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A lot of people don't know just how corrupt the IOC is, I suspect if this was common knowledge there would be a hugely increased number of people calling for boycotts of the Olympi…

Open market operations of various central banks certainly impacts equity prices of publicly traded stocks. In some cases the holdings are enormous: https://asia.nikkei.com/Business…

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In a heavily inflationary environment this practice could turn out to be entirely maladaptive. What percentage of inflation year on year will you change your mind at? Do you even h…

Just be very careful with this stuff and make sure to talk to a psychiatrist that knows what they are doing. I've seen a few people get prescribed benzodiazepines for anxiety relat…

The monetary system in many places was already mostly private, most money is created by commercial banks and we have institutions like central banks with private ownership in many …

I think a lot of skilled software developers might be unaware of just how bad the practices can be in non-software companies regarding software development. A few years back I reme…

It's a bit like getting struck by lightning, you deal with this when it happens if it happens. This is sufficiently unlikely for most people that it's not worth being too concerned…

How do you account for differences in the purchasing power of those dollars you are making the measurement in? An example of why this is relevant: https://www.investing.com/indices…

There's definitely some very big problems with people demanding fixed interest returns when demographics aren't good: https://realinvestmentadvice.com/the-unavoidable-pension-cri..…

I think there's a massive difference between the government owning things and the central bank owning things for the reasons you mention about accountability.

Bitcoin had design goals in mind to avoid certain downsides of centralized currencies. The cryptocurrency space however lives inside the broader economy and questions about what mo…

I'm trying to encourage a discussion about what money itself should be. I think without this discussion it will be very hard to make effective regulations around money and the impl…

It would seem that the temptation to set the price of everything is increased when there are impediments to setting the interest rate (since this removes an important monetary poli…

I'm not sure why you'd take from this that I'm ignoring the role of regulation when I'm commenting on a situation whereby the regulatory framework of central banks allows them to t…

I strongly believe that money itself has been corrupted lately, this then causes all number of bad flow on effects to happen. A massive shift happened when central banks started ge…

Bitcoin is a lot less liquid than many people think, a lot of wash trading has occurred recently that has obscured this.

I think the stimulus feedback loop you mention is exactly the situation that could provoke strong inflation. Were the markets free of this intervention/interference I'd be strongly…

I have to say I thought the most ridiculous name I'd see in this space was coins named after people's dogs. This not-even-a-name might be even more ridiculous. It reminds me of tho…

It honestly reminds me of the incident from a few years back where people were climbing the walls of buildings to help people inside cheat: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/indian-pare…

At this point inflation (if it happens) will most likely be a policy driven affair since growth doesn't seem to be the main driver for monetary expansion at this moment in time. I …

I think reducing the harms that are done by trolls and various other bad actors on the internet is an important question for this era. But this might not be the main motivation beh…

I think reducing the harms that are done by trolls and various other bad actors on the internet is an important question for this era. But this might not be the main motivation beh…