24 hours left in this three year chapter!!! The plane leave midnight my time tomorrow and I land in the realm of maple syrup, dart ripping, hoser-bashing, and plaid-wearing tree chopping mastery. I'll be arriving to attend a truly manly bachelor party, legit including axe throwing, like, actually (because we're lumberjacks). Kyn is becoming a man! Leaving us boys in the dust.

Although the federalis still have my passport, approving my request for a visa cancellation. I have been told I willlll receive it tomorrow afternoon, a handful of ours before my flight, but damn, it's a nail biter! I can't cancel this flight, for bachelor party reasons and a visa appointment next week for the UK in Toronto, and cuz I can't refund this ticket. Damn damn damn.

Enjoying my last overpriced pint at the local watering hole

What prices did you pay for a pint there?

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Ealdorman Cerdic Beoden Accynnafon of Östlond
Runner Up of the Glas Claddach Boat Building Competition
Minister of Justice

32 dirhams, which is about ten dollars Canadian. Pints are expensive everywhere (more so here), but unlike say UK where you can make a pitspot to a local convenience store for piss cheap cans or bottles, my only option here is the licensed pubs attached to hotels or freezones.

Well ten bucks Canadian isn't too bad anymore :p

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Ealdorman Cerdic Beoden Accynnafon of Östlond
Runner Up of the Glas Claddach Boat Building Competition
Minister of Justice

Prices are ratcheting up everywhere I gather?

Mumbles about inflation.. Mumbles about my disdain for currency depreciation as a monetary policy. Mumbles against keynesianism.

No, that was directed towards the looney losing so much value recently.

Where I live, in California, it's $6 a pint, $4 during happy hour. Back in the Midwest it was $4.50 for a pint, $3 during happy hour.

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Ealdorman Cerdic Beoden Accynnafon of Östlond
Runner Up of the Glas Claddach Boat Building Competition
Minister of Justice

All currencies in the world, except USD, have been falling. This is due to the monetary model of depreciation to boost exports. Export revenues are trumpeted as being more important than the loss of purchasing power for every day citizens.

The US is the only nation on the planet shielded from this, due to the primacy of the USD and US treasuries in a very uncertain global economy. Still, inflation is still hitting the US, a nation engaging in even more quantitative easing and printing than any other on the planet, but it is significantly muted thanks to the primacy of US treasuries.

Now, a topic for another day is: will that last? If bond markets crash, the world will face a far bigger correction than we seen in 2007.. this will lead to a flock to USD and treasuries further still, until the world realized US monetary policy is even more detached from solvency than any other. When that realisation hits: we're in for real instability.

Prepare for massive inflation to physical goods, and massive deflation to liquid assets tied to debt.

Rant off.

(Mumbles something about freedom and bald eagles)

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