Hollow Men, Hollow Markets, Hollow World
Over the past 25 years, our leaders have intentionally constructed an Apocalypse Now world of proclamation and fiat, where our wealth has grown much f…
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How to Succeed as a Sell Side Trader
ET contributor Brent Donnelly has some advice that's ostensibly for sell-side traders, but is actually for everyone in markets. And everyone who isn't…
Being Human in a LARPing World
The cure for the cancer of gun culture and police culture is not to be found in reform laws around guns and police, but in reform ideas around culture…
The MacGuffin, Part 1: The Corrupt Crypto ‘Revolution’
If you don't see that the crypto "industry" has become just as blindingly corrupt, just as oozingly fatuous, just as profoundly captured by the Nudgin…
The Most Important Trading Decision
Trading is hard. Your odds of success are heavily influenced by the seat you choose. Retail trader or bank trader or PM, here are metrics to evaluate …
Money Can Buy Happiness (in variable and diminishing quantities)
What does your money/happiness curve look like? Is it curved or linear? Does it flatline somewhere? If so, where?
There's the game of trading and the…
Waiting for the Dog to Bark
In the days leading up to their invasion of Ukraine, Russia successfully mounted a largescale cyberattack on Ukrainian banks, utilities and government…
Narrative and Metaverse, Pt. 3: The Luther Protocol
"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice." - MLK
Does it? Does it really?
Today we take a stand to defend the arc of the…
They’re Not Sending Their Best
The Big Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act is an abomination. It won't lower gas prices, it will raise them. And the sponsors of the bill know it.
This bil…
Tough Guys
Using NATO to escalate a shooting war with Russia - either directly through a no-fly zone or indirectly through a Polish cut-out and NATO "backfill" -…
The Reckless Driver! TM Narrative
Reckless Drivers! is the dominant narrative for increased traffic deaths in the US. It's dominant not because it's true (it's not), but because it ser…
Quitters
in the spirit of the question we are always asking ourselves at Epsilon Theory - WHY AM I READING THIS NOW? - Brent asks a slightly different question…
Narrative and Metaverse, Pt. 2: Gain of Function
Big Tech, Big Media and Big Politics are engaged in a widespread program of gain-of-function research on the linguistic entities of the metaverse.
It…
Getting to War
The international "negotiations" over Ukraine are 100% designed for domestic Russian consumption. They are as necessary a part of successfully invadin…
Narrative and Metaverse, Pt. 1: The Living Word
The past, present and future of human freedom is not determined in the macroverse but in the metaverse, and it is here where we must make our stand. F…
That Funny Feeling
The AI censors at YouTube banned a video by ET contributor Brent Donnelly for all the wrong reasons.
Meanwhile, the AI censors at Twitter won't ban a…
An Inconvenient Truce
Polarization often isn't an accident. It is the result of intentional narrative construction - constructions designed to make us believe that we are s…
25 Anti-Mimetic Tactics for Living a Counter-Cultural Life
The social rewards that come from imitating others feel good, but they come at a high price.
Here are 25 Anti-Mimetic ideas that can help us craft a…
