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The Electric Slide

Tim Knight (Slope of Hope) on the “electric slide”: https://slopeofhope.com/2021/03/completely-unplugged.html Not long ago, all you needed to to as a company to guarantee success as a financial entity was to somehow associate yourself with electric cars. That’s over. Just take a look at the corrosive erosion taking place across the entire sector. My view isContinue reading “The Electric Slide”

CCP/SARS-CoVid-2 Phylogeny Update

NextStrain: https://nextstrain.org/ncov/global Cooper (2021) at least seven genetically independent lineages acquired a mutation at one particular spot on the virus’s infamous spike protein. Spike has a sequence of linked amino acids, and the mutation occurs at position number 677. In the original SARS-CoV-2 this is the amino acid glutamine, abbreviated as Q. Mutations in atContinue reading “CCP/SARS-CoVid-2 Phylogeny Update”

Jumping from a bat to a human doesn’t make “biological sense,

NY Post: https://nypost.com/2021/03/26/ex-cdc-director-believes-covid-19-came-from-wuhan-lab/ The former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention believes the virus that causes COVID-19 escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China, according to a new interview. Robert Redfield told CNN on Friday that it was his “opinion” that SARS-CoV-2 — the new coronavirus responsible for killing 2.7 million people globally — did notContinue reading “Jumping from a bat to a human doesn’t make “biological sense,”

BREAKING: Anonymous Sources Say US-Targeted Government Did An Invisible Bad Thing

Thinking back to a long time ago, I recall dealing with some rather unsavory people for a time. They were cashing government paychecks, of course, which made the “unsavory” part predictable. Then again, so was I at that time. Anyway, they were a lot of fun off-duty – most sociopaths are. As long as youContinue reading “BREAKING: Anonymous Sources Say US-Targeted Government Did An Invisible Bad Thing”

Dot Com 2.0

Per Tyler Durden: https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/non-profitable-companies-implode-amid-flashbacks-dot-com-crash At the start of February, when the dual short squeezes of option gamma and WallStreetBets meme stocks were all the rage, a chart from Goldman indexing non-profitable tech companies was making the rounds across Wall Street desk; it showed the sector’s tremendous ascent since the Fed’s panicked response to the covidContinue reading “Dot Com 2.0”

Vladimir Putin Responds to the Oligarch Sock Puppet

A classy response to the pathetic blustering schlemiel our elites installed as President. Here is James Kunstler: https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/v-putin-aint-no-corn-pop/ He begins quoting our Sock Puppet: I wasn’t being a wise guy. I was alone with him in his office, that’s how it came about,” Biden continued. “It was when President Bush had said, ‘I’ve looked inContinue reading “Vladimir Putin Responds to the Oligarch Sock Puppet”

Unclear How Bad Mass Shooting Is Until Authorities Release Details Of Everyone’s Skin Color

A Babylon Bee Exclusive: https://babylonbee.com/news/uncertain-how-bad-mass-shooting-is-until-authorities-release-details-of-everyones-skin-color According to media reports, there has been a mass shooting. As of now, it is unclear how bad the mass shooting is, or whether anyone should care about it– since authorities have not yet released the skin colors of the perpetrator and the victims.  “It’s possible this could be a horrific massContinue reading “Unclear How Bad Mass Shooting Is Until Authorities Release Details Of Everyone’s Skin Color”

“Ladies and gentlemen, are you ready? It’s Robot Fighting time!”

Courtesy of Tyler Durden: https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/another-mega-short-squeeze-deck At the end of the first week of March which saw an eruption in violent market turbulence in the aftermath of the sharp spike in bond yields and the catastrophic 7Y auction we pointed out an observation from Goldman’s Prime Broker desk, which noted that halfway through the week, Goldman tradersContinue reading ““Ladies and gentlemen, are you ready? It’s Robot Fighting time!””

Hot Money, Unraveling Economy

On St. Patrick’s Day, Charles Hugh Smith succinctly summarized the melt-up of the US economy (https://www.oftwominds.com/blogmar21/dead-money3-21.html) In the era of widespread prosperity in the 1960s and 1970s, the velocity of money ratio remained in a band between 1.7 and 1.8, moving up toward 2 in the inflationary late 70s as it made sense to tradeContinue reading “Hot Money, Unraveling Economy”