Paracelsus’ Purse

From alchemy to finance. Transmuting market chaos, studying the tomes of financial markets and cryptic ledgers. Follow as I probe the myths of wealth and power.

[Kalshi @Kalshi]

JUST IN: Fed to inject $10 billion in US economy

[Bitcoin Magazine @BitcoinMagazine]

It's not just a Bitcoin thing. Every major hard asset is bleeding 🩸

🟡 Gold: -29%
⚪️ Silver: -52%
🟠 Bitcoin: -53%

[Uzi @UziCryptoo]

The biggest welfare recipient in America is the richest family in America, the Walton family, who inherited Walmart, never have to work a day in their lives & are worth $354 billion by paying wages so low that many Walmart workers rely on food stamps, Medicaid & public housing.

[Paracelsus’ Purse @ParacelsusPurse]

So only 32% of Americans understand how the system works

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

32% of Americans believe the system is rigged in favor of corporations and the wealthy, that government involvement makes things worse, and that federal policies actively hurt the middle class, per the Roosevelt Institute.

[Bitcoin Magazine @BitcoinMagazine]

JUST IN: $12.6 trillion Charles Schwab officially rolls out Bitcoin trading 🚀

[Paracelsus’ Purse @ParacelsusPurse]

Most Selfish Generation.

[Anthony Pompliano 🌪 @APompliano]

This is insane.

89% of senior citizens support raising taxes on younger workers to maintain their benefits.

[Sarahh @Sarahhuniverse]

Reality?

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[CRG @Cantrushit]

They want people to live on 1990s salaries.

I’m sorry, but $35k went a lot further when rent was $550 a month, not $2500, and a bag of potato chips cost 99 cents not $6.

[Leading Report @LeadingReport]

ABC, CBS, and NBC have been largely silent in regards to DNI Tulsi Gabbard’s recent declassification regarding Anthony Fauci’s cover-up of the COVID-19 pandemic.

[QE Infinity @StealthQE4]

Awesome rant:

Bravo!

[Farm Girl Carrie™️👩‍🌾 @FarmGirlCarrie]

Tillamook County Creamery Association generates over $1.2B a year in sales while remaining owned by roughly 80 to 110 dairy farming families in Oregon.

Founded in 1909, the cooperative has never sold to a private equity firm, with profits returned directly to its farmer-owners.

This stands in stark contrast to the wave of private equity acquisitions sweeping through the food.

I only buy Tillamook cheese and ice cream… great company.

[Specter @DemonFramed]

If you’re broke right now and in debt, stop stressing. A lot of people are getting cooked right now.

There’s a professional athlete (Floyd Mayweather) who is going broke right now. There’s a millionaire somewhere who is about to lose everything.

40-60% of Americans can’t cover a $400 emergency. 90 day credit card delinquencies are at their highest levels in 15 years. Auto loan delinquencies are exploding.

There is someone graduating medical school right now with $300,000 in student loan debt.

Hell, America itself is over $39 trillion in debt.

The reality is most people in this economy are getting fucked hard.

So stop beating yourself up. You’re not the only one struggling.

Keep pushing, make your money, but don’t forget to enjoy life. Remember all this shit is meaningless.

[Polling USA @USA_Polling]

The fucking community note 😭

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: US officials have now confirmed in a briefing that Iran will get full access to a total of $100 billion in frozen funds and the $300 billion reconstruction fund, both included in the deal with implementation now underway, per WSJ.

More than $150 billion of the fund has already been committed, directly contradicting Trump's claims that the US would not contribute to the $300 billion fund, per Reuters.

[ADAM @adamemedia]

Americans realising they’re going to spend $400B to open a shipping lane they closed.

[Paracelsus’ Purse @ParacelsusPurse]

@sweatystartup That $30 won’t compound into anything so I get having a beverage of 4.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Fred Rogers met with a child psychologist every week for 22 years to build his show. She shaped everything: every script, prop, and song. The whole point was to give a child's nervous system time to slow down. In 1984, a single regulatory decision ended all of it.

The psychologist was Dr. Margaret McFarland, who co-founded the Arsenal Family and Children's Center alongside Benjamin Spock and Erik Erikson. She and Rogers understood that the prefrontal cortex in children, the part of the brain that controls impulse, emotion, and attention, takes decades to fully develop. At the start of every episode, Rogers tied his sneakers and changed his sweater while children settled in. Those pauses were intentional, designed to help a child's nervous system shift into a calmer, more focused state.

What ended it had nothing to do with child development science. In 1984, Reagan's FCC chairman Mark Fowler abolished the advertising limits that had protected children's programming from commercial pressure. Toy companies moved within months. Between 1984 and 1985, cartoons tied to toy lines increased by 300%, from a handful of shows to more than 40 animated series. In almost every case, the toy was designed first. The cartoon was built to sell it.

Researchers later put numbers to what parents were already noticing. A 2011 study in Pediatrics from the University of Virginia tested 60 four-year-olds across three groups: one watching SpongeBob, which cuts scene every 11 seconds; one watching a slow PBS show, which cuts scene every 34 seconds; and one drawing. Nine minutes later, all three took tests on attention, impulse control, short-term memory, and problem-solving. The SpongeBob group scored significantly worse across every measure.

In the 1970s, children began watching television around age 4. Research from pediatrician Dimitri Christakis found that by 2009, the average age of first screen exposure had dropped to 4 months, as the content got faster and the audience got younger. Researchers separately found that each additional hour of daily screen time at ages 1 or 3 raised the risk of attention problems at age 7 by 9%.

[Bark @barkmeta]

Realizing SpaceX is pumping because 96% of the stock is locked and nobody can actually sell

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

BREAKING: They are now pouring bottles of hydrogen peroxide into the ultra-green algae-filled Reflecting Pool that Trump wasted $10m of our money on.