Are investors idiots?

A lot of investment is driven entirely by HFT algorithms and AIs now. The brokers oversee the broad strategy, but the trading is just a dozen different multi-billionaire hedge funds chasing one another’s tails. Market buy-ups and sell-offs are triggered by a handful of headlines and aggregator engines, snowballing up or down based on computers responding to other computers.

And because the market is increasingly liquid - as more mega-investors like Buffet cash out in pursuit of future buying opportunities - you’ll see sudden sharp inversions caused by the sheer amount of buying power that’s being pent up and released between announcements.

He’s just going to change his mind again in three days

Very difficult to price that as a risk variable. And in the meantime, there’s a ton of money to be made speculating on which way his wind will blow next.

in this case the “license to print money” is literal. No one can screw it up, right?

Ask Robert Mugabe

Stocks Soar!

All the way up to 40,157 from the Biden-Era dull-drums of 44,850

This is how West Germany chose copper, when even the by then almost bankrupt (and ruled by even more senile backwards looking geezers) GDR was already starting to lay down fiber optic.

In fairness, fiber optics were cheaper and easier to lay and worked better. So of course the socialists would adopt it first. They just wouldn’t monetize it properly such that they had the incentive to keep expanding it at an accelerated pace, until everyone in the country was paying $100/mo for $2/mo worth of internet.

For a real expansionist system, you either need people who are as greedy as they are ruthless (capitalism) or as ideological as they are hyper-competitive (dengism).

Smaller cosmopolitian countries tend to have looser immigration laws to accommodate the period influx and exodus of their populations. One of the supposed virtues of the EU was to make trade and travel easier without requiring people to give up and reacquire citizenships every time they move across a border or change a job.

But then a smattering of NATO states decided to start carpet bombing the Middle East, dominoes started falling, climate change took its tool, and now you’ve got mass migrations of millions fleeing the fallout. And Germans are freaking out over it, in no small part because the old Fash-Heads of the prior generations have found a way to gain political leverage by hitting the PANIC button over and over again.

remorse for the effect that your actions have had

I think they were expressing remorse. Just, you know, remorse about the killing. Not the loss of face to the C-levels.

At the convenience (sometimes even directed request) of the US, and typically by sourcing their hardware from US military contractors. If Japan is going to align with China and Korea in opposition to US tariffs, I don’t think the US will continue to approve of this military expansion - particularly if it means buying European/Chinese military hardware.

Doesn’t Japan effectively need to ask the US State Department for permission to expand its military capacity, under the terms of the 1945 surrender?

Let them screech about the bad private company violating the First Amendment.

How many billions of dollars in government contracts do you need to receive before the line blurs? Microsoft might as well be a subsidiary of the Federal Bureaucracy, given the role it plays in national security, infrastructure, and data management. The US government is its biggest client by far.

You joke, but Russia is a better replacement for China than Ukraine.

Our glorious Elven Nation would never stoop so low as to ally with the vile, savage Orks. We are perfect and beautiful and clean, noble in mind and spirit, and accomplished in the High Arts. They are cruel and stupid and traitorous, incapable of speaking the Enlightened Tongue or understanding the Noble Truths. I would sooner slice off my own wrist than extend a hand to the insidious, pig-like beasts of the Slavic Kingdom.

The only path forward is one of undisputable supremacy. We must turn to the ancient weapons and unleash the hellfires on Ork and Chinese Fantasy Race alike.

And since when has CalTech been into econometric modeling?

https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-humanities-schools/california-institute-of-technology-110404

Ranked 14th highest econ department in the country. Math modeling and economics are joined at the hip.

Why would you want to efficiently rebuild the Third Reich?

I mean, who else would have been able to run the government

Holocaust survivors and refugees, for starters. Germany was fully occupied by the US and USSR, so all the big decisions were going through DC/Moscow anyway. Turning the government over to survivors and any resisters you could find would have made far more sense than simply handing the country back to the Fascists.

It’s impossible to have a fair election when you’re at war.

How many elections has the US held during war time? Hell Lincoln won his second term before the Civil War was over.

The entire global trade system is in free fall.

It’s so crazy to blink past tanking indexes in Tokyo, Frankfurt, and Dubai while pumping a fist and announcing “Fuck yeah! We got Russia!”

If anyone should be extremely worried right now, you’d think it would be the Saudis. Not one of the most sanctioned countries on earth.

Ironic given the support this sub shows for involuntary conscription

people cannot see the errors of their ways and therefore cannot change

Not when they are immersed in a roiling pot of fascist propaganda, no. You can’t see error when you are surrounded by media justifying your decisions. You can’t find the will to change when you’ve been told again and again that circumstances are beyond your control.

Right now, German media is as bad as anything the MAGA Americans are churning out, with migrant hysteria and xenophobia hitting a fevered pitch. Combined with the energy crisis in Europe and the economic downturn globally, it’s a recipe for a new wave of Fascist dictatorship that Germans as rapidly buying into once again.

Ukrainian constitution prohibits elections during war.

Under martial law, specifically, it seems.

One hell of a state of exception they’ve got there. Can’t imagine why anyone in power would want it to drag on indefinitely.

zelensky’s popularity shot up after Trump and Vance’s oval office disgrac

So he’ll be excited about holding elections?

even the opposition told them to fuck off.

Keep telling yourself that

Public services will sky rocket in 2025!

Elon Musk laughing

No they won’t.