Seeing posts go viral by pointing out if the stock market goes down 50% on one day and up 50% the next day, you aren’t back where you started. $100 -> $50 -> $75.
We are so cooked if elementary school math is blowing people’s minds like this.
We are so cooked if elementary school math is blowing people’s minds like this.
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Basic math ain’t basic anymore.
Stocks and bonds BOTH going down is majorly bad for America! It means the world is losing confidence in the dollar!
We are on the brink of depression if we don’t dump 47!!!!
https://open.substack.com/pub/deanblundell/p/carneys-checkmate-how-canadas-quiet?r=58o6wb&utm_medium=ios
There is a legal term for what Canada has done...self defence.
Down by 0.5x, up by 1.5x, combined is 0.75x...
I'm not sure bailouts will be an option, either.
So, even though they had overall more gains than losses, they were able to truthfully say that they had "lost" 30 pounds, even though, overall, they had a net gain of 10 pounds.
Bigger story.
It really is true that last century contained six decades in which global temperatures declined.
But (smaller font required here) ... each time from a higher starting point. Saw blade going up but if you focus on just one tooth....
disaster = success is a very common tactic from government finace departments.
even people who can do the math get tripped up by the "double the size of the thing every day, at which point does it x" word problem. bc they answer without thinking at all.
You know the story about the Chinese adviser who wanted a chess board (64 squares) with one grain of rice on the first square, twice as many on the next, then so on....
Wait until the impacts of Trump’s trade war start hitting the U.S. (they haven’t yet).
Trump voters are likely to be hit hardest. But they’ll probably still back Trump.
Can’t fix stupid.
But the blame for whatever is coming to the U.S. as a result
of the trade war Trump
alone started won’t be able to be deflected.
And what’s coming will be economic (recession likely, inflation for sure) and loss of credibility.
This isn’t 2008 where people understood what/why was happening at least.
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