Not even caring to look at what is happening and assuming China is fucking up is not going to save us from them taking over the world. In fact they have already won and we are still here laughing like they have no chance: China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) expenditure has shown significant annual variation, with recent data indicating a strong upward trend. 2024: Preliminary data indicates China invested approximately $92.4 billion in BRI projects across 149 countries. 2025: The initiative saw a record surge, with $213.5 billion in new deals signed—up 75% from 2024. This includes major investments in energy (43% of engagement), mining (especially in Kazakhstan), and technology sectors. First Half of 2025: Chinese engagement reached $124 billion in construction and investment, nearly double the full-year 2024 total of $122 billion. Cumulative BRI engagement since 2013 now exceeds $1.4 trillion, with a growing shift from transport infrastructure to energy, mining, and high-tech manufacturing.

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I wish you the best on your road to recovery!

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Except gold won't suffer much from a recession, if it finally hits (FED too hawkish and fails to kick this shit can of an economy further down the road). That's my only concern going deeper into energy stocks (staying mostly in gold/silver stocks for the time being, just some starter positions in energy).

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Fast food? Only on road trips, maybe like 2-3 times a year.

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Lol if you think the current trajectory for health care in America is anything short of a runaway train. Drugs cost several to hundreds of times what our peers pay for the same or equivalent drug. Medical insurance let alone care gets more unaffordable by the year. (My health premiums are over $1400 a month for a family of 3 right now 3X last years rates). We get the healthcare through a local school district. Surely a teacher getting paid $21 an hour can afford that right? That same insurance company fought me for 8 months before they paid the first bill after my daughter’s birth. The excuse they made? Well maybe another insurance company is responsible instead …kick the can down the road for months and hope it goes away. We almost stopped receiving primary care for an infant due to unpaid bills. A trip the ER can cost literal thousands of dollars an hour even if you have health insurance and have a relatively minor issue like monitoring you after a mild seizure. Need an appointment for a Chronic health condition? Oh that will be 6 months for an appointment. Oh you need insulin and your doctor said you need to test x times a day? Well the insurance company only believes you should test 2 times a day better start to ration and risk your literal life sorry. Healthcare is only working for you if you are wealthy. If you have a median sized w2 you are fucked.

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Of course its real. Central banks have been buying gold and will need to dump treasuries. Fed monetary policy since 2008 has been "we dont care about the dollar, we'll keep rates artificially low and kick the can down the road." Then came Covid - and more QE, and more, and more, and now...more. Powell has been part of the problem, and rates have never been "tight" - JPOW's policy has been easy money, less easy money, easy money, easy money, a bit less easy money. They can only kick the can so far before the world realize (and now, they are seeing it) that the dollar wont be the reserve currency for much longer. BRICS DE dollarization is real.

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as someone who has been there: this is a blessing, not a curse. it feels awful every day, and will feel that way for a long time. but just be thankful that you can get jobs that will pay you well enough to get back on your feet again, and have a family that can help you after you dig yourself such a deep hole. it was a dark road for me, but from one regard to another: you are okay. you are alive, healthy, and have another shot to do better. and you have PLENTY of years in which to do it. chin up, fellow ape. 

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I walk a lonely road... 

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A promise is a debt, [Here's](https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/1pore1a/see_nmr_mfg_if_you_want_to_benefit_from_increased/) my original DD, and [here's](https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/1pore1a/see_nmr_mfg_if_you_want_to_benefit_from_increased/) my follow-up DD regarding MFG. Japan's PM won the new cabinet pretty convincingly, and got away with pretty much everything she wanted. TSM will open a spanking new factory in rural Japan. Now, the policies that have been promised by the PM and MFG all will be enacted. Let alone the stablecoin project which is entirely ran by Japan's big three, which will be set as soon as paper handed kids get fully pruned from BTC/ETH, while the adults on the table buy BLSH, COIN, and CRCL at a discounted price. There is simply no fucking way there's not going to be financial sector rally from Japan tomorrow, if not all week long. Nikkei opens in a few hours, but I have been pretty much on spot for a few months now. Thanks for the love and hate msgs I have received in DMs, peace! I will post this again tomorrow morning. And yes, when you buy the dip, always get some KMI for the road, it's good for your health. Not advise financial

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You dont see that little bump on the road?

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