“zoning laws… don't even really achieve anything except making living near your work difficult” View quoted note →

Does your attention span change you or do you change your attention span?

“maybe trojan horses are made in "stables" (pun intended). “ View quoted note →

Markus Thielen, CEO of 10x Research: “Bitcoin’s breakout isn’t random, it’s being fueled by the fastest U.S. debt expansion in history and that momentum isn’t slowing down,” he said. “Whether the economy stays strong or dips into recession, the flood of new debt is a tailwind for hard assets like bitcoin and gold.” CNBC

“I expect the committed tradfi people to get saltier as they continue to express their [amazement] at this bitcoin thing and that it shouldn't work because their college textbooks said so”

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Brendan Greeley COMES INTO MY MONETARY HOUSE, Talks "Crypto" Dads (FT, Greeley) \ stacker news

oh, boy I fundamentally disagree with most things Greeley says/writes about money, but I do appreciate his writings. ...so here I am, ranting. Mr. ...

“My take is that collectivism is a dark art. It is incredibly powerful and dangerous, but it also is undeniable and part of the nature of most humans. Very few have reached levels of wealth or intelligence to truly be separate from collective thought or identity, and there’s an argument that it’s an impossible task.” View quoted note →

👀 “…All of the rebalancing activities across the whole market explains some of the decline in volatility that we've seen this year that has made Bitcoin so boring for the gamblers among us…” View quoted note →

“Bitcoin enabled us to do what we want and serve who we want--other bitcoiners.” View quoted note →

>>"experts warn of crisis if the market collapses" Wow, it must be hard being an expert<<

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Stock Markets YOLOing into Bitcoin (Financial Times Big Read, Nikou Asgari) \ stacker news

We're back for our DUE DILIGENCE: My sacred task of covering BTCTCs in mainstream media... The FT has a Big Read today... on companies piling into ...

“I’d rather be wrong chasing the dream of freedom rather than accepting the chains of slavery” View quoted note →

*The 27-mile corridor will allow people and goods to travel between Turkey and Azerbaijan without passing through Russia or Iran, addressing a key demand from Azerbaijan that had stalled previous peace negotiations. The route will eventually include rail lines, oil and gas pipelines, and fiber optic infrastructure. According to the agreement, the United States receives exclusive development rights to the corridor for up to 99 years. The route will operate under Armenian law but be managed by a U.S.-backed consortium, with private corporations responsible for construction costs.* https://www.perplexity.ai/page/trump-brokers-armenia-azerbaij-eJu2T268Sh.Z6ugi6PdJMg

Mainstream economics—especially in its Keynesian and statist forms—treats inflation as a manageable side effect of intervention. According to this view, governments and central banks can fine-tune aggregate demand by adjusting the money supply and public spending. When growth stalls, they simply inject more liquidity. But this logic rests on a dangerous illusion: that a centralized authority can gather, interpret, and act upon dispersed economic knowledge better than individuals acting freely. Hayek exposed this fallacy in The Use of Knowledge in Society, arguing that no planner, however brilliant, could match the informational complexity embedded in free prices. Despite this, inflation is increasingly treated as a “target,” not a threat. As Hélio Beltrão—president of the Mises Institute Brazil—has pointed out, this rhetorical inversion has become one of the great manipulations of modern policy. The result is a cycle of self-justifying coercion: the state inflates, triggers the very instability it claims to solve, and then inflates again to paper over its failures. Each round dilutes the value of money, punishes savers, and transfers purchasing power to debtors, governments, and politically connected groups.

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Inflation by Design: How Keynesian Dogma Undermines Capitalism \ stacker news

In most of the world, inflation is no longer an exception, it is the rule. Official inflation targets of 4 percent, 5 percent, or even 6 percent pe...

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What exactly is Stacker News? \ stacker news

What exactly is Stacker News? Stacker News is a forum similar to Reddit or Hacker News. Unlike on Reddit or Hacker News where you earn "upvotes" or...

“Fixing money might slow the erosion. But healing loneliness requires more than economics. It asks for courage. Because in the end a rich life is not built in vaults but in hearts held open.” View quoted note →

Read this thought provoking note in full, frens! “Loneliness is the quiet scream of a culture that replaced presence with productivity.” View quoted note →

“There are always dystopian views of new technology. But history shows technology advances free us more than enslave us.” View quoted note →

“if 10% of nostr users are running a relay that's a lot better than being stuck with the problems of a trustless p2p architecture” View quoted note →

"Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!" (Sir Walter Scott, 1808) "Abu Dhabi has not officially taken a side on the Russia-Ukraine war, instead calling for peace and an end to the fighting. It has also refused to partake in Western sanctions against Russia, providing a safe haven for Russian oligarchs and expatriates fleeing both sanctions and mandatory conscription. Some 4,000 Russian businesses operate in the UAE, according to reports, and foreign direct investment between the two has steadily increased." "The UAE is also buffered by its mammoth business ties to the U.S. beyond just defense: Abu Dhabi is a rapidly growing hub for, and investor in, America’s largest AI and tech companies. Trump’s highly feted visit to the Gulf region in May saw a number of major deals signed with the UAE across sectors, while Abu Dhabi in March committed to a 10-year, $1.4 trillion investment framework in the U.S." CNBC