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They're not wrong. But it presently has as much relevance to the gold price as the oceans boiling away in a billion years and there being no life left to give a crap. At what gold price would that even be economical when there are miners that break even at $1,500? I don't know, maybe at $100,000 gold in 50 years it's a thing. Even 50 years may be pushing it. It's been nearly 50 years since a human left low earth orbit, when we last set foot on the moon, in 1972. Bitcoin in the universe, unlike gold, is by definition finite. But it could also be by definition infinitely divisible, although

I'm just weak. I like indoor plumbing. Although, there's something to be said for going wherever you want. Like bears do.

The stigma attached to moving to a cabin in Montana is starting to not bother me again.

In March I would not have guessed we would be here at a new high. Why resist celebrating the grotesque. Decades ago the living market was replaced with a 3-D love doll amplitude assisted freakshow. Even better than the real thing. Never says no.

Regression to the mania.

There used to be an outside. In the neofeudal panopticon state it's all inside. Only a matter of time until we're all drinking toilet bowl hooch and keistering shivs.

I'm looking forward to the day when I can use my negative interest rate credit card to buy negatively priced gasoline. I'm guessing there would be supply issues and probably other issues, like widespread cannibalism, before then.

What does that even look like on a futures trading platform? Can you actually enter a negative bid/offer?

Looks like May WTI closed at -$37.63.

Where do I sign up to get paid $40 to take a barrel of oil? Am I understanding correctly people are willing to pay $40 to not have tanker trucks rolling up to their front lawns and unloading?

I haven't been able to convince myself of a good reason the ethics for an individual should be any different than those of a business. I can still pay my mortgage. But CARES says I can give notice to my lender and stop for 6 months, maybe even 12, without bad credit reporting, and without demonstrating any hardship. But other than adding my weight behind pushing the system over the cliff, I don't have a good reason to stop paying. I guess I'm both not creative enough and not malicious enough. Fatal character flaws in the neo-feudal plutocrat panopticon pigpen.

Some time around 2008 they made it a capital offense to use the "D" word. They're allowed to call it the "deepest recession on record" or "five times more severe than the post-war average" or "a recession unlike any other", but calling it a depression is a bridge too far. Guess we can't handle the truth. I suppose it's in keeping with the times. Just like how WHO wouldn't call it a pandemic until it was obvious to every third grader.

Fed announces unlimited QE. The Federal Reserve just pledged asset purchases with no limit to support markets Federal Reserve announces extensive new measures to support the economy.

Braindead headline of the day from Barron's/MarketWatch: The Indicator That Has Predicted the Past 3 Recessions Is Flashing a Warning Sign. Let me get my wallet out to subscribe. 😀

More mortgage market insanity. Last night my lender (I locked a refi on 3/6 and am still watching out of morbid curiosity) quoted a 30-year fixed rate of 5.25% with no points. Around mid-day today they quoted 3.675% with no points. Now they quote 5.625% WITH 2.875 POINTS! Or you could buy down to 5.375% for only 3.75 points! Somebody needs to put a cap in it.