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Why Am I Reading This Now? 07.11.22

By Harper Hunt | July 11, 2022 | 0 Comments
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Recent major media stories that feel to us like they’re part of a larger Narrative campaign. Uber broke laws, duped police and built secret lobbying operation, leak reveals www.theguardian.com What’s…

Sauron Remains Undefeated

By Ben Hunt | August 25, 2022 | 51 Comments
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…can contact Brent at  bdonnelly@ spectramarkets .com and on Twitter at @donnelly_brent. As with all of our guest contributors, Brent’s post may not represent the views of Epsilon Theory or Second Foundation Partners,…

UK Pensions Webinar Recording

By Ben Hunt | October 18, 2022 | 0 Comments
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…Monetary Policy and Why Last Week Was a Big Deal. As promised in the webinar, here’s a PDF of that note, outside the paywall and free to distribute. And of…

Epsilon Theory 2022 in Review – Foundation

By Ben Hunt | December 29, 2022 | 3 Comments
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…highlighting Sam Bankman-Fried’s central role. https://www.epsilontheory.com/the-macguffin-part-1/ And then we chronicled the FTX collapse and the design of Bankman-Fried’s fraud better than anyone. https://www.epsilontheory.com/the-macguffin-part-2-the-story-arc-of-sbf-and-ftx/ Sam Bankman-Fried’s con was old Wall Street…

When Does The Story Break?

By Ben Hunt | January 20, 2023 | 0 Comments
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…Adequate Liquidity by striking a sweetheart deal with UC Regents. It’s too early to tell, of course, whether Blackstone will be successful in maintaining the narrative that all is well…

Office Hours Recap 03/10/2023

By Harper Hunt | March 14, 2023 | 0 Comments
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…to play out? Ben’s heard all the 07/08 comparisons, but he told us that, “in my heart of hearts I actually think all those deposits are going to be fine….

Why Am I Reading This Now? 03.20.23

By Harper Hunt | March 20, 2023 | 0 Comments
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Recent major media stories that feel to us like they’re part of a larger Narrative campaign. UBS to buy Credit Suisse for nearly $3.25B to calm turmoil apnews.com Trump says…

Trading is a lot like Poker

By Brent Donnelly | May 16, 2023 | 1 Comment
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…Theory or Second Foundation Partners, and should not be construed as advice to purchase or sell any security. With the passing of Doyle Brunson, it’s a good day to compare…

Men of God in the City of Man, Pt. 7: Mutation

By Rusty Guinn | July 14, 2023 | 152 Comments
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Download a PDF of Men of God in the City of Man, Part 7: Mutation (paid subscribers only) Men of God in the City of Man is a nine-part essay series…

Fostering Reality in an Unreal World

By Brent Donnelly | July 5, 2023 | 1 Comment
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…for skill because a) Buffett had shown skill over many decades already and b) he has access to cheap financing, sweetheart deals, and the best information in the business. If…

Hagakure: The Secret Wisdom of the Samurai

By Brent Donnelly | July 28, 2023 | 5 Comments
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…an important principle in the martial arts which means to maintain psychological and physiological alertness at all times, even after achieving victory in combat or a match. It entails remaining…

Why Am I Reading This Now? 10.23.23

By Harper Hunt | October 23, 2023 | 0 Comments
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Recent major media stories that feel to us like they’re part of a larger Narrative campaign. What’s in Biden’s $106 billion funding request for Israel, Ukraine www.washingtonpost.com As war grows,…

Why Am I Reading This Now? 01.15.24

By Harper Hunt | January 16, 2024 | 0 Comments
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Recent major media stories that feel to us like they’re part of a larger narrativ‌e campaign. Iowa is a very red state. It’s also a clean-energy powerhouse | CNN Politics…

Round Two of the Unmooring Rates Trade

By Ben Hunt | January 18, 2024 | 0 Comments
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…in particular the last sentence of item #4: And if there’s even a whisper of another big fiscal spending program coming out of DC … well, that will be a…

The Bitcoin ETF Tipping Problem

By Dave Nadig | February 6, 2024 | 11 Comments
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…interesting dialog is about how the possible interacts with the now. Our legal system (particularly the U.S. legal system) is still just starting to wrestle with the most important parts…

Two Quick Narrative Observations

By Ben Hunt | March 7, 2024 | 0 Comments
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…me, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal) and the Inflation Reduction (LOL) Act, and occasionally even a reference to the “need” to extend the Tax Cuts and Jobs (LOL) Act. None of…

Metaphysics, Consciousness, Nature of Reality: a Thread from the ET Forum

By Ben Hunt | January 23, 2023 | 196 Comments
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…at all. Here’s the original post that started the thread … Starting this thread as a fork from a prior ‘narrative’ thread that starting diverging somewhat and becoming quite metaphysical….

Hammers and Nails

By Rusty Guinn | February 8, 2021 | 16 Comments
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…Squarespace Super Bowl commercial in which Dolly Parton switches her classic tune to “5-to-9” as part of celebrating how website-building technology can help people surviving office drudgery express themselves or…

Reap the Whirlwind

By Rusty Guinn | January 11, 2021 | 50 Comments
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…party uses to replenish the coffers. Because both parties have had later absolute majorities and not addressed it. The Fraud! meme starts on the preferred party PR channel (Fox/CNN), then…

We Were Soldiers Once … And Young

By Ben Hunt | October 13, 2018 | 38 Comments
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…the Outgroup, particularly in light of ET’s Things Fall Apart. MrMoneyMustache.com – a call for radical departures from the typical lifestyle, and finding what makes one happy. Disguised (openly) as…