Polemic Paine @PolemicTMM
Team Macro Man, City veteran, investor, trader and lover of wild places. Fascinated by behavioural biases. polemics-pains.blogspot.com On the financial beach Joined April 2014-
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I've just started using Perplexity. Love it. Google meets Chatgpt. Whereas Google strings you yards of sponsored irrelevances, or you end up with a pile of Youtubes of Brad from Wisconsin giving his life story before showing you how to change a gasket, this sorts it.
I've just started using Perplexity. Love it. Google meets Chatgpt. Whereas Google strings you yards of sponsored irrelevances, or you end up with a pile of Youtubes of Brad from Wisconsin giving his life story before showing you how to change a gasket, this sorts it.
China speculators eclipsing western ones in gold. on.ft.com/3JxZPbu
China speculators eclipsing western ones in gold. on.ft.com/3JxZPbu https://t.co/7t2kG5z48c
Argentina’s Javier Milei announces nation's first budget surplus in 16 years straitstimes.com/world/argentin…
@PolemicTMM That’s actually what the Marathon du Medoc is! This is an old article but describes it well from what I’ve heard (it’s on my bucket list) amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/t…
DEI Meets Plagiarism at UCLA city-journal.org/article/dei-me…
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People ask why McKinsey would release flawed studies on the business case for diversity. Because they have huge incentives to do so: it boosts their reputation, and the senior author of all 4 studies got a damehood for "services to ... women in business". maycontainlies.com/discernment-ma…
Massive park and ride car park built but no access road to it. Yes Minister response would be "But Minister, all those cars in the car park would mean extra costs in wear and tear and maintenance staff wouldn't have time to attend their DEI courses. Much better it remains empty"
Massive park and ride car park built but no access road to it. Yes Minister response would be "But Minister, all those cars in the car park would mean extra costs in wear and tear and maintenance staff wouldn't have time to attend their DEI courses. Much better it remains empty"
Tariff rebrand.
It's England's 'bickering over their national saint on Twitter' day.
Life lesson - the value of your investment does not correlate to the value of what you a have invested in. New tech.
Life lesson - the value of your investment does not correlate to the value of what you a have invested in. New tech.
@datepsych You can tell a person is smarter than you by observing that they continuously make poor choices that nevertheless work out in their favor by what appears to be luck.
America’s debt, something that prompts Ferguson to remind his readers about “Ferguson’s law”: Any great power that spends more on debt service (interest payments on the national debt) than on defense will not stay great for very long nationalreview.com/corner/brzezin… h/t @AndrewGibsonMBA
confirmed by gold down 2.3% and oil down 1.5%
Another hopeless regulator as the FCA tries to introduce the principle of gulity until proven innocent....
Another hopeless regulator as the FCA tries to introduce the principle of gulity until proven innocent....
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@PolemicTMM Cheaper to get a private chef than go out for dinner as a group. I'd love to see an analysis of the breakdown of costs of a meal. I expect at least 50% goes on rent.
@PolemicTMM We ate out a lot during the pandemic to help keep places open but now that everyones back we’ve been eatin in
What a fucking disgrace. Amazing how fast leftists can commit institutional suicide.
JUST IN: Columbia University has announced classes will be remote for the rest of the year as anti-Israel protests rock the school. There are now growing calls for tuition refunds for the $70k a year college now that it has practically turned into an online school. "It’s vital…
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@Rainmaker1973 Bees swarming in the morning
One for @PolemicTMM @truemagic68 et al
What happened in 1970? Humanity became its own greatest impediment to progress This is why it's impossible to build anything these days. Billions for a couple urban miles of train tracks. 10 years for a bridge. We've regulated away a golden age in the name of safety
What happened in 1970? Humanity became its own greatest impediment to progress This is why it's impossible to build anything these days. Billions for a couple urban miles of train tracks. 10 years for a bridge. We've regulated away a golden age in the name of safety
The reality is we could've easily mastered energy, food, and material abundance with 1970s era Technology. Instead, we loaded up on virtue signaling, stakeholder engagement, and regulatory capture. I call this general phenomenon "The Blight"
The Blight is what gives you things like billion-dollar a mile railroad tracks in San Francisco, never completed high speed rail in California, the NRC killing nuclear energy, ArianeSpace, a bunch of go-nowhere climate tech bubbles, Don Lemon, affirmative action, etc
The reality is we could've easily mastered energy, food, and material abundance with 1970s era Technology. Instead, we loaded up on virtue signaling, stakeholder engagement, and regulatory capture. I call this general phenomenon "The Blight"
@PolemicTMM Or "England's Left and Remain's Turkish appreciation national Day"
Overheard outside Canary Wharf station: "We're not catching the tube" "Influencers don't use the tube" ...the London Underground, it's good enough for globally-famous celebrities, but not two-bit influencers.
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Or so it appears. Plus why your Red Hot Chili Peppers albums might be worth more than you thought
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@datepsych You can tell a person is smarter than you by observing that they continuously make poor choices that nevertheless work out in their favor by what appears to be luck.
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