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Category: The Zeitgeist

We are all MMTers (Still)

Stimulus is dominating market news, and even with an election coming up is playing an outsized role in political news. So what is the current fiscal s…
Rusty Guinn October 22, 2020
12 Comments

How It Started. How It’s Going.

Once Daryl Morey's new idea became the common knowledge of the NBA - once everyone knows that everyone knows that the way to win NBA games is to maxim…
Ben Hunt October 20, 2020
11 Comments

The Frustrated Money Manager

The frustrated money manager is almost always a smart, accomplished professional in his own field who believes VERY much in the existence of The Smart…
Ben Hunt October 8, 2020
12 Comments

Scapegoating the Zeitgeist

One day we will recognize the defining Zeitgeist of the post-GFC Obama/Trump years for what it is: an unparalleled transfer of wealth to the manageria…
Ben Hunt October 2, 2020
5 Comments

Why Am I Reading This Now?

Yesterday, 5 GOP Senators wrote a letter to Netflix, saying that their plan to adapt Liu Cixin's "The Three Body Problem" for TV/film amounted to "com…
Ben Hunt September 25, 2020
8 Comments

The UNITED States of America

My RBG story ... I thought she'd be all about women's rights and legal theory this and legal theory that. I was SO wrong. RBG's death is an enormous…
Ben Hunt September 19, 2020
7 Comments

Many People Say

The go-to move by sophists like Vox and Trump is to claim that "many people" are asserting their made-up premise that justifies an otherwise ludicrous…
Ben Hunt September 16, 2020
27 Comments

The Game of Tesla

Recent price action in Tesla is the Common Knowledge Game in action. It is the power of the crowd watching the crowd. It is the power of – not wha…
Ben Hunt September 3, 2020
4 Comments

The Cartoon Put

Seeing cartoons made from data doesn't give us license to ignore the underlying feature of the world being measured - it gives us a duty to cut throug…
Rusty Guinn September 1, 2020
13 Comments

Sacrifice for Thee, Vast Wealth for Me

Doug Parker, American Airlines CEO and Chairman of the Board, wrote a letter to his employees today that pretty much defines high-functioning sociopat…
Ben Hunt August 25, 2020
11 Comments

Carny Barkers

In the age of capital markets as carny show, we are told by barkers like Cramer that this is what a smart investor or management team does ... they sh…
Ben Hunt August 13, 2020
18 Comments

Get Me Tools and a Beer!

There is nothing wrong with wanting the US to bring back certain critical manufacturing industries to its shores. But don't buy the narrative that a…
Rusty Guinn August 10, 2020
9 Comments

Deep Sociopathy

Is murder bad? Hmm, I dunno. What are the chances I will be caught and what price will I pay if that happens? If the odds are high enough and the pric…
Ben Hunt August 6, 2020
6 Comments

Taiwan is now Arrakis

"He who controls the spice controls the universe." The world's principal supplier of semiconductors - the spice of OUR global empire - is now Taiwan. …
Ben Hunt July 27, 2020
25 Comments

Overserved

Everyone is in a tizzy about day traders and Robinhood. "Ooooh, they're going to have such a hangover when the bubble pops." Pffft. They'll be fine.…
Ben Hunt July 20, 2020
14 Comments

Snip!

Both Trump and Biden have proposed $2 trillion spending plans for next year, confirming exactly what we wrote last December. To the dollar. To the wor…
Ben Hunt July 16, 2020
5 Comments

An Advantageous Contagion

Sometimes good news comes from unexpected places. And sometimes it's best just to go with it.
Rusty Guinn July 14, 2020
17 Comments

The Lost Art of the Jawbone

Market propaganda used to be an art form, I tell you! What happened to us? The transformation of capital markets into political utilities happened.
Rusty Guinn July 7, 2020
4 Comments

The Lystrosaurus

There is practically no information in knowing that everybody is talking about something. There is some information in knowing that everybody is using…
Rusty Guinn June 17, 2020
12 Comments

No Country for Old Men

We all know someone who is in urgent-but-not-emergency need of some medical procedure that can't be scheduled while Covid-19 is storming the hospital …
Ben Hunt June 12, 2020
16 Comments
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