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I am trying to understand why banks (GS, JPM, BAC) are down so much. Maybe you can elaborate? Thanks. Happy Tuesday!

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Mar 1, 2022·edited Mar 1, 2022

Fear of Russian exposure. Too much BS about the imminent collapse of the Euro dollar system. Who is going to finance all these arms deals......?

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I thought central banks are financing, just like everything else.

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I don't think so. Central banks print currency and provide liquidity to commercial banks. Commercial banks get to do the deals. I could very easily be wrong. I'm still learning the plumbing of the banking industry. Im Just a rookie and student here.

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Central banks do not "print" currency. Local banks do that with credits and loans. But central banks are the real owner of the currency.

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True, but are there exceptions? Example if the US treasury does Direct payments as they did under George Dubya or during times of direct stimmy to the public. Would that be a form of currency printing? When I got my $800 check from Dubya after 9 11 it was from the treasury if memory serves. Curious how that works. Those funds come out of the TGA, but then how are those funds refilled into the TGA? It cannot be all through taxation as we spend more than we take in. I am surely not seeing the entire plumbing process clearly.

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To see the "plumbing process clearly"....you need time, and data sources. It's more complicated as you may think. Best thing is to have a person who worked at the wall street. I think George Gammon did that several times with few people working there. Find him on youtube

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Mar 1, 2022·edited Mar 1, 2022

That is what I mean when I say central banks. They provide liquidity to banks, banks do the deals, and we pay for it lol. It thought the arm deals would have driven the prices of banks up, not down. But I am a rookie myself, and I am trying to understand something that is beyond my limited knowledge.

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JPM looking nice here sir. Im in.

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PS. We know the odds ARE against us, but WE WILL NOT GIVE UP. It's like people that tell say, you can't do various things. BS, I can to & have done so many times successfully. So, I'm not counting us out yet, no matter how hard things have been. I'm determined, take after my dad who was in USAF, then in Civil Service & ANG. Was the only 1, I could find with TOP SECRET security clearance. Even 5 STAR GENERAL flew in to attend his funeral 9 yrs after he'd retired. We are much alike. I ignore when everyone says I can't or no one ever...doesn't mean shit to me! I've done things no one else has, things sure turn around when people come to see how you accomplish, the impossible.. LMAO! So, NO I REFUSE TO GIVE IN & WILL NEVER DO WHAT THEY WANT, even if I die, my soon to 24 yr old son knows all our secrets so he will have whatever resources we have.

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Thanks for the updates throughout the day!

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We have probably half the army of "Soviet Union" invading a sovereign nation, Ukraine.

Ukraine was in existence even before Russia which the loser Putin won't tell anyone. So,

people in Europe and around the world watching this carnage are starting to step up in

terms of rearming Ukraine, logistics, critical intelligence, drones, javelins, etc. because

they see themselves in that same predicament in the future from the same Putin advancing

Russian Militarism and Adventurism into Eastern Europe and elsewhere. Then you listen

to President Zelensky of Ukraine, a former "comedian", now speaking the way we would

expect the leader of Russia to speak eloquently and passionately for more freedom, his

country and people and melding that with the future of Europe against the onslaught of

Russian Cockiness with other surrounding nations and the world and you end up with

"investors" investing in weapons for Ukraine in more and more larger amounts that will

tend to make it very, very, very costly to the Russians. You assert that European Nations

and the US etc. are just playing along with some kind of charade with the Russians. I'm

not quite sure of that because then they would not consistently add more and more fire power into the hands of the Ukranians, nor intelligence, nor communication or discommunication

systems nor reaffirm rearming as the Germans have already announced. Historically

speaking, Europe has always been invaded from the Eastern Exposures and so I think

your underestimating the critical thinking and historical analysis that Europeans are

now incorporating as it applies to Russia currently nor in the future.

Now for the United States part, I learned from yesterday's interview of some US General

on a business show that apparently we are still "buying" Russian oil like 14 million barrels

and people never ask after hearing Europe freezes Nordstream 2 only to ask the relevant

question what about Nordstream 1?? This too shall pass into closures and so will the shut

off and out of "all" Russian Banks from The Swift System in next two days. Currently there are only so many specified Russian Banks being "swifted" out but the other 37 shall meet closure within the next two to three days meaning? Meaning, Russia will get to it's truest nastiest and most violent state as a nation state. Putin threatens the world with nuclear targeting. Putin threatens Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland if they join NATO. Putin threatens Turkey if they do not do what Putin wants in the Straits to the Black Sea. Putin threatens France with a "war" today or yesterday, Putin must and will be dealt with. As I said before, when you have a Beast of Burden charging you in a deranged fashion at every point eventually it must be dropped

down because it is a threat to the World and "Russia" and that is the most poignant truth anyone

should tell anyone else! The next shoes to fall will be visits from European Nations and the

US to the UAE, Israel, India all abstaining to revisit that unwise decision on Ukraine. Because eventually the Beast will "turn" on them as well and then strike them endlessly with every conceivable attack(s). It's better to fore warn these nations before they to find themselves in the cross hairs of the Russian Attacks. This will get hotter than hell soon before it gets any better.

I'm not quite sure what Israel or the UAE or India can see as to Russian Adventurism and Despotism in all that is occurring in Ukraine, but what they should all be concerned about

is the fact that neither Putin nor Russia believe in "any" agreements they sign with any other

Nation as directly noted with their 1994 Agreement with Ukraine for their nuclear weapons

cache to the Russians for Sovereignty of Ukraine. And what does Putin do with that agreement

"he", himself signed, he tears it up and wipes his a___ with it so you see he is truly no one

should be signing anything with in terms of any issues. He's a belligerent waiting to become

world dictator with his Chinese counterparties which co

In going to oil pricing, I can also state for the record now, that that issue will be like a volcano

ready to explode and burst out. This "is" your "bubble(s)" and soon this bubble shall burst as

well. There will be no "safe quarter" for "anyone" whether in Russia or any place else for

that matter. Then you move over to crypto's and I ask profoundly so, how is your wealth

preserved when the internet dies or goes out? There is no backing to any of it and "if"

you say central banks and nations are such bad ass___ then how do you think they will

not at some point do closure on the entire sector with a poof of the whole system for

some time and then have controls on everything when it "returns". Illusions of safe haven

and harbor are all about us now because we are in fact in a matrix, not like the Matrix

Movies but more so in a contextual reality created by whom or what is the higher and

essential question of the day.

That would be my questions to ask any rational, logical and decent human beings on this

planet?

Fear, when it is truly needed and based on real dangers and facts is not a bad thing but

more a hereditary survival mechanism for human and societal survival and progression.

If it makes you more prepared and better able to survive it is an instinctual self preservation

trait. I use to do 100's of deep sea diving dives into 100-185 foot of water. On one of these

dives at about 95 feet of water above me and a bag full of speared fish on my side a sixteen

foot hammerhead came out of the dark recesses of the blue to swim by my dive team within

8 feet of us as I saw his massive width, small head, his lower row of teeth and those black

eyes moving back and forth peering at us. I can tell you my heart was in my throat and my

heart was beating like an alarm clock pounding in my head and neck. Yet, "fear" made me

that more attentive and ready to protect myself with the "tools" I had as did the other divers.

Instinctually from that "fear" I learned how to ascend slowly yet spiraling up in a 360 degree

turning motion so if that Beast Shark came back I would "not" be the one scared or fearful

but more so ready with my "tools" at my discretion to defend "myself" and the other divers.

This same holds true with the larger world of nation states and peoples all over the world.

They understand threats to their existence and futures and act "accordingly" to insure

they are adequately prepared and know their adversities moving forward.

As far as President Biden, I think he needs only to echo what the other Nations are doing

and actualizing now rather than act like some type of director but more so an elicitor of

self protection and defense as well as offense against those that charge at any of us

wildly and dangerously so.

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Thanks to your MMRI pg, I bought WTI over past few days including yesterday! Thank you always. Your OKIE GAL that LOVES YOU AND WHO YOU ARE. Like-minded is essential but myself & my best friend have a difficult time with finding people TRULY Like-minded to actually take action & we NEED as many as we can get but too many people are ignorant, or unable to do much (although I've been getting alot of coins from the bank, etc.) & some people with land to hunt on etc do not care! Very frustrating & limited to do on our own with few people. I own a cpl acres right outside the city in a small neighborhood but can't have mobile homes in Subdivisions, want to build a house there. My ex-husband has lots of land in the state, 1 of which is within the city, but country like. I'd really like to at least put a mobile home there (has utility lines as his brother once lived in a trailer, now falling apart) but he thinks he's 1 who thinks he's above others, & I've told him we need to live on some of his land in the state. Cannot even tell him why,, he knows everything! LMAO, he knows nothing & can't communicate with him axceptt on a superficial basis. So, so frustrating, we don't know what to do & we are/were part of middle class going down but we're fighting our way. WE LOVE YOU GREG!

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WHO coulda seen THAT comin'? (Thanks Greg! YOU DID! - and I got processioned accordingly!)

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Is it going to keep going up? Asking for a friend... :)

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