Alan Zweibel

Your comment is completely irrelevant to the issue of the relationship between the relationship between the value of a unit of currency and personal wealth.

Whether or not btc continues to appreciate in value has no bearing on your mistaken understanding of the relationship between currency and wealth. Once again, the purchasing power of a unit of currency is irrelevant. What matters is how many you've got.

Well, Vietnam grows mostly robusta and the price for its coffee beans has escalated sharply. In fact, this is true for the price of robusta worldwide.

Coffee, like oil, is a commodity. Absent tariffs and other trade restrictions, its price depends on the world market prices. The same would go for beef. The logistics involved in shipping bananas to where the demand is, probably precludes that trade.

Based on your previous comments it's clear you don't. And asserting otherwise proves nothing.

You misunderstand the nature of currency. It's not like shares in a company or even shares in an economy. What matters is not how much each dollar is worth but how many dollars you (whether liquid or in investments.) If the purchasing power of a dollar has declined by 50% of the last x amount of years but you have 4 times as many dollars are you doing better financially or worse?

You were hoping for this from the guy who campaigned on even more tax cuts?

Did you notice that in the wake of China's threat to restrict access to rare earths the price of bitcoin went down while the price of gold went up?

Typical Pavlovian reflexive right wing comment. Are you claiming that the article about the Royal College of Nursing claim is false? RCN reports 55% rise in members facing racist abuse Analysis of calls to the RCN shows a surge in complaints about racism at work. The data reveals an increase of 55% in three years, with the RCN advice line receiving three calls a day from global majority nursing staff from across the UK. Our members are calling to seek advice and support after being racially discriminated against in the workplace. https://www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-events/news/uk-rcn-reports-rise-in-members-facing-racist-abuse-271025

America's soybean farmers are suffering massive losses thanks to Trump's waging economic warfare on China. But his deeply empathetic Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Bessent, who has a fortune of 500 million, wants the world to know that he share's farmers' pain This is what he said about the issue in an interview with Martha Raddatz: "During an interview Sunday with ABC News’ “This Week,” anchor Martha Raddatz told Bessent that “American farmers have really suffered.” Bessent responded: “Martha, in case you don’t know it, I’m actually a soybean farmer, so I have felt this pain, too.”" https://nypost.com/2025/10/27/business/treasury-secretary-bessent-says-he-has-felt-pain-from-tariffs-because-he-is-a-soybean-farmer/?utm_source=chatgpt.com Trump is deeply empathetic about the issue, too. That's why he is arranging a $40 billion loan to Argentina, a country that has become China's second biggest supplier of soybeans thanks to the trade conflict between China and the US. US soybean farmers aren't exactly pleased. But it gets even better: Trump Lashes Cattle Ranchers While Demanding Lower Prices President Donald Trump is in a beef with cattle ranchers over prices. Trump lashed out at ranchers after they raised alarm over his plan to import Argentine beef, while simultaneously touting his tariffs on cattle and demanding lower prices. “The Cattle Ranchers, who I love, don’t understand that the only reason they are doing so well, for the first time in decades, is because I put Tariffs on cattle coming into the United States,” he wrote in a Truth Social post on Wednesday. https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-lashes-cattle-ranchers-while-demanding-lower-prices/?utm_source=chatgpt.com So, cattle ranchers are doing better because of tariffs and they should lower their prices and do worse because they're doing better. Typical Trump incoherence.

Too much CO2 in the atmosphere will do that to you.

Idaho lawmakers have entered a friendly rivalry with Florida, and the prize is a public health crisis. The state's new "Medical Freedom Act" blocks vaccine requirements for every disease on the chart. It is not just about COVID shots but about freeing measles and polio from decades of captivity. If freedom means a return to iron lungs and schoolhouse quarantines, Idaho is leading the parade. https://boingboing.net/2025/10/23/idaho-races-florida-to-see-who-can-bring-back-polio-first.html

The main reason beef has become painfully expensive comes down to economics and climate: As global temperatures rise, shrinking cattle herds are straining the nation's beef supply even as demand remains strong... The Trump administration this year has imposed new tariffs on several major coffee producers that export to the U.S. That includes a 50% levy on Brazil, a 10% tariff on Colombia and a 20% tax on Vietnam. In Brazil, that has led producers to withhold shipments as they negotiate with American roasters over who will absorb the added costs, throttling supplies in the U.S., according to investment bank UBS. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/inflation-beef-coffee-bananas-food-prices-cpi/ Basically, the 2 main reasons are climate change and tariffs.

From 2010: Climate change to bring fewer, stronger storms Top researchers now agree that the world is likely to face stronger but fewer hurricanes in the future because of global warming, seeming to settle a scientific debate on the subject. But they say there's not enough evidence yet to tell whether that effect has already begun. Since just before Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana and Mississippi in 2005, duelling scientific papers have clashed about whether global warming is worsening hurricanes and will do so in the future. https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/climate-change-to-bring-fewer-stronger-storms-1.939750 From 2024 Are hurricanes becoming more frequent? Climate change has not led to an increase in the total number of hurricanes hitting the U.S. each year. But the storms that do form are more likely to become more intense, with higher wind speeds, heavier rainfall, and more severe storm surge. So while the total number of storms doesn’t appear to be changing, dangerous storms are becoming more common. https://www.npr.org/2024/10/08/nx-s1-5143320/hurricanes-climate-change

No one says you can't criticize. That wasn't the point you raised. You claimed that you won the argument you were having because your team won the election. I was just pointing out the if that's the case, then when Biden was president. all your arguments were losers. You seem to have a problem with grasping even simple logic.

There's a really simple and obvious way to gauge whether or not an MSM source has its facts wrong: Look to see if the opposition plays gotcha. So, when CNN gets a fact wrong, you can be sure that Fox, Newsmax and others will pile on. It works the same the reverse way too.

Unlike Trump, Most Who Seek Money for Official Misconduct Face Long Odds The Federal Tort Claims Act, the law the president invoked to try to obtain hundreds of millions of dollars, is ordinarily a legal labyrinth that few can navigate. https://archive.ph/oV9QY#selection-481.0-485.163

That means that all your comments criticizing Joe Biden's during his tenure were losing arguments. Or, just maybe, your comment is intellectually vacuous.

Did Capone lead a criminal prosecution of President Hoover?

For someone to be in denial about this means that they are either tremendously ignorant, willfully ignorant, or just plain dishonest. His remarks have been all over the place. And to deny that a report issued under his authority doesn't necessarily reflect his views is clearly desperate. At any rate, here's some of what he said in an extended interview with Joe Rogan. A bit before the first time stamp he specifically links glyphosate to non alcohol caused fatty liver cancers among other aillments. As for glyphosate, here is link to to a transcript of his interview with joe rogan. https://podscripts.co/podcasts/the-joe-rogan-experience/1999-robert-kennedy-jr?utm_source=chatgpt.com Below are timestamped portions of transcripts. That way you can check their accuracy by following this link to the actual interview: 01:18:35 — “And there are structures in your gut biome … which are destroyed by glyphosate.” PodScripts+1 01:19:29 — He explains the origin of glyphosate and how it became used as a herbicide. PodScripts+1 01:20:21 — Discussion of the development of “Roundup Ready” crops and the aerial spraying of glyphosate. PodScripts+1 01:21:49 — “…you could see the increase in celiac diseases … when they started spraying it directly on food.” (refers to glyphosate) PodScripts+1 https://jrelibrary.com/1999-robert-kennedy-jr/ So, give up already. Your objections are ridiculous.

I'm trying but I've got a resentment problem with authority figures.

Your comment is unforgiveable. I was planning to use a lot more words to make the same but less well. I was planning to congratulate the member who posted this fascinating story but it turns out they are a moderator. Because I don't want to be accused of sucking up, I didn't. Or did I just do that anyway?

President Trump’s bid to be awarded as much as $230 million by his own Department of Justice as compensation for the various federal probes into his conduct would likely face few legal backstops if successful. The president confirmed Tuesday that his personal legal team was seeking out a settlement, a request that could prompt his own appointees — among them his former defense attorneys — to make the determination of whether to pay up. https://thehill.com/homenews/5572539-legal-experts-question-trump-settlement/ Maybe Trump is ashamedof getting gifts from from foreign governments. So now he's putting America first.

Wrong again. What RFK Jr.’s MAHA Plan Says About Weed Killers Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. raised his concerns about widely used herbicides containing glyphosate and atrazine, linking them to chronic disease, in a Thursday report by the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission. The report highlights two commonly used weed killers—glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, and atrazine, another widely used herbicide for weed control. https://www.newsweek.com/what-rfk-jrs-maha-plan-says-about-weed-killers-2076095

Even if interdiction did work,Venezuela is a bit player in the narcotics industry. Ecuador, Columbia, and Peru are far more important players. These military threats have little to do with the drugs trade.