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One of the great responses to a reporter in history!
JAPANESE REPORTER: Why didn't you tell Japan before the Iran war?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: "Why didn't you tell ME about PEARL HARBOR?!"
"You believe in surprise much more-so than US!"
TRAGICALLY: War is profitable.
Still in Vietnam seeking personal answers to a war we should never have entered.
FYI: I served in Vietnam twice, once in 1966-67 as a student and 71-72 as a US Marine Corps pilot.
In 2026 I still do not know why we fought in Vietnam.
I know the lies we were told (we were sopping the spread of Comnunism)… but have not yet heard the truth.
The truth is war is profitable. General and President Eisenhower
warned us when he said: “Beware of the military industrial complex.”
Today every rocket fired at Iran or Israel is carrying a half pound to four pounds of silver….that disappears when the rocket goes boom.
Silver stackers get richer as people on both sides pay the price in blood, sweat, tears, and money.
As I sit here in Vietnam I think of my friends, classmates, and fellow pilots whose names are on the Vietnam Memorial in Washington
DC.
I wonder if in every rocket and all weapons that kill…. If the military industrial complex had to use gold, not silver to build weapons…. would gold bring peace because weapons of war would be too expensive?
Today I fight for peace and freedom, and real financial education…not war.
Take care.
Breaking: BlackRock just froze $1.2 billion in withdrawal requests at its private credit fund.
Here's what happened:
• Investors in BlackRock's $26B fund asked to pull out 9.3% of their money
• BlackRock said no — capped withdrawals at 5%
• Blackstone's $82B fund saw record withdrawal requests the same week
• Blackstone had to put in $400M of its own cash to cover the exits
Two of the biggest funds on the planet are limiting how much you can take out.
Breaking: OpenAI fired Leopold Aschenbrenner at 22. Three years later, he manages $5.5 billion.
Timeline:
• Age 19: Graduates Columbia as valedictorian
• Age 22: Joins OpenAI's Superalignment team
• Age 22: Fired for raising AI safety concerns
• Age 23: Publishes viral manifesto on AGI
• Age 23: Launches hedge fund with $225M
• Age 24: Returns 47% in six months
• Age 25: $5.5B in equity exposure
One of the fastest-growing funds Wall Street has ever seen. Here's where he's placing his bets today
Mental resilience is trained.
It is practiced.
Like all else of virtue.
You must fortify your mind against negative thoughts.
I can’t even remember how it feels to doubt myself.