• Supervisor194@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    Now if only they could do the same with the stock market. But the conspiracy theorist in me believes that all this manipulation is being done hand in hand with certain arms of the government in order to maintain the government’s appearance of solvency and to control inflation in the face of what appears to be nearly unlimited spending. Just keep moving around fake money using a million different utterly opaque methods.

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      20 days ago

      People get convicted of fraud charges all the time. Archegos being probably the biggest non-Trump non-Crypto related cases of late.

      It’s just that if it’s a fraud conviction that’s not related to either Trump or crypto (and maybe soon Trump will be convicted of crypto related fraud!) it’s not big news.

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      20 days ago

      nearly unlimited spending

      The great thing about currency is that it can change hands an infinite number of times and function the same as it did on day one.

      Just keep moving around fake money

      Laughing at my credit card company

      How can I owe you dollars when they’re all worthless?! Idiots!