Boomers Are The Problem

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[Financelot @FinanceLancelot]

Everyone is broke... mystery solved.

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

NEW: Bitcoin smashes through $73,000 on its road back to $100K

[Richard D. Wolff @profwolff]

Wolff Responds: "Say Goodbye To The American Dream" Dated August 19, 2026

[Kaien @kaienphase]

He turned $18 million into $14 billion in thirteen years. Average annual return almost 30%. Then he walked away at 46.

Peter Lynch did not beat the market by predicting the economy. He beat it by walking through malls, noticing which stores were full on a Tuesday afternoon, and buying the companies behind them before Wall Street wrote the research report.

Walmart. Dunkin’. The names everyone already knew as customers but almost no one owned as investors. He called it the edge of the ordinary. Invest in what you already understand from living your life. Ignore the macro forecasts. Ignore the quarterly noise. Hold the ones that keep growing and sell the ones that stop.

The fund dropped more than 10% ten separate times while he ran it. He kept buying the same kind of businesses. The math compounded anyway.

Most people still treat investing as a forecasting contest. Lynch treated it as a recognition contest. The information was free. It was sitting in plain sight in every shopping center in America.

He retired early, spent the years with his family, and spent the rest of his public life talking about education instead of stocks. The same pattern: notice the real problem early, then act while everyone else is still arguing about the theory.

The interview is free. The method is free. The only scarce part is the willingness to look at the world the way a customer does instead of the way an analyst does.

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: The S&P 500 surges above 7,800 for the first time in history, now worth a record $70.8 trillion.

[Freddy @0x_freddy]

Sam Altman admitted what everyone in Silicon Valley was thinking: Google should have completely dominated the AI race from day one

Google invented the Transformer architecture in 2017. Then, every single one of the eight authors on that seminal paper left.

Noam Shazeer left to start Character-AI. Aidan Gomez founded Cohere. Ashish Vaswani and Niki Parmar started Essential AI. Jakob Uszkoreit founded Inceptive. Llion Jones founded Sakana AI. Lukasz Kaiser joined OpenAI. Illia Polosukhin built NEAR Protocol.

Google had the paper, the compute, the users, and the distribution. What they lacked was a culture that allowed the people who invented the tech to actually ship it.

The talent didn't leave for higher salaries. They left because bureaucracy slowed down execution. Within eighteen months of leaving, every single author was shipping groundbreaking models somewhere else.

The lesson goes far beyond Google. It’s what happens to any incumbent when protecting legacy revenue becomes more important than shipping the future.

Sundar Pichai kept the CEO chair. The eight engineers who wrote the paper built the rest of the AI industry.

Follow if you'd rather build for the future than protect the past.

[Heisenberg @Mr_Derivatives]

One of the most underrated teachings to ever come out of a board game.

[Orwell Day @OrwellDay]

Private Investigator followed Garret Langley around for three days #Flock

[Cassandra Unchained @michaeljburry]

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[Kakashii @kakashiii111]

For anyone who read the SemiAnalysis article and felt like they were up in the space, read my article below to get back to earth.

[AmericanPapaBear™ @AmericaPapaBear]

This is insane.

Footage of Chad Williams, the Idaho In-N-Out shooter at the location on the day it all happened.

The video shows how fast everything turned from a normal Saturday lunch into chaos. What stands out isn’t just the horror, it’s the people who didn’t freeze.

Jordan Salinas and the off-duty officer returned fire and helped push him away from the restaurant. Those actions almost certainly saved lives. Police still have no motive. Williams acted alone. Three families are burying their people, seven others are recovering, and a whole community in Idaho is left trying to process this.

Footage like this forces the question every time: how do ordinary people keep showing up with courage when seconds matter?

What’s your take after seeing the clips?

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[Dr. Clown, PhD @DrClownPhD]

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[MW4Liberty @MW4Liberty]

What happened in 1971 that could have led to this? August 15th to be exact.

[Financelot @FinanceLancelot]

Warren Buffett: Why Smart People Lose Money In Stocks
University of Georgia 2001

[Kevin Carpenter @kejca]

Berkshire Hathaway director Chris Davis: "One of the peculiarities of investing is that the more risk people *feel* they're taking, the less risk they *are* taking."

"When people began transitioning to SUVs, one of the most dangerous things is they felt safer [and drove worse]."

"The perception of risk alters behavior. And how could investing be different? We're at an all-time high in the market. People feel great. The Mag 7 is the talk of the town in the way the Nifty Fifty was or FANG or whatever other hot acronym generally points to a bubble in a sector. People [feel] no price is too high, you've just got to get on the train. That's a pretty risky setup — simply because people feel those are sure things."

(@excessreturnpod || 2026)

[JOKAMRREDPILLZ @JOKAQARMY1]

He called it back in the day

[Jerry_Saiyan @JerryWillResist]

Only the “ Stupid “ will dispute this

[Heated Rep🔥rts @heatedreports]

🚨#BREAKING: Watch new video of the gunman opening fire and firing several shots into a parked Tesla in Twin Falls, Idaho, where he then opened fire at an In-N-Out Burger, where dozens of people ran to take cover

[Ricky Zaccaglino @RickyTheGuido]

“I gotta be careful the way I say this, they’re gonna try to ethically cleanse Gaza”

[Tyler Oliveira @tyleraloevera]

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