And

 

I told you 

(spirit did actually)

 that

we were gonna have high interest rates 

and still manage to default on our debt anyway.

I love what the one guy said 

something to the effect of:

"Worrying about the debt ceiling 

is like sitting on the beach worrying if a 30 foot wave is going to damage the pier 

and completely ignoring the 200 foot tsunami coming a quarter mile out."

And JPMorgan Case just bought First Republic.

(2nd largest bank failure in US history BTW

We have now had three of the top five bank failures in this country's history in the last what 6? 8 weeks?

(Signature Bank, Silicon Valley Bank, and now First Republic)

All good, nothing to see here, move along etc...

I mean the big fish just keep getting bigger 

just like somebody said they would.

Right when AI just keeps trucking right along...

‘Godfather of AI’ Geoffrey Hinton quits Google and warns over dangers of misinformation

“I’ve come to the conclusion that the kind of intelligence we’re developing is very different from the intelligence we have,” he said. “So it’s as if you had 10,000 people and whenever one person learned something, everybody automatically knew it. And that’s how these chatbots can know so much more than any one person.”

and they are going to coalesce 

right at the same time 

the big banks

 just keep getting bigger.

Who would have ever thunk it?

Revelation 13

The Beast from the Earth

Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon. And he exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence, and causes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men. And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by those signs which he was granted to do in the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword and lived. He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed. He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

Here is wisdom. 

Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: 

His number is 666."