The affordability problem did not end with the turn of the calendar or the election; it persists as long ... several items rose more in the first nine months of 2025 than during the entire 2021 to 2024 period. ... Pete has a long, in-depth piece with plenty of time series comparisons to address "the" affordability ... Instead of denying these strains, the administration could acknowledge them and credibly explain their ... getting rid of tariffs and regulatory burdens, it could greatly help!

value of the tokens you bought. it was always hard to explain why tokens should be worth more just because ... An array of public companies thought they had found a sort of perpetual motion machine: Use your corporate ... they were held by a public company, and the wheels began to come off the car, at first slowly and then ... cash to buy up Bitcoin or other digital tokens and presto, your share price shot up even more than the ... I feel like one thing that crypto is good at is creating bubbles that are obvious at the time, yet hard

It is distressing to imagine a world drowning in slop, so think of the positives. ... Enter a health question on Google and see how many of the top results are brand-new webpages with AI-written ... SLOP Just random crap, basically: the [Oxford English Dictionary]’s first citation is from the 15th ... has evolved from mud and slush, through a weak liquid used as a poorly nourishing food, to any kind of ... Or scroll through Instagram and see how long it takes to come across a video that is made up of fake

There's a reason those of us raised hereabouts (=I'm including all the Nordics here, sharing lots of ... (Answer: because it's in the US everything is happening) Also, the Nordics (the least crap part of Europe ... But, money talks... and convenience and innovative companies/services is amazing, and anything you're ... Quality of life is a strength, but power politics has upended the world economy and accentuated Europe ... Here's a fun one, based of some "Finland is amazing" reports and books.

This level of integration gives whoever builds the wallet enormous power to set the terms of everyday ... its oversight of the infrastructure of digital payments will allow Americans to keep control of their ... In isolation yes, it'd give the wallet maker of whatever wallet I'm using A TON of power... ... Don't think she grasps the concept of private keys, really... ... wallet maker roughly zero power since, at the first rumour of misuse, I'm gone. ...oh no, IT WAS JUST

Last 90 days (1470 games for a nice 16 games a day), in at a 48-46 win loss... so the margin is tiiiiight ... Chess isn't different in the 1650s compared to the 1400s. ... It's the same: people hang their queens or pieces just the same. ... After a total collapse — tired, stressed, rage- and revenge-playing — down to the 1300s (the chart isn't ... showing it well, I was weeell below 1500), today I shoved the ATH mark a liiiiittle bit higher.

It is kind of cool to see mainstream financial press so obsessed with our little corner of the internet ... Fans of bitcoin bridle at the idea that the digital token is little more than a fashionable bauble. ... Crypto-purists may flinch at the idea of Strategy holding common-or-garden cash. ... paintings, Fabergé eggs and Superman comics are all fetching record prices, despite their notable lack of ... The stock is down more than 30 per cent over the past month, underperforming its underlying bitcoin.

to buy Bitcoin and never pay the money back. ... , and it borrowed money in safe, long-term, no-margin-call, corporate sorts of ways. ... money to pay coupons? ... (formerly MicroStrategy Inc.) invented the idea of the digital asset treasury company, that is, the idea ... that the stock market should pay $2 for $1 worth of crypto.

But it would be worse still if states had ceased to be creditworthy and their money to be sound. ... This is part of a bigger change, which is the relative decline of banks and rise of non-bank financial ... But only last week, its general manager, Pablo Hernández de Cos, former governor of the Bank of Spain ... and shove it into every nook and cranny of the financial system now worries about the sustainability ... Thus, the ratio of NBFI holdings of financial assets to global GDP rose 74 percentage points between

, say, $100 million of Bitcoin or some other cryptocurrency, and sell shares of the pot at a $200 million ... crypto, and some portion of the historical demand to pay $2 for $1 worth of crypto wrapped in stock ... Bye-bye, excessive mNAV: There is considerably more money invested in stock indexes than there is in ... Yeah, I mean obviously For a while, you could sell $1 of crypto on the US stock market for $2. ... "Let's-have-em-in" side: Even if you think this is all very dumb — and I did, and do — the point of

money THIS is the massive problem. ... It is broadly described as making money by using money: moving money around instead of producing stuff ... Financialization means firms focus on managing the money they’ve got instead of innovating better and ... Financialization bolsters the leftwing argument against “capitalism,” namely that it produces a class ... Oh, heeeeere's a banger, the creation of which I had a little something to do with.

Ties into Bitcoin, nature of trust and money, digital ledgers, Jack Mallers' "bitcoin locked in time" ... abstract space and the real-world commodity: You need to be able to take the nickel out of the warehouses ... We get an intro with the Micronesia rock moneys ("rai"/"fei" stones), Friedman, a paraphrasing of the ... gold reserves at the Fed or the Bank of England, gold futures traders, investors in gold ETFs: They all ... (and get actual nickel) in order for the warehouse receipts to track the value of actual nickel, even

of Globalization,” peace and justice studies was new to me. ... I'm sure this is some sort of American-English pun (Generation Z = C...?) ... They demand land acknowledgments but have no sense of history. ... lectures students on “how gender as a symbolic construct configures how we make sense of war making ... , because Generation Z, the Zoomers, are so capitalism skeptic that "hostile" fits.

the top the combination of high and rising taxes with the abrupt withdrawal of public goods creates ... EXCELLENT summary: The UK has the worst of both worlds: it collects much less tax revenue from the middle ... Britain doesn't as much; it just, sort of, squanders the stolen goods, achieving neither the free market ... Everyone pays their way and everyone reaps the benefits in the form of high-quality and well-funded public ... earners hand over an especially large share of their income relative to the average worker — what would

Unhedged does not think it is possible to predict the behaviour of an asset class over a 12-month horizon ... I guess when we're done setting the value of our sats aflame we can go hang out with the rest of the ... Maybe around the time Nvidia falls out of bed?   Mr. ... “1994” shows the 1994 year-end P/E ratio of 15.3 and 1995’s price return of 34 per cent) Valuations ... But I do believe the rule of thumb that it is very hard for the US economy to fall into recession or

It's a beautiful piece of simple economics, not exactly directly applicable in the real world but conceptually ... /The consequences are obvious!” ... In 1974 economist Art Laffer sketched a new direction for the Republican Party on this napkin. ... Wanniski popularized the theory, and politicians Don Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney carried it out.

of $20bn in leveraged crypto positions, the largest single-day sell-off on record. ... It was the future of money; it was digital gold; it was an alternative to what the analogue financial ... This leaves the cryptocurrency trading at the levels of way back in, er, April. ... Now, it looks like another leveraged financial asset, intertwined with the fate of the tech sector. ... very large, delicately balanced financial superstructure resting on top of the US economy.

price of the stock and make the premium — and the whole thesis of the company! ... Yes, we know; print shares, not money... and use proceeds to buy money! ... That's the end-of-cycle indicator RIIIIGHT there. ... "“The fundamentals have not changed,” says the CEO of a vaping company turned crypto treasury company ... firm’s market capitalization to the value of its Bitcoin holdings — has collapsed from above 2.5 to

For much of the year, these companies sold stock or borrowed money to plow the proceeds into bitcoin, ... Ah, yes, I know the amplification -- I do the amplification every day! ... to a record high around $74 billion at the end of September, exceeding the previous record of $69 billion ... Now, after a punishing selloff in the past two weeks, the dangers of those bets are becoming apparent ... set in the fourth quarter of 2021, according to research from Galaxy Digital.

Also, the other few times this has happened X stayed alive. What's up?

The only silver lining of bitcoin irrevocably dying is the definite, shameful end of the treasury companies ... Add the Knotzies to that camp and I'm willing to suffer a bunch to see all of them go. ... Might as well brag for the Stackers. Hashtag @Undisciplined @realBitcoinDog ... I've been holding the @mega_dreamer @Team_Predyx contract on NAKA falling below 50 cents for a while