Friday, February 5, 2021

If you haven't seen this clip, you really need to check it out.

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 I've included two versions from two very different sources. The Colbert version has more interruptions but also includes more of the ac...
Thursday, February 4, 2021

Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary and Tesla chief executive Elon Musk, with GameStop’s logo shining above them."

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As mentioned before (see here , here and here ), the standard democratization of Wall Street/little guys beat the big boys at their own gam...
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Wednesday, February 3, 2021

I do not understand US politics

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 This is Joseph Americans are a mystery. Consider this cunning plan  to primary senators : West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin and Arizona Sen. K...
Tuesday, February 2, 2021

All the little guys... you know... Fidelity, Vanguard, BlackRock

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 The LA Times indispensable Michael Hiltzik points out yet another flaw in the popular David and Goliath take on the Gamestop story. You sa...
Monday, February 1, 2021

It's like a David and Goliath story where David slays Goliath then Goliath falls on David crushing him to death

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Or maybe David dies from friendly fire. I'll admit that I don't have all of the details of the analogy worked out but than neither h...
Sunday, January 31, 2021

Please make it stop

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This is Joseph From the Washington Post : Meanwhile, the inexorable arithmetic of dollars times demography has taken us past the point of no...
Friday, January 29, 2021

Be very wary of the standard Gamestop narrative

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 We'll be coming back to the hopelessly wrong-headed short-seller take (when your arguments come from Elon Musk...), but you should also...
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Thursday, January 28, 2021

If I had waited three years, I would have had much better examples

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 The big difference that jumps out at me comparing the view now and then is that in 2017 I felt compelled to make the case that the delusion...
Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Smullyan's vampires and and insane humans might come in handy

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Particularly at a time when identifying the truly crazy has become a high priority. For those not familiar with the late, great mathematicia...
Tuesday, January 26, 2021

This may not be the perfect bitcoin story, but it's pretty damned close

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This sort of thing happens more often than you'd expect... unless you've kept up with the crypto world, in which case this sort of t...
Monday, January 25, 2021

"So it would appear that, in August of the election year, we have a political party not so subtly suggesting that its nominee should drop out."

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I had forgotten about this bit of wishful thinking from the GOP almost five years ago.   Thursday, August 4, 2016 ...
Friday, January 22, 2021

Back in 2013, we suggested that the Conservative Movement was losing control of its disinformation machine and the result threatened the GOP...

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I'm trying not to be too dickish about this but, yes, there is a degree of "we told you so" in these reposts. It's satisfy...
Thursday, January 21, 2021

It would have been wrong somehow if the Trump administration hadn't seen a Bitcoin resurgence

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Fortunately,  the Financial Times has been doing its usual first-rate job poking at the bubble. Here Jemima Kelly explains how meaningless ...
Wednesday, January 20, 2021

For some reason, this feels like the real end of 2020

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So here's some music for a belated New Year's Day.   
Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Real World Evidence and the covid-19 vaccine

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This is Joseph Israel is currently the world leader in giving vaccines for covid-19 with > 2 million first doses and only 400,000 second ...