$70M in 60 Seconds: How Insider Info Helped Someone 28x Their Money

Post by dboreham » Sat, Apr 12, 2025, 1:17 PM UTC

bruce511 wrote: post #48

solardev wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

[flagged]

I agree, at this point. There is of course voter agency in 2 years. Of course lots of voters (specifically the ones that voted for this) are pretty happy with the way things are going. So any kind of blowback is uncertain at best. If the population were genuinely interested in removing Trump, they could elect 60 democrats to the senate and a house majority, then impeach. But again, a healthy chunk are happy, and a lo…

Post by rco8786 » Sat, Apr 12, 2025, 1:21 PM UTC

sebasv_ wrote: post #8

hdevalence wrote: post #3

> We don’t know who placed the trades. We don’t know what they knew. Actually, “we”, collectively, do know, because the SEC maintains an “XKEYSCORE for equities” called CAT. If there was interest, the government could know exactly who placed these trades. But the call (options) are coming from inside the house.

What would determine whether the SEC will investigate for insider trading? I would expect them to be shielded from executive pressure.

Post by dboreham » Sat, Apr 12, 2025, 1:23 PM UTC

impossiblefork wrote: post #273

StormChaser_5 wrote: post #165

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure that's true. America's military keeps peace for trade to happen in a lot of the world... Not always successfully but it's there. That works because they have the reserve currency and can therefore print money for free. Which benefits the US greatly in all sorts of ways. But everyone else also sees some good. If that goes away its going to have impacts on everyone else as well as America. Maybe not as much of…

I really don't think we do. France and Britain alone used to be able to defend trade routes. I don't think it's a huge expense. It really is good for essentially everyone aside from the US itself, once the disruption is over. Obviously we'll have some kind of crash though, but I think that was inevitable with or without this.

Post by misja111 » Sat, Apr 12, 2025, 1:25 PM UTC

Post by yread » Sat, Apr 12, 2025, 1:25 PM UTC

netsharc wrote: post #242

mattkevan wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bold to assume there are going to be elections. All it needs is some kind of emergency, genuine, imaginary or self-inflicted, and ‘Oh no, we can’t possibly hold elections until our time of national crisis is over.’

Probably much easier to rig the elections, just like dozens of "we're democratic!" dictators have done. Erdogan, Putin, Mugabe, Suharto...