Arctic air is set to hamer North America from the midwest to the northeast. The temperature anomalies are expected to drive temperatures some 20C below winter average, piling onto the declining climate temperature trends observed in recent months. Unprecdented amounts of snow is also expected. The weakened solar cycle translates to disrupted jet streams, revertingContinue reading “Climate Change – Solar Minimum Edition”
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Long Acme
From EvilSpeculator: https://evilspeculator.com/long-acme/ Social media giants have been channeling their inner Wile E. Coyote over the past few days for rather obvious reasons you are most likely aware of but which clearly fall outside the context of what we do and worry about here at Evil Speculator. Again, there is a myriad of places thatContinue reading “Long Acme”
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Wall Street
Per Slope of Hope: https://slopeofhope.com/2021/02/a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-wall-street.html#more-193031 Originally published by friend-of-Slope MoleCool, AKA EvilSpeculator: So a funny thing happened on the way to Wall Street last week. A rabid rabble of Robinhood retail rats on Reddit took advantage of a perceived market inefficiency in Gamestop (GME) and decided it would be a fun idea to drive up the stock and in theContinue reading “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Wall Street”
Peak Climate Change in the Solar Minimum
Lower troposphere temperature anomaly down to 0.12C above the long-term trend UAH Global Temperature Update for January 2021: +0.12 deg. C (new base period)
Send Lawyers, Guns, and Money
Per Epoch Times: Newly released FBI background check data from January shows Americans are buying guns at a “blistering pace,” a firearms expert said. “That’s undoubtedly connected to President Joe Biden’s plans to attack the firearm industry by undoing and rewriting regulations and executive actions to target the firearm industry,” Mark Olivia, director of public affairs at the NationalContinue reading “Send Lawyers, Guns, and Money”
Centrally Planned Shock and Awe
Per Sven Henrich: https://northmantrader.com/2021/02/03/bounce-2/ Sharing is caring and in this spirit I wanted to share some technical insights into this week’s market bounce following the aggressive flush down last week. As of late I’ve been hearing more and more people throw their hands up in the air and declare that technicals no longer work inContinue reading “Centrally Planned Shock and Awe”
CoVid/CCP Virus Phylogeny: 02/03/2021
SARS-CoV-2 (“CoVid-19”) continues to show unusual evolution for a coronavirus. Ray et al., 2021: The genome of the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has been observed to be between 29.8 kb to 29.9 kb in size, and its sequence differs substantially from some of the previously identified human corona viruses including SARS andContinue reading “CoVid/CCP Virus Phylogeny: 02/03/2021”
Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain
Charles Hugh Smith: In effect, Greenspan et al. assumed there would always be a pool of buyers willing to buy whatever stocks sellers were unloading. One potential pool of such buyers are those traders who bet on a market decline by selling short–selling shares at the top that they would buy back after a decline, pocketingContinue reading “Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain”
Trump Impeachment Reply Brief
Simply put, no jurisdiction – “void ab initio as a legal nullity that runs patently contrary to the plain language of the Constitution”
Z Man on Oligrachy and the Theory of Egalitarian Collectivism
The nation-state was the recognition that human identity groups were the basis of human organization. A stable country like Great Britain had a common language and history. Identity groups like Welsh and English were sublimated to the British identity. Even so, they had their own cultural spheres that were tolerated and respected by the whole.Continue reading “Z Man on Oligrachy and the Theory of Egalitarian Collectivism”
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