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@bradfordwillis @isaacrrr7 Like California cops who let shoplifters go if they steal under 1000 bucks worth of goods? The issue is that if cops refuse to do their jobs and protect society (that would be you), you'll get vigilante justice.

@isaacrrr7 Former LEO here. No, I don't support it. It is not the job of police to act as vigilantes and take the law into their own hands, becoming instantaneous judge & jury. That's the role of the criminal justice system. This man has the right to due process in Japan's legal system.

Mohammad, de Somalia, abusó de una menor japonesa. La niña empezó a llorar y él la desvistió. La policía japonesa se "encargó" de él y difundió el video para que ningún inmigrante cometiera un delito similar en el futuro. ¿Apoyas a la policía de Japón?

@beach2011lover @MatrixMysteries 17 year here, same story as a provider with DD. Dropped them, it feels SO much better.

@MatrixMysteries My dentist quit accepting them. He said they have not raised their contracted reimbursement amounts in 20 years. No one in our area will take them!!

“Delta Dental calls itself a nonprofit — while its CEO took $48 MILLION in four years.” Her pay ballooned from $4.5 million to $15 million a year. Provider reimbursements were cut. Patients paid MORE. ‘Nonprofit’ for the tax break. For-profit at the top.

"Hurt" is not an original by Johnny Cash. The song was written by Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails) in 1994 for the album The Downward Spiral. Rick Rubin had to insist several times on Cash recording his version, at first Johnny found the idea completely insane because the original version is industrial and noisy. At 71, already very ill, almost blind and with trembling hands, Cash completely transformed the band. The iconic video, directed by Mark Romanek, was filmed at the House of Cash (his own museum). June Carter Cash appears looking at him fondly, the video was shot in February 2003, a few months before she died (May) and Johnny himself (September). Trent Reznor was so moved that he declared, "This song is not mine anymore." It is considered one of the best covers of all time.

Interesting 225-year view of the US stock market by category. (I've been sent this without a source)

Citadel's Rubner highlights a point that @profplum99 has been talking about for years: "Passive vehicles are playing an increasingly dominant role in determining where marginal equity demand is allocated. "Passive buying is not neutral in today’s market structure. Every $1 allocated into the S&P 500 increasingly becomes a pro-growth, pro-momentum, and pro-large-cap allocation. Roughly ~35c of every incremental dollar flows into the Mag 7, ~41c into the Top 10 names, and nearly half into AI-linked exposure."

At 81 he manages $72 billion, and says markets right now are "just about as risky as I've ever seen" and AI is "way over its skis" He has never celebrated a winning trade in 47 years, this is the most feared investor on Wall Street the full story is in this 40-minute interview - every satisfword of it is worth your time ↓

Consumer spending is 70% of GDP. But 52% of it is recession-proof. Another 30% barely moves. Only 16% actually drives the cycle. This chart shows the full breakdown, ranked by cyclicality:

@DeltaDentalins Dentist here. Most dentists are "in network" with insurance companies who dictate rates. The following shows a hypothetical dentist salary (high side granted) and Delta Dental rate for a crown in DFW, TX "premier plan" measured in gold. Delta has kept rates flat since 2009 in USD. To get a further picture of how bad this is, the PPO network (Delta Dental's largest network) only allows 700 for a crown in Texas, again flat in USD since 2009. Takeaway: we are having our incomes decreased gradually and insidiously through currency debasement. Currently down 75% in gold since 2015.

@adamtaggart Porter Stansberry does a great job of addressing this in his new book. When workers perceive that they are being screwed they withdraw their services from the market. Pay me in depreciating fiat? Nah, I will pass

In April, the American male labor force participation rate hit its lowest level since records began in the 1940s We are losing one of the bedrock pillars of our society What can be done to reverse this existential trend?

Virtually every major war begins under false pretenses. German economist Richard Werner explains what the current global conflict is actually about. 0:00 The Effect of Propaganda in Wartime 11:52 The Return of Total War 21:50 Rivalry, Concentration Camps, and the First World War 39:55 Is China the New Germany? 51:18 The Bombing Campaigns Against Iran 53:28 Is There Danger of Japan and China Collaborating? 57:34 Why a Proper War Requires a Built-Up Enemy 1:00:47 Engineering Famine 1:07:51 China's One-Child Policy and Anti-Population Growth 1:18:17 The Great Deception 1:28:53 What Would a One-World Government Look Like? 1:37:49 The Man Who Helped Bring Hitler to Power 1:43:08 The Rothschilds and the Birth of Modern Economics 1:48:10 Where Does the Real Power Lie? 1:51:02 Are We Moving Closer to Centralization? 1:56:36 What Happens to US Assets as the Global System Changes?

Updated CAPE ratios around the world... linkedin.com/posts/norbertk…

You can literally test someone’s IQ in 90 seconds by asking them to pronounce 50 words. The more they get correct, the higher their IQ.

This has a 6-for-6 record in identifying one-year windows that witnessed stocks absolutely clocking bonds. It's German consumer confidence, and it has been in free fall to despair levels. In those 6 periods, a basket of US and German stocks rallied 18.4%, 33.6%, 29.8%, 17.6%, 48.6% and 9.5% over the next 12 months.

Nasdaq just triggered 8 Hindenburg Omen and Titanic Syndrome warnings in 3 weeks. When the 3-week warning count reached 8+, Nasdaq annualized returns averaged -24%. Price keeps pushing higher. So do the warnings. Read full analysis:sentimentrader.com/pricing

BREAKING: The 10 largest US stocks now account for a record 41% of the S&P 500's market cap. This is 14 percentage points higher than at the 2000 Dot-Com Bubble peak. This means ~41 cents of every Dollar invested in the S&P 500 flows directly into shares of just 10 firms. ~35 cents of every Dollar flows specifically into the Magnificent 7 group. All while nearly 50 cents of every Dollar are now going into AI-linked stocks. Mega-cap tech is all that matters right now.

TFTC 748 w/ @LukeGromen: "Inflation will be running 12 to 15 percent easy, but they're going to tell you it's four, four and a half." We discuss: ⚡ Sovereign debt spiral ⚡ Stealth QE ⚡ Iran's leverage

Traficant is the precedent for what they did to Thomas Massie. US Congressman James Traficant made many explosive allegations about Israel's control over the US government. Shortly thereafter he died in a mysterious farm accident involving a tractor.

WHAT IF the biggest bubble of our lifetime isn't crypto? Not AI stocks. Not real estate. What if it's the one asset every pension fund, every retiree, every "safe" portfolio is loaded with? Bonds. 200 years of rate cycles say the same thing: Every peak lasts 56–67 years. The 1981 top was 14% yields. The 2020 bottom was 0%. 39 years of falling rates just ended. What if we're now at the start of the next 50-year cycle — upward? Most investors have never managed money in a rising rate world. Their entire career happened inside the bull. The unwind has barely started. And no one is talking about it.

According to a recent New York Times poll, 57% of Americans oppose the U.S. providing more economic and military support to Israel, while just 37% support. Congress should listen to the American people. No more blank checks for war criminals like Benjamin Netanyahu.

if you like TRUE DETECTIVE and THE WIRE, you have to watch “quarry” (2016). it’s about a vietnam war veteran in 1970s memphis, tennessee forced to be a hitman. it was cancelled after 1 season because nobody was watching it. truly a masterpiece, it had so much potential.