tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527840491496268397.post7496287923663625109..comments2024-03-08T11:20:30.095-07:00Comments on Credit Bubble Stocks: Credit Bubble Stocks 2018 Book Review CompendiumUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527840491496268397.post-20044341633193819842023-05-10T22:55:06.732-07:002023-05-10T22:55:06.732-07:00The mountains in south America cause scary bus rid...<b><i>The mountains in south America cause scary bus rides. "Sooner or later the bus will justify everybody's worst fears by plunging (Latin American buses never crash, they plunge) into a deep gorge, ravine, gulch, coulee, or canyon..."</i></b><br /><br /><i>At least six passengers were killed after they were stung to death by bees when the bus they were traveling on crashed on a road in Nicaragua. Authorities said Santos Herrera, 22, was driving on El Caracol-La Rica route that covers the northern cities of Jinotega and San Sebastián de Yalí, when he encountered mechanical problems and lost control of the school bus in the municipality of San Sebastián de Yalí on Monday. The crash sent the bus crashing into a 160-foot-deep slope where the beehives was were located.</i><br />https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12069549/Six-passengers-killed-stung-killer-African-bees-bus-crashed.htmlCPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12701174164478027499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527840491496268397.post-51423899065660857942022-01-18T20:58:00.892-07:002022-01-18T20:58:00.892-07:00Re "He also does not observe (as Glenn Chan o...Re "He also does not observe (as Glenn Chan or I have) that a lot of smart psychopaths are getting away with business fraud."<br /><br />It goes much further with psychopaths. THIS is what needs to be observed and it can IF you pay attention...<br /><br />The most vital urgent and DEEP understanding everyone needs to gain is that a network of manipulating psychopaths ARE governing big businesses (eg official medicine), nations and the world (the evidence is irrefutable as is MOST OBVIOUS with the Covid Scamdemic (see “The 2 Married Pink Elephants In The Historical Room –The Holocaustal Covid-19 Coronavirus Madness: A Sociological Perspective & Historical Assessment Of The Covid “Phenomenon”” at https://www.rolf-hefti.com/covid-19-coronavirus.html).<br /><br />By a DEEP understanding I mean that Hollywood flicks and the entertainment industry at large have presented a deliberately erroneous picture of psychopaths which keeps the public misinformed about what and who psychopaths really are (eg most psychopaths are not overtly violent) but they are ALWAYS exploiters, deceivers, liars, manipulators, and destroyers (the Highly Destructive Fake Covid "Pandemic" is ONE fitting example out of countless others) , and therefore they are NOT people to ever respect, listen to, admire, vote for, follow and obey BUT to ACTIVEL fight and jail for life (see linked source above).<br /><br />But rulership by psychopaths is only ONE part of the equation that makes up the destructive human condition as the article explains...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527840491496268397.post-66904211275590142102022-01-16T21:00:02.656-07:002022-01-16T21:00:02.656-07:00Every day, an individual will conduct a few econom...<i>Every day, an individual will conduct a few economic transactions with other people, but they will partake in a far larger number of transactions with their future self. The examples of these trades are infinite: deciding to save money rather than spend it; deciding to invest in acquiring skills for future employment rather than seeking immediate employment with low pay; buying a functional and affordable car rather than getting into debt for an expensive car; working overtime rather than going out to party with friends; or, my favorite example to use in class: deciding to study the course material every week of the semester rather than cramming the night before the final exam. <br /><br />In each of these examples, there is nobody forcing the decision on the individual, and the prime beneficiary or loser from the consequences of these choices is the individual himself. The main factor determining a man's choices in life is his time preference. While people's time preference and self-control will vary from one situation to the other, in general, a strong correlation can be found across all aspects of decision making. The sobering reality to keep in mind is that a man's lot in life will be largely determined by these trades between him and his future self. As much as he'd like to blame others for his failures, or credit others with his success, the infinite trades he took with himself are likely to be more significant than any outside circumstances or conditions. No matter how circumstances conspire against the man with a low time preference, he will probably find a way to keep prioritizing his future self until he achieves his objective. And no matter how much fortune favors the man with a high time preference, he will find a way to continue sabatoging and shortchanging his future self.</i><br /><br />The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking <br />https://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Standard-Decentralized-Alternative-Central/dp/1119473861CPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12701174164478027499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527840491496268397.post-64389595014490776812020-01-12T22:29:22.257-07:002020-01-12T22:29:22.257-07:00I've been thinking a lot lately about high-age...I've been thinking a lot lately about high-agency persons.<br /><br />My epiphany… politicians, the Fed, Fortune 500 CEO’s, successful media celebrities, especially, are NOT high-agency persons (at least beyond their own financial appetite). Each has their personal pseudo-scientific scam that they are making bank on, but not being high-agency people, they are <i>not</i> spending time thinking about if they are running a scam and got to where they did, odds are good the other guy is running a scam too.<br /><br />If there is a unifying conspiracy it is that no one inquires about the other guy's grift. It's don't ask, don't tell... one hand washes the other.<br /><br />I don't think that's obvious. I think we high-agency generalists see through our first couple scams and then surmise the odds that the next pseudo-scientifc idea is also a scam increase, not decrease. At some point one assumes everything is a scam until proven innocent.<br /><br />Normals/low-agency people won’t see it that way. Even when they see one scam, maybe two if they're lucky, they will think it is just a coincidence.<br /><br />In a way it is a coincidence. There isn't a group of conspiracy central planners. But there is a group of self-promotional grifters who have made it "big." The precise pseudo-science scams that have broken through to be "big” at any given time is where the coincidence is.Allan Folzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06762674627739423845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527840491496268397.post-67004857277185675532019-06-11T15:54:04.408-07:002019-06-11T15:54:04.408-07:00https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/38/2/108
https://oem...https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/38/2/108<br /><br />https://oem.bmj.com/content/oemed/48/4/258.full.pdf<br /><br />https://www.uhms.org/images/DCS-and-AGE-Journal-Watch/hawes_neurologic_injuries_ph.pdfAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527840491496268397.post-78700372776508614842019-06-11T15:50:42.845-07:002019-06-11T15:50:42.845-07:00what's your problem with Scuba?what's your problem with Scuba?wildcathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09025509627073603544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527840491496268397.post-84904086508246063432019-06-11T15:49:20.322-07:002019-06-11T15:49:20.322-07:00I enjoyed Zell's book but had a different take...I enjoyed Zell's book but had a different take on his actions prior to the financial crisis. This is a guy who spent a whole book talking about how he saw major trends happening, invested heavily in them, and then cashed out before things went south. <br /><br />From my reading, he clearly saw the financial crisis coming (is there anyone in real estate who didn't know what was happening? Especially a distressed real estate investor??) and wanted to sell out at the top, which he did quite successfully. Since he was probably bored and no one knows when the music is going to stop, he then put a small equity slice in a huge LBO of the Tribune assets, which went south.<br /><br />Since he sold Equity Office Properties at an inflated valuation to people he knows and is friendly with, this book seemed like a bit of an apologist account, trying to make it seem like he didn't know the top was in, so that his counter-parties can save face and people won't be afraid to buy from him (and it won't carry a negative stigma) in the future.<br /><br />Reminded me of reading Burt Reynolds biography once, which seemed to be a similar apologist account to explain how he didn't actually kill the husband of his lover at Merv Griffin's house out in the desert (which I believe remains unsolved and he was the obvious suspect).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527840491496268397.post-3878633801826488942019-01-12T20:25:47.643-07:002019-01-12T20:25:47.643-07:00From the BAP manifesto:
"Please remember tha...From the BAP manifesto:<br /><br /><i>"Please remember that these small people like Bill Gates, Zuckerface, and Bezos are entirely dependent men. They can't really do with their wealth what you think they can... for example, they could never just kill a man and take his wife, but even the ruler of the smallest African country has this power, this true wealth. When your happiness and wealth depends on the force of arms of another, you're not really your own man... nor can you enjoy the greatest delights in life."</i>League of Women Votersnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527840491496268397.post-16670459662231451562019-01-10T14:07:01.085-07:002019-01-10T14:07:01.085-07:00I have been watching videos about airline crashes ...I have been watching videos about airline crashes lately. It's as interesting as Barn Find Hunter.<br /><br />So far, I can recommend not flying at night. Pilots have less context when they land or take off. They may choose a wrong runway. They cannot see runway obstructions--parked equipment, etc.--when landing or taking off.<br /><br />Don't fly third-world airlines. The pilots may be poorly screened and the talent pool shallow. A Pakistani airliner in a recent disaster had a navigator with dyslexia. He could not read his manuals or his instruments. The first officer had earlier failed out of airline school. Also, he was scared to death of the pilot, maybe because his low skill gave him few alternatives. The pilot was addled someway. They flew into a hill because the pilot had a wrong idea.<br /><br />Here is a Korean Boeing 747 air freighter that broke apart in midair because of a fire that apparently started in a pallet of lithium batteries. <br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCMRTRSdIYc<br /><br />Don't fly during bad weather. You are safest if pilots can see where they are. You are safest if pilots are well rested. Avoid flying in fog, icing conditions, or at night time. Do you really have to fly at this season of the year? Make your own decisions about weather. Pick airlines operated by high IQ countries.<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAkZCAqqsD0<br /><br />The miserably incompetent air crew in this Air Kenya disaster probably were third world. It's striking that this video does not give the names or any other identifying information about this air crew. All their other videos give last name, first initials, and age of captain and first officer.<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvBuDmxwyRQ<br /><br />I'm used to this failing in newspaper articles about street murders.<br /><br />Never go to any third world country.<br /><br />More dopey third world airlines.<br />https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/india-is-allowing-airlines-to-keep-using-engines-that-sometimes-shut-down-mid-flight/ar-BBS03Ic?<br /><br />Analyses of airliner disasters probably is a low-payoff data mining and statistical analysis problem (and diversion) from high-payoff activities. Besides, I don't know where to get a comprehensive data set about air crashes. <br /><br />What would anybody pay me for the knowledge that flying on Tuesday at 9 am, on a blue-sky day in August, on an airliner owned, and managed by Caucasians, and piloted by a Caucasian with an IQ of 125 or more, is the safest way to fly? Not so much.<br /><br />But we can informally develop our own flying rules.<br /><br />Things barely hold together. Generally, people are in the grip of little-understood forces that make them pilot ships into the middle of hurricanes, take off in airplanes into passing thunderstorms, or deprive soldiers of medical treatment.<br /><br />Qantus -- first-world airline, heavy rain, night time, poor communications, poor training, domineering captain.<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoUe2F-4gag<br /><br />Choose flights that take off and land during daylight. Start early, in case of canceled flights.<br /><br />This time, it's from a catastrophic illusion during a landing in the dark without visual cues.<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24Fe1wMy-9YAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527840491496268397.post-22293021188459727222019-01-07T13:00:15.197-07:002019-01-07T13:00:15.197-07:00Chuck - can you share your thoughts on that for th...Chuck - can you share your thoughts on that for those readers who aren't going to make it through the five part series? Thank you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527840491496268397.post-15522542800005074922019-01-06T22:01:37.045-07:002019-01-06T22:01:37.045-07:00To your query in the review of 'Silent Coup...To your query in the review of 'Silent Coup' above<br /><br />Note the composition of the burglars & their provenance:<br /><br />https://whowhatwhy.org/2012/05/07/watergate-revelations-the-coup-against-nixon-part-1-of-3/<br /><br />Five part series, worth a read.CrocodileChuckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10762442097044797842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1527840491496268397.post-1618878922742185072019-01-06T20:42:57.405-07:002019-01-06T20:42:57.405-07:00To your query in the review of 'Silent Coup...To your query in the review of 'Silent Coup' above<br /><br />Note the composition of the burglars & their provenance:<br /><br />https://whowhatwhy.org/2012/05/07/watergate-revelations-the-coup-against-nixon-part-1-of-3/<br /><br />Five part series, worth a read.CrocodileChuckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10762442097044797842noreply@blogger.com