President Trump recently stated, “I’ve seen enough: the Senate is broken, and it’s time to change the rules.” This comment echoes his longstanding frustrations with Senate operations, particularly the filibuster and procedural hurdles that slow or block legislation and nominations.
There are five major forces that together, operate in a big cycle:
- Financial force – money, debts, markets, economy
- Domestic political force – internal order and disorder, wealth gaps, and conflict between the left and the right
- International world order force – great power conflicts as rising power challenges
- Humans’ inventiveness force– Advances in technology
- Acts of nature force – droughts, floods, and pandemics
We can use these forces to understand the reality that we are now living out, and to understand the risks of where we are headed. @theallinpod
@0xReflection so what’s the bigger purpose? Rebase the USD -or- to mop up as much surplus USD as it can before it goes super nova and nukes all the non-productive dollars sitting inside it?
$BTC Bitcoin is still stuck and honestly it is starting to frustrate me.
Price sitting at $70,879 and we are right back in the same compression zone we have been watching all month.
The $72K to $76K resistance box is still acting as the ceiling, and every attempt to push through gets faded hard.
The only thing keeping me from full bearish is that macro trendline around $64K. It held twice in February and that tells me there is real conviction down there.
But BTC is still trading $15,000 below the EMA 200 at $86,079. That is not a healthy chart.
Until I see a clean daily close above $75K with volume, I am staying patient.
Fannie Mae allowing BTC to collateralise home mortgages- I know I’m just tweeting into the void here, but this is that moment; the retail option for this.
I imagine that this will have some unintended downstream effect in a couple of decades when people want to get the BTC back….
So I wrote this to myself a bit over a year ago, but had been thinking this probably since about 2018. This week the news was that Blackrock is making this happen-It's not even a proud 'I called it!' moment- it was just an inevitability 🤷♂️
Peripheral BTC musings:
At some point in the near future you'll be able to use BTC broadly as collateral.
This part of a long term view gets almost no coverage.
Selling in most jurisdictions is a taxable event, but
borrowing against isn't. Have your cake and eat it too.
Imagine dropping $20000 for a home deposit 12 years ago..
Now it’s time to sell that house and get the market value of your deposit back: $20000 in house equity (reduced by inflation, offset by increase of property value)
Now imagine using $20k worth of BTC 12 years ago then getting that sum back after 12years- Forgeddaboutit
“We’re winning so big. Nobody’s ever seen anything like we’re doing in the Middle East with Iran. And they are negotiating, by the way, and they want to make a deal so badly, but they’re afraid to say it because they figure they’ll be killed by their own people,” Trump has said.
@7XAccount7@Sjacobs2020@unusual_whales This isn’t a partisan issue, it’s a structural issue. The misdirection is even having a left v. right argument about who abused their position the most. As a regular citizen you get screwed over just the same regardless of who is doing it-
It’s the action that is wrong,
@Participant365@Sjacobs2020@unusual_whales I wonder if the left's going to be so vocal when they find out that "someone" turns out to be closely tied to a Democrat senator like Nancy pelosi.
You know the person who's been obviously guilty of insider trading for decades and no one's done anything about it.
BREAKING: Just five minutes before Trump's announcement to halt the attacks on Iran, massive trades reportedly hit the market.
In one move, $1.5 billion in S&P 500 (ES) futures was bought while $192 million in oil (CL) futures was sold.
These orders were 4–6x larger than anything else at the time.
The trader seemingly made huge gains.
Unusual.
When a left Australia on the 11th, fuel was about $2.20/L.
Vietnam has been pretty normal; no cues, no pumps out of order, all orderly refills. 🇻🇳
I wonder what surprises await me when I return to Australia this week. 🇦🇺
Netanyahu, 2012: Iran will reach nuclear weapons capability by next summer
Draws red line at the UN.
2013: nothing
2014: nothing
2015: nothing
2016: nothing
2017: nothing
2018: nothing
2019: nothing
2020: nothing
2021: nothing
2022: nothing
2023: nothing
2024: nothing
2025: bombs Iran, "destroys" nuclear capabilities.
2026: Iran will have a nuke next week, we’re running out of time
@unusual_whales They are all corrupt.
Just like the "puts" made on airline stocks days before 911 but no one in the government cares.
Why?
Because they already know who did it.
@Sjacobs2020@unusual_whales Who could have possibly foreseen that the most disgusting personality to ever hold office in U.S history would use his position to personally profit?
You get what you fckn deserve.
No. because that is a dumb point-
In the same way that the horse and carriage industry got replaced by something better, things change.
To presume that Bezos is replacing workers to fulfil his own personal financial ends is a bit of a low blow- he couldn’t spend the money he has in a hundred lifetimes. -Perhaps- the game he is playing isn’t about the money, but about building the company.
Money might be a scorecard, but to presume this is somehow strictly zero sum game as is presented, feels predatory in a political sense.
By making a parallel comparison to people’s own fear about job security, leveraging that fear of loss with urgency, etc- is straight out of scam calling 101.
Arguably, the way to fight this is to not buy from companies like Amazon- it’s that simple; Now you can measure your own moral integrity. Just don’t hide the agenda in a false premise-
Bernie Sanders has said:
Jeff Bezos, worth $234 billion, plans to replace 600,000 Amazon workers with robots.
Now, he wants to spend $100 billion to fully automate not just his warehouses, but factories in the U.S & other countries.
Oligarchs are waging all out war against workers. FIGHT BACK.
People in the upper right corner are on welfare so they all vote for the “correct” party. They will therefore try to bring as many of those as possible.
They will try to not accidentally bring any business owners, engineers, investors or entrepreneurs from those same countries because they work and pay tax and will therefore vote wrong.
The politicians don’t focus on what is best for the country. They focus on winning the election. Took me a long time to fully get this. It explains all the lunacy.
There are elections soon here in Denmark.
One side in this election (the left) wants to pay enormous sums to Muslims and African immigrants facilitating them staying here, thereby causing a lot more violent crime and rape.
I recommend people vote for the other side.
🇸🇦SAUDI ARABIA: Ayatollah Khamenei the new Hitler of the Middle East
Mohammed bin Salman says “He wants to expand. He wants to create his own project in the Middle East, very much like Hitler did."
Many countries didn’t realize how dangerous Hitler was until it was too late. I don’t want to see that happen here.”