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Wagers and squeezes

June 15, 2023 |

no matter how high they go, most gentlemen don't like stocks. nor do they realize that bonds have to go up to save the banks from marking down their holdings.

10 Qualities of a Modern Gentleman

seems like a good day to review all the reasons that the former president didn't win in 2020. lets start with the big pharma that withheld the announcement that they had an effective vaccine until the day after the election.

Steve Ellison replies:

Marginal voters proverbially vote their pocketbooks, and Mr. Trump had the misfortune to be the incumbent as GDP abruptly contracted by 9%, and unemployment rose to 15% in April 2020.

Vic writes:

yes that's a winner although no evil hand in that. let us not forget the military in their advocacy and demeaning and threats. all the three-letter agencies and the doj. scores of 4-star generals comparing Pres to Mussolini and guaranteeing that they would escort him out of office if he resisted. the professional sports leagues all acting to undermine. Director Wray negating all of Trumps critiques about their bias. another reason for the former golfer to lose was the lineup of all of the Fangs to do whatever they could to do him in.

Gary Boddicker adds:

Constitutionally questionable executive and judicial changes to voting rules in key states, bypassing legislatures and favoring Democrats. “It’s unsafe to vote in person!”

Vic continues:

excellent book for those who like Patrick O'Brian but aren't see salts. none of O'Brian's erudition but author made valiant attempt to research incident.

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

Also: Shantaram: A Novel

a critique of my methods, lifestyle and answer is elicited on twitter. i don't know when exchange took place - i would guess 15 years ago. I would add to my defense that I was much younger then and also I did not take account of ability of market to squeeze you and margin you out. they and the market inexorably get together by an evil hand to manipulate prices and margins so that you will contribute to the big players so that one day they will do you in and then prices will get back to their norm. one solution is to have good credit. Imagine the palindrome having enuf confidence to withstand the Bank of England and all the banks they control to speculate against the Pound successfully.

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