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@ArmstrongEcon is this really something new?

I was told by one of the senior vice presidents of one of the major newspapers. The government calls. It says they have a favor. If you don't do it, they come after you personally: tax investigation, etc. That is how they control the press. They don't go after the newspaper because that's the First Amendment. They go after the journalist personally.

@TFL1728 @LukeGromen @BigJayGreg @iluvtheater @SimonDixonTwitt @FT Tom, Luke is smart and respectful and has a perspective worth hearing and listening to. you can disagree with him but you don't have to be a douche about it.

@LukeGromen @BigJayGreg @iluvtheater @SimonDixonTwitt I said TIC Report.... because you quoted the @FT with a story that said Central Banks were dumping. Stay on target... stop gish galloping.

But @SimonDixonTwitt says China is winning. @LukeGromen says the USD is dead because reasons.

@RudyHavenstein @NewYorkFed ffs, buried.

@RudyHavenstein @NewYorkFed I burred volcker.... (no idea if this makes sense, just trying to keep with the beatles/econ theme) carry on.

I need a bailout. cc @NewYorkFed

@FantasyBosco @TheRayFlowers @Jeff_Mans sour in the rye no longer exists? that was one of the best beers ive ever had.

Forget the IPAs for me @TheRayFlowers @Jeff_Mans give me the sours!!! My favorites not longer exist. Sour n the rye. Tart of darkness. By bruery terriox.

@JM_speakss @FinFreedom414 such as?

@FinFreedom414 Gromen has been consistently wrong on a lot of things lmao

Macro strategist Luke Gromen on oil and the global economy: “The world economy cannot survive a 7 to 11% loss of oil supply. It will not survive.” “We can debate: is Europe going to go first and collapse? Is Southeast Asia going to go first and collapse? Will America collapse first? But the global economy, it is a certainty, it will collapse if we keep oil supplies down 7 to 11%.”

@martyrmade great news, been looking forward to it.

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@heraldofkek Bitcoin core

Don’t use a hardware wallet.

@RudyHavenstein im disappointed i didn't think of this.

Fact-Check: There is no Nobel Prize for Economics. There's a "Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel." I just awarded myself the "World's Best Twitter Account Award in Memory of John Heisman" (i.e., The Hesiman Trophy.) nobelprize.org/alfred-nobel/f…

@BpsmithUk @shanaka86 nah

@janxonseat @shanaka86 Essentially zero.

The United States Navy deployed a laser weapon to this war. CENTCOM released footage of the HELIOS system mounted on a destroyer operating off Iran’s coast. The New York Post, citing sources familiar with the operation, reported HELIOS has been used against Iranian drones during Operation Epic Fury. In early February 2026, weeks before the war began, HELIOS took out four drones in a live test. USNI Proceedings confirmed it. Whether HELIOS has recorded confirmed combat kills in this war is not yet publicly verified by primary military sources. What is confirmed is that the system is deployed, operational, and pointed at the same airspace through which Iran has been sending hundreds of drones and missiles every day. Here is why that matters regardless of the kill count. Every Patriot interceptor costs $3 to $4 million per missile. Every THAAD interceptor costs $10 million. The UAE has intercepted more than 755 drones and 172 ballistic missiles since this war began. Run that arithmetic at even conservative figures and you are looking at several billion dollars in interceptor expenditures across the Gulf in under a week. HELIOS runs on electricity. The marginal cost of firing a laser is essentially zero. The ship’s generator produces the power. There is no missile to reload, no magazine to deplete, no resupply ship needed. Against a Shahed drone that costs $30,000, a laser engagement costs less than the electricity bill for a large apartment. The economic architecture of drone warfare has been Iran’s most sophisticated strategic weapon in this conflict. Flood the defenses with cheap munitions. Force the defender to spend $1 million to stop a $30,000 projectile. Do that a thousand times and you have imposed a billion-dollar tax on the defense while spending thirty million on the offense. HELIOS breaks that equation at the physical level. If directed energy weapons can absorb even a fraction of the drone saturation that has been overwhelming Gulf air defenses, the cost asymmetry that makes Iranian drone doctrine viable begins to invert. Iran spent years developing the doctrine that makes Shaheds strategically valuable. The United States just deployed the technology that may make that doctrine obsolete. This war is the first real combat test of whether it works. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

@KimDotcom how much have you bet on polymarkets?

No question. Republicans will lose House and Senate at the midterms. Trump will be impeached and removed.

@LukeGromen shortages and blackmarkets

Translation: They will attempt to implement soft price controls on oil. What do we know about price controls?

@waymoproblems @academic_la it is monstrous if you do not know all things, which no man does. it is definitely not prescriptive, meaning this should be repeat always and everywhere. Was God angry because the outcome he sought was not accomplished or because Saul did not do in faith what God asked? or both?

The tradition spent three thousand years wrestling with this passage precisely because it can’t be taken at face value. Every serious reading — Maimonides, the Talmudic debates, the rabbinical tradition — wrestles with it because the surface reading is monstrous and the tradition knows it’s monstrous. The constraint of that wrestling is what kept the text from becoming a weapon. Remove the constraint and the text becomes the thing the tradition spent three millennia preventing it from becoming. Netanyahu isn’t wrestling with it. He’s weaponizing it. Against the civilization that produced Cyrus — the man the Hebrew Bible calls Mashiach, God’s anointed, the liberator who ended the Babylonian exile and restored the Temple. Isaiah 45 calls Cyrus God’s shepherd. Ezra credits him with rebuilding the House of the Lord. Netanyahu just called the descendants of the man Isaiah called God’s anointed… Amalek. The text contradicts itself if you accept his reading. Which means his reading isn’t theology. It’s targeting. The Torah portion wasn’t an accident. The timing wasn’t coincidental. It was chosen. To frame ninety million people — the heirs of the civilization that saved the Jewish people — as the enemy God commands you to erase. Infant and suckling. The constraint is the engine. Remove it and every system degrades — military, diplomatic, theological. The people willing to say ‘we know what this means’ are the only constraint left.

Jew here. Every single on of us knows exactly what we did to Amalek. Samuel was ordered by God to kill their men, women, children, and infants, and all their livestock. God was mad some of the livestock survived. This is a call for total genocide in Iran.

@BitPaine @grok but also at this point IF it were a nuke, why waste time with a test right now?

Ten kilometer depth is not a nuclear test lmfao. Ten kilometers. @grok put this in context please. How hard is it to dig a ten kilometer hole?

@RudyHavenstein i don;t want to take away from the absurdity but, she looks great.

Please be A.I. Please be A.I.

@CosmicSkeptic please talk with @PaulVanderKlay . i believe it would a conversation that would benefit everyone who listened.