・Even though interest rates were high and government bond prices fell throughout last year (2024), the US dollar was getting higher, so it wasn't necessarily negative for foreign investors to buy US bonds by exchanging their national currency for US dollars, but since the beginning of this year, in addition to the low bond trend, the US dollar index has also declined, so investing in US bonds has led to double losses (p18)
・According to the Bribery Incentive Act called the “Lobbying Control Act” of 1946, if lobbyists registered in the Bundestag are used, companies can move members of parliament to create a system of laws convenient for them, and since then, the international competitiveness of companies has drastically declined, and the current account balance is in the red (p23)
・Speaking of natural life expectancy, the American economy will die for half a year this year, in January or February 2026, but since the Trump administration will try to maintain an apparent boom until the midterm elections scheduled for November of the same year, it is likely that it will die in the wild in July or August exactly one year from now (p27)
・Why did US stock prices rise? The biggest reason is that the environment has not improved, nor has there been technological innovation; the biggest reason is that money supply has increased. It was 9 trillion dollars in 2012, but recently it has exceeded 21 trillion dollars, and only US stocks were the largest management destination (p37)
・The current stock depreciation (2025.4) simultaneously led to US debt depreciation, and since leverage spanning 100 times was applied, an avalanche phenomenon of US bond sales occurred when someone cut losses, and then the US dollar also fell due to loss cuts by people who borrowed other countries' currencies and bought US dollar-denominated US bonds (p41)
・Annual interest payments remained below 400 billion dollars throughout the 20th century, but in 2020 it has risen to 5800, nearly double that to 1.12 trillion dollars in 2025, a GDP ratio of 4.6% (p47)
・There is a high possibility that most of Tesla's stock price increases occurred after 2019, when regulations on overtime transactions were relaxed, and when large buy orders are placed outside of business hours, it takes time for sales to come out in the number of shares that match, and during that time a sharp rise in stock prices not based on performance will occur (p114)
・It seems that BYD is growing while securing operating profit even among EV manufacturers, but they are collecting sales as quickly as possible, spending an inordinate amount of time such as 3 months for inspection and half a year collating purchase orders and receipts, and they are just pretending that they are barely generating operating profit due to the time difference between sales and payment (p117)
・The United States has almost 20 to 30 times the market price of every Pentagon order procurement, so in reality it only has military power almost equal to that of countries whose defense budgets are 20 to 30 times their own (p141)
・The reason why England, France, etc. that had colonial management accumulated large foreign assets did not secure surpluses through trade itself; they bought primary products cheaply using their position as a suzerain against the colonies, sold industrial products at a high price, and earned money through financial intermediation etc. (p181)
・After World War II, Gulliver companies almost lost their privileged position within two generations, and since the 1980s, the idea that once they have established a position within the industry, they should protect their position with bribes is pervasive. The exceptions are the military industry, oil and gas industry, and finance industry (p182)
・France recognized mixed race, but in the English colonies, white people viewed it as taboo for white people to have children with black people, and people with even one drop of black blood mixed with black people tried to protect pure white blood as much as possible by classifying them as black people even if they only looked white on the outside (p200)
・The biggest reason America abandoned the idea of enslavement of indigenous people and decided on mass importation of black slaves was a highly practical consideration that escaped indigenous people could clearly not be seen as slaves even when viewed from a distance, but if they were black, they could be identified at a glance (p209)
・The Homestead Act of 1862 is often described as good government aimed at nurturing small-scale self-employed farmers in Japan, but the real purpose of this law was to drive all indigenous families to places where they were at a disadvantage even in war on unfamiliar land, and where they didn't know where to escape well (p215)
・If several men and women own slaves, children are born, and they can be used on farms as slaves for the next generation, and sold to others. The price of domestic slaves, who spoke English from the time they were born and their parents did all the training as slaves, was much higher than the price of African slaves (p224)
・As the situation of black people worsened due to the emancipation of slaves, 1) many black people who were unable to migrate to the Northern Free State had no choice but to rent land owned by their original owners and cropping, and even minimal nutritional supplementation to work healthily, which was guaranteed when they were slaves, 2) it was unpleasant in itself that former slaves, who were their high-value assets, acted freely, and incidents where they lawfully lynched black people who were former slaves It occurred frequently (p235)
・Looking at the price fluctuation rate of representative financial assets from year to mid-June 2025, gold bullion rose close to 30% by far, and the US dollar fell 10%. This is a depreciation of the dollar assuming that gold with no counterparty risk will show a drastic price increase, and the status of the US dollar as the key currency and America's position as a hegemonic nation will fluctuate (p264)
・In America, where weapon prices have skyrocketed due to the exchange of bribes over many years, even rocket engines that can carry normal intercontinental ballistic missiles cannot be produced domestically, and they have been outsourced to Russian weapons factories for the past 10 years or more. Hypersonic missiles (until now, only 3 countries of Russia, China, and Iran have developed p308), which is a technology far ahead, are close to daydreaming (p309)
・There is a reason why Trump was seriously angry at Netanyahu's provocative actions at the beginning of the cease-fire, because if a full-scale missile battle were to be fought with Iran, it would be revealed how old and shabby it was that the missile groups used by America in actual combat only cost money (p310)
