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Who Really Understands The Risks? It’s Probably Not Who You Think.
I think that gets it backwards.
Jose Canseco Needs A Lawyer For An ICO That Merges Celebrity Crypto With Unwanted Hugs
Everyone’s favorite steroid-using market genius (not named Nassim Nicholas Taleb) is getting in on the crypto craze at exactly the right time! You know, like he did with gold.
Breaker One-Niner
The market’s verdict was as follows.
New From Epsilon Theory: ‘But What Is It, Really?’
“The name of the thing being sold isn’t always a very good representation of what the thing is, sometimes for innocent reasons, and sometimes because crunchy, raw, unboned, real, dead frog doesn’t sound very appetizing.”
Cryptos Dive As CFTC Subpoenas Bitfinex And Tether Who Maybe, Maybe Doesn’t Have That $443 Million
Cryptos were already on the back foot Tuesday, so things probably didn’t need to get any worse, but they just did anyway.
Carnage In Cryptocurrencies As Coincheck Withdrawal Halt, NEM Collapse Rattle Market
How many times have we said it? Almost everyone needs an exchange.Â
Bitcoin Falls Below $10,000 (Again) As South Korea Stamps Out Anonymous Trading
The “revolution” has seen better days.
Thanks A Lot: Full Week Ahead Preview
Holiday road.
Larry Summers Worries You Are A Rank Amateur Investor Who ‘Has Seen Nothing But Up’
“I worry that there’s going to be a kind of band-wagoning.”
The Market In-Itself Myth
“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.”
Trader: Investors Have Become ‘A Great Passel Of Hogs’ Who Will Be Summarily ‘Butchered’
“In a financial world characterized by central bank front running and put issuing, being a swine has been acceptable behavior. You can play the part and not get slapped. However, as we start to seriously contemplate tapering or, dare I say it, normalizing, the risk becomes that the great passel of hogs does meet their prophesized fate and gets butchered.”
Trading The White Moose With Carl Icahn
“Central Banks are printing money out of thin air and buying stocks with it. Stop a moment and really take that in.”
Qatar Cut Off: Everything You Need To Know About Monday’s Mideast Earthquake
You might be wondering why Saudi Arabia seemingly gave Qatar the Fredo Corleone treatment on Monday.
And At 6 Minutes After Midnight, Trump Did Deliver The Orb’s Message: “Covfefe”
There’s a logic to Trump that you can only get if you look at Trump
Tuesday Humor: Trump Photoshops His Own Tweet Into Twitter Banner Pic
If you’re a political scientist, there’s not a whole lot to like about a Donald
Only A “Black Swan” Can Stop Me Now!
“So what would it take to upset this perfect equilibrium? Something the market is not expecting, something completely out of left field, an unknown unknown”…
Steve Bannon’s “Secret” White Board Revealed By “Rabbi Breitbart” On Twitter
“Build the border wall and eventually make Mexico”….
Trader: “Be Wary Of People Who Say ‘That’s That'”
“But however sanguine your base case is for the outcome, the shock risks are real here and now, as well as from what any of the outcomes will imply.”
Do Us All A Favor: Don’t Make A Mockery Of Dead Syrian Children. Ok, Thanks.
We have another Heisenberg “protip” for readers: when you read “analysis” of Mideast affairs, you
“Why Trump Lies”: LA Times Again Takes Aim At President, Alt-Right In Full Frontal Assault
“He has made himself the stooge, the mark, for every crazy blogger, political quack, racial theorist, foreign leader or nutcase peddling a story that he might repackage to his benefit as a tweet, an appointment, an executive order or a policy.”
Chart Check: “Le Pen Risk” Falls To Lowest In 5 Weeks
Is the Le Pen “tail risk” becoming more tail risk-ish?
Dear America: Why Can’t The Right Seem To Get Its Story Straight?
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but the alt-Right can’t seem to make up its mind lately…
Saturday Humor: Trump’s Drunk Press Conference & The Black Swan Godfather
“I know who you are, just wait.”
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