nihoncassandra

Dear Mr Walken, To avoid doubt, please go shake Mr Trump's hand. People just won't believe ME. Thank You, Cassandra

I WANT IT ALL - I DESERVE IT!! "More ppl are seeking the income guarantees of products such as reg'std index-linked annuities, which are tied to a mkt index but offer higher potential rets as well as downside protection that limits losses." @NicoGladia ft.com/content/0e1ddf…

@robinhanson @justalexoki If you are care about the quality and longevity of your clothes, and you care about the environment, you SHOULD do this. Americans never seem to ask the question about where the so-called "lint" in their lint filters actually comes from 🤔

@justalexoki We Americans don't do this.

there's no way Americans don't do this. this is just a universal human experience

Ashley St. Clair confirmed the WH runs group chats telling these accounts what to post. Within minutes of shots fired tonight, before there was any news of casualties and before the President said this exact talking point, this was the chat in real time.

@WorkMJ FRA sys struct is closer to optimal: single-payer; super efficnt; mix of pub/pvt hosp ownship w/wholly pvt prvdrs; monopsony & pub intervention to address mkt fails. Prob isnt HC syst struct, but demography & polit fail to address how to deal + finance incr'g costs + >longevity.

@WorkMJ UK Publc's attachmnt to HC syst struct which is v.sub-optimal isn't surprsng since majorty of ppl are (contrary to USA+EU ppl's beliefs) skint. This skint maj prefs "less" for free since they can't pay anyway. For those w/pvt insur, givng + to the poor maj just incrs their tax%

As someone who has lived for many years in both France and the UK, the French healthcare system is unquestionably better. No contest. How is Labour framing this as an extremist view?

@EquitiesInHel @SnowBrains Here in Annecy, you can do a trifecta: world-class free ride at La Clusaz in the AM, then surf (kite or wind) on the lake, before a tour du lac cycle!

@SnowBrains Pretty Anglo-centered. Would’ve expected to see western Pyrenees and Lofoten on this list

⛷️➕🏄‍♂️ Best of both worlds! 🤟

Col des Sauts…

@CREID2852 @robinhanson The better question given the facts is why *would* politicians want to stop immigration?!?

@robinhanson Why can't politicians stop Immigration? Capitalist are like Bryan Caplan in that they want more (cheap) labor supply

"most basic theory of how to respond to a populist era: Move to the cultural right, especially on immigration. It’s a simple admonition but one that establishment leaders in both Europe and America have found nearly impossible to follow"

Since noone was hurt I feel that in addition to supporting banning the damn monster trucks, I can say “Like a Lambo to the slaughter.”

@TheStalwart ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

THE COMPLETELY RATIONAL, CRAZY BULL MARKET In today's newsletter, I wrote about how it makes total sense for the stock market to be surging to all time highs almost every day, even as consumer sentiment plunges to its lowest level in history.

@kitty_donaldson @MarketBlondes @theipaper Obviously not that “secret” ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

EXC: Some of Sir Keir Starmer’s Cabinet are in secret discussions about the best time to tell the Prime Minister to quit and who should deliver the message, @theipaper can reveal 🧵 inews.co.uk/news/politics/…

@NicoGladia @nic_amadio Head across Perly to St Julien-en G to Grand Frais (one of the better PE deals) where 110g of the "Wild Alaska Salmon" is c.~ CHF 7

@nic_amadio Canada wild from same brand is better (but not cheaper)...

Who of you was to recommend me to buy this?? Didn’t know you wanted to bankrupt me 😂 Although now after 16 CHF for 90g of smoked salmon I’ll be very motivated to grind… So in that case thank you for increasing my income. Personal finance in CH follows quantum math 🤔

@NicoGladia @nic_amadio In our f*cked-up world, what's termed "Wild Alaska Salmon" is more often not wild in the wild sense, but are actually genetically undiverse fish spawned in hatcheries & released. Less bad than farmed perhaps but still rather FUBAR. Only "Sockeye" has hi-prob of being truly "wild"

@mark_dow @TBPInvictus Highlights from the Sep 2026 FOMC meet....

@TBPInvictus Slopulist monetary analysis. Embarrasing for a former Fed governor--either bc not smart or not honest.

Thoughts, @mark_dow?

📈Après un démarrage de séance en fanfare avec une hausse de +12% atteignant un record historique à 847,70 $ 📉 le titre clôture à 443,94 $ => une chute de près de 50% sur la séance ! Joli gain latent pour moi #short $CAR > Mauvais process ➡️bon résultat (rapide) ! 😆

Avis Budget $CAR +645% en 1 mois ! 🚀 La folie GameStop #short_squeeze est de retour Mais avec cette fois aux manettes des fonds spéculatifs et non plus des investisseurs particuliers 🕹️ Préparez les popcorns, le spectacle va être grandiose : direction 1 000 $ ?

According to Trump's methodology, my portfolio is up 600% this year. Suck on that Libtards...

In Moldova, the oligarch who stole $1 billion for himself and laundered $20 billion for Russia has been sentenced to 19 years in prison. A huge win for rule of law in a country that is making great strides. theins.press/en/news/291837

@TTemple46526836 @nfergus @bariweiss Since '79, Russia has wreaked FAR more instability + havoc upon it's neighbours & world than Iran's mullahs ever could've conjured, yet, Trump licks Putin's ass rather than contain the most hostile+mendacious state vis-a-vis fundamental US econ interests, alliances & values.

@nfergus @bariweiss Every President since Carter has bitched about Iran......Zero did shit, except for a couple that sent billions of $. The fat lady hasn't sung yet!

Let me walk you through the events of the war so far: 1. The United States and Israel tried regime change; it didn’t work. Or rather, they got regime change—Iran became an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps–led military dictatorship. That was not an improvement. 2. The U.S. won an overwhelming military victory with air and naval power and scarcely a boot on the ground. But it destroyed less of Iran’s missile- and drone-launching capabilities than at first appeared. 3. Then there was a hostage crisis. Iran took both the Gulfies and the Strait of Hormuz hostage. The result was a massive economic shock for the world that required a rapid resolution. 4. The choice was between 1) military escalation (boots on the ground or strikes on Iranian infrastructure), and 2) a diplomatic deal. Trump chose 2. 5. In Islamabad, the U.S proposed big economic concessions in return for some kind of change in the status of Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile, as well as the reopening of the strait. Contrary to the president’s social media feed, the Iranians did not accept. 6. In any case, the devil of any deal will be in the details, not the Truth headline. (When the small print finally comes out, every former Obama and Biden official will be ready to tell The New York Times that it’s worse than the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.) 7. Meanwhile, the Iranians have survived regime change and discovered that closing the strait is just as powerful a lever in economic warfare as they had always hoped. It’s not, despite the Russian quip, an “economic nuke,” because unlike a nuclear weapon you can use it. 8. Where we go from here is fairly predictable. I would be surprised if Trump now deploys ground forces. There will be more negotiation, so Islamabad, here we come. There may have to be more bombing, if the Iranians dust down the North Vietnamese playbook of stringing the U.S. negotiators along. And the final compromise will take longer to be agreed upon than Mr. Market currently believes. The consensus in prediction markets is this will be over by the end of May, but remember: It took Henry Kissinger more than four months to get the 1973–1974 oil embargo lifted.

Excerpts from the Sep 2026 FOMC meeting...