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e strains, I'm done with the booster. Now if science in some credible way, you know I'd have to see more than one study or one opinion, but if I could be convinced, and I think I could, that in fact the booster is safer than the Omicron or at least that it's a toss-up, well I might modify my opinion. I might. But at the moment a booster shot would be stupid if you think you can wait it out until…

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ta changes. So I'll probably do that.

All right. Is inflation transitory? What do you think? I'll put this to you. Some on the Democrat side would have us believe that the inflation is transitory. What do you think? Well, I think it is, because everything's transitory. It's just how you define transitory, I suppose. There's no such thing as permanent inflation. You know, eventually the sun will burn out and the Earth will be a cold dead lump of coal. So I mean yeah, I guess you'd have to define transitory. If it's transitory over the next five years, would you call that transitory? If inflation continued to be a problem, let's say for five years, but then it calmed down, is that transitory? Now transitory feels like less than a year, doesn't it? I feel like that's what that feels. So I doubt there's anything that's transitory.

But let me give you some context here using my vast economic experience. I do have a degree in economics. I've got an MBA from a good school, so I'm not completely incompetent talking about this topic. Surprising. And here's what I know about inflation. Nobody really knows how that works. It feels like it'd be the easiest thing in the world, right? Add more money to the system, you know, juice the activity, demand will outstrip supply, reasonably predictable, prices go up. So the mechanism of inflation is pretty clear. But there are always these big surprises.

For example, all of that makes sense, but what if tomorrow a fusion reactor comes online and two years from now everyone has one in their closet? Now that's not going to happen, but there could be technical changes that change everything.

Somebody paid ten dollars to get blocked by me. So

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the vector says, wow it took Scott this long to wake up to the COVID sham. Congrats Scott, now you're using your noggin. Welcome to the plug club, big guy. He paid ten dollars to say a comment that I just said will get you blocked. I appreciate your money. You're a... but thank you for the money and you're hidden on this channel. All right. Anybody else want to get blocked? I'm in a blocking mood.…

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