Petro Dollar Blues

Something is happening with silver as price has gone asymptotic. It's a direction in place before Bretton Woods, when $USD was pegged to $35 per ounce of gold. But what does it all mean, going forward, in these seeming more precarious times (disease, weather, war, social division...)?

When confidence shifts and the world needs fewer dollars, the dollars don't vanish, they come home. ... [Meanwhile] Assets are repricing in the weaker currency unit.

It's like living in a freemason town in Eastern Montana and having a beautiful woman tell you, "You don't count!" You know you count, just not fast enough. A kind of dismal world view The Church of Rome once attributed to Hermeticism.

Internationally, oil settles ~70/30 USD/Yuan now.
Iran is the next (e.g. Ukraine/Venezuela) color revolution?
Israel will never stop threatening to push a big red button to get its 3rd temple, but does it matter?
Is End Time Prophesy, like the Left/Right paradigm, yet another April Fool's on MAGA?

The assumption here is another grand bargain leading, for the time being, to continuing (public debt, private profit) stability that's not necessarily coordinated, but might as well be...

A little room it's always been, and always will, until the end. -Kurt Cobain

So many DHT blocking shampoo ads on Rumble now that I have to believe there's mRNA in it.

Played a Hank Williams song backwards... Got my wife back, my truck back, my hair back and my money back.

If only the whole middle class thing had worked for more than two generations...
It's like grandma always said: What you think is what you dream, and what you dream comes true somewhere, probably a Deep Underground Military Base or cloning center.

Well, I ride on a mail train, baby, can't buy a thrill
Well, I been up all night leanin' on the windowsill
Well, if I die on top of the hill
And if I don't make it, you know my baby will
-Bob Dylan