FatTailedAndHappy

Economics, finance, history, geopolitics

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@Budgetdog_ Ah of course he's got a system to sell. Probably to other dumb people that don't understand marginal tax rates at time of contribution vs withdrawal.

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@Budgetdog_ Quite possibly the dumbest post I've ever seen on this platform..

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Trying to think of analogous geopolitical failure of Iran.

Barbary pirates maybe? When we had no navy and had to pay protection money to North African chieftains?

War of 1812?

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@cullenroche That same history suggests there is a role for government though in terms of anti trust legislation and a mechanism of regulating markets for competition.

Not sure our current framework supports that.

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@cullenroche @ewarren I would have few qualms about individuals making a trillion dollars if there existed any guard rails from said individual turning that wealth into a political machine.

Might look like, I don't know, getting unfettered access to all personnel and systems in govt. Just because.

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@pcriley "Fable told us to do it" seems more credible at this point anyways.

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Is there any reason for McKinsey or Bain or bcg to continue existing at this point?

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Voting day today.

A terrible selection of terrible candidates.

I'm now a single voter issue on "no what-aboutism on Jan 6" so I guess give me the least damaging D candidate.

This country needs to ditch the corrupt Maga shit and get a conservative party in the worst way.

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@Clint_Davey1 We could win every conflict we've been in since ww2 by just using nuclear weapons and killing every civilian in a war zone.

Is that what you're suggesting?

Because if not that means there is an ethical limit imposed by our morality, even in war.

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Kash Patel and whatever he calls himself now Vance hang their hat on releasing epstein files. They now go snorkel on a war grave.

Massie, who actually releases the epstein files is pilloried by the party who made it an issue in the first place.

Seems metaphorical.

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It is Taco Tuesday, after all

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Thing with the taco trade is it only works when it's fully in your control.

It takes two parties to agree to taco here.

I don't think it's going to happen.

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@ThinkingBone That's just the nature of everything.

Nostalgia and a longing for things to have worked out as envisioned.

The world moves on, shit happens. The jobs are ultimately meaningless and irrelevant in the end anyways.

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@cullenroche You either end at widespread socialism or the dark ages.

Your thought experiment basically ends with the return on labor being zero and capital near infinite.

Our system cannot function that way.

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Well at least now you own an actual share of cashflows and ownership instead of a technology in search of a purpose and greater fools

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To put into perspective how bad we got screwed by the Trump administration.

January 2025: BTC and Alts were primed to take off. $TRUMP and $MELANIA drop within the same weekend and obliterate all liquidity.

February - April 2025: There was infinite tariff nonsense that churned all markets down. Believe it or not, the Federal Reserve was always lowering interest rates in 2025. Trump introduced random uncertainty out of no where. Even when other markets started to bounce, crypto started to lag like crazy.

October 2025: BTC has JUST hit ATHs and Alts were recovering the first week of October. Then Trump announced some nonsense China related tariff headline late Friday afternoon. Crypto gets obliterated once again.

November 2025 - January 2026: Equities and metals have their blowoff top while crypto is still reeling from 10/10.

February 2026: Between the social unrest, Epstein files, and a worthless Fed chair replacement for Powell, all markets (but especially crypto) get slaughtered again.

This guy has done NOTHING except line up his and his family's pockets at the expense of crypto.

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Dear Microsoft.

No one wants to "finish setting up their computer" that was totally fine 3 minutes before you forced some stupid fucking update on us.

I don't want your fucking edge as default.

Stop.

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Would all the losers that denominate stock prices in precious metals explain why stonks just went up 15% today?

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@FmrRepMTG If only you were in a position to challenge Johnson's leadership.....

Easier to resign than to lead though, I guess.

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Is there even a democratic party at this point or is it just a collection of uninspired baby boomers reading angrily off their script as their glasses sit at the very end of their nose.

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We do have tasers for non lethal crowd control.