Has the cost of HiFi gotten a bit too much?

@andy2 Where does that cash come from?

In my case, and I expect most others on this site, it came from a lifetime of hard word, living below my mothly income so I always had something left to invest for my future, making prudent investments over several decades and not expecting the government or anyone one else for that matter to be responsible for be past retirement age.  "The Fed" had nothing to do with it.  

@bigtwin +1

Noam Chomsky once quipped that if the Nuremberg laws and regs applied just post WWII, were moved forward and applied fairly to all, up to today's date, that each and every president since then, would be hung by the neck until dead, for the crimes of genocide on the world stage.

That, as actions may go, was inextricably tied to the policies of the Fed, an outfit which is entirely private and has never been audited.

the ride you got to take,and the ability to make investments and so on, was supported, nay enabled almost entirely- by the taking of the blood and life of others.

It's an unpopular reality,and I, being in Canada do not escape the crime at all... but if looked at openly and honestly it is indeed true.

We may have both been born into it, but that does not lend it integrity nor humanity.

That, as actions may go, was inextricably tied to the policies of the Fed, an outfit which is entirely private and has never been audited.

KPMG audited the FED in 2021. The President appoints and Senate approves the board of governors. The FED exists by act of Congress and can be abolished by act of Congress. Now go back to blabbing about fuses, nano goop, cable direction and other mindless drivel. 

"The Fed" had nothing to do with it.

The majority of wealth of the ultra rich is created through the rise in asset bubbles such as the stock market and the housing market. The FED has a lot to do with it.