Tag: Powell!
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Reprint on complex money
I’ve been talking loosely about real money vs imaginary money. I made the point more directly two years ago: = = = = = START REPRINT: An old thought leads to a new ‘data visualization’. Old thought: This is one of my Thiel questions, one of the relatively unknown facts I’ve figured out by reading…
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I can see it now…
The Ankler is discussing the bank runs as a future movie….. I can see it now. It’s an Effective Life. Sammy as George Bailey. Caroline as Marian the Librarian. William MacAskill as Oddbody. Powell as the bartender: “This is a HARD BANK. We serve HARD MONEY to HARD MEN. We don’t want no Bitcoin Twinkies…
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Spring rebirth
Polistra and friends enjoy a refreshing spring shower now that warm weather has finally arrived. Thank the Lord and thanks to Jerome Powell for continuing to hold the line despite universal screeching from the vultures. Real business and thrift have a chance of rebirth now. = = = = = Graphics footnote after posting: The…
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Stupidest game
Ordinary people solve problems all the time, in life and in work. Politicians make problems, and when they’re not making problems they write stupid stageplays that look like solving problems. This one is a very old Repooflican game. “President Biden is prioritizing politics over his own people,” House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said at a signing…
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Makes sense.
Pointed via Reddit, an interesting observation from a survey about scam-spotting. Extroverts have a harder time detecting fake reviews. Makes complete sense. Unpopular people NEVER experience a positive reaction in real life, so we KNOW from long and painful experience that EVERY positive reaction is fake. Popular people ALWAYS get positive reactions, so their experience…
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Sanity returns to influencers
During QE, all influencers were “investing” in stupid IPOs and fantastically brainless bitcoin. Now that Powell has stopped the counterfeit, some rich athletes are returning to real capitalism. A brokerage is buying farmland for the influencers and renting it out to farmers. Sharia would approve, and real economics also approves. Unlike Gates and other Gaian…
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Another victory for coal
This demonic move wasn’t well publicized. I hadn’t read about it until today. The demon states are already banning natural gas appliances in new construction, and the feds are getting ready to do the same. They’re using an insane tiny pseudo-“correlation” with asthma, based on one small “study”, to “justify” the ban. THESE ARE THE…
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Looking back to 2008
Now that Powell has amazingly turned OFF the counterfeit, I looked back at the start. I wrote a sequence of pieces in Sept 2008, trying to organize my thoughts about the theft, and concluding with a major essay. Recounting the sequence… In this piece I outlined the Sharia and Soviet alternatives to capitalism, but at…
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Same/opposite
Okay, here’s a suitable year-end shit, inspired by reading Huxley’s 1927 essays. Compare events that came out exactly as I thought, versus events that came out the opposite way. Check my own biases and assumptions. = = = = = Exactly as I thought: In Feb 2020, when China started doing the lockdown lunacy, my…
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Year-end shit
Not in a mood for a year-end or Xmas piece. I’ll repeat 2020’s piece, which still holds true, then add one vaguely quasi-semi-hemi-demi-positivishesque note. = = = = = START REPRINT: Guess I should continue the habit of doing a year-end dump. Not worth it this time. 2020 needs to be thrown away and skipped,…
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Thankful for?
This year I can finally see one point of gratitude. QT. Jerome Powell at the central bank is RESOLUTELY turning away from infinite counterfeit and infinite debt. He can’t solve the problems that began before 2008, but he is QUICKLY solving all the shit that started in 2008, including social media, tech craziness, bitcoin, and…
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Not enough Parkinson
The data-gatherers are still somewhat innocent of the way the world works. In response to demon Emily Oster’s announcement that there will be an amnesty, the data-gatherers are invoking “rights” and “laws” and “morality”. None of those myths can possibly affect the behavior of demons. We’ll never have a Nuremberg. The original Nuremberg was enforced…
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Wrong Great Man
Kirn: I find it interesting that just when it appeared the takeover of Twitter was inevitable & the censorship regime would end, the establishment suddenly started questioning the closing of schools during the pandemic, vacillating about the vaccines, & endorsing the lab-leak theory. Probably not. Those specific shifts are just how psychopaths work. CONSTANT FAST…
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Two solvers
We have exactly two problem-solvers in the world of politics and power. All the rest are demonic problem-generators or passive helpers for the demons. The first problem-solver is DeSantis in Florida. He is clearly following FDR’s model. Ignore ideology, forget standard sayings and standard tactics. Just fix what’s broken. He’s also explaining his actions clearly…
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Best prescription
Writing in City Journal, NS Lyons diagnoses the rebels of this age precisely and comprehensively, and offers the most REALISTIC prospect for a solution. Lyons gives too much credit to Trump. Like many other sympathetic diagnosers, he believes Trump was blindsided by Deepstate: = = = = = As the Trump administration belatedly discovered, taking…
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