Especially when they began trading in the fur trade for guns, they created their own little fiefdoms for hunting, which meant keeping other tribes off their land.

Sure they had slaves and the typical patriarchal society where women were treated like property, but at least you never had to worry about leaving your tipi unlocked, those were the good old days.

If Europe cares about climate change they will force carriers to open source their firmware. Why should a phone be allowed to be non-updateable?

I knew about them excluding shelter from the CPI in the late 80s, as Volcker raising rates was raising shelter inflation in a feed back loop, and this untethered the CPI from reality. I’d not heard about them goosing the unemployment numbers.

He is fixing some of the fraud at least.

If democrats don’t take fraud seriously then people will want someone who will. We need a more logical democrat who takes tax dollars seriously, to efficiently distribute the money to those who need it and cut down on waste to optimize tangible value.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/03/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-eliminates-information-silos-to-stop-waste-fraud-and-abuse-60f3/

You need to journey to Epstein’s island to find Bill Gates to discover the secret.

I think it was when the gold standard ended, and poverty was rampant as all the debt unwound. Black unemployment was 30%.