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The Zeitgeist – 5.15.2019

By Ben Hunt | May 15, 2019 | 4 Comments
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…not a list of best articles or articles we think are most interesting … often far from it. But for whatever reason these are articles that are representative of some…

Bitcoin! ™ Can’t Unring the ESG Bell

By Ben Hunt | May 25, 2021 | 1 Comment
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You may not believe in your heart of hearts that ESG is a thing in the real world. I don’t. I think it’s a Cartoon of an impulse. A laudable…

The Grifters, chapter 1 – Kodak

By Ben Hunt | July 30, 2020 | 15 Comments
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…would receive $765 million in “loans” from the US government to create a “pharmaceutical start-up” that over a period of 8 YEARS will start making pharmaceutical “supplies”. Whatever the hell…

The Icarus Moment

By Ben Hunt | March 21, 2018 | 5 Comments
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…The Donald Trump cartoon of the Mad King? The Russia/China cartoon of the Foreign Peril? The Bezos/Gates/Buffett cartoon of the Oligarch? The Bitcoin/Silicon Valley cartoon of the New? The CNN/Fox/CNBC…

Deep Sociopathy

By Ben Hunt | August 6, 2020 | 6 Comments
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…the oil and other commodities that finance every murderous despot on Earth. Unfortunately for BNP, these particular murderous despots in Cuba, Iran and Sudan – not to be confused with…

Oh, hell, Martha, go ahead and burn yourself if you want to.

By Ben Hunt | October 29, 2018 | 9 Comments
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seems to work particularly well, especially if captured on a sheet of paper in a morphological chart. : 1) Identify which particular injustice in the world makes your blood boil…

The Effete Rebellion of Bitcoin

By Ben Hunt | February 17, 2015 | 0 Comments
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…use criticism as fake participation. – Chuck Palahniuk, “Choke” (2001) In the day we sweat it out on the streets of a runway American dream. At night we ride through the…

The Art of the Probe

By Ben Hunt | December 8, 2016 | 0 Comments
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…important part — it must be an effective blockade for it to be legally binding on you, the neutral party. In other words, Croatia can’t declare a neutral party-binding blockade…

Wherefore Art Thou, Marcus Welby?

By Ben Hunt | October 30, 2014 | 0 Comments
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…“trust” this way. I’m making a big deal out of the distinction between a public persona and a real person because it is, in fact, a big deal when it…

Men of God in the City of Man, Pt. 5: Epidemic

By Rusty Guinn | July 10, 2023 | 152 Comments
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nine-part essay series that tells the story of a powerful Narrative virus whose ultimate unintended target was nothing less than faith in American democracy as an institution. Part 1 introduced the idea…

Get Me Tools and a Beer!

By Rusty Guinn | August 10, 2020 | 9 Comments
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…this one from CNBC that ranked near the top of our list of financial articles with the most structurally similar language over the weekend. Kodak pharma deal held up over…

By Our Own Petard

By Rusty Guinn | November 20, 2019 | 11 Comments
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…on their own. My clients are part of my packs. I use this part of my pack to help me do a better job for that part. Excellent long piece…

Guest Post – A Conservative’s Take on The Pack

By Ben Hunt | October 23, 2019 | 17 Comments
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Dreher’s thesis sparked a great deal of controversy but also a great deal of conversation.  And while most religious public intellectuals refrained from directly endorsing “The Benedict Option,” First Things…

The Zeitgeist – 4.10.2019

By Ben Hunt | April 10, 2019 | 4 Comments
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…not a list of best articles or articles we think are most interesting … often far from it. But for whatever reason these are articles that are representative of some sort of chord that has been struck in Narrative-world. April 10, 2019 Narrative Map – US Equities In Puerto…

The Andromeda Strain

By Ben Hunt | November 12, 2015 | 2 Comments
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of both the illiberal left and the illiberal right to underestimate the perceptiveness of we-the-people, and so long as our art and literature – particularly our pop art and our…

Surprisingly Geometric

By Rusty Guinn | October 7, 2018 | 0 Comments
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artists to display exaggerated muscles and geometry, and/or (3) 19th century British artists being a bit shit? It’s hard to know for sure. But the unrealistic body image foisted on…

Building the Narrative Machine

By Neville Crawley | December 31, 2018 | 0 Comments
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…‘overweight’ is a positive thing, but you have trained your sentiment analyzer on general data (such New York Times articles), where ‘overweight’ is part of the same negative vector as…

Bitcoin Market Profile

By Brent Donnelly | April 28, 2021 | 4 Comments
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Market Profile in most professional charting systems. If you don’t have access to Market Profile on your system, it is easy and useful to create the charts yourself. Some people…

Zeroism and the Allocator Status Quo

By Matthew Edwards | September 21, 2021 | 2 Comments
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…quarters to several years. Referring again to his book, Mr. Schwarzman recalled a frustrating trip that he and his partner, Pete Peterson, took to Atlanta to pitch Delta Airline’s investment…

The Zeitgeist | 3.6.2019

By Ben Hunt | March 6, 2019 | 6 Comments
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…not a list of best articles or articles we think are most interesting … often far from it. But for whatever reason these are articles that are representative of some sort of chord that has been struck in Narrative-world. I’m channeling my inner MST3K with the comments here. Premium…