Bad Week

 

Friday 24/3/23. I slept well and had a dream where the family (as we were 20 years ago) moved to a new big house. I woke up - in the dream - and there was a big TV on the wall, and Tehila's lost phone on the floor. The house was on a hill looking down at a dam and a lake. I was looking for my wallet with 300,000 sheqels and woke up searching for it in that big house. 

The AMPM project is becoming complicated. I feel Mey RG is blackballing me because I protested. Caught a cold and am tired. Wifey is nervous and crying because of Shany's impulsive decisions. The whole country is tense because of the reform of the selection of supreme judges. Yesterday the "house of death" (Tel Aviv homos, feminists, anarchists)  walked to "the house of life" (the religious neighborhood of  Bnei Brak) to protest the judicial reform.

On the other hand, Noia was identified as a gifted student. My friend IA congratulated me. No one else did even mention it. "Gifted" is relative, and she is gifted relative to Kfar Saba children, the number two city (in school grades) in Israel.    

Three days later

 

Only three days after my observation about the Swiss Bank, we have a run on the bank and after retiring 50 billion, it had to ask the Swiss State to save it. To nationalize it in fact. It will be devoured by UBS and disappear. The tremors of its collapse are reaching very far. 

There are problems in Israel too. The extreme left has taken over the Judiciary branch of the government and is inciting civil resistance. The fishwrap HaAretz has stopped publishing news and considers itself a revolutionary pamphlet. Gadi Taub, a historian, was sacked because the paper considers him a paid agent of "Hungarian fascism". This is madness.

Dios castiga y no con palo

God punishes but not with a whip. Credit Suisse was caught destroying the records of deposits by Jews killed in the Holocaust. Those condemned Jews deposited their saving in Swiss banks, thinking that the Swiss were safe and honest. They were wrong. It appears that evil acts are written down in some books in the high, and when the accounting is done, they get paid. Credit Suisse has been slowly agonizing for the last twenty years and today is starting to enter into a coma.   

Bank Run

 The Silicon Valley Bank experienced a run last week and closed down. The FED promised to cover the debts. Now the Republic Bank is falling 60%. Israeli financial system stable. 

Overall, I AM optimistic. For a long I was saying, that to get the economy moving, the only solution was a good war. That's the way capitalism works.  Marx said so 140 years ago.  The Ukrainian war is starting to consume all the old ammunition and tanks of Europe and America, and they need to be replaced. There is another war coming in Taiwan. So there is demand, capitalism's chronic problem, and it will absorb excess production.  

Planning the future

 

My friend Chat GPT reports that an individual with my profile has 7 more years to live. If so, I can make a 4 years plan with a reasonable probability of completing it. What can be my goal, if not to enrich my grandkids?  The problem is that money, generally, makes little or no difference in their generation. Food, shelter, money is not a problem for them. How will my next four years best spent? Sex is only a memory. I hate purposeless hobbies and tourism. 

P.D.: Today I wasted surfing the internet, writing comments no one reads and pays for. 

Hard Times

 Many important populations find it impossible to maintain their numbers. Their health and prosperity are appearance.  We are living in very hard times. Peoples are dying off. 

My Bet on America

 
The Chinese practiced thousand of years a rigid promotion system through competitive exams. The system produced intelligent, competent governance. The Anglo-Saxons promoted through free market competition, giving little weight to formal titles. The French copied the exam system (Grand-Ecole). After 200 years we see that the French became static, conservative, and prudent like the Celestials. The English became dynamic, expansive, and adventurous. Communist China follows the same imperial system most strictly. America is free and chaotic. The past predicts the future, so never bet against America.