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If the federal government were to shut down, my life would indeed be affected. Here is an exhaustive list of all the services the government provides to me:
This concludes my list.
As crazy as I am about CryptoStream (it’s my constant companion), the one thing it was never designed for was tax calculations. In other words, a system to track all your trading, keep track of overall profits and losses, and boil it all down at the end of the year into something meaningful and IRS-ready.
I stumbled upon Cointracker, which you can learn about here, in case you’re trading crypto. It has to grind awhile for a while to do the “wallet synch”, since the data in the crypto world is large and unwieldy, but it gets the job done. Below I’ve pasted my own chart from them, which shows the cash I keep throwing into my account (orange dotted line) and the total value (the blue line). The spread between them, I’m pleased to say, represents the profits.
A week ago, I did a humorous post about the freak show we have here in California in the form of the gubernatorial recall and election. This election is coming up fast, on September 14th. Some might find that day is also National Cream-Filled Doughnut Day. The latest polls show that Newsom is a little safer than he was a month ago, when it was neck-and-neck.
Spot-on! And remember, Jackson Hole is coming up the last week of this month. I leave on Thursday to begin my incantations to break the spell.
I stumbled upon the latest long-term projection of U.S. from the Congressional Budget Office, and even if we ignore the fact that these projections are based on rosy estimates with absolutely no surprises along the way, these are some jaw-dropping charts. And, spoiler alert, things will be WAY worse than they are guessing. Anyway…………
Federal debt held by the public is projected to equal 202 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2051, and the deficit is projected to equal 13 percent of GDP.
