Aug 5, 2026 · 21 min · 11 segments
**On Friday afternoon, after US equity markets closed, the United States government bought Japanese yen for the first time in twenty-eight years.** And every explanation we've seen from the…
So yeah, this is a reason, by the way, this is a big reason why these democratic socialists are doing well.
You get the you know, the people whose income is above the median of around one hundred thousand.
Those people above are have done pretty well and those below have not done well.
So if you're counting votes, you basically have a lot of people who are getting squeezed.
I have no idea, but it's, I mean, to me, it's all, these are all like, um, what my partner and demographer who you know, Neil Howe, would call the fourth turning, right? You abuse a generation, both political parties abuse power, political power for their own economic benefit in this case.
And the people finally get fed up with it and they vote them off the island.
And isn't that the history of, men and women who've tried to act against the market gods.
Like you go back for, and I'm sure if Scott Besson has his people listening to this, which he should, um, it'd be, well, you don't understand what we're doing here.
So yeah, this is a reason, by the way, this is a big reason why these democratic socialists are doing well.
You get the you know, the people whose income is above the median of around one hundred thousand.
Those people above are have done pretty well and those below have not done well.
So if you're counting votes, you basically have a lot of people who are getting squeezed.
I have no idea, but it's, I mean, to me, it's all, these are all like, um, what my partner and demographer who you know, Neil Howe, would call the fourth turning, right? You abuse a generation, both political parties abuse power, political power for their own economic benefit in this case.
And the people finally get fed up with it and they vote them off the island.
And isn't that the history of, men and women who've tried to act against the market gods.
Like you go back for, and I'm sure if Scott Besson has his people listening to this, which he should, um, it'd be, well, you don't understand what we're doing here.
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