#Freedom

The Irrational Investor

position_trader

A thread on my notes and highlights from the book "Letters from a Stoic" by Seneca.Written in around 65 AD, the book is a literary masterpiece, and has had a

VeritasVital

VeritasVital

The means of coercive control are themselves a ponzi.As long as everyone keeps their money in — currency, psychology, attention, whatever, it grows.When a bank run happens, started with little

Celeste Headlee

CelesteHeadlee

THREAD: The picture below is called My Wife and My Mother-in-Law. It’s a popular optical illusion, first published in 1915 by the cartoonist W.E. Hill. If you see the young

Grummz

Grummz

Games are headed to a place not-so-great for gamers.Wokeness will be enforced.Speech will be policed, not just in-game, but algorithms will watch what you say on YouTube, social media and

Bob Moran

bobscartoons

If a government chooses not to act in response to a naturally occurring virus which spreads around the country and kills people, it should not be held accountable for those

Rachel Esplin Odell

resplinodell

To lower the risk of conflict in the East & South China Seas, while promoting maritime stability & open shipping lanes, the US needs a new strategic mindset --one that

Ted McCormick

mccormick_ted

Apparently the centrist dream is a university where academic ideas can be banned by the state but racial slurs can't be complained about. *NB This is also the fascist dream.

Ben McEvoy

Ben_McEvoyAUS

Rent vs Buying simple analysisAssumptions1. Both begin with $65,0002. economy is correlated to a low inflation, low rates & low inflation environment.3.Inflation & wage track 2.2% (expected in low interest

James Pierce

jimmpierce

The Intricacies of Desire, a thread. Unexamined desires run rampant throughout the life of the average person. With these desires comes pain. Desire, fundamentally, is a response to a feeling

JW Mason

JWMason1

Big news: Mike Konczal’s Freedom from the Market is out. I got an early copy of the book and read it last month, but now that it’s officially published, you

Doobu

Yama__Doobu

All the men terming it as celebration of womanhood, can you please for once stop owning something you never experienced & look at what women has to say?1. This age

Diego Zuluaga

FintechDiego

I find the @nytimes guest responses to Friedman's 1970 essay don't do justice to Friedman's argument. So I picked 5 passages from the essay that I think summarize it well

Trinh

Trinhnomics

Agreed w/ Emmanuel Macron. Wasn't the NYT criticized recently for making up stories about ISIS etc? What the the media business model care about isn't the objective truth but the

Allen Ray

2CynicAl65

My favorite aunt passed away from COVID this morning. She followed every guideline, was locked away with my uncle in their assisted living townhouse, and wore masks constantly. They both

Mark Joseph Stern

mjs_DC

Alito is delivering the keynote speech at this year’s Federalist Society convention. He’s using the occasion to defend the group, claiming its members face “harassment and retaliation for saying anything

Arthur of England

ThisIsREngland

After the Battle of Hastings in 1066 the Normans tried to take The City of London but were unable to cross the Bridge & take the City. After months of

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