“As a form of collateral/insurance creditors have been or will be granted access to domestic policy and guaranteed influence over decision making institutions in general. In this way, global oligarchy becomes a stake holder in the US government. This is where things become complicated further and problems deeper.”
“…as for this morning’ ‘it’s quiet, too quiet’ is the only quote that comes to mind.”
“An understanding of the physical nature of Bitcoin allows us to revisit our previous analysis of the physical characteristics of precious metals, comparing and contrasting them with cryptocurrencies.”
“Dear Jamie. Last week you said a few things about Bitcoin” …
“For anything to happen, 5Y5Y sector has to move higher. This is the catalyst for everything.”
“The dot com bubble had the internet. A constant theme of bubbles is the ability of speculators to shout that dreaded cry “this time it’s different.” Logical arguments against the bubble can then be disregarded as speculators declare that the doubters simply do not understand that the world has changed.”
“For context, Bitcoin’s collapse in value in early September was worse than the collapse in the value of the German mark at the start of the Weimar hyperinflation.”
“We use that address for mail [but we operate] a small office in the area.”
“Painting over cracks”…
“We don’t get to say that “it’s OK†not to understand what moves markets, because every day we are all making bets that say we do.”
“The share of stock that might trade on fundamental views has dropped to 77% for S&P500 average stock from 95%” in the space of just 10 years.
“When you see the waft of ICO’s (Initial Coin Offerings) hitting the market, you have to ask yourself what these “investors†are smoking. Let’s put aside whether bitcoin, ethereum, or some other transactional coin, ends up being a medium of exchange with real value. Instead let’s focus on these ICO’s.”
While there’s no way to know, ahead of time, if “this time is different” in
“What a bunch of superstitious hogwash.”
Secret Service: “Do you know Melissa Byrne?â€
Neighbor: “No.â€
Secret Service: “Why would she protest President Trump?â€
Neighbor: “Because he’s a f—ing racist.â€
“There can be only one.”
“It also makes us inexorably prone to affectation. We must add our own signature, that thing that distinguishes us or our product; the figurative chili-powder-in-the-meth of whatever our form of productive output happens to be.”
But not like Beldar.
“Lehman was not a Black Swan. I worked there for seven years and we spent most of them imagining the firm abruptly failing.”
“…not one bore any substantive relevance to Islamic State ideology, suggesting a shallow ideological grounding at best.”
“In the same way a boxer who drops his guard runs a risk of being knocked out, complacent markets are facing a potentially painful encounter with reality.”
” At a time of rock-bottom confidence in public institutions, it is notable that the intelligence oversight system, a system with hardly a trace of populism in its design, actually works effectively at its core purpose: assuring the public that the intelligence community is doing its job within the law.”
“Across the Middle East, the administration drives the United States ever further into wars without end, increasing the dangers of direct military confrontation with Russia and Iran, with little awareness and no mandate from the American people. This is a recipe for calamity.”
“The Team has been assigned to consolidate “existing algorithm-based technology initiatives related to mission areas of the Defense Intelligence Enterprise.†That remit expressly includes “all initiatives that develop, employ, or field artificial intelligence, automation, machine learning, deep learning, and computer vision algorithms.”
“Trump’s determination to undermine his symbolic self has become especially clear in the last two months: The presidential tweets are screaming of self-sabotage, and the display of conflicts of interests is just too obvious and explicitly self-incriminating to be unintentional.”
“Simply put, it’s a negative.”
“Three decades of heroin price history parallel the transformation of the neoliberal state and society. It tells an interesting story of business, politics, economics, globalization, and governmentality.”
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