Trump’s Stop the Steal fraud-fraught lost cause is not unique. To understand this grievance-driven lost cause, look at similar cults elsewhere and their statues and shrines (the Cyberninjas fraud is unique to the Trump Cult).
Why believe a title that says I’d know how to tell dumb from smart money? Because I’ve been both and learned from financial scars accumulated since 1987. I’ve also taught a behavioral investing course called “The History of Human Financial Stupidity — Including Mine”. …
Meme Stock Reddit Revolution Edition
More than a few friends and former students have asked me about the Gamestop short squeeze saga and the Reddit retail meme stock revolution. …
Debt Zombie Haleynomics: Britain’s Buffett vs the Austrian Austerian
How the Information You Don’t Have Can Take Your Money
Anyone reading the title must think the writer believes he’s smart money. I confess to having been both, though not simultaneously. …
It's American Excess you're fed up with. Canadians call the United States the Excited States. Note this definition of a Canadian: an American with healthcare and no gun. The Excited States suffers from an excess size problem. Here's what's too big: the cars, the people, the houses, the commuting times and distances, the amount of working hours/year (2000+ vs 1400 in Germany), the (justifiable) fear of downward mobility, the expense of everything that makes life liveable: education, housing, healthcare. But geographic arbitrage is an opportunity that allows you to leave. 8 million Americans live abroad.
BTW, Haaretz would be a big improvement over the Jerusalem Post, the Israeli version of Fox News in print.
BTW 2.0: Lots of German, Swiss and French insurance stocks are absurdly cheap, yield 4-6% and trade below book value.
Narcissistic sugar daddy CEO’s lament: “can’t buy me love”
His money couldn’t buy him this:
Shoah Coverup, Reckoning and Confessional
The Netherlands is the third stop on our WWII mythbusting tour. In the previous article we saw how Dutch suffering — the bombing of Rotterdam and the 1944–45 Hunger Winter — had defined Dutch national memory of WWII and obscured Dutch collaboration in the Shoah.
Dutch mythology about WWII shows…
Watch and Listen. Chapter 1
Listen to Palestinians answer questions posed by Corey Gil-Shuster’s The Ask Project. Gil-Shuster is an administrator at Tel Aviv University’s Conflict Resolution and Mediation Center. …
Periods of low or declining polarization are shorter in duration and coincide with democratic reforms or war against external enemies — 1812, Mexican, WWII and the cold war — and their transformative consequences.
We think of the low polarization Great Depression, WWII and postwar political honeymoon periods as normal due…
