Microsoft being sued by the EU for their monopolistic practices. Not that Bill Gates needs defending; heck, I can tell if he is even a good guy. But that's besides the point. The US dollar is issued by a central bank, the Federal Reserve, with the expectation of profit. Don't be fooled. The profit is not for you and I, nah. It is for the bankers and their friends. The Cantillionaires. These are a special class of people who are first in line for the new drop of money. They are the VIPs, the anointed. Then, when the new merchandise has become commonplace (read here prices have adjusted to the new higher normal, aka inflation) then we lowly citizens get the new issued dollars "on sale". That just means our lives get expensive while our salaries stay the same or even goes down is real terms. You got a 3% raise at work. Inflation is at 6% maybe more. You just got "demoted" and you didn't even realize it. What a scam.

Next up, is the test of whether the dollar is a common enterprise. We all know that the US dollar is a commoner, not royal. Bad joke? My bad. I thought it was funny. The whole American revolutionary war and seceding from the British crown and such. Picking up the thread from test number two, the business of the dollar lives firmly in the private sector and not the public one. It is not minted through the US Department of Treasury like the architects of the American constitution intended. It is the legitimized "bastard" of a favored bank, existing in a market of one, without competition from other banks that would have exerted market forces and price dynamics for the full benefit of market consumers. The US dollar exists in a vacuum and is like a ghost that is unreal, untouched and untested. To summarize, the US dollar is a common enterprise due to the fact that it is a privately issued currency, not a government minted money, that is forced upon market operators, the world, rather than being a desirable commodity and a true market good. Such a scam. Remember the quote by Henry Ford about his new market offering, the Ford T model. He said something like you can have any color you want, as long as it is Black. Well, the US government, by making the Federal Reserve Act the law of the land is basically saying to Americans, you can have any money you want as long as it is the Federal Reserve's dollar. Ford and cars have progressed and now you can buy any car you like, in any color you love. But we are still forced to "buy the dollar" which has no competition from GM or Chevrolet or anything. And money is infinitely more important to freedom than cars which allow you to travel freely. Money is the only way to be free. Do you get it now, dear reader? That how bad things are; we have the illusion of freedom but we are in servitude. No matter how many wars we send our kids to fight in the name of freedom. It is all a distraction. Blood is spilled on all sides for nothing. Only money.

This dovetails nicely with the final point of consideration to determine whether the dollar is a security. Does the dollar rely on the work of others to function? To address this, let's think about what makes a commodity a commodity. What is the most famous commodity? Some would say gold. I say wheat. It is bread, it is life. It is humanity's most celebrated food. Jesus "broke bread" with the disciples. The Romans recipe to the success of their republic was Bread and Circuses. Not the tamer version of modern times. When the romans say circuses, they mean the Colosseum games where prisoners went to battle with hungry beasts and died on the stage. But I digress once again. Here comes the hard truth, dear reader. The US dollar only function because we the workers infuse it with value. Otherwise it is a worthless piece of paper. It is our country's productivity that is being stolen and syphoned into the dollar through the credit system that is fueling the economy and fiscal spending to boot. As productivity increases thanks to innovative technology and we are able to suddenly do more with less, our lives do improve. But not to the extend that it would have if most of the gains were not redirected to the money makers, i.e., the bankers. They figure you won't miss what you never knew you had. If only you knew how wealthy you are and what your government took from you in the name of social progress, but is in fact just old-fashion theft. How else do public servants are worth do much off of a government salary? It is not a noble, public duty anymore. It is a crime ring.

I believe I have proved that the US dollar is a security. It requires the investment of money, be it gold or credit. It has an expectation of profits by the Federal Reserve which issues it and sets "interest rates" which is just a fancy name for prices, as in price-fixing, to make profits in the form of increased money supply, which is then used to buy hard assets like real estate and blue chip stocks. The exorbitant privilege of Americans, as De Gaulle famously said. American can just print "monopoly money" and go to the real market to buy actual goods and services or value. But no one else can. Shameful. To recap, the US dollar is a common enterprise which lives fully in the commercial domain, but is strangely bereft of market forces to keep it honest. Finally, the dollar is not a commodity that has value because it is an offering from mother nature or a phenomena of the universe, like gold which is courtesy of astroids The US dollar is cultivated through the work of others to exist in the market. I present to you the US dollar, a security. QED

Hey Gary, when are you going to sue the Fed? The US dollar is an unregistered security. Stop the theft of the American people. Halt the monopoly on money. End the Federal Reserve now!

Isn't it interesting that such a pretty sounding word like prosaic has an "opposite" meaning, i.e., text or speech that is plain. Talk about an inverse onomatopoeia. I learned that word when reading "Farewell to Arms" by Ernest Hemingway. He displays such a matter of fact manner of writing style for the heavy topic of world war II, while fighting in Italy. Just a thought.

On Peace #It'sOn

The Nobel Prize institution has become corrupted, in my humble opinion. Talk about centralization leading to capture and corruption. We should have seen it coming when Obama won the prize for peace before his presidency began. Isn't that declaring victory prematurely? Even he was embarrassed, speaking of being put between a rock and a hard place.

Regardless of your world views and politics, Obama didn't deserve it. His win of the presidency in 2008 was not his doing single-handedly. It was his campaign manager's and the thousands of idealist men and woman who believed in Martin Luther King's dream. It is not the color of your skin , it is the content of your character. Why can't a black man be president?

Having said that, that fact alone, a Black president, doesn't lead to peace, Nobel Prize people. He has to prove it. Proof of Work, not Proof of Stake. Nobel Prizes used to be won only when something is "proven" in real life over a long period of time. That way we can be sure it is not a fluke or accidental. Consistency was the key. Which is why when the Nobel Prize is finally conferred on someone or something, it was "nominal" in nature. It was a caving-in of sorts. It was as if the Nobel people were finally admitting defeat. They were saying "we have examined your body of work, so we are finally conferring the prize."

My favorite example of this is when Gabriel Garcia Marquez won the Nobel Prize in Literature for "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and not "Love in the Time of Cholera" which is his most famous book. Now the Nobel Prize committee awards prizes in peace and science for unproven ideas and unrealized promises.

What's next? Are they going to go against their own rule and start awarding prizes posthumously? Really? Then, they can start with Amos Tversky. I jest. Oh wait. I just remembered another dead person who should've won a prize, not for "Infinite Jest", but for the greatest speech on water delivered to the graduates of Keyon College. So David Foster Wallace next.

This whole post had a point. But I digress a lot. The person who should have won the Nobel Prize in Peace should have been Jerry Springer, not Barrack Hussein Obama. They got the wrong Chicagoan. Why you ask? Because he said and most importantly did, and I quote, "held up a mirror to society."

People thought his show was low brow and for stupid people. It had guests who fought on stage and life stories that were of the sensationalist type. People he invited to come were not rich and famous like Oprah's guests, another Chicagoan. Nothing against Oprah, I liked her show. Jerry's guests were the "bottom feeders of civilization." What people who criticized Jerry didn't know he was doing the world a service. God's work really. He was reminding people we are not better than others.

Just because we have money, degrees, nice houses, nice things, and high positions in the "life ladder", we are still a base animal, complete with an amygdala, our reptilian brain. Fight or flight, as a short hand. The animal brain is our survival mechanism, honed over millions of years thanks to evolution and natural selection. We should look for ourself in people we think we are beneath us. We should seek to understand those people whom we can't relate to. We should look in the looking glass. The man in the mirror, as Michael Jackson song.

Hey, Nobel Prize committee, find your integrity, get back on the right track. Reward people who actually accomplish things and merit awards. Don't grand-stand. Give Jerry Springer a Nobel Prize in Peace already!

On Perspectives #It'sOn

I just realized something. The concept of subject versus object can also be viewed in the lens of precision versus accuracy.

Subject can be thought of as "precision", that is, the illusion of correctness but it is just phenomena, things that converge with each other.

On the other hand, accuracy is objective existence because it speaks to convergence on truth, the proverbial "bulls eye". One has to know what the bulls eye actually is to "hit" it. One is ungrounded, subject, while the other is fully grounded in reality, object. Just un-peeling the onion of the foundation of western philosophy. QED.

On Hegel #It'sOn

nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy in his latest TFTC episode with Chris Hume, called "raw milk" Hegelian in nature as a criticism of what's wrong with our modern world . Hegel is known for his dialectic "thesis, antithesis, synthesis."

In this sense, the thesis is "raw milk", the antithesis is "just milk", and the synthesis is "false equivalence", I say.

Why does milk need to be qualified? Milk was by definition raw milk. Adding the qualifier of "raw" promotes a divide and conquer mentality, i.e., "us vs. them."

This is the slippery slope of the decline of civilization and the fall of the "Roman" empire. Talk about a "world gone mad", to quote Marty. Best to avoid Hegel. How about Schopenhauer or Nietzsche instead? One is mentor, the other is a protege. Do you know which is which? No? Figure it out. We are Bitcoiners. We have at least 80 IQ and counting.

On Birthdays #It'sOn

Today is my birthday. I turn 50 years old.My gift is having dinner with my son at his favorite restaurant. because seeing him is the gift. Happy Birthday to me.

I have been zapping using Damus but I don't think it's working. My wallet is connected (getalby). Any ideas?

On Titles #It'sOn

GM plebs. Okay, so I figured out what the title of my Bitcoin book would be. Pondering Bitcoin. What is the title of your Bitcoin book?

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On New Year #It'sOn

New Year, new start. It's been real hanging out with the plebs. Happy New Year!

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