The totalitarian United States of America, under the evil and pathetic Joe Biden, still won’t allow foreigners to enter the country if they have not been jabbed with a COVID “vaccine”.

Novak Djokovic has lost many millions of dollars due to this policy. He has not been allowed to enter the U.S. due to his non-vaccinated status, which means he can’t play in tennis tournaments in the U.S.

While it has cost him a lot of money, that probably isn’t what matters most in terms of missing tournaments. Djokovic is trying to win the most number of major tournaments ever for a man. He wasn’t allowed to play in the Australian Open or the U.S. Open last year, and if U.S. policy stays the same, he won’t be able to play at the U.S. Open this year.

Djokovic was allowed to play in the 2023 Australian Open, and he handily won the tournament on the men’s side. He is now tied with the vaccine enthusiast, Rafael Nadal, who was able to win last year when Djokovic wasn’t there.

Defying the Rulers

It was a bit entertaining watching Djokovic win the Australian Open and then watching the so-called media have to deal with it.

John McEnroe, to his credit, addressed the situation and said that he should have been permitted to play, while his fellow commentator Chris Fowler said that Djokovic “made choices” that led to this situation.

Yeah, he had a choice to obey the state and the ruling elite and inject something into his body that he assessed as potentially harmful. He chose not to obey the totalitarians.

Djokovic hasn’t always been likable for some, and he has lost his temper in the past on the tennis court. But it is easy to imagine that every tennis fan (and many people who don’t follow tennis) who were criticized for not being vaccinated feel good about this one.

A Victory for Djokovic and the Non-Vaccinated

After his win, Djokovic didn’t directly talk about the COVID “vaccines”. He didn’t need to. He hasn’t been going around telling people not to get vaccinated. He wanted the freedom to choose. He wanted to make his own health decisions. He was deported from Australia last year before the tournament, even though he thought he had received the proper permission to enter the country and play.

One year later, he stood on Australian soil and was declared the champion. He was incredibly thankful and gracious. He acknowledged that he had been through a lot. His words were perfect. He didn’t need to preach about the unsafe and ineffective shots. His words and actions spoke for themselves, and people understood his position. He took a stand and stuck to it.

This was one more thing that will continue to help shatter the narrative. How incredibly embarrassing will it be for Biden and company if he is not allowed in the U.S. later this year to play when just about everyone has moved on from COVID and COVID hysteria?

Despite not being able to play in many tournaments in 2022, I hope that Djokovic gets his record for the most major wins. He can do it with his head held high, knowing he didn’t sell out. He stood strong against the critics, and we need more of that.

Although I was heavily influenced by Harry Browne in terms of political thought and investing, I also read his book How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World. You could call it a self-help book. It pointed out the many traps that people put themselves in and the ways to escape them.

I enjoyed the book when I read it (probably almost 2 decades ago), and it was interesting to see where he changed his views on certain things from when he first wrote the book. Overall, the book points out the many choices we have to make in life, and sometimes that is a choice of not falling into conventional wisdom or accepting cultural norms.

I remember in his discussion of going around government interventions, he was surprised decades later how intrusive government had become and how difficult it was to get around many government taxes and regulations.

It is important to not box ourselves in. It is important to not fall into false choices, or to think we have no choice at all in certain matters. Sometimes it is a matter of choosing the least bad option.

Over the last year, I have seen countless times people describe how they were forced into getting the COVID “vaccine”. There certainly were (and still are) elements of government force. The government was telling employers that they had to have their employees vaccinated. They were (and still are) restricting certain people from traveling.

There was never a time that the government actually went to anybody’s house (that I know of) and pinned them down and put a needle in their arm. Sure, the government was using its preferred method of violence in threatening people, but nobody was technically forced to get jabbed.

Even Elon Musk recently was complaining about the COVID shots, and he said that he had to take the injections because of his business dealings overseas. But the guy is a billionaire. He didn’t have to get jabbed. He could have not visited his Tesla factory overseas. He had a number of options, even if none of them were particularly good.

If someone had to choose between their job and getting jabbed, it was a terribly unfortunate choice, and it was probably directly put on the person by government force. Again, it’s a bad choice that shouldn’t have to be made, but it is still a choice.

Harry Browne on Rights

I remember a radio show Harry Browne did one time where a caller asked him about his thoughts on rights. I wish I could find the clip. It was a quite interesting response. I can only paraphrase based on my memory.

Browne said he certainly sympathized with those who argue based on rights. Those people are generally fighting for the same thing, which is liberty. “I have the right to own a gun. I have the right to free speech. I have the right to my property.”

The problem is that rights only extend as far as others are willing to recognize them. Browne used an example. Maybe it was Iraq or some other war-torn country at the time. He said that it doesn’t do much good for some kid born in Iraq (or wherever) to say that he has natural rights.

You can tell someone they have natural or God-given rights, but it really does them no good if others around them don’t recognize those rights. It won’t get you very far.

I can say I have the right to my property, but if I deliberately don’t pay my taxes, I am likely to go to jail.

I can say that I have a right to freely associate with any other person or business, but it doesn’t do me much good if the state is making threats against others with whom I want to associate. At the very least, it severely limits my choices.

Imagine living in primitive times. Imagine that there was absolutely no respect for people’s lives or their property. I’m sure this is a false assumption, as there has always been human cooperation to some degree since humans have existed, but just go with me here.

Let’s say you build a shelter and catch some food. Some other guy comes along and tries to take your food and take over your shelter. Are you going to sit there and declare that you have a right to your property? It doesn’t do you much good.

Meaningless Freedom Chants

I read this or hear this from many people in the liberty camp. I hear that you just have to choose your own freedom. They falsely say that if you ignore the state, then the state doesn’t exist.

This is different from Harry’s Browne’s message in his book and elsewhere. Browne wanted you to live in reality. He just pointed out that you had choices. You had the freedom to make your own decisions, even if those decisions were bad because of state interference.

It is also different from Étienne de La Boétie, who, many hundreds of years ago, wrote about withdrawing consent. He said that if people withdraw their consent, then the state’s power collapses. But this was collectively speaking. If you, just one person, withdraw your consent, it doesn’t mean that the state collapses and Joe Biden’s proclamations no longer mean anything.

It is rather stupid to say that you just have to not obey the state and they will go away. This may be collectively true, but it does no good for any one individual.

You can try to just ignore the state, but you will pay a heavy price. Eventually, that price will be your entire livelihood.

It is also a stupid message in trying to sell liberty because it is obvious to most people. It doesn’t convince any non-libertarians of being more libertarian because they know that it is not true. They cannot just ignore all state edicts. They can’t just not obey when they feel like it.

It is beneficial to point out the use of state violence wherever it is happening (which is almost everywhere). But to say that you should just ignore it and choose your own freedom is naive at best. It is also hypocritical because anyone writing these words does not follow their own advice. If they did, they would be dead or in jail.

Conclusion

It is important to distinguish between have choices and having liberty. You can have your liberty restricted but still have choices.

In places like the Soviet Union, some people did make the choice to die because it seemed like the least bad choice. It is a choice to die instead of living as a slave.

But let’s be clear that your rights only go as far as those around you are willing to recognize. If nobody around you values liberty, then you will not have liberty.

The only way for us to have long-term liberty is to convince those around us that it is the moral thing to do, and that human cooperation provides for the greatest prosperity and happiness. Most people aren’t going to enjoy a world filled with violence or violent threats. Most people value liberty at least to some extent.

2022 was not a good year for stock investors, or at least for long-term, buy-and-hold investors.

If you are a day trader, you can make money or lose money in virtually any environment. If you trade individual stocks, there is always money to be made (or lost). And you always have the option of shorting stocks as well.

But for the typical buy-and-hold investor who purchases broad-based index funds on the assumption that the stock market always goes up in the long run, 2022 was not a good year.

The technology sector was the hardest hit. The Nasdaq lost about 33% in 2022, which is a massive loss.

Not to get too nerdy with math here, but it is important to realize that you don’t need a 33% gain to offset the 33% loss. You need a 50% gain from here. If you go from 100 to 66.66 (33% loss), you need an approximate gain of 33.33 to go back to 100, which would be a 50% gain from your new base.

Since the Nasdaq was down so much in 2022, some people say it is a great time to buy. After all, it is better to buy when stocks are down.

It is true that it is a great time to buy in early 2023 compared to what it was in early 2022. You get far more shares of stock or index funds for the same price. But just because it is a great time to buy now relative to a year ago, it doesn’t mean it is a great time to buy if stocks could fall more.

The Previous Tech Bubble

History does not repeat, but it can rhyme. So let’s review the tech bubble that happened in the late 1990s and came crashing down in the early 2000s. It’s not to say that today’s market will follow this, but only to show what is possible.

Wikipedia shows the Nasdaq’s performance from 2000 to 2002.

• In 2000, the Nasdaq lost 39.28% of its value (4,069.31 to 2,470.52).
• In 2001, the Nasdaq lost 21.05% of its value (2,470.52 to 1,950.40).
• In 2002, the Nasdaq lost 31.53% of its value (1,950.40 to 1,335.51).

This means, if we were to follow a similar trajectory today, we would be somewhere around the end of 2000, with 2 years of losses still to come.

It is even worse than this if you look at the absolute peak of the Nasdaq, which very briefly went over the 5,000 mark in March 2000.

It is also interesting to note that the recession of 2001 was not considered a severe recession. The financial crisis of 2008/ 2009 is considered to be much worse. After the attacks on 9/11/2001, the Fed injected new money out of thin air, yet stocks continued to fall for another year after that.

Today, we have a highly inverted yield curve, and the Fed is battling the inflation that it created by raising its target interest rate and slowly draining its balance sheet. The recession we have coming will likely be far more severe than what happened in 2001.

The Fed Won’t Save the Stock Market

Some people think the Fed will just reverse course when needed. This may be true. But the Fed will reverse course if there is a major problem in the bond market or if any major financial institutions are facing bankruptcy.

The Fed isn’t going to intervene to save the stock market. The Fed will save the dollar before saving the stock market.

Plus, as written above, the return to a loose monetary policy in 2001 did not stop stocks from falling. They kept going down for another year after 9/11.

So if you think the bear market in stocks is over and it is a good time to buy at these new lows, you may want to think again. We may be only at the beginning of a major bear market in stocks.

Consider that the Nasdaq is still about 11,000 right now. It hit 10,000 in 2020 when we were likely already in a massive bubble. The Nasdaq bubble in the year 2000 hit the peak just above 5,000. We are more than double that number now. Of course, the money supply has gone up a lot since then, but it puts it in perspective.

People who have mapped out their retirement on the basis of buy-and-hold index funds, with the assumption of 8% or more annual returns, are going to be in for a rude awakening if that hasn’t happened already. In addition, they have to deal with higher consumer price inflation than was expected.

People who are not libertarians (or libertarian leaning) probably see most libertarians as pessimistic people.

I don’t like telling people that there will probably be a recession in 2023, but it is just based on the facts on the ground.

I don’t like telling people that they are getting ripped off by their own government (as if this is a secret). We are getting ripped off far greater than most people can fathom. I point it out in the hopes that more people will stop consenting to those who are abusing them.

Because I point these things out, it is easy for others to look at me as being a pessimist. I don’t think it is being pessimistic to point out truths around you, but I understand I am attempting to shatter people’s view of the world. Sometimes ignorance really is bliss, although I don’t think that was as much the case in 2020 until now with COVID hysteria.

If I were to always point out the bad situations, then it is understandable that others would look at me as a pessimist. I don’t want to ruin the party when everyone else is having fun.

There are some people with whom I just won’t discuss politics. I know better. I know they won’t be receptive. So as long as they are not challenging me, I leave them alone.

But even for those who may be receptive, there is a time and a place. It isn’t always easy to get those things right either. There have been times that I pushed too hard on a political issue that I regretted. Of course, there are also appropriate and not appropriate times to bring up a host of other issues that aren’t political as well.

The True Libertarian Pessimists

For some reason, I have become more annoyed by the libertarians who just can’t see anything good in the world. They see nothing to be optimistic about. They are just downers all the time.

Even if the political system is totally corrupt and irredeemable, it doesn’t mean we should live miserable lives all the time. There are many aspects of life to enjoy, even with the presence of a massive state. There is family, music, art, sports, and just the company of others.

I also get tired of libertarians who just constantly think everything is getting worse. And they are so skeptical that they talk themselves out of anything that should be seen as positive.

For example, some libertarians dismissed the political drama of Congress choosing a Speaker of the House. It really was mostly political drama, and who knows if it will make any difference. But there were a few Republicans in Congress who were tired of the establishment and pushed back a little. These people aren’t perfect, and maybe they partially did it for their own political reasons. But why should we just completely dismiss any pushback against the establishment?

We may get more investigations of the intelligence agencies because of this. We may get more investigations into COVID and the lockdowns and mandates. Maybe nothing will come of these committees and hearings, but at least there is more light being shed, which is better than before.

I hear the same thing with voting in general. Some libertarians will say that they don’t want to endorse the corrupt system, so they don’t vote. They may also say that it would make no difference anyway because they are all corrupt, as if every person running for office is exactly the same.

The reason for not voting often changes, but most of the time it comes back to pessimism. Some libertarians won’t vote at all because everyone is corrupt and there is no hope in changing anything.

But change can and does happen, even for the better. It is also important to acknowledge how much worse things could be. While the U.S. maintains some of the most draconian vaccine mandates (non-American residents/ citizens cannot enter the country without proof of “vaccination” against COVID), the U.S. has been far better off with other COVID policies compared to other major countries.

It was Americans who led the world away from COVID hysteria by opening things back up. Are these libertarian pessimists going to say that it doesn’t matter at all who is elected when Florida was opened up by the end of 2020 while most other states had major restrictions still in place?

In 2021, we started to see sporting events again with packed stadiums. It made it impossible for the hysterics to continue with draconian lockdowns.

There is a saying, “Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.”

I think it is sometimes used as an excuse to support bad things. At the same time, there is an element of truth to it. I can criticize Ron DeSantis for things he does that are opposed to liberty, but I can also recognize that he is much better than most other governors.

I can disagree with Tucker Carlson on certain things, but I can’t just say that he is the same as Sean Hannity. There is a big difference between the two. If you can’t recognize that, then you aren’t paying attention or you just simply don’t understand what is being said.

In general, I think it is important to recognize the many gains in liberty and the shift in public opinion.

Homeschooling has exploded in the U.S. Gun ownership by everyday people is quite high. Marijuana has been largely legalized or decriminalized by a majority of states despite the laws of the federal government.

Even with technology, things are much better. It can be used against us by the spying state, but it is also a tool to spread the message of liberty that didn’t exist 30 years ago.

There are probably more radical libertarians today than there have been at any time during the 20th century. In fact, the libertarians of today are probably more radical (in a good way) than most of the American colonist of the late 1700s.

There is a lot to be pessimistic about, but there is also a lot to be optimistic about. We should recognize both. And don’t bring everyone else down when they are having a good time. It doesn’t help our cause anyway.

Joe Biden seems to be in hot water. It’s amazing how the establishment will eat its own when its convenient.

With everything that Biden has gotten away with, are some leftover classified documents from when he was vice president going to be his downfall?

The Biden regime has had control over most of the media and the intelligence agencies. The only thing it hasn’t had full control over is alternative media, a few members of Congress, and, at times, the courts. It is hard to believe that all of a sudden they have found Biden doing something wrong.

This guy has only been president for two years, yet he has been an absolute disaster at every level. He tried to force 100 million Americans into choosing between getting jabbed or losing their job. He has funded the criminal organization that is the Ukrainian government (from one criminal to another). He has used the FBI and other agencies as his personal Gestapo to raid and destroy the lives of people who oppose him.

He has gotten away with murder, literally and figuratively, and now he is in trouble because there are a few boxes of documents in his garage? It tells me that the establishment may be using this to put him on notice that his time will be up soon. He will be gone from office by January 21, 2024 at the latest. They will put someone else up against Trump or whomever is the Republican nominee.

The rich thing about Biden and these so-called classified documents is just what an obnoxious and pompous jerk he was last year when talking about Trump. He wondered how anyone could be so irresponsible.

Now, when Biden is asked about documents with his Corvette, he points out that it was a locked garage. He said it’s not like they were out on the street. The right question back at him would have been, “Were the documents in Trump’s home out on the street?”

I really don’t care about classified documents. I only care to the extent that they probably shouldn’t be classified at all. Most things shouldn’t be classified. What happened to government transparency?

It is amazing how much the government wants to keep secret. Even the JFK assassination files from nearly 6 decades ago haven’t been fully released. It makes you wonder what they’re hiding.

After 9/11, I remember hearing that you should have nothing to hide if you haven’t done anything wrong. That was completely wrong, as you should be fearful about what the government may do to you. But why doesn’t this apply to the government itself? You shouldn’t have anything to hide unless you’ve done something wrong. Most of these classified documents have nothing to do with nuclear codes or anything related.

Biden and his handlers are despicable people, and they deserve to be held up as criminals. I don’t think the case of having possession of classified materials is any great crime in itself. I wonder what the powers-that-be have up their sleeve with this one. They already had full control of Biden, so that can’t be it. They could also easily force him not to run in 2024 and just cite age and health as a reason.

I’ve heard the theory that if they get Biden on this, then they can also go after Trump. The establishment doesn’t care about Biden at all. They will use him until he is no longer useful. He has already served their purpose of defeating Trump (whether legitimate or not), and helping to enact their tyrannical agenda. They are ready to toss him aside at any moment if it can help stop Trump in 2024.

The CPI report came out for December 2022.  Price inflation came in right where it was expected to be.

The CPI came in at negative 0.1% for December, while the year-over-year now stands at 6.5%.

The median CPI, which is less volatile, came in at 0.4% for the month, and it is up 6.9% year-over year.

Most asset classes finished the day higher, probably due to expectations that the Fed can be a little less hawkish on inflation.  Gold was higher.  Bitcoin was higher.  Bonds were higher with longer-term interest rates going down.  Stocks finished higher.

I think the little rally, particularly in stocks, is going to be short-lived.  The Fed could stop raising interest rates and stop draining its balance sheet right now, and I don’t think it would change the fact that there is a recession coming.

Unless the Fed goes ballistic and starts doubling its balance sheet again, as it did in 2020, then I don’t think the coming recession will be stopped.

The Treasury yields are still highly inverted at this point.  The 30-year yield is more than 100 basis points below the 3-month yield.  This is bordering on absurdity.  I can’t ever remember seeing the yield curve this inverted.  It wasn’t this inverted in 2006 or 2007 before the financial crisis hit.

The bond market is screaming recession, while the Fed will like continue to raise its target federal funds rate, even if more slowly.

And let’s not pretend the era of inflation is over.  We are still at 6.5% year-over-year, which is way above the Fed’s supposed target of 2%.

I have not taken the position that some libertarians and Austrian school economists have taken that price inflation will continue to roar, and possibly even go higher.  I am more in the camp that price inflation will fall in the short run, at least until the Fed goes on another massive money creation spree.

I believe there is going to be a deep recession in the near future.  It will likely start before the end of 2023.  This is going to reduce consumer demand for many things that aren’t necessities.  The prices for food at the grocery store may not come down, but a lot of other things likely will fall in price.

Fear will quickly take over in the economy.  People will become more conservative with their money.  For those who maintain their income, they will likely save more money where possible.

The U.S. stock market was hammered in 2022.  The Nasdaq was hit especially hard.  It was down about 33% last year.  This does not at all mean we are anywhere near a bottom.  I will discuss this in a future post, but I think there is a lot more room to fall.

So while consumer price inflation seems to be cooling a little bit, the economy is still in major trouble with the past misallocations.  The bond market says a recession is coming soon.  This is the best warning you’ll get.

If you watch the establishment media, things seem rather rosy with the economy, as they almost always do.  It is surprising that some are admitting we may see a recession this year, but most of them are quick to say that it should be mild.

On the other hand, if you find alternative views, it is easy to find people who make it sound like the apocalypse is coming soon to a town near you.  I’m not saying that their predictions are impossible or that they definitely won’t happen.  At the same time, it is important to realize that life usually goes on.

As long as we don’t have an all-out nuclear war, life should go on, even if the economy is bad.  It will be a struggle for many, but most people living in a first-world country should be able to survive.

While I think a recession is inevitable because of past government and central bank policies, the economic future isn’t written in stone either.  It really is possible that we could have a hard recession that somewhat quickly (within a couple of years) turns around.

The 1970s were a rough period with stagnation and high inflation.  When Paul Volcker entered the Fed and allowed interest rates to dramatically increase, we saw recession for a couple of years in the early 1980s.  But the correction, which truly was a correction, was allowed to take place, and we saw relative boom times after that.

In other words, no matter how bad the economy may be, it is possible to have great economic times in the near future if the right policies are enacted, which mostly means getting rid of bad policies.

Sure, there is a misallocation of resources.  The correction is an attempt to correctly reallocate those resources in accordance with consumer demand.  Some of the wealth, or what was thought of as wealth, is destroyed.  But after a recession, the technology is still there.  The things we have learned should still be there.  The production capacity is still there.  So it is quite possible to recover quickly.  In fact, if there is minimal interference, it is likely that things will recover quickly.

From Rags to Riches

There is an even starker example than the 1980s in the United States.  Think about Japan and Germany after World War 2.  These two countries were close to obliterated.  When we talk about destroyed wealth, they literally had destroyed wealth in the form of buildings turned into rubble.

Luckily for the people there, the governments of Japan and Germany adopted relatively free market policies shortly after the end of the war.  And it followed that these two countries saw great prosperity after this time, in spite of the war devastation.

You can see many other examples of countries that became rich and prosperous after adopting free market policies.  Places like Singapore and Hong Kong became some of the richest places on earth.  Dubai is now a very wealthy place due to the lack of economic controls and taxation.  Despite what some think, it is not primarily due to oil.

Even China is an example of an impoverished country that rose up quickly after allowing some market policies to be adopted.  It is amazing what people will do and accomplish when they are allowed to flourish.

Japan and Germany were a mess after the war.  China, in 1980, was extremely poor due to the communist economy.  So these countries started at a very low point.

The United States is generally a rich country today.  It’s just that a lot of resources are wasted on the welfare and warfare state.  While some of the wealth that appears on paper may be fake (think of stocks and cryptocurrencies), a lot of the wealth we have is very real.  Americans generally enjoy nice houses, nice cars, and an overall good standard of living compared to much of the rest of the world.  I say that with the full acknowledgement that many families are struggling to pay their bills these days.

The point is that the United States of today isn’t going to be a rags to riches story.  It could be a story of rich to richer.

If free enterprise is just allowed to breathe a bit, it is amazing what entrepreneurs can do.  Even in our environment of regulation and high taxes, entrepreneurs and companies still find a way to satisfy consumer demand in many ways.  It is just more expensive for both parties than it needs to be.

If total government spending were cut by just 25%, and the worst of the regulations were repealed, we would see a boom unimaginable today.  We would see business activity soar, savings soar, and consumer goods getting cheaper and better over time.

We need to dramatically reduce the size and scope of the state, which also includes the Federal Reserve.  If the government stopped running up the debt, then the Fed wouldn’t have to monetize the debt to help fund the government spending.

There is no reason we can’t have the growth of the 1950s or the late 1800s with today’s technology.  It is amazing how much technology has advanced with a big presence of the state.  Just imagine how rich and prosperous we could be if we let economic freedom prevail.

I had the football game on the television when Damar Hamlin of the Buffalo Bills collapsed on the field.  I quickly realized that this was not really a football injury.

I have seen concussions on the field.  I have seen players injure different body parts.  It doesn’t happen often, but there have been spinal cord injuries.

In the case of Hamlin, he actually stood up after the play.  After about a second or two, he just collapsed.  It was fairly clear that it was a heart issue.

I thought I heard Joe Buck say that Hamlin had received oxygen, but maybe he meant after his collapse.  I am unable to find a transcript of what exactly was said.

It is also important to note that Hamlin is not some 300-pound lineman.  He is a safety weighing about 200 pounds.  To be a safety, you have to be in really good shape.

So the media and “experts” can gaslight us all they want and say that he got struck in the heart at just the right time, but it is rather clear that this young man had heart issues going into the game.

A young athlete with heart issues isn’t impossible, but it does seem to be happening more often these days.  And if it is acknowledged that he had heart issues before that play, then I’m sure the gaslighting media will say that it was a long-term side effect of COVID or something else.  They won’t admit it could have been from the so-called vaccine.

I know some will say it is insensitive to bring up such a topic when a young man is fighting for his life.  But there is speculation all over the place on what happened.  So why is it just the vaccine skeptics who aren’t allowed to say anything?

If this incident happened because of the so-called vaccine, it is vitally important to know.  It will help put a stop to people getting any more boosters, especially young people.  This is exactly the reason that the powers-that-be want to shut us up and not discuss this.  They seem intent on pushing their vaccines, even if it is causing young people to die.

It is also important to know if this was a vaccine injury because people who got jabbed can then be screened for heart problems.  They can at least know where they stand and even possibly try remedies to reverse side effects.

Of course, it will also tell us that the people pushing the so-called vaccines are complicit in the genocide.  It will be especially bad for those who tried to mandate vaccination, as it appears to be a criminal act.  It was already a criminal act for government officials to force people to inject something in their bodies, but if that very thing was known to be a death sentence for some, then it implicates murder.

Joe Biden is the number one criminal, even if he has dementia.  He tried to mandate the shot for about 100 million people in order to keep their job.

A Turning Point?

There have been many celebrities that possibly suffered death or injury because of the jabs.  Some of the major ones off the top of my head are Celine Dion, Justin Bieber, and Bob Saget.  I can’t say for certainty with any one of them that it was the jab, but that is certainly what it looks like.

When Hamlin collapsed on the field, there were likely tens of millions of people watching.  It was rather clear that it wasn’t a football injury except in that his heartbeat and adrenaline would have been higher than normal.

If he is able to survive, it was especially lucky that it happened in a professional football game.  They have several doctors and an ambulance ready to go.  If this had happened in another activity, or even at practice, he probably wouldn’t have been revived.

We are now in a situation where people generally know what happened.  They know it was a cardiac event.  It is just a question of whether people can step outside of the gaslighting just long enough to realize with their own eyes and common sense that this didn’t happen because of a hit to his chest.

A new Rasmussen poll shows that over a quarter of Americans believe they know someone who possibly died because of the vaccines, and nearly half believe vaccine side effects have caused a significant number of unexplained deaths.  This would have been taken before the Monday night game.  This is quite significant.

If we get to a point where 60 or 70 percent of Americans think the COVID shots are deadly, then the game is up for the establishment.  It means that most people think Joe Biden is a complete liar.  It means that most people will no longer trust the medical establishment and the pharmaceutical companies.  It means that the government becomes, in many ways, illegitimate.

The government that is supposed to protect us and care for us (ha ha) is actually trying to kill us.  It is rather clear that these vaccines weren’t just a mistake.  It isn’t a matter of “oops, it isn’t as safe and effective as we thought”.  These criminals mandated the jabs, which were neither safe nor effective.

I hate seeing this quiet genocide.  Most people who get the shot do not suffer any noticeable side effects that last.  We don’t know the long-term effects yet, and hopefully there won’t be much.  But even if just one in a thousand people who get the jab end up prematurely dead, that is a massive number of people when you consider that a couple of hundred million Americans got jabbed.  Worldwide, it is probably at 5 billion, although there were different shots for different areas.

If “just” one out of a thousand people die because of the shot, that means that over 100,000 Americans have died or will die because of the shot.  I am not convinced that the number isn’t worse that this.  And again, we don’t know the long-term effects with cancer, autoimmune diseases, and heart problems.  We also have to acknowledge the vaccine injured who may not die but have their lives forever changed.

We can all hope that this young man survives, and we should also hope that if the vaccines are causing these injuries and deaths that have seemed to increase since 2021 that the large majority of people become aware.  The criminals need to be held to account, and we need to move away from the tyranny.

This will be one of my main themes for 2023. It is looking highly likely that the United States will enter a recession in 2023.

The yield curve is highly inverted at this point. When the yield on a 30-year bond is paying less than the yield on a 1-month Treasury, you know there is something wrong.

In the face of this inverted yield curve, the Fed is tightening its monetary policy to fight the inflation that it created. The Fed has been increasing its target federal funds rate, and it has been slowly draining its balance sheet.

The price inflation picture remains unclear for 2023. It is possible that consumer price inflation could come down quite a bit if we hit a hard recession, which will damper consumer spending and demand.

At the same time, it’s possible that we could see a major asset deflation without the rate of consumer prices for necessities coming down. For example, food may continue to increase in price in general, while the prices for stocks and houses are going down.

It is important to prepare ahead of time. If you wait until we are in the midst of a recession to change your lifestyle and your mentality, then it will be a much more painful time.

You obviously want to prepare with actionable things, to the degree its possible. You may not have much control over whether you lose your job, although even here you should try to make yourself indispensable to the degree possible.

If you have your own business, you want to take steps to reduce risk, particularly not being over-leveraged.

You also don’t want to have any personal debt that has a high interest rate. Of course, you never want this anyway, but it is especially important in a recession. In fact, you don’t really want to have any debt, if possible, other than maybe a low interest rate mortgage.

From an investment standpoint, you don’t want to be heavy in stocks, as they are likely to tumble overall. There are always a few individual stocks that do well anyway, but good luck picking them.

They say cash is king in a recession, and this is mostly true, as long as it isn’t an inflationary recession like the 1970s. No matter what, it is good to have some liquid funds on the sidelines, even when the currency is depreciating at 8% or so per year.

There are many actionable things you can do now to prepare, including reducing your overall spending. But perhaps the most important thing is to prepare mentally.

If you are cutting your spending, even by a few percentage points, and you are anticipating a hard recession ahead, then it will make it easier emotionally on you when it does arrive.

And if the recession never does arrive in 2023, then the worst case is that you will have deprived yourself of a few things and saved a little bit more money or paid down debt.

It is hard for anyone if they all of a sudden have to cut their spending by 10% or more. If you started by cutting even 2%, it will be much easier on you. It’s not just because you already started, but because you were anticipating hard times ahead. It is far less emotionally draining.

I know a major correction is coming. Maybe they (the government and the Fed) can somehow kick the can a little farther down the road. Either way, there will be a major adjustment at some point. It would be wise to prepare for what’s ahead. You can use the start of the new year to make some minor lifestyle changes.