LOL - shut down for 10 minutes to fix a technical feed with one of the witnesses during a tech hearing. Classic Congress.
Gold gonna hit 2000 today? Getting close at 2995.90. All markets up as well. Interdashing…
>>10116185 (whoops, typo = I meant 3000!)
The quiet campaign to reinstate the gold standard is getting louder
Why Trump and Judy Shelton Want the US Back on the Gold Standard'
July 3, 2019
The once-fringe fantasy of a return to the gold standard is creeping back into the mainstream.
It has long been dismissed as a fool’s errand, on par with abandoning the Federal Reserve and other trappings of the modern economy. Mainstream economists deride it almost without exception. Reintroducing the gold standard would “be a disaster for any large advanced economy,” says the University of Chicago’s Anil Kashyap, who connects enthusiasm for it with “macroeconomic illiteracy.” His colleague, Nobel laureate Richard Thaler, struggles with its very underlying principle: “Why tie to gold? Why not 1982 Bordeaux?”
Yet the idea that every US dollar should be backed by a small amount of actual gold is more popular than economists’ opinions might suggest. Advocates include members of Congress and president Donald Trump. Enthusiasm for a return to the gold standard has become more prominent since Trump’s most recent nominees to fill the vacant Federal Reserve governorship have endorsed a return. The first two—Herman Cain and Stephen Moore—both dropped out of consideration, but the third, economist Judy Shelton, announced today in a Trump tweet, may be the most ardent in her support.
Last year, Shelton called for a “new Bretton Woods conference,” akin to the 1944 meeting that established the post-war economic order, perhaps to be held at Mar-a-Lago, where a return to the gold standard could be considered. “We make America great again by making America’s money great again,” she wrote in the journal of the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank.
https://qz.com/1646318/why-trump-and-judy-shelton-want-the-us-back-on-the-gold-standard/
Until Bezos says, "thank you for representing us" meaning "Don't forget how much we gave to your campaign."
Good God, who uses gmail?
Okay if you want that for your personal email (which is horrible IMHO as a free email choice) but why would a campaign or business use it to send out messaging?
"To Vice Media
Please remove your statements linking us to "white supremacists", calling us "dumb" and deserving of being "trolled to death". Fail to do so and you will have a nice defamation suit coming your way very soon. Trust us, serving you would be an absolute joy."
https://www.unwoke.hr/alert
Yes, in work situations where you need to have it to get onto Google Docs (there are workarounds) I get it but as an interface for email it's just horrible. One time a client had me fuss with all these "tabs" for organizing her emails and it was a nightmare!
Yea I had a GO hotmail account, they rule!
Proton Mail.
WTH just happened, I looked away for a minute. What was he asking about when they cut him off?
Oh of course. Thanks. What a shit show these hearings have been. Mask submissions and reclaiming muh time. The world is on tilt. Or perhaps it has completely glitched for good.
Might turn out alright in the end, though? Seems as though Biden might be the one who loses
Schiff's classified allegations against congressional Republicans
Sources told CNN the Democrats' classified addendum included concerns about a Russian-linked "disinformation" campaign to target former Vice President Joe Biden in the 2020 election, including that information from entities with ties to Russia was being provided to Senate Homeland Security Chairman Ron Johnson, who is leading an investigation into Biden.
Democrats have not publicly explained the material they shared with the FBI. The Intelligence Committee voted behind closed doors to make the classified addendum available to any House member who requests it. The vote was along party lines, with Republicans opposed, according to two sources familiar with the matter.