Concave

Fertility crisis is symptom of this. Boomers don’t care if their children have families, by and large. Children aren’t raised to become eventual parents. Nothing in society supports this anymore. There is no felt obligation of old to young. Abandonment on societal scale.

I didn't (don't) agree with some of your takes around continued US participation / escalation in the Iran war. But I don't want to be agreeing with everyone I follow all the time: just the definition of an echo chamber. Actively dangerous for a person like me who makes my living from investing / judgement. I think it's great we can can disagree about some stuff, still be civil, not resort to block button & carry on. Thank you. I think most of what you write is excellent.

“Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels grew perplexed. None of it made sense. He could not fathom why Churchill had not yet conceded defeat, given the nightly pounding of London.”

Guys it's Saturday, of course Trump will do some wild shit away from market hours. We go through this cycle every single time. There was non-stop China trade war tweets during the first admin, then trade war stuff that crashed the market in Spring of Last year. Things move along a general trend, but these volatile spikes never really lead to much. Worst case there is a market pullback, everything is angry, then a ''deal'' is reached.

at some point I gained the power to tell chinese, japanese, and koreans apart. I’m not even sure how I do it, but I can

Is she Korean, Japanese or Chinese?

NEVER have sex with your co-workers. Not at work, not outside work. Neverrrrrrrrrrrr, everrrrrrrrrrrrrr at all.

Iran fired a pair of intermediate-range ballistic missiles at Diego Garcia, a joint U.S.-UK base in the Indian Ocean. One missile failed in flight, and another was engaged by a US Navy destroyer using an SM-3 missile.

Point72 and Balyasny have recently banned employees from trading on prediction markets in their personal accounts, per Bloomberg