I just finished this, super fucking good; thanks for the link. I know a lot of people talk trash about David Icke, but I've learned more from that guy than almost anyone else on the Internet. Circa 2007, I discovered him via some video where he was on stage going over symbology in secret societies and what not, or maybe a different video, but right around the same time frame, and I've honestly never seen anything from him that felt suspect. He also called out the January 6 stuff before it was going down, if I recall correctly, before Alex Jones started whining about it (not that Alex Jones has been a consistent bastion of truth). He called out the vaccines long for anybody else in the modern era.
I feel like he was doomed to be a pariah by a lot of people in our community (by "our community" I just mean people who are not 76 IQ retards watching CNN all day), because of the interview where he answered "yes" when asked if he was Jesus. He meant figuratively, because he was referred to the task that Jesus was supposed to accomplish.
Make a screen cap of this video on your phone without the date on-screen, share it with people you know who need to be red-pilled, and then tell them to let you know after they've watched it, and then tell them it's from 1997. I know it seems cliché, but this really does have a profound effect on people that I know. I've done it with a number of these types of videos so far.
OMFG this time I've ever heard of this (Helen Keller having a British accent), so I just looked up a video and watched, that is unmistakably British, fucking unreal scam shit...
https://youtu.be/8ch_H8pt9M8 (skip to 1:48)
No I just mean the premium; the difference between the spot price and the coins. For example, the spot price is like 19 bucks or so, but it costs about $37 to get a silver eagle. Just a few years ago if the spot price was $19 a silver eagle would've costed $23.
Maybe.
Your cynicism is appreciated here, because it provides a balance against those who are gullible. However, I wouldn't allow too much cynicism to lead you into making a type 2 error, lest you remain unprepared for an actual calamity.
(downvote not me btw)
I'm not modeling my plans after Blackrock. I'm stating that, if Blackrock is buying tens of thousands of houses at the "top" of the market, then I am a fool to assume they are just idiots making an obvious strategic mistake, and that we can cleverly wait for a huge discount that they were too stupid to wait for.
What I'm afraid of is that we are already at the "blood in the streets" part of this short downturn and the Fed is going to pivot and, by attempting to time the market, we are going to turn our personal home purchase into a failed, years-long waiting game, all the while blowing our money on rent instead of interest.
Everybody is expecting the real estate market to do what it did in 2008 to 2011. Maybe it will. But look at house prices in the 70s and 80s when the interest rates skyrocketed. The housing market went sideways for over a decade. We are not gonna wait for a decade.
I have silver, but I wish I would have bought so much more before the premium went up so high. I'm fixing to potentially get an /SI contract though, if I'm lucky enough to get one last rooster tail down.
However, read The Last President (Ingersol Lockwood) when you get a chance. In the end, silver goes sky high, and then collapses, and then gold soars. I'm certain those books by him are more than just some meaningless novels.
Thanks man, that's a good idea, even on top of whatever we buy; I haven't looked into those auctions in ages. BTW, I wish our families were in OK or AR... that whole area has some of the best deals on land imaginable.
Thanks man. Yeah that was something I always pondered, how many people would blow through their reserves because they wanted to avoid the "chaos" outside, not realizing that the real chaos was yet to come. That thought/feeling came to me first when the "lockdowns" happened in 2020. At first when I was concerned that the virus might actually be real/killer (still a 5% chance in my mind by the time the lockdowns started), I had this feeling of "oh my God what if this lasts for years and gets worse and worse, and we have just about 6 months worth of food, etc.". Needless to say we don't have just 6 months of food anymore, but same "don't loot yourself" principles apply.
Part of it is impatience, for sure. Part of it is us being afraid that we are going to wait and then the market is not actually going to crash, since everybody seems to think it is going to, just like in 2015. And then part of it is us being afraid that we are going to be in a rental with no good ability to produce food when SHTF (not to mention a lot of our food and other survival gear is in storage, which, depending on the kind of SHTF, could be inaccessible).
[now going back to pulling my hair out]
My point is just that they put so many billions of dollars into real estate right at what we perceived as being the top of the market, which tells me that they don't see that as the top of the market, or else they are just dumb, but I don't think it's the latter. If you look back at the 70s when the interest rates skyrocketed, the housing prices didn't crash. They just kind of went sideways and bounced around for a decade or so.
Oh :/
TBH, I spoke from a "these guys on Voat were planning to move to the new site", but I shouldn't because I haven't frequented it enough to really know.