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Mostly my research and reading from 2020 04 04 Saturday Hints: while watching videos, try 2x speed first, and then step down to whatever is comfortable.  Some videos can be viewed at 2x for a lot of the time, but then need to be rewound, or slowed down, for second time through Steve Keen is great, but he's not the only economist that is communicating those messages: Stephanie Kelton Dr Stephanie Kelton On Modern Monetary Theory - YouTube  -- does not seem to be aware of debt bubble Stephanie Kelton: MMT, the Crisis, and the Real Economy - YouTube Stephanie Kelton - Wikipedia Michael Hudson The Radical Imagination | Imagining How the World of Finance Really Works - YouTube  -- start at 9:00 or 9:11 -- classical economist Michael Hudson (economist) - Wikipedia www.levyinstitute.org/scholars/michael-hudson Michael Hudson Michael Hudson, Author at Evonomics Of course, understanding money/credit/debt is just one aspect of understanding how things ...

Birth Day 2020 It is my birthday. I’m now 50. And, being halfway to 100, in a way, it feels like this ride is halfway over, and I wonder to myself, what will be next? Looking back, I’ve always wanted to do something to make things better; something to help “save the world”. I think this feeling was always there. I remember back to when I was just starting to think of the answer to the question, “why are you here?”, and there were these TV commercials about the famine in Ethiopia, and not just commercials, but at church we also were encouraged to collect money in a “rice bowl” (made of paper folded into a box that looked sort of like a bowl with a top and a slit in the lid to put in coins) so that rice could be bought to feed the people there, and I had that rice bowl in my room, and I think I may have taken it by bus to the school, and I just wanted to be able to help the people I was a bit of an odd duck at that time. My parents lived far back off the road, and my backya...

Our universe is like an uncut film reel with us as the viewer It's not a perfect analogy, but it reveals some mind blowing, paradigm changing truths Consider an uncut recording of the planet Jupiter and it's moons, recorded by a space telescope for a month. If we watched it in fast forward, we would see the moons revolving around Jupiter, all at their own velocities, moving right to left, then left to right, each one further out, and each one taking longer to trace it's path. At the same time, the Great Red Spot would be spinning the way that it does Now, take that uncut and continuous recording, and put it into the film projector. Project it on the wall at a constant rate. That is time. Notice that the entire recording exists all at the same time, not just the projection we see on the screen. The projection just depends on which part of the film the lamp light is shining through. If we were to watch the film, and someone was to say, "maybe one of those moon...