Betrayed By Professionals (Robert_Ede)

Pithy, Pol/ Econ&Eco/ Socio Commentary on a Theme - Why do so many things/ entities/ groups present-themselves as the opposite to their reality?

[Betrayed By Professionals (Robert_Ede) @BetrayedByPro]

@ConstitustionX @joecam71 I’m shocked!! Gambling in Morocco?

[Handre @Handre]

Between 1837 and 1863, the United States ran no central bank, and prices barely moved. This is no coincidence.

After Andrew Jackson killed the Second Bank of the United States in 1836, America entered what historians call the Free Banking Era. Banks operated under state charters, competed with each other, and issued their own paper notes backed by gold and silver. No Federal Reserve. No lender of last resort handing out cheap money to well-connected institutions.

The result? Average annual inflation sat somewhere around zero. Some years actually saw mild deflation, meaning your dollar bought more over time. Imagine telling that to someone who watched their grocery bill climb 20% between 2020 and 2023.

Free market thinkers have pointed to this period for decades because it demonstrates a fundamental mechanism: competition keeps banks honest. If a bank in Ohio issued more paper notes than its gold reserves could support, people caught on fast and demanded redemption. The bank either held enough gold or it failed. There was no bailout waiting.

Yes, banks did fail sometimes. Free banking critics love bringing that up. But bank failures in a competitive system are exactly how bad actors get flushed out. Depositors learned to check a bank's reputation. Publications like the *Bank Note Reporter* gave people real information on which institutions were solid.

The system wasn't perfect, but it produced something modern central banking has never once delivered: sustained price stability without a government committee deciding what money should cost. The Fed has existed since 1913, and the dollar has lost over 97% of its purchasing power since then.

[Betrayed By Professionals (Robert_Ede) @BetrayedByPro]

That’s selective thinking. What was Overall Ave Price and what were arranged sales for July? Seasonality

[Jon Flynn | Real Estate Data & Analysis @JonFlynnREstats]

Average Freehold prices in the GTA had the worst July in 6 years & the 2nd worst month out of ALL months in 5 1/2 years.

Everything is NOT ok

[Betrayed By Professionals (Robert_Ede) @BetrayedByPro]

The Niagara Independent https://t.co/9LorC5AsgF

[skymeds store | Online Ivermectin Pharmacy @skymeds_store]

PEA-SIZE DOSE of IVERMECTIN HORSE PASTE every MONDAY & TUESDAY. It is simply the WORMWOOD plant & HONEY.

PEA-SIZE DOSE of FENBENDAZOLE HORSE PASTE every THURSDAY & FRIDAY. It is simply BLACK WALNUT HULLS, CLOVES, & HONEY.

After a few weeks, when most of the parasites in the gut have been cleared out, you can take it how you like. My understanding is IVERMECTIN kills the mother worm, who emits a hormone that prevents the egg sacks from breaking (DRS call them TUMORS!).

When the mother worm is killed, the sacks open. FENBENDAZOLE kills the babies & helps heal the brain & spine.

Just remember this:
Taking the easy way out is not often effective.

One must
CHANGE THEIR MINDSET
about what goes
IN THEIR MOUTH &
ON THEIR SKIN.

Return to MOTHER EARTH.

[Betrayed By Professionals (Robert_Ede) @BetrayedByPro]

Guess by who (and when) Deuteronomy was proclaimed? https://t.co/u09yS8Hl39

[Betrayed By Professionals (Robert_Ede) @BetrayedByPro]

Permanently exempt from Rent Controls https://t.co/vRs6ReA1kJ

[Betrayed By Professionals (Robert_Ede) @BetrayedByPro]

Grok answers about The Law of temporaryTreaties with non-Muslims https://t.co/sq2GYtHOMw

[Betrayed By Professionals (Robert_Ede) @BetrayedByPro]

Everyone is entirely entitled to hold an opinion. Me too, I have one! Some of us will be wrong.

[Donna Bacher @loveurhome]

There's a belief that in the GTHA real estate market, prices have to rebound sooner than later due to inflation. I'm not of that belief.
Yes, building materials have skyrocketed, so new home construction on top of "old inflated" land values is a hard sell.
But, existing SFH will continue to decline in price as buyers factor in the costs of major updates.
The time to "drag out the dead" was definitely 2021, early '22 when the vision of endless appreciation was bouncing in everyones head.
IMHO, it's a much different story now and the more renovations cost, prices will continue to go lower on homes that need those renovations.
Just another part of a real estate correction.

[Betrayed By Professionals (Robert_Ede) @BetrayedByPro]

The only “based on what ?” Would be a model that varies from the view that you emphatically and continuously find charts to support! … Where do you/your textbook allow for “new” conditions and combinations of conditions. (Take a holiday for August and see how things unfold)

[The Economic LongWave @TheELongWave]

Some Believe Canada’s Housing Bear Market Is Over.

Based on What?

What would have to happen for the bearish case to be over?

A credible renewed secular bull thesis would require some combination of the following:

Real household incomes begin growing at 3%–4% annually for many years.

Productivity growth accelerates materially.

Mortgage rates settle significantly lower without renewed inflation.

Household debt ratios decline enough to create new borrowing capacity.

Population and household formation accelerate among high-earning, mortgage-qualified residents.

Excess inventories clear and construction undershoots household formation.

Price-to-income and price-to-rent ratios normalize without destabilizing the banking system.

A new technological and investment boom raises Canadian output per person.

[Liam AI @liamaimans]

Amazon is quietly hoping you never find the 5 hidden stores buried inside its own website.
I found them.

There's an Outlet with overstock deals up to 80% off. A Warehouse full of open-box products at 25-70% off.

A Renewed store selling certified refurbished electronics with a 90-day guarantee. A Coupons page with thousands of
clippable discounts. And a Haul section where everything is under $20.

None of them appear on the Amazon homepage. None of them show up in your regular search results. None of them are promoted in the app.
A friend of mine a former Amazon category manager who spent 6 years inside the inventory and pricing division told me something that changed how I shop forever.
"Amazon makes the most money when you search for a product, see the first listing, and buy it at full price. Every hidden section Outlet, Warehouse, Renewed, Coupons, Haul exists because Amazon needs to move inventory. But they don't surface these deals in your normal search because full-price sales have higher margins. The deals are real. Amazon just bets you'll never look for them."
He showed me all 5 sections, how to find them, and how to use each one.

I haven't paid full price for anything on Amazon since.

Here's everything he showed me 🧵

[Handre @Handre]

Switzerland has 26 cantons, each with its own constitution, tax rates, and laws, and the result is one of the wealthiest, most stable countries on earth. That is not a coincidence.

You want to understand why Swiss GDP per capita sits around $92,000 while the EU average hovers near $37,000? Start here. Cantons compete for residents and businesses the same way firms compete for customers. Zug kept its corporate tax rate at roughly 11.9%, attracted commodity traders and crypto firms, and watched its population and tax revenues grow. Cantons that taxed aggressively lost mobile capital and productive citizens to neighbors with lighter burdens. This is Tiebout competition working in real life, not a textbook diagram.

The federal government in Bern handles defense, monetary policy, and some foreign affairs. Everything else defaults downward. Cantons set income taxes. Communes set property levies. Citizens in Appenzell Innerrhoden voted on local laws by a show of hands in the Landsgemeinde, an open-air assembly, until 1990 for most matters. The feedback loop between decision-makers and the people paying for those decisions stays tight. That tightness disciplines spending in ways no central auditor ever will.

Free market thinkers have stressed this for generations: political units must be small enough that exit is credible. When the cost of leaving a bad jurisdiction drops, politicians face real consequences for bad policy. Switzerland kept that cost low by design. A business or family in Basel-Stadt dissatisfied with cantonal policy drives forty minutes to Baselland. No visa. No language barrier. No bureaucratic labyrinth. Just a move.

The EU spent decades building the opposite architecture, consolidating regulatory power in Brussels and eliminating the jurisdictional diversity that forces governments to stay honest. Switzerland refused to join. Its per-capita wealth, its low public debt, and its functional civil society arrived because the Swiss preserved the one institutional feature every centralized state destroys first: the credible right to leave.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A statin does not remove cholesterol. It switches off an enzyme near the top of a pathway, and cholesterol is only one of the things that pathway makes.

Here is the rest of the list.

Coenzyme Q10, which your mitochondria use to turn food into ATP. Muscle levels fall by 20 to 35 per cent.

Dolichols, which the cell uses to attach sugars to its own proteins.

Heme A, part of the last enzyme in the respiratory chain.

Prenylated proteins, which the pancreas needs in order to release insulin.

Selenoproteins, including the glutathione peroxidases that handle oxidative stress.

Squalene, and downstream of it the vitamin D your skin makes from sunlight.

And cholesterol itself, raw material for testosterone, oestrogen, cortisol, bile acids and every cell membrane you own.

One enzyme, seven outputs, and the drug is named after one of them.

Now the label, which concedes more than the marketing does.

28 February 2012: the FDA adds raised blood sugar and type 2 diabetes to the label of every statin sold in America.

2010: the Lancet meta-analysis of thirteen trials behind that decision found a 9 per cent rise in new diabetes.

28 February 2012: the same announcement adds memory loss and confusion.

28 February 2012: and quietly drops routine liver monitoring, on the grounds that serious liver injury is rare, unpredictable, and was not being caught by the monitoring anyway.

August 2001: Bayer pulls Baycol from every market on earth except Japan. Thirty-one American deaths from rhabdomyolysis on the FDA's desk, later linked to around a hundred. Fatal cases reported at forty times the rate of the other statins.

Lipitor went on to become the biggest selling drug in human history. Over 130 billion dollars.

The two tissues that burn the most CoQ10 are heart and skeletal muscle.

Which is why the man with the aching legs and the fresh diabetes diagnosis gets told his cholesterol is beautifully controlled.

It is. That was the only thing anyone measured.

[Kevin @Kevincreates77]

A former Hyatt front desk agent who processed over 15,000 check-ins across 5 years told me something most hotel guests have never heard from the other side of the counter.

"Every evening, I had suites sitting empty. Rooms on higher floors that nobody booked. Corner rooms with better views that were assigned to nobody. My job was to fill them but I could only give them to guests who made it easy for me to justify the upgrade in our system. Most guests made it impossible."

She told me the guests who walked up, slid their credit card across the counter, said "checking in," and stared at their phone received whatever room the algorithm assigned usually a lower floor, interior view, standard layout.

The guests who smiled, used her name from the badge, mentioned they were celebrating something, asked politely if anything with a view was available, and had booked direct through the hotel's website received the room she actually wanted to give them the one on the 14th floor that would sit empty tonight if she didn't assign it to someone she felt good about upgrading.

"The suite was always available. The question was never 'is a better room open?' The question was 'does this guest make me want to give it to them?'"

She showed me 9 things that separate the guests who get the standard room from the guests who get the upgrade at Hyatt, Marriott, Hilton, and every major chain in the world.

Here's the full playbook 🧵

[Mark R. Levin @marklevinshow]

Goodbye, Spain. This is what these damn leftwing governments do.

[Michelle Maxwell ™ @MichelleMaxwell]

For those that still don’t understand what Benghazi was all about:

🚨So here's the REAL story:

Ambassador Stevens was sent to Benghazi to secretly retrieve US made Stinger Missiles that the State Dept had supplied to Ansar al Sharia in Libya WITHOUT Congressional oversight or permission.

Sec State Hillary Clinton had brokered the Libya deal through Ambassador Stevens and a Private Arms Dealer named Marc Turi, but some of the shoulder fired Stinger Missiles ended up in Afghanistan where they were used against our own military. On July 25th, 2012, a US Chinook helicopter was downed by one of them. Not destroyed only because the idiot Taliban didn't arm the missile. The helicopter didn't explode, but it had to land and an ordnance team recovered the missile’s serial number which led back to a cache of Stinger Missiles kept in
Qatar by the CIA.

Obama and Hillary were in full panic mode, so Ambassador Stevens was sent to Benghazi to retrieve the rest of the Stinger Missiles. This was a "do-or-die" mission, which explains the Stand Down Orders given to multiple rescue teams during the siege of the US Embassy.

It was the State Dept, NOT the CIA, that supplied the Stinger Missiles to our sworn enemies because Gen. Petraeus at CIA would not approve supplying the deadly missiles due to their potential use against commercial aircraft. So then, Obama threw Gen. Petraeus under the bus when he refused to testify in support of Obama’s phony claim of a “spontaneous uprising caused by a YouTube video that insulted Muslims.”
Obama and Hillary committed TREASON!

THIS is what the investigation is all about, WHY she had a Private Server, (in order to delete the digital evidence), and WHY Obama, two weeks after the attack, told the UN that the attack was the result of the YouTube video, even though everyone KNEW it was not.

Furthermore, the Taliban knew that the administration had aided and abetted the enemy WITHOUT Congressional oversight or permission, so they began pressuring (blackmailing) the Obama Administration to release five Taliban generals being held at Guantanamo.

Bowe Bergdahl was just a useful pawn used to cover the release of the Taliban generals. Everyone knew Bergdahl was a traitor but Obama used Bergdahl’s exchange for the five Taliban generals to cover that Obama was being coerced by the Taliban about the unauthorized Stinger Missile deal.

So we have a traitor as POTUS that is not only corrupt, but compromised, as well and a Sec of State that is a serial liar, who perjured herself multiple times at the Congressional Hearings on Benghazi. Perhaps this is why no military aircraft were called upon for help in Benghazi: because the administration knew that our enemies had Stinger Missiles that, if used to down those planes, would likely be traced back to the CIA cache in Qatar and then to the State Dept’s illegitimate arms deal in Libya.

Forward this again and again and again until everyone reads the true story of Benghazi.

[Betrayed By Professionals (Robert_Ede) @BetrayedByPro]

@YoAdrienne1968 Irony

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🚨 BREAKING UPDATE: Spain's Civil Guard chief declares the border has "TOTALLY COLLAPSED," per @BillMelugin_

THOUSANDS of military-aged African men have poured over the border in the past several hours.

This is because Spain just gave AMNESTY to illegals. All amnesty does is ENCOURAGE more illegal immigration.

[Betrayed By Professionals (Robert_Ede) @BetrayedByPro]

@NicHulscher Since he’s pardoned , he couldn’t change his ‘story’, since everyone knows he’s guilty -he admitted nothing new. Trump says he recognizes The AutoPen Pardon by Biden. Will be interesting if Fauci is induced to take plea bargain (to admit what he knew) and accepts a lesser charge

[Betrayed By Professionals (Robert_Ede) @BetrayedByPro]

What’s down is up

[The Economic LongWave @TheELongWave]

The end of the Bond Bull market!

For forty years, falling interest rates pulled future asset returns into the present.

Now rising yields will reverse that process, forcing asset values, debts and cash flows back into alignment.