Oliver Budde

Ex-Wall St lawyer, Lehman whistleblower, now repping other wbs. Tell-all book to be published once DOJ/SEC corruption exposed. "Live not by lies." -Solzhenitsyn

[Rapinnha @Rapigna7]

OMG 😱!!!
The level of human coordination and choreography here is completely unmatched. Absolute masterpiece.

[QE Infinity @StealthQE4]

PTJ is the best

This is spot on.

The market is way overvalued

[Prez @PrezLives2022]

55 years was all it took to make billionaires filthy rich and destroy America. Watch as Ashley explains.

[Oliver Budde @o_budde]

All for shit-canning Trump, but Maggie's compromised integrity could provide him with an out. From 2015 Hillary staff email via Wikileaks: "We have has a very good relationship with Maggie Haberman of Politico over the last year. We have had her tee up stories for us before and have never been disappointed. While we should have a larger conversation in the near future about a broader strategy for reengaging the beat press that covers HRC, for this we think we can achieve our objective and do the most shaping by going to Maggie."
Source: https://t.co/01T9loLUon.

[Marc Cohodes @AlderLaneEggs]

If you read nothing else today, read this; https://t.co/f35nsxTbEv
Truth to Power has never been harder to deliver and the Mountain just got steeper. Of course Goldman Sachs is front and center. Well done by @nytimes

[Steve Hall @ProfHall1955]

Exactly. Financialisation. The rule of private investors, who, as Michael Hudson and others have been warning us for decades, are essentially parasites who eventually kill the host. The death spiral begins with the big finance players killing democracy.

[Linda @LndamyDark]

George Carlin was way ahead of his time! Anybody know what year this was from? Too bad we didn't listen.

[Dylan Ratigan @DylanRatigan]

Agreed absolutely brilliant on his part. And once he won, he simply opened the world‘s most profitable deal room in the oval office — and proceeded to exacerbate every single problem the country has while gratifying every financial and ego opportunity to aggrandize himself - and even still, the Dems are only marginally more popular

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

The ongoing US-Iran war has forcefully opened the world’s eyes to a startling reality about the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Their highest-ranking military generals and nuclear scientists are deeply grounded in the moral philosophy of Immanuel Kant.

The biting irony here is that this was precisely the intellectual state of the entire Western world and America itself, before the Manhattan Project detonated the first atomic bomb.

Reading and debating Kant was not just a hobby; it was an expected, mandatory rite of passage for essentially all European theoretical physicists.

Before the Manhattan Project, it was almost impossible to find a single European scientist of merit who had not intensely studied Kant.

Albert Einstein was already devouring the "Critique of Pure Reason" by the time he was thirteen years old.
Niels Bohr, Robert Oppenheimer, and their contemporaries were not only mere human calculators, they were titans steeped in Kantian philosophy.

Kant’s rigorous compartmentalization of empirical science and his categorical theories of morality served as a vital compass.
It tethered scientific inquiry to the human conscience, demanding that men of science answer to a higher moral law.

Understand that the atomic bomb built during the Manhattan Project was only brought to fruition because the US military terrorized its scientists with the existential propaganda threats that Hitler was on the precipice of building a nuclear weapon to destroy the world.

Even under that global panic, the military establishment knew exactly who they could not trust. Top minds like Einstein were deliberately denied security clearances and locked out of the project’s details.
The reason was because the State recognized that a staunch philosopher and unyielding pacifist could never be weaponized.

Even after the bomb was manufactured, the conscience of the scientific community revolted.

70 scientists at the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago drafted a desperate petition begging President Truman not to unleash atomic hell on Japanese civilians.
They pleaded for a demonstration of the bomb on a barren island to force a surrender.
But the military machine did what it does best: it intercepted the petition, ensuring it never reached Truman in time.

Once the radioactive ashes settled over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the resulting horror triggered an immense philosophical awakening.

The guilt was suffocating, and the opposition within the scientific ranks skyrocketed from a handful of dissenters to thousands.

The "father of the bomb" himself, J. Robert Oppenheimer, stood before Truman and famously confessed, "I feel I have blood on my hands." He then spent his remaining political capital fiercely opposing the development of the vastly more apocalyptic Hydrogen bomb.

By 1955, Einstein and philosopher Bertrand Russell published the Russell-Einstein Manifesto, birthing the Pugwash Conferences and uniting the globe’s foremost scientific minds in a crusade for nuclear disarmament.

But the US government learned a chilling lesson from the Manhattan Project and the ensuing moral rebellion.
It became clear to them that scientists with a conscience are dangerous.

The military-political establishment realized that physicists who think like philosophers and who dare to ask why a weapon is being built and what the moral implications are poses an existential threat to national security and unchecked State power in the Cold War.

The retaliation was swift and structural. After WWII, the State flooded the scientific community with billions of dollars through the Department of Defense, but the money came with a leash: it was strictly for "applied sciences".

The government needed to train tens of thousands of obedient physicists at breakneck speed to churn out radar, missiles, and reactors. University curricula were ruthlessly overhauled. Philosophy and history were purged from physics textbooks, replaced entirely by cold pragmatism and soulless equations.

Look at the consequences today. This deliberate lobotomy is exactly why almost every major scientific innovation today is practically geared toward engineering sick, insane weapons aimed at the mass destruction of human life.

This is why the entire scientific apparatus in the West, and its allied academic institutions, can comfortably turn a blind eye while their drones and munitions are deployed to commit unspeakable, mechanized atrocities across the Global South.

This is why I have ruthlessly maintained that science and philosophy can never be divorced. Severing the two does not create objective science; it creates subservient technicians.
It inevitably reduces the brightest minds of our generation to mere tools in the bloodstained hands of billionaires and warmongers, a separation that may very well spell the violent end of human civilization.

[Dylan Ratigan @DylanRatigan]

For those who say the President shouldn’t be taken seriously when he says he’s going to end another countries civilization…

Does that also mean we should not take Iran seriously when they chant death to America?

Which is it? Hyperbolic rhetoric that should be ignored.?

Or words that must be taken seriously and provide the foundation for war with Iran?

[Vernon Reid @vurnt22]

He didn’t just “pass away”. He was murdered. By his own father, Marvin Gaye Sr- with a gun he gave him as a birthday gift. A tragedy of Shakespearian proportions.

[Oliver Budde @o_budde]

I've always loved this art form. This one's pretty good.

[Fintwit Capital @fan_fintwit]

Trump's Iran Downfall

[Peter St Onge, Ph.D. @profstonge]

The Fed printed trillions of dollars in Covid, used them to buy trillions of bonds, but apparently that had absolutely nothing to do with double digit inflation that immediately followed 🤡

[Michael Burry Stock Tracker ♟ @burrytracker]

Breaking: Bill Ackman just called Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac "stupidly cheap" and said they could 10x if privatized and relisted

What Ackman didn't mention: Pershing Square Capital Management owns ~10% of both companies, making him the largest private common shareholder.

• Fannie Mae ($FNMA): Up 27% today
• Freddie Mac ($FMCC): Up 21% today

His position gained an estimated $200,000,000 today alone

[Dylan Ratigan @DylanRatigan]

Yes, I understand that recollection however, there was a critical third option, which was bail out the banks AND reform the system — clawback the previous 10 years compensation to the board members and CEOs — and restructure the incentives for the Banks — instead, all compensation was left in the bank accounts of those who created the mess — and nothing at the core was reformed - this established a foundational betrayal that festers to this day

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

They are not moving, your brain is tricking you

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[Andrew Lokenauth @FluentInFinance]

Median family income in the US increased from $10,000 in 1971 to $106,000 today, a 10x increase.

However, the median cost of homes increased from $25,000 to $445,000, a 17x increase.

And the median cost of cars increased from $3,600 to $50,000, a 14x increase.

The median cost of college increased from $2,900 a year to $45,000, a 16x increase.

And the average cost of healthcare per person increased from $350 to $14,600, a 42x increase.

THIS IS ABSOLUTELY INSANE.