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henrymakow.com – Feb 10, 2021

While millions are losing their shirts, millions more are making a killing in the stock market. The Fed has flooded the market with “liquidity” and it goes up every day as it did in the roaring twenties.

Hypnoti$ed, people ignore the fact they have been disenfranchised, and enslaved. 

I asked my friend Chris Pirnak, an experienced trader and born-again Christian: Do you consider stock trading to be gambling? Is gambling a sin? Or is it only a sin to lose? 

Here is his reply:

by Chris Pirnak — (henrymakow.com)

With regards to your concerns over trading and gambling; I often get asked this question. Is trading a sin? Is speculating a sin?

Here is what I have determined, and this takes my understanding of the monetary and financial systems into account. It also incorporates the underpinnings of our social policies as well, and how they are funded. Social benefit recipients, please take note of this conversation.

The short answer is “yes,” but….

Despite what we hear or think, there are no essential differences between investing and speculating…

 

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