Jim Bruce

Documentary films - with a side of finance + central banking … “Carl Icahn: The Restless Billionaire”, “Money For Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve”, etc.

[Jim Bruce @FedDocumentary]

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A film I produced about Carl Icahn premieres tonight on HBO

“Icahn: The Restless Billionaire” airs 9pm ET and streams at HBOMax

Carl is one of the most fascinating characters in the history of Wall Street…

Enjoy!

https://t.co/HQGsV13SEQ

[Jim Bruce @FedDocumentary]

@DrJMedina @pingkind Do you roll Futs front month as you go?

[Jim Bruce @FedDocumentary]

@DrJMedina @pingkind Remind me of the structure again? I remember you like to close in Dec

[Jim Bruce @FedDocumentary]

Sell them to $SPCX?

[Gali @Gfilche]

WTF is @tesla going to do with all these Cybercabs @grok

[Ed Bradford @Fullcarry]

Rate path now vs before the Iran war started

[Kurt S. Altrichter, CRPS® @kurtsaltrichter]

On this day in 1929, the Federal Reserve Board in Washington rejected the New York Fed's request to raise the discount rate for the eighth time in three months. NY Fed Governor George Harrison wanted to make borrowed money expensive enough to cool the speculation. Washington refused. Brokers' loans had ballooned past $7 billion. Investors were putting down 10% and borrowing the other 90% at 6%, betting on 30% returns. A rate hike would have destroyed that math overnight.

The Board finally gave in during August. New York got its rate increase to 6%. But by then, nine months of unchecked leverage had piled up. The market peaked September 3rd. By the end of October, the Dow was down over 30%.

Every month the Fed sat on its hands was another month of leverage building in the system. The 1929 crash had a lot of causes, but the discount rate stalemate was the one regulators had direct control over and chose not to use.

[Bucket Shop Capital @bucketshopcap]

Former nightclub promoters-turned-real estate agents I grew up with in NYC now talking about memory & the Cerebras IPO. Same guys lost metric fuckloads of $ on shitcoins & NFTs a few years ago. Probably nothing.

[Jim Bruce @FedDocumentary]

@PauloMacro @MrBlonde_macro Fall 2000 stands out more in my memory- when intel warned and Tech/telecom trolled over and died. I had been in the game for about a year. I was up a bunch and gave most of it back. My ability to blindly follow crowded momentum names permanently impaired…

[Santiago Capital @SantiagoAuFund]

Read this however many times you need to until it clicks.

[Jim Bruce @FedDocumentary]

Also unusual for the President to use the DOJ to try to intimidate the Fed Chair into lowering interest rates…

[Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent @SecScottBessent]

It is unusual for soon-to-be-former Fed Chair Jay Powell to stay on at the @federalreserve. For someone who speaks so often of norms, his unilateral decision to stay flies in the face of tradition.

Kevin Warsh will bring about a new day at the Fed, with accountability, management, and sound policymaking in the lead.

[Jim Bruce @FedDocumentary]

@DannyDayan5 @ViktorShvets @DhavalVJoshi Thx !

[Jim Bruce @FedDocumentary]

@DannyDayan5 @ViktorShvets @DhavalVJoshi Thoughts on best ways to play Inflation - WIP, TIP, commods, forex, -bonds ? I am looking for ideas…

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

I would rather have a functional National Park Service than Spirit Airlines.

[Jim Bruce @FedDocumentary]

@BobEUnlimited Bob, what’s your take on US bonds here? TIPS?

[Jim Bruce @FedDocumentary]

Paging @MrBeast

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

Earlier today, a convoy of 4 cruise ships ran the Strait of Hormuz at full speed, sailing under fire through the Iranian-declared minefield.

[Jim Bruce @FedDocumentary]

@omshanti08 @fleckcap @scalingups DJT today: https://t.co/i7NBCdkelH

[Acyn @Acyn]

Trump: I love thee '80s a little more than the '90s. '90s I was fighting hard, we were sort of in a depression. Depressions aren't great in the real estate business but I did great, I always made money. I made money in good times and bad times but it was sort of a nasty time economically.

[Jim Bruce @FedDocumentary]

Janus to Janus

[Special Situations 🌐 Research Newsletter (Jay) @SpecialSitsNews]

Victory Capital Holdings withdrew its proposal to acquire Janus Henderson Group after failing to secure support from the target’s special committee. $JHG

[Rudy Havenstein, Senior Markets Commentator. @RudyHavenstein]

Maybe that 1953 Iranian coup was a mistake.

[Jim Bruce @FedDocumentary]

@orrdavid @SowingAlphaSeed @ethanrkho Have you looked into https://t.co/BaYErqAH7e as a tool?

[Jim Bruce @FedDocumentary]

@glbeaty @orrdavid @Biohazard3737 Can you DM name of your fund?

[PiQ @PiQSuite]

“I started trading oil this week, and it’s been a very steep learning curve.”

~ Taylor Swift