Things are Getting Really Strange Out There

This country and world are getting really strange. Let me give you some examples. First of all, interest rates are at 5000 year lows. We now have over  12 trillion dollars worth of negative interest rate government bonds out there. That means if you buy one of these government bonds, you are guaranteed to lose money. Seriously? Is that an investment?

For now, US government bonds still pay a little interest, but not much. So we now live in a world where governments and a few people get paid to borrow money and you get penalized if you save money. What is wrong with this picture?

The stock market is making new highs while corporate profits are going down and corporate defaults are rising. Does this seem a little backwards? How long can this continue?

We have mass killings almost every other week by radical Islamists. However, on the flip side, we are told not to criticize them because that is hate speech. In addition, we are supposed to let thousands of refugees in the country without a good way to vet them. Does this make sense to anyone?

We kill hundreds of thousands of unborn babies every year. In New York almost a third of the babies conceived are aborted. This is all done as a ‘choice’. However, if you kill a bald eagle, you can spend a year in jail for it. Are our values a littles upside down?

When I was young, it was rare to see a gay couple. Marriage was a respected bond between a man and a woman and that was how it was defined. Now Gay marriage is legal in all 50 states and people that oppose it are penalized. Have we advanced or gone backwards in God’s eyes?

Everything seems to backwards these days. What makes you think our system will stand up and continue to exist. Is it so broken that any crisis can cause it to collapse?

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