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Develops medical laboratory software. Emphasis on medical billing. Former Treasury VP (risk mgmt stuff) at ridiculously global bank, gave that up when I figured out they ignored risk management.
One year of Trump: the dollar index.
January 12, 2026 at 12:10 PM
One year of Trump: the dollar index.
Big real estate brokerage merger, one that in normal times would have faced antitrust scrutiny, sails through in less time than the two companies who are merging estimated, in case you're wondering why the markets have been so optimistic:
January 9, 2026 at 11:28 PM
Big real estate brokerage merger, one that in normal times would have faced antitrust scrutiny, sails through in less time than the two companies who are merging estimated, in case you're wondering why the markets have been so optimistic:
I mean...
January 7, 2026 at 8:05 PM
I mean...
Don't live IN NYC, just next door to it. One thing I would dearly love to see Mamdani do is revive the NYC Public Health Dept. For bizarre reasons, DeBlasio ignored them, I'm sure Adams isn't paying any attention to them, so it would be a nice change to see Mamdani do something with them.
December 31, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Don't live IN NYC, just next door to it. One thing I would dearly love to see Mamdani do is revive the NYC Public Health Dept. For bizarre reasons, DeBlasio ignored them, I'm sure Adams isn't paying any attention to them, so it would be a nice change to see Mamdani do something with them.
Serendipity in the timeline.
December 30, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Serendipity in the timeline.
Like, wow. Don't recall ever seeing this much of a contrast in temperatures in one area of the country. From 10 in Sioux Falls to 71 in St Louis. Nutty.
December 28, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Like, wow. Don't recall ever seeing this much of a contrast in temperatures in one area of the country. From 10 in Sioux Falls to 71 in St Louis. Nutty.
December 24, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Gold's been unstoppable in the overnight. Pretty sure some of this move will get pulled tomorrow, but it's still impressive.
December 23, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Gold's been unstoppable in the overnight. Pretty sure some of this move will get pulled tomorrow, but it's still impressive.
From Almost Daily Grant's:
December 20, 2025 at 3:42 AM
From Almost Daily Grant's:
Reading another old history of the US in the Smithsonian's archives. This one goes into great detail regarding the early explorers and conquistadores, and portrays them as kidnappers, enslavers, and just plain murderers.
This passage about Jacques Cartier is typical:
This passage about Jacques Cartier is typical:
December 15, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Reading another old history of the US in the Smithsonian's archives. This one goes into great detail regarding the early explorers and conquistadores, and portrays them as kidnappers, enslavers, and just plain murderers.
This passage about Jacques Cartier is typical:
This passage about Jacques Cartier is typical:
Bullish on the market for FOMC. 10 day realized vol shows a real collapse in movement, while the VIX has stayed up and the markets have meandered aimlessly. All of which means lots of caution going in, which is a good sign.
December 10, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Bullish on the market for FOMC. 10 day realized vol shows a real collapse in movement, while the VIX has stayed up and the markets have meandered aimlessly. All of which means lots of caution going in, which is a good sign.
Basis is 16.88, 15 was close enough to 10% for gov't work.
Call side I looked at the tic tac toe chart and could clearly see 18 as upside resistance, so that's where I sold. So far so good. (see chart below)
Plan is to step it higher each month. So 19 calls get sold next month, if the plan works.
Call side I looked at the tic tac toe chart and could clearly see 18 as upside resistance, so that's where I sold. So far so good. (see chart below)
Plan is to step it higher each month. So 19 calls get sold next month, if the plan works.
December 8, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Basis is 16.88, 15 was close enough to 10% for gov't work.
Call side I looked at the tic tac toe chart and could clearly see 18 as upside resistance, so that's where I sold. So far so good. (see chart below)
Plan is to step it higher each month. So 19 calls get sold next month, if the plan works.
Call side I looked at the tic tac toe chart and could clearly see 18 as upside resistance, so that's where I sold. So far so good. (see chart below)
Plan is to step it higher each month. So 19 calls get sold next month, if the plan works.
As true in 1898 as it is today: Americans learn their geography from war.
Also, note the sudden rise of complete experts on Asiatic strategy & commerce.
Also, note the sudden rise of complete experts on Asiatic strategy & commerce.
December 6, 2025 at 11:34 PM
As true in 1898 as it is today: Americans learn their geography from war.
Also, note the sudden rise of complete experts on Asiatic strategy & commerce.
Also, note the sudden rise of complete experts on Asiatic strategy & commerce.
But there's more. There is a suspicion, founded in the fact nothing was taken from the Blauvelt home, that they were in on the British operation. Which leads to this final bit:
![Lastly, we must recognize that there is a dark side to the Blauvelt narrative. In 1776, Cornelius D. Blauvelt was listed as a First Lieutenant in the Bergen Militia.20 Yet he was neither attacked nor taken prisoner on the night in question. An important part of the Blauvelt narrative tries to explain why "not a single cents worth of property" was plundered from Cornelius' house, despite the fact that American officers were found quartered there. The initial encounter between Mr. Blauvelt and General Grey almost sounds like an exchange of passwords: according to the narrative, when the British forced entry into his home and asked who he was, Lieutenant Blauvelt "coolly replied 'I am a man for my country and will fight for it till I die.' [General] Grey said he also was a man for his country and complimented Mr. Blauvelt for his patriotism." One wonders who it was that subsequently attempted to murder Cornelius D. Blauvelt - but the answer to this and to other questions have gone to the grave with the participants. Ironically, Captain Abraham Blauvelt of the First Regiment of Orange County Militia, who was surrounded by British troopers later that night and bayoneted, was Cornelius' older brother. His younger brother, Theunis, a Loyalist, was commissioned Captain in the Third New Jersey Volunteers and joined the Tory exodus to Nova Scotia at the war's end.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:p7m4ffaveaav2uzkwn44755u/bafkreihttjzyz3uancmof7l47aafbx3ce4l46twurnp6cc4wlcno5nas7y@jpeg)
December 6, 2025 at 7:48 PM
But there's more. There is a suspicion, founded in the fact nothing was taken from the Blauvelt home, that they were in on the British operation. Which leads to this final bit:
The aftermath is what my point is. The Tories wanted the Blauvelts dead and were disappointed they weren't killed, and so tried to do it themselves, apparently:
December 6, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The aftermath is what my point is. The Tories wanted the Blauvelts dead and were disappointed they weren't killed, and so tried to do it themselves, apparently:
Eh, don't care. Been here for a long time, not anticipating much time left. It'd be cool to be one of the ones turned into this or radioactive dust.
Sun's not winking out for another billion years, multi-cellular life will survive, some new intelligent species will pop up, the Earth will abide.
Sun's not winking out for another billion years, multi-cellular life will survive, some new intelligent species will pop up, the Earth will abide.
December 5, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Eh, don't care. Been here for a long time, not anticipating much time left. It'd be cool to be one of the ones turned into this or radioactive dust.
Sun's not winking out for another billion years, multi-cellular life will survive, some new intelligent species will pop up, the Earth will abide.
Sun's not winking out for another billion years, multi-cellular life will survive, some new intelligent species will pop up, the Earth will abide.
From a Barrons.com story accessed via my TOS account (I don't deliberately pay Murdoch for anything, but I know via sheer osmosis he gets some bux from me anyway).
The capacity of the average American investor for swallowing utter bs from Musk is unlimited, really.
TSLA will likely rally into EOY.
The capacity of the average American investor for swallowing utter bs from Musk is unlimited, really.
TSLA will likely rally into EOY.
December 5, 2025 at 9:34 PM
From a Barrons.com story accessed via my TOS account (I don't deliberately pay Murdoch for anything, but I know via sheer osmosis he gets some bux from me anyway).
The capacity of the average American investor for swallowing utter bs from Musk is unlimited, really.
TSLA will likely rally into EOY.
The capacity of the average American investor for swallowing utter bs from Musk is unlimited, really.
TSLA will likely rally into EOY.
It was noted here once that the Republicans admitted a bunch of sparsely populated western states in the late 1800's with the intent of wielding disproportionate power in the Senate.
This very quickly bit them when it came to the question of watering down the gold standard with western silver:
This very quickly bit them when it came to the question of watering down the gold standard with western silver:
December 5, 2025 at 9:05 PM
It was noted here once that the Republicans admitted a bunch of sparsely populated western states in the late 1800's with the intent of wielding disproportionate power in the Senate.
This very quickly bit them when it came to the question of watering down the gold standard with western silver:
This very quickly bit them when it came to the question of watering down the gold standard with western silver:
Diane Keaton's estate is on the market for 26 million. Mere bag o shells.
www.reddit.com/r/zillowgone...
It has this for when you want to gently interrogate someone:
www.reddit.com/r/zillowgone...
It has this for when you want to gently interrogate someone:
December 5, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Diane Keaton's estate is on the market for 26 million. Mere bag o shells.
www.reddit.com/r/zillowgone...
It has this for when you want to gently interrogate someone:
www.reddit.com/r/zillowgone...
It has this for when you want to gently interrogate someone:
Dang. Doesn't get any more random than this.
December 4, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Dang. Doesn't get any more random than this.
Watching the temp drop like a rock on my outside thermometer. What never ceases to amaze is how off the reported temps are from what I measure.
Here, you see a narrow range from 33 to 35. Meantime, mine is registering 30, down from 34 at 5:30 PM.
We're in a valley, cold air sinks.
Here, you see a narrow range from 33 to 35. Meantime, mine is registering 30, down from 34 at 5:30 PM.
We're in a valley, cold air sinks.
December 4, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Watching the temp drop like a rock on my outside thermometer. What never ceases to amaze is how off the reported temps are from what I measure.
Here, you see a narrow range from 33 to 35. Meantime, mine is registering 30, down from 34 at 5:30 PM.
We're in a valley, cold air sinks.
Here, you see a narrow range from 33 to 35. Meantime, mine is registering 30, down from 34 at 5:30 PM.
We're in a valley, cold air sinks.
The election of 2028 is likely going to be something like the election of 1892 when it comes to the tariff. More than likely the Dem candidate will have to say something like what Cleveland said in 1892, as those who benefit from tariff protection will be against rolling them back indiscriminately.
December 3, 2025 at 11:21 PM
The election of 2028 is likely going to be something like the election of 1892 when it comes to the tariff. More than likely the Dem candidate will have to say something like what Cleveland said in 1892, as those who benefit from tariff protection will be against rolling them back indiscriminately.
...continued
December 1, 2025 at 1:20 AM
...continued
This sounds familiar.
Continued in the next one.
Continued in the next one.
December 1, 2025 at 1:20 AM
This sounds familiar.
Continued in the next one.
Continued in the next one.
As I think I've noted before, one thing I've found out from reading this antique history of the US is that the GOP has always been the pro-tariff party. And here, under Republican President Harrison, is the first instance of the Congress ceding to the President a power to impose tariffs:
December 1, 2025 at 12:53 AM
As I think I've noted before, one thing I've found out from reading this antique history of the US is that the GOP has always been the pro-tariff party. And here, under Republican President Harrison, is the first instance of the Congress ceding to the President a power to impose tariffs: