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after a day of listening to Jessica Zartler, Blockscience, reading her course material from Token Engineering Fundamentals Module 5, imma gonna watch Capitalism: A Love Story, free from my library on kanopy - feels right :)

'By the end of 2026, bankrupt governments will be "too big to fail". But who will bail them out?'

'By the end of 2026, bankrupt governments will be "too big to fail". But who will bail them out?'

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/mortgageshome/article-14166069/Is-global-property-crash-coming-2027-House-price-prophet-thinks-so.html

Something to watch on the market is that the 10-year note yield is going up despite the fact that JPow cut interest rates. This is likely showing that the market is expecting inflation to be persistent. That will affect mortgage rates and everything in between

As you're solving your optimization for this weekend, clearly the utility-maximizing strategy is to enter the December Quora Knowledge Contest in Economics:

As you're solving your optimization for this weekend, clearly the utility-maximizing strategy is to enter the December Quora Knowledge Contest in Economics: https://contests.quora.com/Now-Open-December-s-Knowledge-Contest-in-Economics

Mapped: How Much Americans Spend on Gas in Each State

Mapped: How Much Americans Spend on Gas in Each State
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/gas-price-in-each-us-state-2024/

does anyone else feel like $URA (uranium ETF that Freidberg talked about on All In pod) is a must investment as there is no nuclear representation in the S&P500?

nuclear is going to take up and the standard index fund won’t see any of the gains. how else can we get exposure to nuclear outside of private companies?

posting to /economics in case anyone has a take on this cc @giu @dwr.eth @julia

ps who else on farcaster is interested in future of energy?

President of Antares Industries. Mom to 2 little boys. Nuclear energy advocate. Formerly SpaceX and Opendoor. Angel investor. 

🇧🇷🇺🇸-  Book: Making Things Think: https://holloway.com/mtt. Investor in Wander, Carry, Footprint, Merkle Manufactory (Farcaster), Dynamic, Paragraph.

https://www.ft.com/content/3e928a47-a6f0-4e0a-9bb4-3e7dbc749ece

The S&P 500 falls sharply after the Fed cuts rates by 25 basis points, but raises inflation forecast!

There's a 97% chance the Fed cuts rates 25 bps today.

There's a 98% chance Jerome Powell starts today's FOMC press conference with "Good Afternoon".

Last time he skipped it, the DOW plunged 800 points. 

What could go wrong?

Mapped: GDP per Capita in the Middle East by Country

A trader thinks that the prices of eggs are going to increase, and so he contacts his broker and asks him to buy 1,000,000 egg futures at $1.70

Sure enough, a week later, the price of egg futures is $2.50, and the trader, happy to ride his winners, places an order for 3,000,000…

https://x.com/functi0nzer0/status/1868713978161144185?s=46&t=LUwp6CEG8bj71wefilcCmQ