"She Made Her Decision Before You Finished Your Sentence"

Three seconds. That's how long it took. Your shoes. Your posture. The way you held your drink. Whether you looked at the floor or looked at her.

She already filed you away. Interesting. Boring. Safe. Bold. Before you even opened your mouth.

Everything you say after that is just her confirming what she already decided.

So stop rehearsing lines. Fix the first three seconds. Stand tall. Look up. Smile like you mean it. Walk like you belong wherever you're standing.

The words come later. The impression comes first.

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F*ck the economy.

Alle_Gory

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ArcBound said:
Is this just a measure to prolong the inevitable implosion or will it actually change anything?
The implosion we're looking at will be like Zimbabwe. Their sky high inflation was based on bull****, an inflating monetary supply and lack of real productivity. Now since the problem has gone global it will probably take much longer to feel the effects.

My guess. Discuss.
 

"She Laughed All Night. Then She Ghosted You. Here's Why."

Dinner ran three hours. She laughed at everything. You walked her to her car thinking this one's locked in.

Then: nothing. Two texts. No reply. What happened?

You did what most men do on a great date. You filled every silence, answered every question, and left her with nothing to wonder about. No mystery. Nothing to sit with when she got home.

Rule 3 of the "22 Rules" changes the ending: tell her a little, hold back the rest, and let her imagination do the chasing. The ghosting stops too.

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ArcBound said:
OK someone with economic knowledge, what does it mean that the Fed Reserve is "helping" Europe out by lending* at low rates?

If I'm correct the world was going doomsday over the Greek and Italy Euro crises, so how can this one move save them? Is this just a measure to prolong the inevitable implosion or will it actually change anything?
Basically it is just to allow credit to flow again. It doesn't solve anything fundamentally whatsoever, just a quick sugar hit to the market bloodstream.

The markets rallied more on the interpretation that more global coordinated policy could be to come. With China increasing liquidity and the ECB, RBA and BoE expected to do more soon. If this fails to materialise, markets will blow down just as quick as they rallied.
 

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Our economic system is designed to fail. Because of credit creation, borrowing and bailouts, national economies are going to be in constant debt. The more money gets created by the banks and pumped into the economy, or loaned out to individuals/countries, the lower its value.

The value of money will always decrease. I've lost trust in our monetary system...when I start earning I'm going to convert all my savings into gold and keep it in bank vaults...where it can't be used for credit creation and won't lose value over time (infact gold, because of its scarcity, will increase in value over time).
 

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The baby boomers will collapse Social Security when they retire in full, count on that much, and the "fallout" from that SS collapse will wreck the rest of the US. it's coming for sure, and within 10 years, probably within 5 years, actually.
 
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