Yes,….this has been mentioned a couple of times in the last two or three years….
they are all PAY TO PLAY…..
You could add a lot of names to the list…..Not just Comey…, Mueller, Flynn, just about all the military generals….there are a lot of military hardware providers…..something like 400 or more providing services to Pentagon …..Really a JOKE….
Lockheed , Rolls Royce (x Allison )….on and on..

Make no mistake…..

China and all other countries WILL CREATE THEIR own blockchain fiat currencies.
No country will give up sovereignty over their currency.
It will give them CONTROL over their currency, AND EVERY transfer is trackable.

CHINA is all about control of their people.

As mentioned a few times, it is really silly to act like investors have to only pick one asset class to ride out the storm (Gold vs Bitcoin) as they are not mutually exclusive.

Investors can own both Gold and Bitcoin if they like, along with Bond, Tips, REITs, and defensive dividend paying stocks as a hedge against chaos.

However, what many Gold investors pointed out was that, despite their claims that Bitcoin was Gold 2.0 and would replace the old tired pet rock of Precious Metals, it has NOT played out that way, and there are many differences between the 2 asset classes; even though there are a number of similarities.

What most of us on here and on other platforms pointed out to enthusiastic Millennial investors, was that at the end of 2017, Bitcoin and the hundreds of Altcoins were clearly in a blow-off the top parabolic BUBBLE move….. and that is exactly what happened.

Bitcoin fell from over $19,000 down to $3,000, from Christmas of 2017 to to the end of 2018 in just a year.

That would be like Gold having topped at $1,900 in 2011 and having crashed down to $300 in 2012 (which is NOT what happened).

Bitcoin has just a little over a decade of price history, and the minute the futures markets got involved it got kicked in the pants hard, and tons of naive trend-following lemmings got their arses handed to them on a crypto platter. Many Altcoins crashed even harder -90% -95% or to their intrinsic value of $0.

That was the point the Gold investors were trying to make to overly enthusiastic crypto crazies at that time, and had those investors headed the advice of people that had been investing in speculative sectors longer, those sheeple would have lost a whole lot less money.

It wasn’t unique to Cryptos or Bitcoin, because we saw the same thing play out right after that in the Pot Stocks, just like we had previously seen in Rare Earths, Graphite, Iron Ore, Lithium, and Cobalt. Now we are seeing it again in eSports and Biotech.

Speculative “get rich quick” hot money always finds a trend to hitch it’s wagon to, and what happened in the Cryptos from 2016 into 2017 was not any different.

Now, a few years later, most of the garbage cryptos are bu-bye, and the few legitimate crypto and blockchain companies are still around but trading at a fraction of the valuations they once had. Eventually there will be a few winners and they’ll go on to run even higher but which ones and when that happens — none of the HODLers know.

In fact, having a mantra of Hold On For Dear Life is such a ridiculous investing philosophy as there is a time for buying and a time for selling, and everything is cyclical. For those that got into cryptos early (2008-2012) they went through 2 or 3 other rollercoaster cycles, but when 2017’s ascent happened, it was clearly time to trim or sell to the greater fool. Investors that did that set themselves up very nicely, and those that HODL’d did a round trip all the way up and all the way right back down.

Bitcoin is still the big dog (for now), but it has not been a good “store of value” and those that claim it replaced Gold were Wrongo in the Congo. If anything, it has been an extremely volatile speculative trading asset class, backed up by nothing more than 1’s and 0’s and perception of value.

Gold and Bitcoin are not the same, and they are not arch rivals. They are 2 different assets classes, with some overlap, and some glaring differences. That is it.

It’s the oldest game in town… the shell game where the suckers get played.

Those that believe by protesting or asking the government for free handouts is solving anything, instead of just further destroying value, are those suckers. It is sad, but it is a pattern that has played out over and over again throughout human history.

Some how no matter what the world keeps turning though…

HOLY TOLEDO, I never knew you were 70 years old, Jerry.