RedBeard’s Curious Life

I’ve seen a proliferation of commercials and ads lately for gold-peddling merchants. Some want to buy your unwanted gold jewelry, some want to sell you pure gold coins. They try to pull you in with some simple hook, but the market of precious metals is hardly simple. We are currently experiencing the highest unit price of gold in history – over $1100 per troy ounce – which is good if you bought a bunch of gold 5+ years ago and would prefer to have cash now, but who knows where the price will go from here. This also raises a question as to why the price has skyrocketed recently and why it’s being pushed so hard by the aforementioned merchants.

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The essential foundation of our entire economy is energy. Some other support is provided by material property, time, and intelligence, but those are worthless without energy. In the face of a dwindling energy supply, changing climate, and increasing population, strain on our economy will likely increase.

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I’d like to announce my candidacy for the 2020 presidential election. You might think it a little premature, but this country needs a serious kick back into gear before it becomes totally derailed, and I see no reason to wait until I’m of legal age to begin spreading the word. Our national self-image is so disjointed from reality that it’s become a comedic target, and this rift is only serving to increase our complacency and widen the gap between our peak potential and our current state of affairs.

My platform? Elementary, dear reader. This country needs an engineer to properly address our political and societal machinery that has become rusted and inefficient. Many areas need to be modified, and nothing is safe from reform. Among the areas that need the most work:
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United States Constitution, Article I, Section 8, Clause 8: “[The Congress shall have Power] To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries”

Towards this goal, our Congress has implemented a number of laws and offices with the intention of protecting the production of intellectual property. The primary areas of interest are summarized as follows:

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