Hi folks, Jack Spirko here. Today you are listening to an episode of PSP Rewind Commercial Free

Versions of Past Episodes podcast blasts from the past. I put these up when I can't do

a show due to professional commitments or rare vacations. These podcasts will appear

in standard iTunes Stitcher and other feeds, but will be titled PSP Rewind Episodes and

numbered. And today we're Rewinding Way Way Way Back. Not quite to the Genesis shows of

TSP, but very early. March the 9th 2009 Recovery Equals Inflation. Originally episode 156 of the

Survival Podcast. This was not what I originally had intended to leave you guys with for this week

with Rewinds. I had a couple shows set to end this week for you before I get back on Monday.

We'll talk a little bit about Monday and it's a second. But I originally had it set with a couple

shows about picking out, keeping chickens. And I decided to do something a little bit different.

The week before the Rewinds started, I was conversing on Twitter and some stuff came up about the

economic situation they're in. And I thought, self a long, long time ago, didn't you really forecast

exactly everything that's happening with inflation right now? Now, when you listen to this episode,

it will not be exactly the mechanism by which, but will be the exact reasons and will be the

exact logical flow that's resulted in what we had. There's no way I think anybody sitting back

in 2009 could have forecasted the absolute absurd stupidity that was two years of COVID's lockdowns

in screwing the economy up, the continued screwing the economy up, keeping a baby formula

factory shut down with no clear evidence that anything actually ever happened wrong there,

sanctioning Russia and making them into the most successful currency that exists. All the stupid

that we've done, like Joe Biden being president, I don't think anybody expected that no nine,

and we had Obama by then. And I still don't think anybody expected President Joe, especially

President Joe in the 2020s, that just would have been insanity talk. But the upshot of this,

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