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I don't want to pay ANY of this - especially now that we see where the money's been going.

And what it's done.

What's our problem right now? INFLATION.

What's inflation - what was the meaning of the word, before Marxists re-wrote the academic texts?

INFLATING THE CURRENCY SUPPLY.

We pay the money - half of it; the other half is just printed up. The Majik Money Machines ramp up and shower the NGOs with it.

The NGOs frictionlessly feed it to these Somalis and their Circle-D keepers.

Pouring YUUGE quantities of money into the market. Moar money chasing the same amount of goods - LESS goods, if you consider what's happening to beef and foodstuffs.

What happens? Anyone can see it, unless he's indoctrinated. PRICES EXPLODE.

Now...I like Massie and I have to support Trump, but if they want moar military money....G-D IT, TAKE IT FROM THESE ILLEGAL GRIFTING SOMALIS AND THEIR (not OUR) POLITICAL PARTY!
 

Congressman sold UNH stock weeks before Trump's Medicare comments — now the trade is drawing attention​

UnitedHealth Group UNH shares are falling on Tuesday after the company reported quarterly financial results and drew investor reaction to President Donald Trump‘s comments on Medicare insurers.

Investors in the health insurance company may be sitting on losses, but one member of Congress may have timed his exit to minimize them.

Congressman Sells UnitedHealth Shares​

Rep. Kevin Hern (R-Okla.) sold UnitedHealth shares in December, weeks ahead of Trump's comments and quarterly earnings, according to the Benzinga Government Trades page.

Hern sold $250,000 to $500,000 in UnitedHealth shares on Dec. 23, completely exiting his holdings of the health insurance company. The transaction was disclosed on Jan. 22.

More:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/new...rawing-attention/ar-AA1V6gFu?ocid=socialshare
 
Moring laugh. This has as much of a chance of happening as a snowball does of staying healthy in hell.

 
Just a little food for thought. As usual, take it fwiw and dyodd.

 
Just a little food for thought. As usual, take it fwiw and dyodd.

 

Exclusive: From $2 million to $1.3 billion, Autopilot's focus on Pelosi and other politicians is paying off​

With investors’ strong interest in following the trading activity of members of Congress, Chris Josephs helped launch Autopilot in 2022. Today, the company has over $1.3 billion in assets with customers able to invest in the same stocks as Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) and other members of Congress. Here's how Josephs got started and what's next.

Starting Autopilot​

Autopilot has around 40% to 45% of customer assets in funds that track politicians, but that wasn't always the case. The company started as an investing app called Iris that let you follow the stock trading activity of your friends.

Josephs told Benzinga this came at the time of the COVID-19 pandemic when people were putting their stimulus checks into the stock market.

More:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/new...ns-is-paying-off/ar-AA1XV1Ye?ocid=socialshare
 

Oil traders bet $580 million just ahead of Trump's delay in attacks on Iranian energy infrastructure​

Mar 24, 2026 The Takeout with Major Garrett | CBS News
Market watchers are concerned about potential insider trading due to an unusual surge in oil futures trading on Monday morning, just minutes before President Trump announced he would postpone power plant strikes in Iran. CBS News business analyst Jill Schlesinger joins with more.

3:44
 

Hegseth’s broker accused of seeking to invest in defense contractors​

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s personal broker allegedly approached a major asset manager about making a multimillion dollar investment in defense companies in the weeks leading up to the airstrikes on Iran, according to a report.

The Financial Times, citing three people familiar with the matter, has alleged that Hegseth’s broker at Morgan Stanley reached out to BlackRock in February to inquire about making a significant investment in its Defense Industrials Active ETF.

More:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...S&cvid=69cbaffdb76b477fa47df4d42345bebf&ei=13
 

Economist Paul Krugman Has a Dark Theory About the Iran War​

Mar 31, 2026
A flurry of activity in the oil-futures market, minutes before Donald Trump made a big announcement about not striking at Iranian infrastructure, has all the appearance of someone using classified national security information to turn a profit.
Guest: Paul Krugman, Nobel-Prize winning economist and author of paulkrugman.substack.com.

23:36
 

The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency | BBC News​

Apr 20, 2026 #US #Iran #BBCNews
Throughout US President Donald Trump's second term in office, traders have been betting millions of dollars just before he makes major announcements.
The BBC has found a consistent pattern of spikes in trades and finical markets just hours, or sometimes minutes, before the president's most significant market-moving statements were made public.
Some analysts say it bears the hallmarks of illegal insider trading, whereby bets are made by people based on information that is not available to the general public.
While others say that some traders have become more adept at anticipating the president's interventions.

3:53
 
This is funny.

Vodka Nan is the world's most-brilliant trader, given what she's done with her portfolio...and these Woketard Dumbos feel secure enough that they can launch rocks out of their glass houses.

And somehow they're getting away with it. It's as if Satan has taken full control of reality.
 
Watching the insider bets on TACO Don, I'd say both sides are fucking us royal while pointing at the other guy. I'm still waiting for anybody else to go to jail over the Epstein file...
 
so, you place a bet (with inside knowledge) and you win big, who loses that money you won?
The other 'big' betters and all the betting fools.
Point out to me how that is bad?
Place yer bets…
 
Bottom Feeder said:
so, you place a bet (with inside knowledge) and you win big, who loses that money you won?
The other 'big' betters and all the betting fools.
Point out to me how that is bad?
Place yer bets…
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Same is true of inside congress traders though, other betters/traders lose to. I rather no unfair advantage, otherwise I might as well go down to the casino and bet on Black, 47.37 percent chance of winning.
 
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Bottom Feeder said:
so, you place a bet (with inside knowledge) and you win big, who loses that money you won?
The other 'big' betters and all the betting fools.
Point out to me how that is bad?
Place yer bets…
Click to expand...
We now subsidize losses while having privatized gains.

Who loses? Check your mirror.
 

Trump says world is 'a casino' when asked about Polymarket betting​

President Donald Trump on Thursday described the modern world as “somewhat of a casino” when asked about online prediction markets such as Polymarket, responding to questions about allegations that a U.S. soldier used classified information to place lucrative bets tied to a covert operation in Venezuela.

Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump said he was unaware of the case but pledged to “look into it,” adding that he is “not happy with any of that stuff” when pressed on whether federal employees should be betting on prediction markets. His remarks came after prosecutors disclosed charges against Gannon Ken Van Dyke, an American soldier accused of placing wagers on Polymarket about the fate of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro using nonpublic information—renewing scrutiny of prediction markets that allow users to bet on geopolitical and national security outcomes.

More:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...lymarket-betting/ar-AA21DzhI?ocid=socialshare
 
EVERYTHING is at an all-time high. Food. Rent. Utilities. Taxes.

It's what happens with Currency Debasement.

Why should corporate equities be any different?

Why should this be something to crow about? All it shows is that a select group of connected insiders, with moar money than they need for daily expenses, somehow escaped the financial pain that the commoners are facing.

And all it took was connection to the font of seigniorage - the gusher of printed-up money.

We here...who stacked some honest money...we saw our savings hold value, too. But I haven't been able to save up much money lo these last couple of years. I mean, even with ingrained habits of thrift and conservative personal finance, I didn't have a large fund for the stawk market.

Only the politically-connected.

This isn't a brag. It's shameful. And Trump, with his economic ignorance and his hubris, IS going to be destroyed by this.

Not "might be." WILL BE.

I don't know whether I feel sorry for him or not. But I sure hate so see us thrown into eighty years of Marxist Hell because a stupid person who thought he was protecting capitalism, so bungled the job that equally stupid Free-Schitters got the upper hand and convinced the NPCs to try the "warm embrace of collectivism." Not understanding that it was really the hellish fires of envy and covetousness.
 

Prediction market bets on war defy odds​

May 17, 2026
Prediction market users are profiting from bets on war. Analysts say suspiciously timed bets, and the high win rates of wagers on military outcomes , are likely signs of insider trading.

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