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Financial markets are exercises in crowd psychology. Analysts make good money analyzing the latest market moves and predicting the next ones. Today’s analyses often contradicts yesterday’s and yesterday’s errant predictions stops no one from making predictions today. It would be trivially easy to keep score, but few do; it would endanger six- and seven-figure compensation packages. What most everyone wants to obscure is the essence of the game: guessing where the crowd is going next.

Greatly aiding this obscurant project is the rubberiness of one of the measuring sticks: the value of fiat currencies. If you’re keeping score in dollars, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is up over 3.5 times from its 1999 high. If you’re keeping score in real money—gold—the Dow topped a quarter of a century ago at just over 42 (Dow divided by the dollar price of an ounce of gold) and is down over 60 percent since (it’s now 16 and change).

Everybody has a choice of measuring stick: either a precious metal that has served as money for centuries and has consistently preserved its value against real goods and services, or fiat currencies that historically have never preserved their value and are backed only by promises, always broken, not to create too many of them. The stock-selling industry chooses the latter.

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It would not be difficult to develop a K-12 online curriculum for our children. No pornography, gender ideology, bad food or propaganda. Tests can be administered in person using a small portion of schools in order to pass.

Everyone wins but DEI, teachers and teachers’ unions.

The United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) has urged federal, state, and local authorities to investigate JBS SA’s meat processing plant in Greeley, Colorado, for alleged human trafficking violations involving Haitian migrants. Similar accusations have been made regarding human trafficking networks exploiting migrants at factories in Springfield, Ohio, and Charleroi, Pennsylvania.

UFCW Local 7 President Kim Cordova said these Haitians and other foreigners came into the country legally and were quickly exploited for cheap labor in a possible human migrant trafficking scheme. 

Here are more shocking revelations from the union:

Information gathered from UFCW Local 7 members who work at the JBS plant in Greeley, outlined in detail below, includes numerous cases of abusive practices both within and outside of the workplace, including management-led human trafficking utilizing the social media platform TikTok; charging immigrant workers for company-provided rent in squalor conditions, job applications, and transportation; threats and intimidation against workers and their families abroad; dangerously high production line speeds; and withholding mail including medical bills and important paperwork.

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