Do you know of any other billionaires who survived four corporate bankruptcies and thrived in the aftermath? You probably don’t. He is still a multi-billionaire?

Trump is a genius businessman. He learns fast from his victories and his defeats.

What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war. (Trump)

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Venice has perfected the art of using some of its allies against a rebel nation like Napoleon. Our biggest down fall was the manifestation of mass production industry, which created so much wealth and power. I see it sort of like a dam.If you let a big dam builds up hug amounts of waters, you can generate lots of power. and if ya wanted, you blow the dam up and flood the valley for at least a few hundred miles. When the dam industrial power or military power builds up too much reserve.It can flood over a nation and wipe it out. The trick is not not to build a dam in the first place. Some call it Collectivism. Its always deadly.

the US prez declares a national emergency and temporarily puts the US banking system under federal control — to keep the current system running while congress writes new banking law. Simultaneously, the master persuader prez (a Trump like figure) convinces Wall Street traders to not tank the stock market.

army personnel are called in to keep the banking system computers running and the ATMs working and paypal working.

perp walks? or, exile? public hangings?

as long as the electricity is still flowing, could such a righteous coup d’etat like that actually be pulled off?

what kind of “dead man switches” would the bankers turn on?

I have at last published “Inheritance, the Prodigal Son and Interest in “Interest””. Here’s an excerpt that expresses my opinion:

https://ozziethinker.wordpress.com/2018/07/13/inheritance-the-prodigal-son-and-interest-in-interest/

“….Before I discuss inheritance, it is important to review something much more primordial. We take friendships for granted. They just happen. Or do they just happen? Our first friendships are with family or extended family. Managing relationships with our family members teaches us how to distinguish friends from enemies. These teach us politics (affairs of the people). They teach us who we can influence and who we will let influence us. A trade of sorts is communicated. Eventually we form close knit groups of likeminded kindred spirits. Perhaps not directly considered such, we are all elitist in the way we resolutely preserve our group cultures. When stretched out into the wider community and beyond, we expand into other political networks. Some present revolutionary, but not conflicting ideas. These see us progress, in some cases. Some ideas are so common they become universalised. Politicians naturally capitalise on, exploit and manipulate these phenomena.

Eventually draconian laws are destined to twist what was original goodwill into all kinds of overt tyrannies in order to elevate elite elitist cultures. Laws have always been the basis for kingdoms. Under this principle, every king has ruling power. However, without friendships there would be no alliances to back the laws and politics that founded them would be rendered superfluous and obsolete. No king could rule. In addition, under these conditions, though commerce would be possible, other than as a tool of oppression, inheritance could have no functional purpose. It would also mean people would be forced to discover the truth if they were motivated that way. They could no longer rely on friends’ redigested second and third hand opinions that sounded right.

As it stands “Inheritance” is one of the golden keys to open Pandora’s Box. In a distant era populated by long forgotten customs and attitudes, it was exclusively the domain of the elites. At that time land was free, commoners outside metropolises were largely ungoverned and there was no sense of ownership (per modern standards). Individuals congregated into clans and these became long standing settlements which then saw homesteads passed down from generation to generation. But there was no registered ownership. If some place was occupied and sympathetically unavailable, sound conscience determined it was off limits. When the “universalisation” of deeds of ownership tied to symptomatic inheritance of chattel began is hard to calculate. In “western society”, I would argue that the abolishment of “slavery” (social security) led to the effective enslavement of man. Inheritance then evolved to become a quasi-version of the “frills” of slavery. “Rights” would be proscribed by authorities unless aspects of commoners’ common law were considered relevant (to seamless elite governance of slaves). In this case any reflectively worthy laws were drafted as supplants to legislated corporate manifestos. It goes without saying administrators of guidelines were systemised lackeys incapable of virtuous judgement. Finally, courtesy of banking and insurers, everything could be “valued” and that “worth” represented by tokens of interest (whether that is gold/silver bars, coins or promissory notes)…..”

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