RonSFriedman

Long term investment or short term trading?

US capture Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela.
My take:
It's good for the world. Less narcotics. More prosperity for the people of Venezuella. One less terrorist supporter.
My experiance from talking with people on-line:
- People from Venezuela celebrate it.
- People on the right approve it
- People on the Left appose it

The US captured Maduro, the president of Venezuela, and flown him out of the country.
This is crazy and exciting at the same time....
Will Khamenei be next?
(The supreme leader of Iran)

In the long run, free market economy provides better economic outcomes than centralized economy.

Printing money is stealing buying power from the currency holders through counterfeit.
The argument Kensian economics uses to justify it, is that the stolen money should be used to build public infrastructure, that will provide more public goods than what was stolen.
The West was able to do it in the 1940s, to build ammunition, tanks, and ships and win WWII. And in the 1950 to build the interstates. But since then, we have seen diminishing returns.
Today. Western governments continues to print money, but can no longer use it as efficiently. It is wasted on incompetence, overregulations an

The US aid to Israel is about 0.05% of the Federal budget. ($3.8B out of $7T.)
And it's about 2% of the Israeli budget. (0.5% of the GDP)
It's not as important as it was in the 1970s, when it was 20% of the budget.
The aid comes with many restrictions and dependencies. And it angers some American taxpayers, who doesn't understand that the aid helps the US economically and strategically.
Maybe it's time for Israel to request to end the aid?

Elon Musk is coming to Israel for a transportation conference.

Global GDP share in the last 30 years.
- US kept its position.
-China and India climbed.
- Europe and Japan dropped.

People stop posting Bitcoin prices.
Where are the "It's all over" and the "We're so back" people?

Somalia vs. Somaliland
Who do you support?