skiwalkker78

Family man, fixed income veteran, portfolio manager and trader for over 25 years, student of markets 🇺🇸 | 📈 | 🏂| 🎼 | 🍱 | 🖼️

[skiwalkker78 @munimanII]

@JulianMI2 💯we’re in a continued feedback loop with the market way ahead of the FED. Reflation probabilities have increased considerably, should be sowing the seeds for the next rate sell-off.

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

A 24-year-old Polish tennis player arrived in Paris last week ranked 114th in the world, with no sponsors, no guaranteed income, and no certainty she could even pay for her hotel room.

She had to win three qualifying matches just to enter the French Open main draw. Prize money is only paid at the end of the tournament, so a Polish sports drink brand quietly stepped in and covered her hotel bill.

Her name is Maja Chwalinska. And today, she plays in the French Open final.

Before this tournament, she had won exactly one Grand Slam main draw match in her entire career. She had battled depression so severe that in 2021 she couldn't get out of bed. She underwent knee surgery in 2022. She spent years grinding through small tournaments across Europe just to stay afloat.

Then she arrived in Paris, won three qualifiers, and kept winning. Zheng Qinwen. Elise Mertens. Maria Sakkari. Diana Shnaider. Nine straight matches. One set dropped.

She is now the first qualifier in French Open history to reach the final. The last time a qualifier reached a Grand Slam final, it was Emma Raducanu at the 2021 US Open. Raducanu won.

By simply making the final, Chwalinska has earned more prize money than her entire career combined. The runner-up cheque alone is $1.6 million. If she wins today, she takes home $3.25 million.
One week ago she couldn't pay for her hotel room.

[skiwalkker78 @munimanII]

Everyone’s got to realize that there shitty people from every nationality. Much of Americas exceptionalism is rooted in the type of individual that is willing to take the risk of uprooting what is comfortable and start over in a political and economic system that rewards hard work. You take good with the bad.

[Jay Anderson @TheProjectUnity]

LEFT: Saqsaywaman, Peru

RIGHT: The Giza Plateau, Egypt

[skiwalkker78 @munimanII]

@FanIslands @JesseTylerSpeer @TheProjectUnity How do you pour irregular shapes? They didn’t have molds for all of those shapes. Maybe this wall is different.

[Jay Anderson @TheProjectUnity]

Look at these ancient stone walls in the city of Cusco, Peru.

What do you notice?

[skiwalkker78 @munimanII]

@KremlinTrolls @wbmosler Hey I have nothing against making our monuments more impressive.

[Jay Anderson @TheProjectUnity]

@CodyNailedIt Seriously.

From the top down... from the TOP down!

One single piece of bedrock.

[skiwalkker78 @munimanII]

@jam_croissant He makes a valid point .

[Jay Anderson @TheProjectUnity]

I took this when I was at the Qorikancha (Sun Temple) in the heart of Cusco City, Peru.

Why are the mysterious nubs (found worldwide) only on certain blocks?

A specific cluster and then the rest of the wall (extending further right) is essentially perfect.

Why?

[skiwalkker78 @munimanII]

@TacomaSteveG @WallStreetMav @jaybrrr2 Early to interview? wtf is this nonesense.

[skiwalkker78 @munimanII]

@Cointelegraph @wbmosler Move your head and it’ll takeout one of your ears.

[skiwalkker78 @munimanII]

@Cointelegraph @wbmosler Could be good for some on the run, but seriously how many haircuts for the robot to pay for itself? If it’s $1mm it’ll take over 38k haircuts at $26 a cut.

[skiwalkker78 @munimanII]

@historyrock_ How is Metallica not on that list?! And the famines number two ahead of the Rolling Stones? Tf? Alice In Chains is better than nirvana….

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In Japan, children clean their own schools.

Every day. After lunch.
About twenty minutes.

Classrooms.
Hallways.
Toilets.

Not because the schools are too poor
to hire someone.

Because in 1947, this country decided
that cleaning your own space
is part of becoming a person.

The cleaning rag
is on the school supply list.
Right next to the pencils.

Egypt teaches it now.
So does Indonesia.
So does Mongolia.

Think about the last time
you watched a seven-year-old
mop a floor without complaining.

Japan does that
in every elementary school
in the country.

Not as punishment.

As education.

[skiwalkker78 @munimanII]

@kylepullman @HOUSEPORN___ This house have its own zip code?

[skiwalkker78 @munimanII]

@HOUSEPORN___ lol, Start your own business, sell to VC firm, take the money invest it and have the federal reserve balloon its balance sheet inflating all asset prices.

[skiwalkker78 @munimanII]

@historyrock_ Bring it on Home