Brey can I just stop and point out how fucking unhinged it is that oil prices are yo-yoing based on the CLEARLY FALSE SHIT Donald Trump is saying? Like how can anyone tell me capitalism makes sense when you can look me dead in the eye and say "oil prices fell yesterday because the president said the war he started, which Iran is only just now prosecuting back, is over even though we all know it's not over - but they rose today because, predictably war did not end."
What? Burn it to the ground.
Like we are talking about BILLIONS if not TRILLIONS of dollars worth of transactions here. All being conducted through market price discovery based on the completely unhinged and TOTALLY false, OBVIOUS LIES the president happens to say from moment to moment into a camera.
I shit you not, that's what's happening. That's how the pretro-dollar world works. This is nuts. This is not science or math. This is basically like being in a cult.
@AnarchoNinaWrites Vibe-coding is a couple years old.
Vibe-investing is centuries old.
Economists are just chiropractors for all the little Andrew Jacksons.
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Reminds me, I'm still processing a hedge fund guy telling me last summer that "we [and HFT firms] are essentially a public benefit because we provide liquidity"
The premise sounds trivial, but really bears so much load: it really states that we've had to build a humongous distributed particle system simulator which mostly doesn't even compute but copies numbers around in an _insane_ bandwidth in order to make the real world behave _kind of_ like dreamt up by economists
@AnarchoNinaWrites posts from truth social “WAR IS OVER” just before markets close, stock go up.
Deletes post from truth social overnight cuz it’s obviously not, stock go down.
YEAH, THERE IS NO WAY WE COULD CREATE A BETTER SYSTEM - THIS IS THE BEST WE CAN DO!
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