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@S_Mikhailovich
) is now available to all subscribers at !
If you don’t own any gold, buy some. If you own some, buy more.
We are going to places where, no matter how much you have, you’ll wish you had more.
Sadly.
1/ Due to the overwhelming response to my recent conversation with
@LukeGromen
I'm releasing the episode in its entirety in front of the paywall.
This is an enormously important conversation. Please feel free to share it with anyone you feel might benefit
If this idea has reached CNN, imagine how far along the conversations BEHIND the scenes are - on both sides of the potential divide.
Mainstream is the last place where stuff like this gets talked about, not the first.
“The Governor of the Bank of England has warned of “apocalyptic” global food price rises and said he is "helpless" in the face of surging inflation…”
‘Helpless’
All-powerful central banks finally facing reality. When investors see the same, it’s over
Wait until the ‘crowd’ really understands what central banks have facilitated for the last 30+ years...
Right now it’s about ‘evil short sellers’ but, at some point, destiny will bring the mob with the pitchforks and the appropriate targets for their righteous anger together
Just take a moment to think about just how lousy a job the Powell Federal Reserve must have done to need FOUR consecutive 75bp hikes.
The fact they can be that abject and yet people still believe in their ability to control things is utterly bewildering to me.
A remarkable number of people I admire greatly are talking, very quietly, about how they are taking down risk. No great fuss. No great fanfare. Very matter-of-fact but...
These are the people who generally do this stuff before the crowd.
Just thought I’d pass that on.
This short clip from
@RandPaul
is the most important minute & fifteen seconds you’ll watch this year, maybe this century. If a majority understood this, we could begin to fix what’s gone horribly wrong in this country. Bravo.
The # of people tweeting in the hopes of attracting the Reddit crowd to 'their' stock (or commodity!) is amazing.
The SEC and Central Banks are finally reaping the whirlwind. They have nobody to blame but themselves.
Capital markets are a mockery - but they have been for years
Jay Powell, the Fed and the SEC own the fact that $HTZ is going to knowingly try and sell $1bln in bankrupt equity to a bunch of retail patsies.
Shame on all involved.
Oil speculators and profiteers have pushed the price of oil higher on markets but never actually use the oil. They force us all to pay higher prices because they manipulate the price of oil.
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Watching Elon desperately try to wriggle out of his impetuous and ill-considered attempt at seeking attention by flexing and comically overpaying for Twitter is entertainment of the highest order
Unbelievable that they must either have deluded themselves into believing this or think the public can be deluded into thinking it.
Even they can’t think the public is THAT dumb, surely?
I’ll call for censorship of Joe Rogan when he lies us into a few wars and prints a few trillion dollars for his buddies under the guise of science. Until then fuck off.
So let me get this straight.
UBS have suspended a senior employee for using the term ‘Chinese pigs’ when he was literally writing an article about Chinese pigs?
Shame on them and shame on us for creating a world like this where people who choose to take offence are pandered to
Imagine cancelling a Tchaikovsky concert… what NEEDS cancelling is cancel culture
Next up: Chekhov? Dostoyevsky? Solzhenitsyn? Tolstoy? Gogol? Oh wait, Gogol was born in Ukraine
CARES Act funds given to Columbia University: $12,830,199
Columbia university President’s salary:
$3,900,000
Columbia University endowment:
$10,900,000,000
Columbia university tuition:
$71,460, up 15,6% from 2019-2020
They’ve done it again. GoFundMe just deleted the Canadian Freedom Convoy fundraiser and they’re saying that the millions of dollars they took in will not be returned but given to "established + credible" charities. This is criminal. Stop using
@GoFundMe
#Honk
Once valued at $47bln… leaves liabilities of $50bln.
Nice work fellas.
The fact it’s taken this long for this ridiculous charade to collapse speaks volumes about our world.
The difference between the signal oil is sending (a market thus far untouched by the Fed) and that being sent by equity markets essentially boils it all down to one simple question:
Is the fed bigger than the natural forces against which it’s pitting itself?
Bet accordingly.
So let me get this straight:
Thanks to the genius of Elon, I can pay $60k for a car built in a tent, that’s been sitting in a disused Sears parking lot for three months and have it delivered by a volunteer?
How did we thrive without this kind of visionary thinking?
$TSLAQ
Here's an idea... Instead of requesting bailouts, how about companies who levered up to buy back shares institute 'sellback' programs to shore up their balance sheets?
If a Federal Reserve liquidity provision programme chooses not to identify as QE, we should all respect that choice and not persecute or harass it. Shame on those who are so intolerant.
#LGBTQE
Pre-Musk, every time I’d scroll down my Twitter timeline in the morning, I’d spend at least an hour reading, learning from and bookmarking the links and tweets I saw.
Post-Musk, my timeline is 90% useless to me. Shame, but very much on-brand
This is utterly brilliant. A student accuses
@jk_rowling
of being transphobic. This teacher skilfully dissects the claim and challenges it by asking questions.
He teaches not what to think, but how to think critically.
Watch until the end.
You see the epiphany in real-time.
FED'S POWELL & US TREASURY SECRETARY YELLEN: THE US BANKING SYSTEM'S CAPITAL AND LIQUIDITY POSITIONS ARE ROBUST, AND THE US FINANCIAL SYSTEM IS RESILIENT - JOINT STATEMENT
Argentina’s ‘far-right’ leader, Javier Milei.
This is an incredibly important speech.
Dont simply believe what you read about this ‘dangerous’ man. Listen to what he has to say.
Milei in Davos 2024: Summary in 20 quotes
1:
"Today I am here to tell you that the western world is in danger, and it's in danger because those who are supposed to defend the values of the west are co-opted by a vision of the world that inexorably leads to socialism, and thereby…
Elon unmasking the real Elon to the world through the medium of a $44bln impulse/vanity purchase that he burns to the ground by doing so is the ending this story always deserved but no scriptwriter would ever have had the genius to conceive.
Bravo,
@PierrePoilievre
👏👏👏
The most telling part of this tour de force is the smug pr**k who interrupts the ‘history lesson’.
The look on his face and the the mugging to the chamber are typical.
If representatives took MORE history lessons, we’d all be far better off.
New federal debt since 2020: $354B.
Share of it bought by central bank: $302B — or 84%.
Face it: this government has embraced the crackpot “Modern” Monetary Theory of paying bills with printed cash.
A modern idea that’s thousands of years old.
The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first, and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.” – Theodore Roosevelt. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.
A total outrage. Rudy Havenstein was the very best of Twitter. Nobody came close.
He never held back, spared nobody and always, always punched up. What’s more, he did so with a humour and grace so sorely missing.
Shame on
@Twitter
1/8
A 🧵on the LME situation and why it should bother anyone in mkts.
A blatant disregard for the rules, to protect one Chinese Tycoon against the market.
This is far worse than GameStop.
I tried to keep this as simple as possible. Pls correct in the replies.
If you don’t understand how treasury auctions work, there’s a VERY strong chance you’re going to need to educate yourselves.
@jameslavish
has done us all a tremendous solid here. Bookmark this and read it as often as you need to.
Thank you James.
Treasury auctions can give us clues to the health or problems of the entire US financial system.
But what are those clues and how can you tell?
Time for a Treasury 🧵👇
Bet the Epstein story is disappeared from the news cycle quicker than Epstein himself was suicided from the planet.
@EpsilonTheory
not only are they not even pretending anymore, they don’t even care that we know they’re not even pretending anymore
“...historians will look back at this post-crisis period as a relatively brief interlude of false prosperity bookmarked by crises caused by obvious policy errors that appealed to cheap political passions, weak intellects, low morality and corrupt motives.”
@TheCreditStrat
This is so surreal. The socialist Spanish minister uses a private jet to attend a climate conference. 100 metres before the venue she gets out off the limo and takes a bicycle. The security cars follow her.
BREAKING NEWS:
THE RUSSIAN CENTRAL BANK WILL RESTART BUYING GOLD FROM BANKS AND WILL PAY A FIXED PRICE OF 5,000 ROUBLES PER GRAM BETWEEN MARCH 28 AND JUNE 30
Ohhhh.... so NOW they're going to be 'aggressive'
Hard to believe just how badly these lunatics have f*cked up not just capitalism, but the entire world.
Fed Pledges Aggressive Action As Economic Distress Worsens
Hey
@realDonaldTrump
the Swiss National Bank is literally printing money and using it to buy shares in US companies. They now own $90bln of the US stockmarket.
THAT’S how a baller does it. C’mon Dude. Negative rates are SO last year.
The more I think about this, the more absurd it gets. Imagine describing a sovereign energy producer’s wish to be paid for that energy in its own currency as a ‘security threat.’
Occasionally they use their quiet voices out loud…
“Vladimir Putin’s demand for gas payments in roubles amounts to a “security threat”, the head of the International Energy Agency (IEA) has warned.”
Interesting choice of words. It’s just a currency, no?