APRIL 2026

 Posted to Gold Shaw Farm (RE: Most Farms Lose Money) Uploaded to You Tube on 03/3/2026

When the farming crisis of late 1980's came up, with farm land that had been overvalued by banks, I was thinking what does this remind me of? Then Morgan mentioned the 2008-9 real estate crisis which arose due to residential properties being absurdly overvalued by the banks. This was explained quite entertainingly in the 2015 film, The Big Short. One of that films famous "breaking the fourth wall" commentators, all of whom professionally and clearly explained this mess, was Margot Robbie in a bubble bath. Banks get bailed out, we move on and wait for the next economic downturn. I never thought that tariffs (Canada doesn't usually get mad at any one, but they are quite irritated with the U.S. right now) were the answer to U.S. economic inequities. I also have no idea how to fix any of this. I do know that I am paying more now (in mid-2026) than in early 2025 for a seemingly endless list of necessities including but not limited to food, gasoline, electricity, natural gas. I won't get into healthcare as that is a huge problem by itself.  Maybe awareness of a problem (aka the economic snare that we habitually fall into), will be a first step towards ideas to at least stabilize our ups and downs?  THANK YOU to Morgan Gold for doing much more work for this video than I probably did for my senior thesis in philosophy. It was on Plato. I think that my grade was a C.😉