This One Thing Shows How Deeply Washington Is Broken

IMO it’s a symptom. The disease is our Campaign Finance system.

 

The CPI measures price changes. It is even in its title. I don't share your opinions. I tried to explain it to you but failed. Best of luck.

 

Expanding or contracting the money supply is in the hands of the FED.

Congress issues bonds the fed buys the bonds with money CREATED out of thin air and charges the Government interest.

But the "MONEY" comes from the FED

More from bad economic policy than spending.

Some of them are some of the bad guys.

 

The reason was to make the point. Thanks for helping.

 

How many in the last 100 yrs?

Seems like something was figured out.

 

Why?

 

What does the constitution say they should do?

 

They couldn't have been all that smart.
They failed to address mass communications and jet travel when drawing up the documents.

A system of 50 different rules and regulations for things that go across state lines is not a good way to do business.
It would be a very messy conglomerate of 50 different rules and would not be functionable

 

The bond industry needs resources, money is one of those resources. People are another.

 

You didn't even bother to address the issue of both parties spend.

 

It's a symptom of congress caring more about getting reelected than doing the job they were elected to do.

They've yielded their power to the president so they don't have to make tough choices.

 

I have addressed it plenty in the past. Why do you need to hear it again? Neither party gives a crap about the deficit or the debt.

 

This government throws money around like it's just paper (OK, it is, but work with me on this). We could pay a bounty on VISA violators and recover a lot of that money from the miscreants themselves and their bond holders. Just like it's done now with bail jumpers. But I really don't see VISA violations as a major issue if immigration/asylum applicants can simply apply at their convenience overseas and know in relatively short order if they can qualify.

And if the penalty for overstaying a VISA are serious enough, like thousands in fines and a prohibition of 5 years to come back, the people really wanting to immigrate will do it properly at our offices overseas.

 

When our elected representatives stop taking care of our business and start taking care of their business we need to vote them out and try some new blood.
Don't you agree?

 

Handling interstate issues is assigned to federal government by the constitution. Yes they covered it. Mass communications and jet travel don't change anything. There is no reason that those two issues can't be handled better by the private sector. Initially the senators were sent to Washington by the state legislatures and the congressmen were chosen by public election. Whenever the states wanted to send powers to the federal government they had the ability to do that through the senate. The system the founders developed was sensible, workable and limited the power of federal government. It has all been perverted by money and politics ever since the founding.

 

Go look it up yourself.

 

We could, but in reality, neither party is interested in doing so.

 

I have tended to over the years to not vote for anyone after their 2nd or 3rd term.
They are not to be there for life.

But, most voters seem to always vote for the incumbents so they never leave office.

 

The private sector does run those businesses.
But rules and regulations are needed to make sure safety is a concern.

The race to the most profit often throws out safety because it comes off the bottom line.

 

Already knew the answer. 1.

Way way way less than the previous 7 you stated.

 

The only failure is to not try.

 

Vote for someone then that's not a D or R.

 

The correct answer is 12.

 

That may be true, but the day isn't here yet.

Russia & China's US-Provoked Payment Problems Caught Most BRICS Enthusiasts By Surprise

'China’s complex economic-financial interdependence with the West places certain restraints on its sovereignty...'

Trump's concerned about the damage Biden/Harris have done to our status as global currency and he'll take counter-acting smart steps to offset their stupidity, very very quickly.

'Chinese banks of all sizes have suddenly started complying with the US’ sanctions out of fear of secondary sanctions, which RT’s financial expert Henry Johnston reminded everyone has also been reported by the domestic Russian media whose articles he cites.'

'All of this is shocking for the average BRICS enthusiast who’s been influenced by wishful thinking articles since the start of the special operation into imagining that this group is an anti-Western bloc. They’ve also heard countless times that “the dollar is dead” or is “about to die any day now,” that Russia and China are “allies” who are jointly resisting the West in all respects, and that a new world order has already emerged to replace the previously American-led unipolar one. None of that is true though.'

'The People’s Republic of China, with the size of its economy, with the volume of its trade relations with the United States and the West as a whole, is, of course, much more dependent on the West than the Russian economy was.'

'China will reduce this dependence and will gradually move toward those forms of communication with its partners that will not be associated with such a dictate.'

'But, given the Chinese mentality, the Chinese style, they do this slowly. They do not want any sudden movements. This topic is being discussed with our Chinese colleagues. They have a fairly well-developed banking system, and it is very deeply tied to global financial markets.”'

 

No, the move away from the dominance of the U. S. Dollar isn't instantaneous, and it's also true that the budding, new "alternate economy" (BRICS and others, too) still needs the old 'Bretton Woods' framework to remain functioning -- for the time being.

The "death of the dollar" is way overhyped, but, it can be argued that it began with Nixon taking the U. S. off of the Gold Standard in 1975. Then, after the implosion of the Soviet Union in 1991, with the world "made safe for democracy" (and unrestrained new financial paradigms that were very good for international corporations), the stage was set for 'underclass' nations to both prosper, and, organize among themselves for their own successes.

The question then becomes, "Can dollar-dominance survive in a world where there is a viable 'alternative financial structure', or, is/was Bretton Woods so authoritarian, and suffocating that it can only survive in a situation where it has complete control...?