Mike M, PSD

US Navy submarine veteran | Entrepreneur | PSD (Poor, Smart and Determined to be wealthy)

[Mike M, PSD @TheMikeMMiller]

@Cbrid72 @beyond_broke I heard $125.

[Mike M, PSD @TheMikeMMiller]

@libsoftiktok I think the thing to do is just inject more fake ballots for the red team. Since all of the people over 120 and those that are dead always vote blue. Once the dems find out there is cheating happening against them they'll call for fair elections.

[Mike M, PSD @TheMikeMMiller]

Yes, veteran status matters. We earned GI Bill/VA benefits by serving. No dedicated federal “vets-only eVTOL program” exists yet. BUT: GI Bill covers foundational ratings (instrument/commercial) at any VA-approved Part 141 school. Archer (Part 141 academy certified 2025) and Joby (Part 141 academy now open to public) are the exact pipelines for eVTOL transition. Your USAF + sUAS experience is a huge edge.
@SecDuffy @FAANews what about making these academies VA-eligible? Veterans built this country’s airpower. Let us help build the next chapter.

[Mike M, PSD @TheMikeMMiller]

@courdeleon02 Time for the NJ republicans to put up a bill banning IDs for any transactions in NJ. If it is illegal to request an ID to vote then it should be illegal for everything.

[Mike M, PSD @TheMikeMMiller]

@CtrlAltYourself @grok @DarrylT11 @Rainmaker1973 @grok how does this differ from a ram pump? Which is more efficient/effective?

[Mike M, PSD @TheMikeMMiller]

I think a better approach would be to put bricks in each pot that support the pot above it. Conceal the bricks with the gravel.

[Mike M, PSD @TheMikeMMiller]

@dufitalexis1 Nice idea but what prevents the pots from sliding down the pipe?

[Mike M, PSD @TheMikeMMiller]

@sovernTranch @longstoryfarms Go to https://t.co/dxt35eF3Il for your raw honey.

[Mike M, PSD @TheMikeMMiller]

@EleanorGirl08 https://t.co/o0BDUt6yaA

[Mike M, PSD @TheMikeMMiller]

This is the new standard for valuing $XRP (and any high fluidity crypto).

Old models are broken. Velocity of money spreadsheets don't capture what XRP actually is.

Today I'm publishing the Recyclability Cascade Valuation Model (RCVM). First framework that treats XRP as a perpetually recyclable catalytic primitive.

No more linear math. This is how crypto utility tokens should be priced from now on. 1/5

[Mike M, PSD @TheMikeMMiller]

@NoRiskNoParty AT&T did that with Lucent Technologies back in the day.

[Mike M, PSD @TheMikeMMiller]

@Dynastus I have driven by the entrance to this house many times, you cannot even see it from the road. Now to be able to see inside it, definitely amazing.
Those figurines would need to be made like hood ornaments, with a chain and spring so they bounce back up!😆

[Mike M, PSD @TheMikeMMiller]

@AutomataType2B @SMQKEDQG Second half

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I have two stacks on my desk. The left stack is financial disclosure forms from members of Congress. The right stack is waivers for members who filed their financial disclosures late.

The right stack is always taller.

On Wednesday morning, I watched a soldier get arrested on CNN.

I am a Disclosure Analyst for the House Ethics Committee. I have held this position for eleven years. My job is to receive the forms, verify their completeness, and file them. I do not investigate. I do not flag. I do not refer. I file. I have a lanyard. The lanyard says ETHICS.

The soldier's name is Gannon Ken Van Dyke. He is thirty-eight years old. He was stationed at Fort Bragg. He was Special Forces. In December, he created an account on a prediction market called Polymarket. On January 2nd, he bet $32,500 that the president of Venezuela would be removed from power. On January 3rd, he helped remove the president of Venezuela from power. He collected $409,881.

He has been charged with five federal crimes. Commodities fraud. Wire fraud. Unlawful use of confidential government information. Theft of nonpublic government information. Unlawful monetary transaction. The Department of Justice called it "the first-ever insider trading prosecution on event contracts."

I watched this on the television in our break room. Then I walked back to my desk and processed a late financial disclosure from a member of the House Financial Services Committee who purchased $250,000 in bank stocks eleven days before his subcommittee held a closed-door hearing on proposed capital reserve changes.

The filing was forty-seven days late. The STOCK Act requires disclosure within forty-five days. The penalty for late filing is $200.

I waived it.

I waive most of them. In 2021, fifty-four members of Congress and senior staff violated the reporting rules. The fines were minimal. Most were waived. I have a form for the waiver. The form has a box that says "Reason." I write "administrative delay." In ethics, "administrative delay" means the member's office forgot and then remembered when a reporter called. My approval rate is one hundred percent. In any other field, that number would trigger an audit. In mine, it is called thoroughness.

Let me show you what I processed this year.

January. A senator on the Armed Services Committee sold defense contractor shares worth $1.2 million. Three days later, his committee received a classified briefing that the Iran campaign had exceeded its projected cost by 340%. The stock dropped 8%. He filed the disclosure sixty-one days late. I calculated the fine. $200. His chief of staff asked if it could be waived. He did not ask what the senator traded on. Nobody asks that. The form does not have a field for it. I waived the fine. The senator's portfolio returned 23.4% in 2025. The S&P 500 returned 16.8%.

February. A representative on the Energy and Commerce Committee bought pharmaceutical stocks worth $400,000. Two weeks later, her committee advanced a bill that would extend patent exclusivity for the exact drug class she purchased. The stocks rose 14%. She filed on time. There was no fine. There was no investigation. There was nothing to investigate because buying stocks in companies regulated by your own committee is not illegal. It is legal. The STOCK Act made it legal by making it disclosed. In Congress, disclosed means legal. In my office, legal means filed.

March. A member whose spouse manages a portfolio worth $9.2 million reported forty-three separate transactions in a single quarter. Twelve of them were in sectors directly affected by legislation the member co-sponsored. The timing on eight of those twelve was within a two-week window of committee action. I logged all forty-three. None were flagged. We do not flag. We file.

I asked my supervisor once what would happen if I flagged a filing. She said we do not have a form for that. I never asked again.

In 2020, I processed 847 disclosures. In 2023, 1,211. In 2025, 1,614. The number of enforcement actions in each of those years was zero. The numerator changes. The denominator does not.

I want to tell you about the soldier again.

He made $409,881. He tried to delete his Polymarket account by calling customer service and saying he lost access to his email. He moved his profits into a foreign cryptocurrency vault and then into a new brokerage account. He used his real identity. He placed thirteen bets. Every single one was connected to an operation he personally participated in.

In my eleven years, I have processed disclosures from members of Congress who traded on:

Pending FDA approvals they learned about in committee.
Defense appropriations they voted on.
Trade policy they negotiated.
Pandemic response measures they drafted.
Interest rate decisions they were briefed on before the public.

None of them have been charged. None of them have been investigated by the Department of Justice. None of them have been referred to the SEC. The STOCK Act has produced zero prosecutions since it was signed on April 4th, 2012.

Fourteen years. Five hundred and thirty-five members. $635 million in trades last year alone. Zero cases.

My daughter asked me once what happens when someone breaks the rules. I told her we write it down. She asked what happens after that. I said it depends. She was nine. She is twenty now. It does not depend. Nothing happens after that.

The soldier made $409,881 and faces decades in prison. Nancy Pelosi entered Congress in 1987 with a portfolio worth approximately $785,000. It is now worth $133.7 million. That is a return of 16,930%. The Dow Jones returned 2,300% over the same period. Professional fund managers who beat the market for three consecutive years are considered exceptional. She has beaten it for thirty-seven. If a hedge fund produced those returns, the SEC would subpoena the records on a Thursday. She produced them from a building with a chapel and a gift shop.

She announced her retirement last year. No investigation was opened. No disclosure was flagged. Her filings were on time. In my office, on time means compliant. Compliant means closed.

I want to tell you about the fine.

$200. That is the maximum penalty for violating the STOCK Act's disclosure requirements. $200 for a member of Congress whose portfolio gained $4.7 million in a single quarter. I calculated what $200 represents as a percentage of $4.7 million. It is 0.004%. I could not find a comparison that made it meaningful. It is less than the price of the parking pass in the Rayburn garage. It is less than lunch at the members' dining room if you order the crab cakes, which I am told are excellent though I eat at my desk.

Since 2012, thirty-one bills have been introduced to restrict congressional trading. I keep a list. The list is longer than the STOCK Act itself.

On March 5th, 2026, a representative from Michigan introduced the thirty-second. He called it the "No Getting Rich in Congress Act." The bill would prohibit the President, Vice President, members of Congress, and their spouses from trading individual stocks, cryptocurrency, futures, and commodities while in office.

The bill was referred to committee. The committee has not scheduled a hearing. The committee is chaired by a member whose spouse executed $2.1 million in trades last year.

The bill will be reviewed. In my office, reviewed means read. Read means acknowledged. Acknowledged means a status has been assigned. A status is the absence of an action that has been given a name so it looks like one.

The soldier used classified information to make $409,881 on a prediction market. He has been charged with five federal crimes. The Department of Justice announced the case on the same day I processed three disclosures from members who traded on committee knowledge worth a combined $3.8 million.

The difference between the soldier and the members is not what they did. It is the building they did it in. He did it from Fort Bragg. They did it from the Capitol. He used a prediction market. They used the New York Stock Exchange. He bet on a military operation. They bet on the legislation they write.

He did not write the law. They did. They wrote the STOCK Act. Then they funded its enforcement at zero dollars. Then they set its maximum penalty at $200. Then they gave my office the authority to waive it. Then they traded $635 million.

The soldier flew to Caracas. He breached a compound. He put his body between a mission and a bullet. The people who ordered the operation were in a building with a credenza and sparkling water. They did not go to Caracas. They went to their brokerage accounts. The soldier made $409,881 and is now in federal custody. The people who knew what he was going to do before he did it made more and filed less. His prosecution is not a failure of the system. It is the system. One conviction per decade, at the lowest level, so the briefing slides can say enforcement exists. The $409,881 is not the crime. It is the cost of making $635 million look supervised.

In my field, we call this self-regulation.

The soldier's Polymarket account has been frozen. His military career is over. He will spend years in federal prison. My office will process every congressional disclosure filed this year. Every trade logged. Every $200 fine calculated and waived. The system is immaculate.

Fourteen years. Zero prosecutions. $635 million a year. A 16,930% return.

I have not leaked a document. I have not filed a complaint. I have not deviated from the process one single time. The process was written by the people whose forms I process.

As long as the disclosures go up and the cases don't, my performance review says I am meeting expectations.

My lanyard still says ETHICS. In eleven years, nobody has asked me to define the word.

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I've put together the complete world map of all the oil refinery and fertilizer plant fires, accidents, explosions and possible sabotage over the last 12 months. This map is well-sourced, and includes the full timeline, location and facility name impacted. We don't know, of course, the actual originating cause of each incident, but the overall pattern is alarming, and there's no question that a huge portion of the world's energy infrastructure is being taken offline one way or another. Feel free to share: (this is a very hi-res image, so you can zoom in to see the detailed text)

[Mike M, PSD @TheMikeMMiller]

Before the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 (signed by President Reagan), the U.S. recommended childhood immunization schedule for infants and young children primarily consisted of three vaccines.

These were:
DTP (or DPT): The combined diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine.
OPV: The oral poliovirus vaccine (polio).
MMR: The combined measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine.

Together, these three vaccines (two shots + one oral) protected against seven diseases and involved a series of doses (typically around 10–11 doses by age 6, plus a later Td booster for tetanus-diphtheria).

(thanks @grok )

[Mike M, PSD @TheMikeMMiller]

@US_OGA HAL's Q1 nailed it. NA recovery in full swing, Q2 packed with small/mid producers chasing post-Iran oil prices.
2nd-degree plays on the supply chain:

$SND - frac sand & logistics
$NOV - rigs & completion tools
$TS - OCTG tubulars

Volume-driven upside. DYOR.

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@CryptoTaxFixer Clinton thank you for the reply.