Very nice! Awesome pic of Brandenburg Gate. The Stasi (for „STAatsSIcherheitsdienst“) was the Secret Service of the interior ministry in the GDR. They had 1.5 million so called IM‘s („informelle Mitarbeiter“) which were ordinary citizens who spy‘d on their neighbour and such. That were roughly 10% of the population of the GDR. So imagine a suburb in the US where there is a street where 100 families live, 10 of them would have been spy‘s who did observe you. Secretely.
To live in freedom is such a gift and treasure which should be protected always and everywhere.
Dottore,
sounds like a fantastic trip! From Prague you could travel via Dresden and Leipzig to Berlin. Both are very nice cities, Semperoper in Dresden is a "must see".
Guess when the debt ceiling is lifted the FED will force the money out of the RRP.
But could be that the Republicans don‘t give in and provoke a default so that we get a crash and Trump can blame the Democrats and win with a landslide in 2024.
That‘s Hannah Arendt. One of the greatest in my view.
Bernanke was the willing executer. The roots of that date long back. If we follow Hannah Arendt we can ask: When did the stock market become totalitarian? It was the introduction of the 401k‘s. Before that one could have said:“I don‘t care about stocks. Gimme my 3-4% in savngs account and I‘m happy“, then came the 401k‘s and the mindset changed. Forever.
It starts with „need more affordable housing“ and ends up with public housing projects, which then gonna ruin the city once and for all. If they bring public housing to the city center you also could attack SF with tactical nuclear weapons. Result would be the same.
Or you have to squeeze subsidies out of the mayor, like Trump did with Koch in NYC in the 70s 😂
If SF really goes down the shitehole that‘s what every developer gonna do.