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It's an open secret that during periods of "quantitative easing" the Federal Reserve purchases treasuries on the open market with dollars it basically creates. This increases the money supply and stimulates the economy. It also causes inflation.

In 2024, the US tax payer is paying roughly 1 billion dollars a day in interest servicing ~34 trillion dollars of debt. Some of that debt is owned by the Federal Reserve.

According to the St Louis Fed, the Federal Reserve holds around 5 trillion dollars of securities, 2/3rds of which are held as Treasuries (US Debt).

With interest rates going up, the Federal Reserve shouldn't be earning even more interest on treasuries it bought with made up money.

source: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TREAST

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I am not making a statement on the message in the video, in fact I haven't really watched the video all the way through.

But we're conspiracy theorists right? Anyway the video was produced by James Howerton https://twitter.com/jason_howerton

He was a producer on the blaze tv and now is a wealthy conservative online media producer. As much as I hate the majority report on YouTube, they do look into this a little. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TDTYf8tvwU

Whats my point? I don't really have one other than to say that this video and the popularity isn't really a result of organic activity. The video was planned, produced, and orchestrated, and comes off as right-wing astroturfing.

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Just looking at the temperature range on Mars. It's 1.5x the distance from the sun as earth and the surface temp ranges from a balmy 70F to -225F.

Elon specifically has this dream of colonizing mars, but it seems unrealistic. Perhaps in the future there could be an outpost where humans can visit for extended periods of time, but living there forever seems kind of sucky.

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