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Yep, legitimacy flows from public.

🍊Putting up Au all over & talking about how they make money from a weaker dollar but still reserve currency kinda says something

Polish press ages ago reported that they had hired Saddam’s top chemical weapons dude. We’ll see if things get spicy

Affleck said he wished he’d taken Damon’s advice of picking roles based on director

Gotta filter the net, or it filters you

Insurers were caught juking algos to lowball payouts in car accidents . Claims that GOOG’s algo auctioning ads inflates prices to customer. &c. &c.

Feel bad for the peeps that don’t filter to prevent algos deciding what they see

South Africa has high percentage of reported murdr as mob justice and revenge. 25% in Q4 2023. If the system not protect public, the public protects itself.

Murdochs Empire of Influence disappeared almost everywhere but is still on Australia’s SBS. Mebe less power in Australia than in other places.

If running low on options, Murdoch documentary is removed everywhere. Except Australia public telly

Last time subsidies cc p connected biz and consumers bore like 92% of loss

Princeton prof illustrated the tail risk of rapid decoupling. For china modeled like 20% decline in real GDP. Like 6% for US.

His side Sabre rattled about collecting on $1 trillion of debt the cc p refused to pay the US when it took over. Cc p paid the UK.

If u ax luxuries like turbines & EVs, demand goes way down. And US got 11x the stated rare earths as reserves if you count coal ash

Tho I don’t see retirees in that crowd selling yet. Hindu retirees been trading the pet rock for ages

Mebe depends if Canada and Mexico help on migration and fentanyl

U said you were itching for action in the country. They got action for you

a man wearing a cowboy hat and a pink shirt is looking at the camera . ALT: a man wearing a cowboy hat and a pink shirt is looking at the camera .

Corner boys happy to help you scratch your itch

Amar Bose prolly helps Z’s tunes more than most

China’s BYD already built a EV factory in Hungary

Substitute for bookmark

@josephpolitano.bsky.social @davidbeckworth.bsky.social you commented that trade benefits all. Dani Rodrik said since US was already pretty open, if there was full compensation to losers in US, not clear there was a net gain from trade for US. in 07, W & O econs estimate like $250b a year 4 comp

We’ll see if one of eternal youth dudes end up dying of disease from taking blood transfusions

NFLX light show last year

Nah. 40% to 50% price dispersion in single metro area. If public had better price & quality transparency, could shop around and price inflation would be more like in cosmetic surgery, which been slower than CPI for decades. And hospitals overcharging peeps with insurance to cover uninsured

Koo, LDP lost due to inflation, & most inflation in Japan is import inflation

So mebe Japan public would ♥️ stronger yen, higher rates, & weaker dollar