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Lost Causes and Their Lying Losers: America’s South and Japan

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).

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Lost Causes and Their Lying Losers: America’s South and Japan

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How Not To Be Dumb Money

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”. …

Trading Ideas

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Published in DataDrivenInvestor

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How Not to be Dumb Money

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. …

Investing

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Zombienomics, or Nikki Haley’s Day of Debt Reckoning

Debt Zombie Haleynomics: Britain’s Buffett vs the Austrian Austerian

Economics

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Zombienomics, or Nikki Haley’s Day of Debt Reckoning

Published in DataDrivenInvestor

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How Not to be Dumb Money: Channel Check Research

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. …

Investment

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How Not to be Dumb Money: Channel Check Research

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Are Putin and Trump Fascist? Nazi?

Listen to them answer in their own words — With Trump’s “savvy genius” buddy waging a war of “denazification” against a sovereign Ukraine with a Jewish president, we ought to ask the question. While Trump’s MAGA cult and Putin’s Russkiy Mir (Russian World) empire restoration project differ, grievance-driven nationalism drive both. So let’s see what ideas they share with…

Fascism

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1 day ago

What Did We Lose With the Takedown of the CBS Documentary, ‘Arming Ukraine’?

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Let's unpack the practical consequences of the speculations voiced here:

Let's unpack the practical consequences of the speculations voiced here: "is it so wrong to question the narrative?": Without evidence, yes. Ask this: how many more Ukrainians will die in missile attacks on shopping centers and schools due to lower political support for accelerated weapons deliveries that can overwhelm Russian…

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Russia’ Ukraine War: Empire Demolition the Only Endgame, Part 2

Russian Zero Hour and the Lesson of Japan’s Journey From Here: — To here:

Russia

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4 days ago

You lost me at “useful idiot”.

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"Useful idiot" is not a personal insult, but an historical term coined by Lenin and defined by the…

"Useful idiot" is not a personal insult, but an historical term coined by Lenin and defined by the KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov. It refers to those like Lincoln Steffens ("I have seen the future and it works"), the British Socialists Sidney and Beatrice Webbs and George Bernard Shaw, who served…

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4 days ago

A CBS Documentary Claims 70% of Arms Sent to Ukraine May Have Been Lost

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I could limit my response to four words of results that refute this evidence-free innuendo: HIMARS…

I could limit my response to four words of results that refute this evidence-free innuendo: HIMARS killing ammo depots. But I'll elaborate further since you cherry-picked Weisgerber's quote of Jed Royal, deputy director of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, the arm of the Pentagon that oversees U.S. arms sales. …

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