Skilled, in-demand labor can negotiate higher wages. The public votes for higher minimum wage laws. The way around that, to increase low-skill employment, is inflation

SoCal folks

> what we had was reliability of our governance and our currency and...the Nimitz + Gerald Ford class. I dunno if Putin has the tech for this drone war. He might need to nuke something to stop NATO pushing East. Would China like to annex Russian land, or do they have their hands full with the real e...

> default in the US in the next 10-20 years. I don't think the US government can run crazy deficits forever, and increasing taxes isn't popular Answer to both is inflation. Then subsidize gas and food. If they still riot over housing, climate/covid lockdowns. But 30 year is at 2.76%. Still some room...

Underweight them a bit if it makes you feel better. Is the future of the US going to be Japan (30 year bouncing around 0) or Venezuela...

Quebec extends mask mandate "two weeks" https://old.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/tx4fhx/quebec_extends_mask_mandate_as_new_covid19_wave/ Martial law in China https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7_INVdia0s https://old.reddit.com/r/ActualPublicFreakouts/comments/twgnz1/china_sent_military_to_fo...

^ Looks like a commercial from Robocop

Collectivism is the virus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQVnw-Agaic

Sapolsky's one of the smartest in the world, but dry molecular biology books just dont sell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NroiGfNohPo

Full ep https://open.spotify.com/episode/54HZBH9LUeJTvxsmL9h1Kn

If Russia went big on bitcoin, what would the west do about it

Vanguard does not disclose the salaries of it's CEO or executive management

https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=348359

Same will happen with Berkshire. CEO-types dont want to live a somewhat modest life. Winning is everything and dollars are the score

Nope. Managers have one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel.

Matt Levine has written a lot about bond fund liquidity

https://old.reddit.com/r/investing/comm ... d/hlf9mza/

> If we can't know one way or the other, is it possibly a bit dangerous to throw all of our support behind one side Yeah, but social media needs an enemy and Blackrock expanding profits, so I'd rather they attack another country and not "conservative" Americans. So I'm siding with pro-mask...

Might be more complicated https://old.reddit.com/r/ConservativeKiwi/comments/pernp0/christian_doctor_under_attack_for_his_beliefs/ This is worse, emergency authorization for a 4th jab https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMH94EIGgYE So gotta keep on truckin. https://twitter.com/henryrodgersdc/status/1504...

You dont start a war unless youre confident you'll win. “Every battle is won before it's fought.” Sun Tzu "Gore charged that President Bush sent an "obsequious" message to Saddam days before Iraq's invasion. Gore depicted the message, which he said the administration improperly kept s...

Stanford had iMacs in the dorms, with only one mouse button and no on/off switch, in the 90s. Never forgive never forget.

Thanks Vin I'll try the TOZO at the gym. Masks no longer required since last week. Thanks benevolent government!

We just saw how it happens. 30-50% of the country would have allowed "the unvaxxed" to be taken to camps. "we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he w...

I loathe the phone interface/keyboard. Gates needs to lose his patent protections, especially after saying Australia had the right covid response. So all these companies will stop ramming us into using apps.

You can use this to send text messages from computer https://www.freecarrierlookup.com/

Raytheon and Lockheed profit, as always. Fed can continue to print and blame all the inflation on Putin. The timing is not an accident, the invasion provided a seamless narrative transition away from covid just as the convoys were ramping up and the two year anniversary of two weeks to flatten the c...

Gas hasnt reached 2008 peak

https://twitter.com/safrazie/status/1499913594556674050

Why is the Fed rate 0 when inflation is 7%

What outcome does China want from this skirmish

They'll pass a law to prevent "price gouging" and we'll get lines and rationing instead. In this together.