Author Archives: econophysics2020

If it’s somethin’ weird an’ it don’t look good

If there’s somethin’ strange in your neighborhoodWho ya gonna call?(Ghostbusters!)If it’s somethin’ weird an’ it don’t look goodWho ya gonna call?(Ghostbusters!) With the “Federales” talking up more lockdowns, their Ministry of Truth expanding and formalizing their diktats to their all-too-enthusiastic oligarchical cronies, and the casino face-planting while inflation steps up, it makes you wonder: howContinue reading “If it’s somethin’ weird an’ it don’t look good”

Don’t Fear the Reaper

Tim Knight shares the setups: https://slopeofhope.com/2021/07/a-new-ally.html I said over the weekend that, “It’s been a long time since I’ve felt so energized about the stock market. Bit by bit, things are truly beginning to break down.” The 900 point drop on the Dow I am staring at right now helps explain why. This morning hasContinue reading “Don’t Fear the Reaper”

“I will submit to your recollection, whether liberty has been destroyed most often by the licentiousness of the people, or by the tyranny of rulers.”

Patrick Henry, Speech Before Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 5, 1788 Available at: https://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/patrick-henry-virginia-ratifying-convention-va/ Mr. HENRY. Mr. Chairman, I am much obliged to the {44} very worthy gentleman for his encomium. I wish I was possessed with talents, or possessed of any thing that might enable me to elucidate this great subject. I am not freeContinue reading ““I will submit to your recollection, whether liberty has been destroyed most often by the licentiousness of the people, or by the tyranny of rulers.””

“The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation”

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov aka Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Total household deposits have reached an all-time high level approaching $4.2 trillion and appear to be exceeding escapte velocity. As reported in Wall Street on Parade, Senator Cynthia Loomis (R-WY) asked Chairman Jerome “Wizard of Oz” Powell what he thinks will happen to inflation if even a fractionContinue reading ““The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation””

Mike Wilson: “If being a bear is wrong, I don’t want to be right.”

Courtesy of Tyler Durden: https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/mike-wilson-re-emerges-wall-streets-biggest-bear-heres-why-he-expects-20-drop-stocks Mike Wilson Re-Emerges As Wall Street’s Biggest Bear: Here’s Why He Expects A 20% Drop In Stocks BY TYLER DURDENMONDAY, JUL 12, 2021 – 02:40 PM Back in the summer of 2018, when stocks were surging at least until the fourth quarter when the Fed made the policy error ofContinue reading “Mike Wilson: “If being a bear is wrong, I don’t want to be right.””

MIT Technology Review on CoVid-19 Origin

How China emulated US techniques to construct novel coronaviruses in unsafe conditions (https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/06/29/1027290/gain-of-function-risky-bat-virus-engineering-links-america-to-wuhan/) “In 2013, the American virologist Ralph Baric approached Zhengli Shi at a meeting. Baric was a top expert in coronaviruses, with hundreds of papers to his credit, and Shi, along with her team at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, had been discoveringContinue reading “MIT Technology Review on CoVid-19 Origin”

ESG Feeding Frenzy Halted

“Trust science, not the scientists”. Particularly true in the ESG space where Woke Corps front-run set-asides to their contributors by Congress. Judge Terry A. Doughty of the U.S. District Court in Monroe, Louisiana issued a preliminary injunction blocking the Biden administration from pausing new oil and gas leases on federal land. Judge Doughty of the U.S. DistrictContinue reading “ESG Feeding Frenzy Halted”