In the eighteenth century and since, Newton came to be thought of as the first and greatest of the modern age of scientists, a rationalist, one who taught us to think on the lines of cold and untinctured reason.

I do not see him in this light. I do not think that any one who has pored over the contents of that box which he packed up when he finally left Cambridge in 1696 and which, though partly dispersed, have come down to us, can see him like that. Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians... ~John Maynard Keynes

I am not "we." I did not incur the debt. I do not owe one single cent of it. My signature is on none of their fraudulent instruments. It is their problem and they are trying to fix it by destroying what little value is left in the US dollar--and all other currencies for that matter. There is nothing you nor I nor anyone else is going to be able to do about it.

Call me a doomsayer, but I am convinced it is at most a matter of a few months before shit is really going to start coming unglued. This is the culmination of 100 years of either colossal ignorance or diabolic intent (or some malignant symbiosis of the two). There is no one in any position of power who has any clue about how to manage the Frankenstein clusterfuck of fractional reserve central fiat banking at the exponential culmination of compound interest.

All paper is on the verge of reverting to its inherent worth. I intend to be completely out of it by the end of next week with the exception of day-to-day living from my paycheck. My money will weigh a lot, shine and be well hidden.

"There is nothing that money can buy that I cannot have, most of it I already have.  If I were to simply give away all my wealth the logistics alone would be such that I'd have died from old age before it was all gone. In a word, I am a sovereign man. It would take a war to bring me down. You do not seem to have an army with you so I see no reason to acknowledge, let alone respond to any objections you may have."

 

I know nothing.

Among the things I watch are the London Fix and NY Spot price of silver and the silver to gold ratio based on the same exchanges. In this chart blue in London, Orange is NY, pastel is the ratio and dark is the price.

My intuition tells me something is trying to converge on 38 or 39ish. My intuition also tells me some sort of bifurcation point is approaching.

I repeat, I know nothing.

 Are you an old guy yet, jblaque ?