Apr

19

Good book to re-read. Are all those crisis meetings are just choreography? In order to "sell" something unpopular (a war) to the managed masses in the West (or whatever system there is in Iran respectively). Humanitarian aid talks often precede wars as well.

Jeffrey Hirsch offers:

Art of the Deal. Seasonality edition

Nils Poertner responds:

Top notch analysis! (I'm wondering though, we in the West value transactions and deal making a lot - whereas in some countries, which are more religious…they may rather die than surrender).

Steve Ellison writes:

I just borrowed The Art of the Deal from the library because the Chair's brother says that the President's thinking process is all laid out in that book, and one ought not to react to his statements at face value because they are negotiating positions.

Jeffrey Hirsch adds:

Ever since Liberation day and the tariff tumble last year have had the President’s truth social posts as the only lock screen alert coming through my phone.

Kiran Kaur comments:

Free markets used to be a natural hand that would correct markets when they were inflated, avoiding catastrophes. But now we have the hand of government that removes the natural corrections that are supposed to occur and take out zombie companies. We have a few actors taking meetings behind closed doors to set the cycles, using regulation as a key mechanism. its nice for us because we are close to the liquidity that sets the rest of the markets.. Have you read Edward Chancellor's The Price of Time?

Asindu Drileba writes:

One opinion I heard recently is that, this conflict is actually doing exactly what "they" want. The constant talk of colonising Canada & previous "take over" of Venezuela is because these are oil rich countries. The conspiracy is as follows:

Shut down the strait.
Make Middle Eastern oil suffer logistics issues (price oil higher?)
Oil from Americas moved ok (priced cheaper?)
Demand for Americas oil increases. Subsequently, demand for USD also increases.
Finally weaken & decapitate BRICS.

Does this make sense? Or is it imaginary 5D chess?


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