Financial topics

[aeden]

https://seekingalpha.com/instablog/7536 ... nstruction
Why Pay for Something You Can Do for Free.
Decent article for traditional and normal people to do.

It is just as easy to re-balance an existing portfolio by uploading it and updating the allocations or amount of money you want to invest in the portfolio. There’s no reason for investors to pay anyone to manage a portfolio of stocks for them. Add the facts that most mutual funds underperform and ETFs are passive, and it’s hard to make a straight-faced argument for investors to pay any management fees.

https://www.americanthinker.com/article ... _ages.html

[aeden]

Dr. Paul- It’s Time to End the Forever Wars Now

Time is up to end our endless wars and return our troops back home. As I stated in the piece for Center for National Interest, “After almost twenty years, we have lost over 7,000 killed, suffered over 50,000 wounded, and spent over $5.4 trillion, in Iraq and Afghanistan alone. And that doesn’t even account for our total human and monetary costs in the greater Middle East over the same period of time."

I continued to explain how “after almost twenty years of war we don’t have any of this in a coherent fashion. We are still no closer to victory nor do we even really have a realistic idea of what victory looks like. We haven’t been honest about the conduct of the war. We have continuously shifted our war aims. With a new year and a new administration, we have the opportunity to answer that question. I had hoped that we would begin to see the light at the end of this tunnel. However, with such appointees like newly confirmed U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his proven track record of military intervention, we are reminded once again that the more things change the more, they stay the same."

Virus
non hardened infrastructure
emp

yes we read the white papers for decades

i have yet to hear any actual liberal not kiss the demsheviks current ass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_To-cV94Bo here is some facts for just 484 battles for you lacking balance

as for the trail it went as we noted more then not https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzV5cFjnBRE

[richard5za]

Dear aeden, never in my wildest dreams have I imagined that someone could post as much as you do to a blog. I must confess that I asked the question some time ago whether aeden was in fact a robot? But was assured that aeden is flesh and blood. In that case congratulations - you get the global posting prize. Are you able to do work like earning a living? Anyway very best wishes to you. Richard

[Higgenbotham]

More background to this posted a few years ago.

http://www.gdxforum.com/forum/viewtopic ... ied#p27780

http://www.gdxforum.com/forum/viewtopic ... ied#p37764

I don't know anything specific to electrical grid infrastructure, but now that many water systems in Texas are down due to frozen pipes, I can discuss what I know specifically about that.

This is the minimum requirement in Texas for depth of water lines.

§290.44(a)(4) Water transmission and distribution lines must be installed in accordance with the manufacturer's instructions. However, the top of the waterline must be located below the frost line and in no case shall the top of the waterline be less than 24 inches below ground surface.

https://www.tceq.texas.gov/assets/publi ... rg-195.pdf

About 5 years ago, I was having a discussion with the city engineer from a small city in northern Texas. They had received a grant to replace their deteriorating water lines. I asked him how deep they planned to bury the lines. He said 3 feet. I asked him why 3 feet. He said that's because that's what our city engineering manual specifies. I said let's look at that more closely.

I went over to the office of the best civil engineer I know. But before I talk about what he told me, I want to talk about him. He is about 61 years old. I know he's making plans to retire. When he retires all of the expertise I am going to describe will go out the door with him. I've seen enough to know that will almost certainly happen.

I asked him about buried pipe. He pulled a book off his shelf called Buried Pipe Design, which I had never heard of. That's described in the links above. He told me that there are going to be loads on pipes that increase with the depth of the pipe. Balanced against that, if there is traffic moving over the pipes, which there normally would be, those loads will decrease with the depth of the pipe. There will be a depth at which there is a minimum load. That's the optimal depth to bury the pipe, unless that optimal depth is above the frost line. Usually, it will be quite a bit below.

I read about 140 pages of the book over the weekend, and we did the calculations. We came up with 4 feet being the optimal depth to bury the pipe for that city. The city engineer and the director of public works were very open to this idea and the pipe was buried 4 feet deep.

So when you read that many water systems in Texas have burst pipes due to the unprecedented cold, that is not the whole story.

[aeden]

This process uses a lot of energy and is becoming increasingly difficult to do. Several YouTube videos on this subject confirm it is difficult to make money doing this. It is a bit ironic that so-called "'woke" companies and sociably responsible people that claim to care about climate change would turn around and buy digital tokens that use more electricity to maintain than some countries. t

It will be another Newtonian horror story but that s another day.
No we will not leave it on the table and we can smell the lighter fluid.
Leave it to a Clueso to strike a match.

The woke are cannot do math for damn sure just lie cheat steal burn lot murder.
The I ran conveys btc crashed the grid so shall we leap to the point if they invested in infrastructure
it would stopped dead people in garages in Texas. Fun with math.

This free shit army will meet a wall way past the speed limit.

Own it, or have fun staying poor. Logic wins.

Virus sometimes
CME sometimes
Reality sometimes

Algos will bleed it out like leeches cure miasma in the middle ages.

Dr François Broussais (1772-1838), a Parisian physician who claimed that all fevers were due to specific organ inflammation.
He was a great proponent of leech therapy along with aggressive bloodletting.
He believed in placing leeches over the organ of the body that was deemed to be inflamed.

[Higgenbotham]

Since starting a short two weeks ago, I've been able to hold the bulls off. It's a standoff with $6,415 in trading profits taken the past 2 weeks balanced against $6,625 in open losses on shorts. The S&P spiked to a record high at the close yesterday. I've been mentioning the Russell 2000 index, and that index was unable to get above Wednesday's high into the Friday close. I increased shorts near the close yesterday and if the market continues moving higher next week, the position will start to show large losses that I won't be able to offset with trading profits.

This week's trading:





Made a little headway on the short this week. Since starting a short 3 weeks ago, $8,228 in closed trading profits vs $4,033 in open losses on existing shorts. The S&P is still up a little over the past 3 weeks.

[aeden]

I was under the passing impression you would navigate this manic phase on unleveraged shorts.
We have been having the should part going forward.
The one percent rule will suffice as these btc cults ramp up the blood drip phase.
The prom night queen will be another sea hag as they cannot even produce any value.
The fed will print for social woke retards to pump up btc. Hilarious flows.
Given the tcell data April may be more than you wish to acknowledge but I know you better.

[Higgenbotham]

I was under the passing impression you would navigate this manic phase on unleveraged shorts.

Yes, I'm currently short about 50% of account value.

[aeden]

I will check current sweeps that cleared.
Doctor greyscale has been a donor.
84% Cash and some kmf on profits from the doctor.
Nothing digital on the table at the end of day.

The Fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing at least 80% of its total assets in securities of Energy Companies and Infrastructure Companies. The Fund anticipates that the majority of its investments will consist of investments in "NextGen" companies, which we define as Energy Companies and Infrastructure Companies that are meaningfully participating in, or benefitting from, the Energy Transition.

Hayek argued that in competitive private markets, private currency issuers would compete to maintain the value of their currencies.
Those who were less reliable or effectively stole from their customers would be driven out of the market.

We had that discussion what was the position between Keynes and Hayek.
https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/ ... l-holdings


thread: Jidoka

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnMiXsRtsfc

[aeden]

"In case there was any doubt why the Texas grid collapsed, the data is clear."
https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inli ... k=eC0HzIcg
In God we Trust all others bring data. Deming

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/casce ... d-collapse

thread: keynesian veil, 936, cci, amos, sogo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsaFBNvhceA