04-11-26 savo
for those interested in stats..Q4 gdp growth revised to 0.5% annualized from 0.7%.. that leaves 2025 at 2.1%.. and bodes very badly for 2026..
so much for schrodinger Trump's hottest economy in the history of the world...
meanwhile inflation up and up..
and the fed added another 200bn to its balance sheet in Q1 26
this experiment is going to end very badly
#deathbyinflationordeathbyfinancialcrisis |
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04-11-26 carib
Panas: neither am I.
Point is.. the "long term" belongs to future generations. |
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04-11-26 carib
SPAL: many argue we are competing with the chinese.
I suppose the point is producing better governance, rather than alternatives between "bad and worse".
Our advantage, IMHO, is we offer universally acceptable values, whilst the chinese remain "chinacentric".
If we also become tribal, I guess we lose. |
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04-11-26 savo
could anybody explain this new DT family and friends scam?
https://x.com/starplatinum_/status/2042551256510505316
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04-10-26 spal
Panas: what about the idea of putting government in the hands of reasonable, honest and competent people?
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Carib ... you should know better than us that times have mostly changed here. |
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04-10-26 panasonic
| Carib, but politically speaking we agree, me not interested in bad vs worse scenarios. |
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04-10-26 panasonic
| Carib, leave it to the kids means "full retirement", me not ready to hang the gloves :-) |
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04-10-26 carib
Savo: that sounds like a contradiction in terms.
I actually think his only ideology is self interest. |
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04-10-26 savo
| i would say trump is a socialist anticapitalist republican |
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04-10-26 carib
Twenty years ago, I told my kids China was likely to be the dominating power during their lifetimes.
Maybe I was wrong, maybe not. |
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04-10-26 carib
| PS: I guess the problem of navigating what comes next pertains to our children.. |
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04-10-26 carib
| Panas: Trump is an accidental Republican. |
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04-10-26 panasonic
Carib, as Savo wrote some ti.e ago EU is lost already, and I dont see a way to Republicans win elections from here.
Our vote intention counts nicht, my best idea right now is to discuss how to navigate what comes next. |
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04-10-26 carib
| Panas: what about the idea of putting government in the hands of reasonable, honest and competent people? |
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04-10-26 panasonic
Savo, DT and the rest of the world failed to measure the size of Chinese build-up there.
If iranians die or starve is not Xi-ssasin problem.
Let's jump to how to invedt in world where China controls global supply chains better ;-) |
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04-10-26 savo
pana.. regarding China... they play too.
They help Russia against Nato... they help Iran against the US... i think that is very expectable. |
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04-10-26 savo
pana.. the one the threatened iranians... all of them... military and civilian to bring them back to the stone age was the US.. not China.
And that after they said last year that they had eliminated iran's nuclear threat and promised to liberate iran from its murderous regime.
DT did a 180... from liberator to obliterator in just 9 months.
Why was that?... the job had been done last year... why did they come back?
My answer: to move the markets... that is DT's and the mob that surrounds him only objective... to make money from themselves..
Why to threat in social media and not through diplomatic back channels?.. only answer I can think of is ...moving the markets.. example:
A Trump insider opened a $51,000,000 oil short position — hours before Trump announced a ceasefire with Iran. This guy is now 16 for 16. $170 million in profit. A perfect streak.
This is not a talented trader.
"We placed the bet." "The ceasefire dropped." "We cashed out." Sixteen times in a row.
That is not skill. That is not instinct. That is not research.
That is someone who knows what is coming before it comes.
Think about what that actually means. A private individual is placing a $51 million bet that oil prices are about to collapse — hours before a sitting president announces a ceasefire that collapses oil prices. Not once. Sixteen times. Zero losses.
There are only two explanations and both should terrify you.
Either someone inside the White House — or with direct access to it — is leaking ceasefire negotiations to traders before diplomats, before the press, before the American people hear a single word. That is insider trading. That is corruption. That is a federal crime.
Or the timing of the announcement itself is being shaped around the trade. Which is worse.
This is not a genius investor who reads the news faster than you do. The news hadn't happened yet. He wasn't reading the news. He was getting a phone call.
While Americans were watching the ceasefire announcement and feeling relieved — somebody already knew. Somebody had already bet $51 million on it. And somebody was already counting their winnings.
You are not watching a free market. You are watching a White House with a side hustle. Via~ Really American
https://x.com/jamestate121/status/2041908860576002256
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04-10-26 panasonic
| Savo, Xi doesn't care if 50 millions Iranians die before making the call to stop his proxies... |
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04-10-26 panasonic
Carib, Israel will probably face a political tsunami after this, annihilation threat under relative control and intentions towards Gulf States have been exposed.
I'm pessimistic on the political outcome here in USA.
Are you following AI Mythos, how penetrated financial systems? to me putting Gov. in hands of anti-private sector will be the jewel of the crown for the Chinese "project" :-( |
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04-10-26 savo
not surprisingly...
Nethandracula is worse than Vlad the Impaler. |
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