acemaxxThe remarkable confidence that this crude #oil spike is #transitory - chart @johnauthers.bsky.social
JazoneNow the #CNBC MAGA are saying "let everything pan" out.
Code for "we hope #transitory."
WIST Quotations Has Moved!It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: “And this, too, shall pass away.” How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! — how consoling in the depth of affliction!
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Speech (1859-09-30), Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, Milwaukee
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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #abelincoln #abrahamlincoln #abrahamlincolnquotes #briefness #brevity #future #impermanence #mementomori #passageoftime #passing #temporary #transitory
A quotation from Marcus Aurelius
Don’t let yourself forget how many doctors have died, after furrowing their brows over how many deathbeds. How many astrologers, after pompous forecasts about others’ ends. How many philosophers, after endless disquisitions on death and immortality. How many warriors, after inflicting thousands of casualties themselves. How many tyrants, after abusing the power of life and death atrociously, as if they were themselves immortal.How many whole cities have met their end: Helike, Pompeii, Herculaneum, and countless others.
And all the ones you know yourself, one after another. One who laid out another for burial, and was buried himself, and then the man who buried him — all in the same short space of time.
[Ἐννοεῖν συνεχῶς πόσοι μὲν ἰατροὶ ἀποτεθνήκασι, πολλάκις τὰς ὀφρῦς ὑπὲρ τῶν ἀρρώστων συσπάσαντες: πόσοι δὲ μαθηματικοί, ἄλλων θανάτους ὥς τι μέγα προειπόντες: πόσοι δὲ φιλόσοφοι, περὶ θανάτου ἢ ἀθανασίας μυρία διατεινάμενοι: πόσοι δὲ ἀριστεῖς, πολλοὺς ἀποκτείναντες: πόσοι δὲ τύραννοι, ἐξουσίᾳ ψυχῶν μετὰ δεινοῦ φρυάγματος ὡς ἀθάνατοι κεχρημένοι: πόσαι δὲ πόλεις ὅλαι, ἵν̓ οὕτως εἴπω, τεθνήκασιν, Ἑλίκη καὶ Πομπήιοι καὶ Ἡρκλᾶνον καὶ ἄλλαι ἀναρίθμητοι. ἔπιθι δὲ καὶ ὅσους οἶδας, ἄλλον ἐπ̓ ἄλλῳ: ὁ μὲν τοῦτον κηδεύσας εἶτα ἐξετάθη, ὁ δὲ ἐκεῖνον, πάντα δὲ ἐν βραχεῖ.]
Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 4, ch. 48 (4.48) (AD 161-180) [tr. Hays (2003)]
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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marcusaurelius #death #mortality #shortlived #transitory
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 4, ch. 48 (4.48) (AD 161-180) [tr. Hays (2003)] - Marcus Aurelius | WIST Quotations
Don’t let yourself forget how many doctors have died, after furrowing their brows over how many deathbeds. How many astrologers, after pompous forecasts about others’ ends. How many philosophers, after endless disquisitions on death and immortality. How many warriors, after inflicting thousands of casualties themselves. How many tyrants, after abusing…
A quotation from Marcus Aurelius
He that does a Memorable Action, and those that Report it, are all but short-liv’d Things.[Πᾶν ἐφήμερον, καὶ τὸ μνημονεῦον καὶ τὸ μνημονευόμενον.]
Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 4, ch. 35 (4.35) (AD 161-180) [tr. Collier (1701)]
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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #marcusaurelius #brevity #brief #historian #history #life #moment #perspective #remembrance #shortlived #transitory
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 4, ch. 35 (4.35) (AD 161-180) [tr. Collier (1701)] - Marcus Aurelius | WIST Quotations
He that does a Memorable Action, and those that Report it, are all but short-liv'd Things. [Πᾶν ἐφήμερον, καὶ τὸ μνημονεῦον καὶ τὸ μνημονευόμενον.] (Source (Greek)). Alternate translations: All things are transitory, and, as it were, but for a day; both those who remember; and the things, and persons remembered.…
rotenotesOn the
other hand, in the commodity form the #value #perishes with the use value
in which it is contained, since use value is a #transitory thing and as
such would be #dissolved simply by the #metabolic process of nature. And
if it is really utilised as a use value, i.e. consumed, the exchange
value contained in the use value perishes along with it.
An increase in value means nothing other than an increase in objectified
labour; but it is only through #living labour that objectified labour can
be preserved or increased.
[I-18] Value, the /objectified /labour which exists in the form of
money, could grow only by exchange with a commodity whose /use value
/itself consisted in the ability to increase exchange value, whose
consumption would be equivalent to the creation of value or the
objectification of labour. /(No /commodity has any direct use value at
all for the value which is to be valorised, except in so far as its use
itself constitutes the creation of value; in so far as it is useful for
increasing value.) But such use value is only possessed by /living
labour capacity/. Value, money, can therefore only be transformed into
capital through exchange with living labour capacity. Its transformation
into capital requires that it be exchanged, on the one hand, for labour
capacity and, on the other, for the material conditions prerequisite to
the objectification of labour capacity. [#Marx, MECW 30: 36]
other hand, in the commodity form the #value #perishes with the use value
in which it is contained, since use value is a #transitory thing and as
such would be #dissolved simply by the #metabolic process of nature. And
if it is really utilised as a use value, i.e. consumed, the exchange
value contained in the use value perishes along with it.
An increase in value means nothing other than an increase in objectified
labour; but it is only through #living labour that objectified labour can
be preserved or increased.
[I-18] Value, the /objectified /labour which exists in the form of
money, could grow only by exchange with a commodity whose /use value
/itself consisted in the ability to increase exchange value, whose
consumption would be equivalent to the creation of value or the
objectification of labour. /(No /commodity has any direct use value at
all for the value which is to be valorised, except in so far as its use
itself constitutes the creation of value; in so far as it is useful for
increasing value.) But such use value is only possessed by /living
labour capacity/. Value, money, can therefore only be transformed into
capital through exchange with living labour capacity. Its transformation
into capital requires that it be exchanged, on the one hand, for labour
capacity and, on the other, for the material conditions prerequisite to
the objectification of labour capacity. [#Marx, MECW 30: 36]
If #inflation in the #eurozone was #transitory after all, the risk that @ECB has #overtightened is clearly heightened.
(like it or not) This is called #transitory #inflation: In #Switzerland - the average annual inflation amounted to +2.1% in 2023, chart @SwissStat https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/de/home/aktuell/neue-veroeffentlichungen.assetdetail.30225916.html
Durchschnittliche Jahresteuerung von +2,1% im Jahr 2023 - Landesindex der Konsumentenpreise im Dezember und Jahresteuerung 2023 | Medienmitteilung | Bundesamt für Statistik
Der Landesindex der Konsumentenpreise (LIK) blieb im Dezember 2023 im Vergleich zum Vormonat unverändert beim Stand von 106,2 Punkten (Dezember 2020 = 100).
#disinflation is real, yet #ECB seems unwilling to believe the good news, putting the economy through a #stagnation in #Europa --- The decline in the #transitory price surge does not call for long-lasting #unemployment
BAT TheatreThe thing about theater is that it is transitory and immediate. BAT closed The Twelve Dates of Christmas yesterday, and we are on to Trouble in Mind today.
