On Thursday evening, Donald Trump issued a challenge to one of his political rivals on Twitter.
That wouldn’t be news in and of itself since he does it all the time, but this particular Quixotic endeavor was noteworthy because the windmill at which he is tilting isn’t a human being.
“On Russia, we have no illusions about the regime we are dealing with.”
This horse has left the barn Vitalik. You can’t put the genie back in the bottle now.
Of record highs and lots of other stuff.
Why, you might fairly ask, would Trump walk into a firehouse and lie to everyone about something they, in their capacity as firemen, don’t care about anyway?Â
“Can the economy handle fewer interest rate increases before rolling over? Does the ever-growing-indebted financial system continue to stall at increasingly lower yield levels? And if so, does that mean we are on the cusp of the next great crisis? Will the Fed have inadvertently tightened into the next slowdown?”
“We know QE as the source of all good in financial markets”…
Boy, there is so much irony in this story that it’s hard to know where to begin.Â
Government interference in cryptocurrencies is something of a bitter-sweet proposition for crypto bulls.
“In a market, if it matters to someone, it should matter to everyone. And narratives matter to a whole lot of someones.”
“It’s really a godsend to them.â€
You wouldn’t know it from looking at any market-based measures of volatility, but 2017 was a hugely consequential year. I assume that goes without saying.Â
“Modern day misogyny, as the ultimate male fantasy, is a nostalgia for the times of lower entropy, a return to the past as a site of coherence, and a relapse to the patriarchal setting when man held their “naturally deserved†upper hand and He (who is a male) ruled the world.”
You should be fine as long as the risk factors don’t stretch into the triple digits.
