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   by next_xibalba 5y ago

   The article summarizes crypto’s cardinal sins. Chiefly: > Ethereum has made a handful of white men unfathomably rich So if it were a handful of Indian women it would be better? More to the point, what was the author’s point? Are we to be
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   by next_xibalba 5y ago

   Productivity is deflationary, not inflationary, by definition.
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   by next_xibalba 5y ago

   > Doesn’t this read like “just invest in anything”? Not really. Even if you did everything in that list, its a tiny slice of the universe of invest-able assets. This is a quite specific, prescriptive list of things to hold as alternative
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   by next_xibalba 5y ago

   Peter Thiel has a fascinating perspective related to top universities and their enrollments: > " You could say that it's an investment good, where you're investing in the future, or a consumption good, a four-year party. I
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   by next_xibalba 5y ago

   In May 2020, Paul Tudor Jones, an investor with a long track record of success, accurately predicted our current predicament and recommended [1] the following trades as good inflation hedges: - Gold - The Yield Curve (long US2Y, sho
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   by next_xibalba 5y ago

   > as we have learned over the past few weeks, sanctions are an effective means of pushback Not really. The war in Ukraine is intensifying. Russia sees the sanctions regime as an act of war. I'm not sure what the off ramp would be,