Colm Fitzgerald
@ColmFitzgerald
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Trader, economist, classicist. Trades using non-axiomatic maths. Lectures at & PhD from UCD. Previously Head of Quantitative Trading at Bank of Ireland
Dublin/Paris
Joined April 2011
“Every solution we need must come through us, not to us.” ~Manly P. Hall
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ISRAELI ARMY CHIEF OF STAFF: STOPPING THE FIGHTING NOW IS A MISTAKE, AND WE ARE PREPARED WITH COMBAT PLANS UNTIL PASSOVER IN MID-APRIL NEXT YEAR.
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This is looking more like Cambyses’ attack on Ethiopia.
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Mass Panic on Wall Street after Jim Cramer says this is not like the run-up to the Global Financial Crisis 🚨🚨
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CME HAS WARNED THAT U.S. INTERVENTION IN OIL FUTURES WOULD BE A "BIBLICAL DISASTER," ACCORDING TO THE FINANCIAL TIMES.
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P.S. For Aristotle, "contemplative leisure" was the fulfillment of human purpose. For Cicero, the expression otium cum dignitate or "leisure with dignity" describes the use of his own of free time retiring to his villa to write his main philosophical works like De Officiis.
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In ancient Greek, the original meaning of school (skholḗ/σχολή) was 'leisure' via lectures/discussion & contemplation. For ancient Romans, there was a practical contrast between otium ("intellectual leisure”) vs negotium (daily business/civic obligations)
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JUST IN: Britain puts an end to hereditary seats in House of Lords after 700 years.
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the wealth gap isn't widening because of capitalism it's widening because asset owners benefit from monetary expansion while wage earners suffer from currency debasement the cantillon effect isn't a market failure, it's a policy feature
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IRAN REVOLUTIONARY GUARDS TARGET U.S. FORCES IN BAHRAIN'S JUFAIR BASE IN RETALIATION FOR US STRIKE ON DESALINATION PLANT ON IRAN'S QESHM ISLAND - IRANIAN STATE MEDIA
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GS: The impact of geopolitical risk on equities since 1950
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Jeremy Tate, founder of CLT, says that in the coming years, parents will increasingly demand classical education because they want the very best for their children.
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“All who aspire to literary excellence in democratic nations, ought frequently to refresh themselves at the springs of ancient literature: there is no more wholesome course for the mind.” —Tocqueville
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The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.
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