Curtis Andersen🇨🇦 🇺🇸

Calgary AB Canada born and raised. NGL & C5 Management Consultant, former Trader/Marketer

[Curtis Andersen🇨🇦 🇺🇸 @curtisjandersen]

"There are methods for rising above the mindless impulses
of crowd behavior and seeing the underlying patterns
being expressed."
• Technical analysis is an external method, while
meditation is an internal method.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

62,800 Europeans died from heat just in the summer of 2024

15,300 U.S. firearm homicides in 2024

Incredible to think about

[Breaking911 @Breaking911]

BREAKING: President Trump warned that any European country imposing a digital services tax on American companies would face an immediate 100% U.S. tariff on all goods exported to the United States.

[Michael Sikand @michaelsikand]

You what I love about $KRKNF?

Everyone I know who has studied this thesis deeply has such class.

0 problem being patient + concentrating intelligently.

The whale traders I've met through this stock changed my outlook on investing.

We literally know what's going to happen...

[Rise Of Alberta @RiseOfAlberta]

🚨BREAKING: Mark Carney announces Canada’s first net-zero pipeline.

It emits no carbon because it will never exist.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Activist: "American cattle ranching is destroying the Great Plains."

Rancher: "How many bison were here in 1800?"

Activist: "A lot."

Rancher: "Sixty million. Same biomass as every cow in America today. Standing on the same grass."

Activist: "That was different."

Rancher: "How?"

Activist: "It was natural."

Rancher: "It was ruminants. Eating grass. Trampling it. Dunging it. The grassland built six feet of topsoil underneath them."

Activist: "Then we shouldn't have killed them."

Rancher: "Correct. We killed them, ploughed the prairie, and got the Dust Bowl in thirty years. Largest ecological collapse in American history."

Activist: "..."

Rancher: "The fix wasn't fewer animals. The fix was putting them back. The grass evolved to be eaten."

Activist: "So reintroduce bison."

Rancher: "Or use the 1,200-pound ruminant that's already here, in the same numbers, doing the same job, on the same grass."

Activist: "It's not the same."

Rancher: "It's the same animal with a different accent."

Activist: "It still feels wrong."

Rancher: "The thing that felt wrong was killing the bison. The cattle are how we're paying it back. Take them off and you finish the job we started in 1870."

[Rise Of Alberta @RiseOfAlberta]

🚨BREAKING THE NARRATIVE: First Nations voters just posted one of the strongest pro-independence results in the poll.

46% support Alberta independence.

The state-funded media narrative says First Nations are overwhelmingly opposed.

The data says something very different.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Hello Julia, sans aucune ironie, c'est top que tu prennes le temps de te renseigner. Mais le problème quand on lit Marx aujourd'hui, c'est qu'on prend pour acquis sa prémisse de départ, alors qu'elle a été démontée scientifiquement il y a plus de 150 ans.

Toute la pensée de Marx repose sur la théorie de la valeur-travail. L'idée que la valeur d'un bien vient de la quantité de travail nécessaire pour le produire. Si tu acceptes cette prémisse, alors oui, tout son raisonnement tient. Le capitaliste "vole" la plus-value du travailleur, l'exploitation est mathématique, la révolution est inévitable.

Sauf qu'en 1871, trois économistes (Menger en Autriche, Jevons en Angleterre, Walras en Suisse) découvrent indépendamment la même chose : la valeur n'est pas objective, elle est subjective et marginale.

Un verre d'eau dans le désert vaut une fortune. Le même verre à côté d'une rivière ne vaut rien. Le travail incorporé est identique. Donc le travail ne détermine pas la valeur. C'est le consommateur qui valorise un bien selon son utilité marginale dans un contexte donné.

Exemple concret : tu peux passer 1000 heures à tricoter un pull moche que personne ne veut. Selon Marx, ce pull a énormément de valeur (beaucoup de travail incorporé). Selon la réalité, il ne vaut rien. Parce que personne n'en veut.

À l'inverse, Bernard Arnault crée des milliards de valeur non pas parce qu'il "exploite" mais parce qu'il a su anticiper et organiser des désirs humains à grande échelle. La valeur est créée par la coordination, pas extraite par le vol.

Cette découverte (la révolution marginaliste) a invalidé tout l'édifice marxiste. Pas pour des raisons idéologiques, pour des raisons scientifiques. C'est pour ça que plus aucun département d'économie sérieux au monde n'enseigne Marx comme un cadre d'analyse valide. On l'enseigne en histoire de la pensée.

Maintenant, le truc important. Si ton intention en lisant Marx c'est d'aider les pauvres (c'est une intention noble), alors tu vas être surprise par ce qui suit.

Regarde les chiffres de la Banque mondiale. En 1820, 90% de l'humanité vivait dans l'extrême pauvreté. Aujourd'hui, moins de 9%. Cette chute historique ne s'est PAS produite dans les pays qui ont appliqué Marx. Elle s'est produite dans les pays qui ont libéralisé leur économie.

Chine post-1978, Vietnam post-1986, Inde post-1991, Pologne post-1989. À chaque fois qu'un pays libéralise, des centaines de millions de gens sortent de la pauvreté en une génération. À chaque fois qu'un pays applique Marx (URSS, Cambodge, Corée du Nord, Venezuela), c'est la famine et les goulags.

Ce n'est pas une opinion, c'est l'expérience la plus massive jamais menée en sciences sociales. Plusieurs milliards de cobayes humains, sur un siècle.

Donc paradoxalement, si tu aimes vraiment les pauvres, la position la plus cohérente n'est pas d'être marxiste. C'est d'être pour la liberté économique. Parce que c'est empiriquement la seule chose qui a jamais sorti massivement les gens de la misère.

Pour creuser, je te recommande trois lectures qui vont changer ta vision :

"La Loi" de Frédéric Bastiat (court, lumineux, gratuit en ligne)
"La Route de la Servitude" de Hayek
"Économie en une leçon" de Henry Hazlitt
Bonne lecture, et vraiment chapeau de chercher à comprendre plutôt que de rester dans tes certitudes. C'est rare.

[Rise Of Alberta @RiseOfAlberta]

At the Liberal convention in Montreal, they were discussing a $500,000 exit tax.

A failing regime doesn't look at people fleeing and ask, “How do we make life better?”

It asks, “How do we stop them from leaving?”

[Curtis Andersen🇨🇦 🇺🇸 @curtisjandersen]

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[Rise Of Alberta @RiseOfAlberta]

🚨BREAKING: The 177,000 signature threshold has now been passed, officially clearing the requirement for an Alberta independence referendum on October 19th.

This is a historic moment for Alberta and signature collection is still continuing.

[Curtis Andersen🇨🇦 🇺🇸 @curtisjandersen]

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[Rise Of Alberta @RiseOfAlberta]

I notice Canada’s decline most when I travel, then come home and realize just how much dysfunction and decay we’ve learned to tolerate.

Like a frog in boiling water, people adjusted to it slowly.

I remember a time when coming home from a long trip actually felt good, when I felt grateful for what we had here. I cannot honestly say I have felt that in the last 10 years.

But Alberta does not have to accept this as our future.

Alberta independence is not just an escape from decline. It is the path to real prosperity and a future worth building.

[Curtis Andersen🇨🇦 🇺🇸 @curtisjandersen]

@CoachDanGo Thoughts on:
NAC
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[First Squawk @FirstSquawk]

CME HAS WARNED THAT U.S. INTERVENTION IN OIL FUTURES WOULD BE A "BIBLICAL DISASTER," ACCORDING TO THE FINANCIAL TIMES.

[Old School Eddie @Old_SchoolEddie]

Men socialize by insulting each other, but they don’t really mean it.

Women socialize by complimenting each other, and they don’t mean it either. 😂

[Peter McCormack 🏴‍☠️🇬🇧🇮🇪 @PeterMcCormack]

This chart is the reason why every single socialist must be laughed at and shamed over and over.

A wealthy nation tried socialism and destroyed its economy - Venzeuela.

A socialist country tried capitalism and created prosperity - Poland.

Socialists, all of them, are fundamentally stupid people. They have a childish approach to economics, ideologically stuck to an idea WHICH CAN'T WORK and has NEVER WORKED.

Despite the wealth of evidence through the entirety of history, they stick to this stupid idea - an idea which creates poverty, misery and death. Why? Because they can't get their stupid heads around the idea that some people get rich.

Shame them, over and over, laugh in their faces and shame their stupidity.

[Handre @Handre]

Mises obliterated the entire socialist project in 1920 with one devastating insight: "Where there is no free market, there is no pricing mechanism; without a pricing mechanism, there is no economic calculation." The socialists spent the next century pretending this problem didn't exist while their economies collapsed around them.

And yet here we are, watching politicians promise they can "fix" healthcare, housing, and energy markets through central planning. They can't even calculate the cost of their own programs correctly — how exactly are they going to allocate resources across an entire economy?

Every Venezuelan breadline, every Soviet grain shortage, every Chinese famine was just Mises being proven right in the most brutal way possible. But sure, let's try democratic socialism this time. What could go wrong?

[Adam⛰️ @AssetTraveller]

🚨Canada’s math isn't adding up. 📉

Only ~39% of the population works in the private sector to fund the rest of the country.

Since 2015, public sector hiring has grown twice as fast as the private sector. The tax base is shrinking while bureaucracy explodes. Not sustainable!

[wealthmoose @wealthmoose]

🇨🇦 Every Canadian should read this twice:

🇨🇦 Canada ranks —
🥇 1st in uranium
🥇 1st in potash
🥈 2nd in nickel
🥉 3rd in oil
🏅 5th in gold
💧 1st in freshwater

Countries start wars for LESS than this.

And somehow we are told we’re too poor to cut taxes, too broke to build homes, too weak to compete, too small to matter.

It took historic levels of incompetence and ideological sabotage to bury a country this blessed.

Imagine where Canada would be if we were actually allowed to win.

#cdnpoli #Canada #Future #Resources #Economy #Energy #Mining #Prosperity

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

NatGas Rips Higher As Arctic Blast Knocks 12% Of U.S. production Offline https://t.co/WskJZZ4TW0

[Oliur @UltraLinx]

Can you read 900 words per minute? Try it.