🧵 1/3: PBMs – the $500B Middlemen No One Talks About
Not enough people on here are talking about PBMs: Pharmacy Benefit Managers.
They determine what drugs you can access, what you pay, and how pharmacies get reimbursed — yet operate with almost no transparency.
Every fact in this thread is sourced from House Oversight’s July 2024 PBM report (.gov) 👇
Global containerized ocean freight prices are surging to levels not seen since the pandemic supply chain crunch. Some key trade lane rates are up 140% since mid-December and increasing by the week. What’s happening, why, and what it means for businesses needing products moved? 🧵
A new centrally cleared era in repo markets is looming, which will cause an exodus from its shadowy yet most systemic regions. This may increase resiliency but also inhibit key trades gluing U.S. Treasury markets together. The Repo Leverage Squeeze™ is here... 1/
Following multiple market panics, officials have enacted their latest plan to strengthen the U.S. repo market. This will not only rewire its plumbing but also relocate trillions of dollars in highly leveraged trades. The Repo Market Exodus™ has now commenced... 1/
NEW FROM US:
Equinix Exposed: Major Accounting Manipulation, Core Business Decay And Selling An AI Pipe Dream As Insiders Cashed Out Hundreds of Millions
https://t.co/TUDKmWlYq7
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The shift to a secured monetary standard is now complete, with trillions in dollar loans priced using rates in the repo market. But after multiple mishaps, the secured standard has proven faulty. With leaders vowing to fix its flaws, the Repo Market Rewire™ is approaching... 1/
𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬?
The study below runs 10 benchmark problems in 28 languages [1]. It measures the runtime, memory usage, and energy consumption of each language. The abstract of the paper is shown below.
“This paper presents a study of the runtime, memory usage and energy consumption of twenty seven well-known software languages. We monitor the performance of such languages using ten different programming problems, expressed in each of the languages. Our results show interesting findings, such as, slower/faster languages consuming less/more energy, and how memory usage influences energy consumption. We show how to use our results to provide software engineers support to decide which language to use when energy efficiency is a concern”. [2]
𝐌𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐞𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐥𝐲 𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬: 𝐂, 𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐭, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂++
𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐞𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲-𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐥𝐲 𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬: 𝐑𝐮𝐛𝐲, 𝐏𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐧, 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐥
[1] https://t.co/rPD6Sw5mJn
[2] https://t.co/TDM72hEci4
Over to you: What do you think of the accuracy of this analysis?
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The Reverse Repo Facility
Lots of talk about how it's dwindling fast and may soon be empty...but does it really matter?
Yes, it matters. A whole lot more than you may think.
Time for a Fed 🧵👇