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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
23h ago“When someone is trusted with other people's money, what makes you actually trust them, beyond the rules and licenses?”
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A Plausible Oncoming Financial Storm
So, the economic situation might end up pretty dire if the following is correct. I'm posting this line-of-thought in case someone wants to sanity check it.... - johnky...
China's Economic Slowdown: Challenges, Debt, and an Uncertain Future
This excellent video explores China's economic challenges, particularly its slowing growth, increasing debt, and the risks associated with these trends.... Yes! Absolutely. It's a network of issues. My gut reaction is that the bigger problem in our healthcare system is inflated prices, including pharmaceuticals. In college, I took a financial statements course.... some bits i want to highlight, as a fellow bitcoin enthusiast: Everything else in ""crypto"" besides Bitcoin is at best, a startup with a yet-to-be-proven use case and in most cases more like a scam.... - onBitcoin is now synthetically created, through options, derivatives, & ETF. Does that mean it’s endless, just like all the US dollars?bylaymanpascal...
Both bitcoin and fiat currencies can be quantitatively expanded under the right conditions. The real constraint is the threshold beyond which the value and utility cease to be engaging to users. For many reasons, bitcoin is not the magic vessel that many believe in...... - johnky...
Key Reasons Taxing Unrealised Gains Is Problematic
Liquidity Problems: Taxpayers may not have the cash to pay tax on gains they haven’t actually received. Both mitigation and remediation measures incur additional costs for taxpayers that are not captured as tax revenue to the government (for example, fees and interest on... - Joe Malgeri...
Why Money Is Now a Threat
Preface Most public debates focus on fixing outcomes: wages, costs, shortages, access. This series looks one layer deeper — at how systems behave once they pass a threshold.... What happens when it costs $87,000 to “mine” a Bitcoin which is only worth only $66,000? We’re about to find out . . .
Gold and Bitcoin. So different, yet so alike. A hedge against inflation. Expensive to mine. Limited supply. But wait, is that last part really true? Gold mining virtually stopped when the price of bullion was at $1,800 a few years ago.... - txvagabond...
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Hi. My name is Nathan over here in East Texas. I’m a lowly insurance agent by trade, but I geek out about the markets and the economy. I believe that a basic understanding of finance, how money works, and the private and public systems it operates in, is key to survival, in a... - annabeth...
- Jeanine Joy...
Hi. I’m a lifelong learner and still hard at it even though I’ve been retired for six years. It’s amazing what you can learn when learning is your focus. I have a wider array of interests that Continues to expand. Two careers.... Within 1-3 years, I suspect that it would make sense to use an AI rather than pay a human to do things like: program a computer think through maths or science problems And with less likliehood: be a therapist or coach who isn’t operating in the top 10% answer 90% of accounting... Bitcoin is now synthetically created, through options, derivatives, & ETF. Does that mean it’s endless, just like all the US dollars?
Legend has it that Satoshi Nakamoto (creator of the Bitcoin universe) decreed there can only be 21 million bitcoins ever, until the end of time. Stop laughing – people actually believe this.... - Tazman...
AI bubble is about to burst.
The worst stock market crash ever is about to hit in July. AI has spent way too much, and they've cooked the books. They're not generating anything near the revenue they need to pay back their debt.... - Shahram...
You might be interested in This guy he wrote: Sense of being stared At and Dogs That Know When Their Owners are Coming Home. He has the brain as an outward projection not unlike a nebulas cloud. I like the comparisons drawn in the end bout the stock market and speed of light.... - onHhello, love to talk what is going on in today's politics with the IDIOT in charge my main serious concern for our country.by
Donald Trump has launched hundreds of entities over his career, and while a definitive single number is highly debated, analyses such as an investigation by the New York Times track dozens of high-profile product lines, branding efforts, and corporate bankruptcies.Many of these... - Aaron Oakley...
If you want to be real for a moment, you'd recognize that no one has "a trillion dollars." You're conflating wealth and currency. I assume this question was sparked by Elon Musk's most recent wealth valuation, but you're pretending Musk is hoarding a mountain of $100 bills in a... Money is on the move. But where does Yahoo Finance say it's going?
Shocking photos show Paris 2024 Olympics medals in very poor condition ... Photo above - an authentic 2024 summer Olympics gold medal, already displaying corrosion. Hey, isn't there some sort of test to prove if gold is real or not?...