Israel & U.S. war with Iran enters its 11th day today. Oil price briefly hit $120 per barrel yesterday, the highest in 4 years.
Democrats are the worst creatures of the planet. So is the feeling of the ‘other half’ of the country – Republicans, except that they do not know that they are even worse than the democrats. Why and how? Read on…
As mentioned in the following post on November 13, 2025: Quadriplegic Ills of America: Debt, Deficit, Inequality & Healthcare, Independents are one foot away from the God (Truth), Democrats are two feet away and Republicans are three feet away. Make America Great Again (MAGA) band is several feet away and their chosen leader, our “greatest president ever”, Donald J. Trump, is actually miles away. Need I say that the use of word “greatest” is a sarcasm? Actually, it is a pretty mellow word to describe the fellow.
Similar to the ‘last mile’ journey being the hardest for the telecom industry, so is the ‘last foot’ journey for the human being.
Then what do we do and how do we rise above it all? First by shedding the label – that I am a democrat or I am a Republican. Without that, no progress is possible. Not at all. It simply is not for the human to evolve. What or who says so? Our scriptures, saints and sages say so. It is a timeless and priceless principle. That is the truth and that is the reality, damn it.
Yet, we never come out of the fighting and these artificial constructs created by the ignorant mankind from international borders to difference in looks, ideology, income, power, position and status. In the process, we miss out the best that the life has to offer.
As much as the President has been a disaster in the second term, let alone the first one, how much more of an actual disaster that we still want to see for America? Is the war with Iran over now or “very complete” as our toddler president said yesterday? We would love that to be true and believe it wholeheartedly, however, unfortunately, we also know pretty well that truth, reality and him do not get along very well. What he does get along pretty well with is ‘delusion’. In fact, him and delusion are two sides of the same coin. More on delusion towards the end of this post (from the scriptural standpoint) …
Using the war as a distraction to Epstein files and appeasement to the special groups’ interests pertaining to long standing Jews-Arab/Islam conflict, our President, the biggest “thug and bully” of the world, picks on a “poor kid” precisely at the time when the U.S. can afford the least.
There is never a good time to begin the war, ever. Period. However, this is certainly one of the worst, if not the worst, time period to start the war and that, too, against the ‘perceived’ enemy on the ideological grounds. It is really funny that the great standup comedian, Jimmy Kimmel, likes to call the Epstein files as Trump-Epstein files, however, this is not the time to laugh, unfortunately. Though, he is so right and the reality that we see these days could not be further away from the truth.
Why war? The irrefutable “Law of Karma” is finally getting to us as it always does. Is it the time to bear the undesired and unwanted fruits of our past karma here? Collective karma that is for the once-great nation called United States of America, which is nothing but fractured into multiple pieces created by the extreme division and loss of conscience amongst the majority. We could stand ‘tall’ at the world level and now our heads are down with nothing but an utter shame.
So, what does this all mean now? These are very disturbing and painful times for many in America like few other countries. This is something new and we are not used to seeing it that way. So, now, is it a calm before the next storm? Or are we already in the middle of a perfect storm that is brewing well and only getting worse? In either case, it does not look pretty good and only getting harder to escape.
When we are approaching about 5% deficit to GDP just for the interest cost alone for the federal government budget, any rational economist will say that the end is nigh. That is precisely when our “foolish” president “felt” like having a war with Iran as if we are fighting with the toy guns amongst the kids.
For the math challenged or unaware person, here are some simple crude details: We are about to hit $40 trillion in fiscal debt within a few months. At 4% interest rate for 10-year treasury, the number it refuses to go below, our debt service payment alone is over $1.5 trillion. As a reference, last year, we already surpassed a trillion dollars in interest costs alone and $1.2-$1.3 trillion cost is a likely low-end figure in a current fiscal year.
At $30 trillion GDP, that is approaching 5% when the total deficit to GDP shall be 3%, here we are speaking of interest cost alone approaching 5%. This president is completely clueless, ignorant and reckless about doing anything about it and has persistently run high deficits by far the largest ever in the U.S. history. See additional details in the following post on December 25, 2025: Inspiring Story about 88-Year-Old Working Man: Can We do the Same for Our Country?
Instead, he keeps adding to the catastrophic level of deficits. Add to that interest cost alone, few more percent for other deficit expenses, and our ‘master debtor’ and ‘master bankrupter’ having an immense expertise in bankruptcies for his enterprises will precisely do just that for the country now. It is like America hired a perfect guy to enter into the bankruptcy.
Jamie Dimon, the chairman and CEO of JP Morgan and well-respected figure in the banking industry tirelessly keeps saying that we need to bring the deficits down to 3% of GDP to survive. Now, only if the politicians will listen to him…
The U.S. president is going down in the abyss and along with him, he will take down a big bulk of the country and he has already wrapped around to his waist many other parts of the world as well to take down. So, is the nature and approach of this “suicidal, lunatic and evil” fellow – three words to sum up who he is. The unfortunate irony is that he would not go down alone; he will take us all with him down there in the valley of despair and destitution.
Sooner the MAGA and good-hearted Republicans realize this bitter truth and “neuters” him, better off we are – just as many noble souls have started doing so. However, it is not anywhere near enough to stop the evil yet. Simply because this evil is heavily surrounded and enabled by multitude of “sycophant and bootlicker goons” in his administration, let alone utterly ignorant and selfish MAGA billionaires.
That is the crisis we are speaking of. Midterms are still far away at 8 months and the end of the presidential term is even much further away at close to 3 years. Till then, this man is fully capable of ruining us all – and not just us here in America, though, the entire world with the sheer power that America used to hold that is gradually vanishing.
The entire world can easily be in shambles with his continued “misdeeds” just as he has done in the past. The world has never seen such a powerful man, unfortunately, of course only in the negative direction, with rare exceptions like Adolph Hitler. Imagine if both of such powerful men have had the intent to take the world into a positive direction. What a positive difference it could make just as it did in the other direction.
So, now, where do we hunker down in times like these? The obvious answer is gold; just plain gold. We shall have a meaningful or more than the meaningful exposure to gold. There is no other alternative. Really, there is none.
Gold is meant for wealth preservation and it is not meant for wealth accumulation. Thus, it is for survival and preserve what we do have. It is simply a survival mechanism. It is not a yielding asset. It does not give an interest like a bond will do. It will not appreciate with the steady cashflow from the stocks. However, it offers tremendous amount of peace for certain. The key aspect of life that is not easily found.
Then again, who said stocks and bonds are safe? There are times to lighten up on certain asset classes and this is one of such times.
Yet, over the course of last 50 years, gold has delivered pretty decent returns, about 8% annually, showcasing its true inflation hedge characteristics against 12% for S&P 500 index – with albeit much less risk. This is one of those extreme times when the prudent risk management is called for.
As they say “Return of Investment” is more critical than the “Return on Investment” at times. That time is now.
Traditional instruments of wealth accumulation have become blunted without any sharp edges left now as the investment landscape has transformed fundamentally over the course of last decade and more so in last couple years. It is all owed to incredible amount of money printing.
As a result, what used to work like a timeless principle does not work anymore. What works is what should not. The only rule of the game is that there are no rules. It is a pretty pathetic way to invest one’s hard-earned dollars. Hence, unless, there is that great ‘reset’ button pressed again for the financial markets, which it will be at some point without a doubt, just as for a personal life of any individual, we are only speaking of inviting more and more misery.
Scriptures are often harsh with its depiction of the mankind and refers to them as “deluded fools”. Over all from what I understand, there are two types of people in this world: fools and greater fools. Who are we? We rather just be fools and not be a greater fool, at least. Just a few greater fools are enough that are capable of inflicting a ton of damage to the world as they have always been doing it. If we cannot help, at least let us spare this beautiful world from a further damage from our end. We all have a duty to do so.
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