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Her examples of Peter Thiel's investing in FB and children's' fights over toys are quite illuminating.

The fucking moron is now trying to bankrupt the country.

also see:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-19/us-long-bond-yield-hits-highest-since-2007-on-inflation-concern

At around 6:50 a.m. in New York, S&P 500 e-Mini futures trading on the CME recorded a sharp and isolated jump in volume.
A similar pattern was observed in oil markets.
Roughly 15 minutes later, at 7:05 a.m., Trump posted a market-moving announcement about Iran on Truth Social.

At around 6:50 a.m. in New York, S&P 500 e-Mini futures trading on the CME recorded a sharp and isolated jump in volume, breaking from an otherwise subdued premarket backdrop.
A similar pattern was observed in oil markets. West Texas Intermediate May futures also saw a noticeable pickup in trading activity at roughly the same time, with a distinct volume spike interrupting otherwise quiet conditions.

Roughly 15 minutes later, at 7:05 a.m., Trump said on Truth Social that the U.S. and Iran had held talks and that he was halting planned strikes on Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/23/volume-in-stock-and-oil-futures-surged-minutes-before-trumps-market-turning-post.html

Of course, there will be no SEC investigation into insider trading.

The markets are betting that Trump will serve another TACO, by declaring Iran's "unconditional surrender" ahead of schedule. Again, kleptocracy wins over democracy.

WSJ, Sunday, March 8, 2026

Trump has a talent for manufacturing a crisis out of nothing.

Women who were surveyed by Obi were essentially evenly split when it comes to choosing Waymo or Tesla, with Zoox a distant third at 8%. But 56% of men surveyed preferred Tesla to Waymo (25%) or Zoox (7%).

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/27/the-price-gap-between-waymo-and-uber-is-narrowing/

Remarkable, how hard Trump is trying to turn the US into a banana republic.

The Fed received grand jury subpoenas from the Justice Department on Friday that threaten a criminal indictment relating to Powell’s testimony, the Fed chair said in a video statement on Sunday night.

“This is about whether the Fed will be able to continue to set interest rates based on evidence and economic conditions—or whether instead monetary policy will be directed by political pressure or intimidation,” Powell said in the statement.

The investigation, which is being run out of the office of Washington’s U.S. attorney Jeanine Pirro, a close Trump ally, began in November and is examining Powell’s congressional testimony and the Fed’s spending records, people familiar with it said.

https://www.wsj.com/economy/central-banking/federal-reserve-received-justice-department-subpoena-threatening-criminal-indictment-e9e3f84d

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Prediction markets don't buy the "obliteration" story

https://polymarket.com/event/fordow-nuclear-facility-destroyed-before-july

https://polymarket.com/event/fordow-nuclear-facility-destroyed-before-july?tid=1750381377173

Индекс РТС вернулся на уровень сентября 2005 и кризиса 2009, за 20 лет долларовая доходность без учета дивидендов равна нулю.

https://t.me/spydell_finance/6039

За это время доллар подешевел 1:1.61 за счет инфляции.
https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/2005?amount=1000

В немецкой компании Siemens, производящей турбины для «Северного потока», сообщили, что компания не участвовала в техническом обслуживании газопровода, а также не получала заказа на такой от «Газпрома». Об этом сообщил представитель компании, его слова передает Reuters.

«Независимо от этого мы уже несколько раз указывали, что на компрессорной станции "Портовая" имеется достаточно дополнительных турбин для работы "Северного потока"»,— сказал представитель Siemens.

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Ранее сегодня, 3 сентября, «Газпром» заявил, что Siemens принимает участие в ремонтных работах на агрегате для «Северного потока» в соответствии с действующим контрактом.

https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/5546627

В рыночной экономике возможны долгосрочные контракты. В базарной - нет.

TxM -> TxM

Here we have an endofunctor and a topos (if we consider this structure as a dynamical system).

Truth object for this dynamical system:

True: {1,1} -> {0,1} -> {0,0}

False: {1,0} -> {1,0}

Note: the coordinates are in TxM phase "becoming" space wrt novelty, novel/emerging = 1, existing/established = 0.

https://youtu.be/o-yBDYgUqZQ?t=6008

The Parler lawsuit against Amazon is highly likely to fail.

https://twitter.com/AkivaMCohen/status/1348987281793835008

The U.S. has tried—and failed—over the past 15 years to build a system to share such information in a crisis. When the pandemic started, nothing like it existed. The limited and inconsistent access to data has been a major impediment to providing hospital care during the pandemic, according to interviews with industry and government officials and thousands of internal documents and emails.

Weeks after the coronavirus surfaced, administration officials began putting together a solution. It was riddled with mistakes and slowed by competing agency attempts to solve the problem, the interviews and documents show. Today, with some U.S. cities bracing for more cases, there is still no viable way to broadly track what’s happening inside hospitals.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/hospitals-covid-surge-data-11601478409

The principal part of a chisel is the cutting edge. If there is a single principle on which our business rests it is that. It makes no difference how finely made a chisel is or what splendid steel it has in it or how well it is forged—if it has no cutting edge it is not a chisel. It is just a piece of metal. All of which being translated means that it is what a thing does—not what it is supposed to do—that matters. What is the use of putting a tremendous force behind a blunt chisel if a light blow on a sharp chisel will do the work? The chisel is there to cut, not to be hammered. The hammering is only incidental to the job. So if we want to work why not concentrate on the work and do it in the quickest possible fashion? The cutting edge of merchandising is the point where the product touches the consumer. An unsatisfactory product is one that has a dull cutting edge. A lot of waste effort is needed to put it through. The cutting edge of a factory is the man and the machine on the job. If the man is not right the machine cannot be; if the machine is not right the man cannot be. For any one to be required to use more force than is absolutely necessary for the job in hand is waste.

--- Henry Ford, My Life and Work.

It looks like Henry Ford originated this expression.

People familiar with the South China Seafood Market know that it is not only a place to find a rich variety of seafood but also exotic wild animals sold by vendors in deep corners of the market.

There have always been vendors "selling snakes, pheasants, giant salamanders, crocodiles and hares", said a merchant at the market. Most of the wild animal vendors were located at the western part of the market, the merchant said.

Trading certain wild animals, including live ones, is prohibited by Chinese laws and industry regulations. Although market authorities conduct regular inspections and impose heavy fines on violators, sales of wild animals at the market have never been stopped in the past decade, vendors told Caixin.

According to research published on Jan 26 by the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 33 among 585 environmental samples extracted from the market tested positive for the virus. Of the positive samples, 93.9 per cent came from the western part of the market.

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/coronavirus-how-wuhan-lost-the-fight-to-contain-the-virus

Early on, Singapore dealt with a similar problem using zero tolerance and severe punishments, including the death penalty.

Dr Ruja's genius was to recognise that established MLM [multi-level marketing] sellers with huge downlines were the perfect vehicle to market her fake coin - a plan the FBI says she privately referred to as "the bitch of Wall Street, meets MLM". This was the secret of OneCoin's success. It wasn't just a fake cryptocurrency, it was an old-fashioned pyramid scheme, with the fake coin as its "product". No wonder it spread like wildfire.

https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-50435014

It's a mechanism for exponential growth of the customer base combined with exponential profits per each customer. The product itself is designed so that somebody else will end up holding the bag when the scheme collapses.