Debt Rattle September 7 2024

[WES]

tboc:

Whenever markets are centralized, there is a reason for it happening.
Rest assured it isn’t for the benefit of the majority of it’s users.
It is always for the benefit of one entity, or select group of entities.
That benefit is to be able to set the rules of the game, and in times of crisis, to suddenly change the rules of the game.

As for derivatives making a market opaque, it is mixed.
The little guy has little clue to what is actually happening in a given market.
That is entirely by design.
However for the big guys, they are aware of everything that is happening in a given market.
This allows them to manipulate the market, especially if they have tge SEC in their pocket.

Basically most markets work like this:

You walk into a room with 3 people playing poker with an empty chair at the table.
You ask if you can join in.
Sure, have a seat!
They quickly deal you a set of cards.
At first you win a few rounds.
Then you begin to steadily lose until you run out of money.

With your last dollar in hand, you head to the bar and order a drink to drown you sorrow.

Then you notice another stranger enter the room and take your empty but still warm seat.
You watch the same thing happens to this stranger, that just happened to you.
You now realize that the 3 poker players are working together to strip the fourth player of his money!
Afterall the stranger is the only new money entering the game!

So if you don’t know who is the mark, it is always you!

Another market fable to drive home the point:

Some Wall Street bankers are entertaining a potential new client.
They drive by a large NY marina.
They excitably point out their big expensive yachts.
The potential client then asks the bankers, where are their clients yachts?

As for gas prices:

The world is currently slowing down, and this has weakened oil prices from over $80 to $68 now.

As for holiday weekend gas prices, I believe local gas prices are controlled by a sick phyopath, working for the oil companies, who always seems to know when your car’s gas tank is running on empty, so he can raise the gas price to extract the maximum amount of money from you!
This phycopath plays mind games with you, as to when he will raise gas prices before a long weekend.
Sometimes he raised prices on a Monday or Tuesday before a long weekend.
Other times he waited until until later in the week, before raising gas prices.

Sadly, I don’t think I ever beat this gas pump phycopath!
I think my fatal weakness was that I am too logical!

[Dr D Rich]

@WES

I hope you provide a clearer explanation for:

However for the big guys, they are aware of everything that is happening in a given market.
This allows them to manipulate the market, especially if they have tge SEC in their pocket.

It’s part of their megalomania to induce the people’s belief in the “Big Guy’s” omniscience, as you said awareness of everything.

Here’s an example of the perceived phenomenon of ‘everything awareness’ in medicine.

First week of ophthalmology residency, 4 fellowship trained dudes 1. Retina Johns Hopkins 2. 3. Two Marshall Parks Peds/Strab 4. Nebraska Ocular-pathology misdiagnose two consecutive men with diplopia, double vision.
The 4 labeled the 2, patients, as psychiatrically impaired with a condition named, forMication. That’s right, “M” not “N”. The 4 joked about the 2 at lunch, conference room, rounds and social gatherings.

The 4 paid no attention to the 2 returning to me a few days later with…double vision. Imagine that.
The 2 were not malingerers as the 4 incorrectly determined. The 4 didn’t stop there. Nebraska fellow and Hopkins Fellow refused to accept my assessment of the 2 and obstructed my efforts to obtain the appropriate tests and radiology studies.
You see I had advantages.
1. I had a med student (future cardiologist) and an intern (future ophthalmologist) on my team and they didn’t know shit or have a clue, BUT the intern and med student trusted me
2. Returned from combat several months earlier and recognized the arrogation of power that arises from the society of Never-2-Be-Questioned Medical Authorities
3. My 2 patients knew they were sick and were in part motivated by their legitimate anger at the the 4 arrogant, intransigent fellowship trained experts.

So, I sent the med student with the 19yo patient and the intern separately with the 76yo to “honcho” the cases thru lab and radiology. They both encountered resistance particularly from radiology and they paged me. I told them drop my name and it worked.

Summary
Patient 1 diplopia from Right oculomotor, trochlear, V1 trigeminal and abducens palsies from CCV fistula, carotid cavernous sinus.

Patient 2 diplopia from left CN III, CN IV, CN V1 and CN VI palsies from a plasmacytoma of the sphenoid sinus, cavernous sinus, and pituitary fossa.

The 4 never backed down from mislabeling the 2 as ForMicating malingerers and the Nebraska guy gave me trouble for years. And he published my paper on the 2nd case twice, once as principal author and secondly as coauthor never mentioning me.
When i uncovered the acquisitive fraud and his coauthor they responded by labeling me a malcontent that didn’t get along with others.
There was no mention of their cruelty to patients and clinical stupidity in the publication.

[those darned kids]

aside from the blue eyes thing,

genetically, justin trudeau cannot be the offspring of don fidel,

because

fidel

had

balls.

[those darned kids]

you know, that left me thinking.

would justin trudeau be able to live in the sierra maestra for two years, battling the yankee devil.

not without fresh socks, i suppose.

i wonder if don fidel has some real kids. we sure could use that kind of character now.

[those darned kids]

no, i ain’t no commie.

i am not of the body,

i am mad as quack, and i ain’t gonna take this nor that no more,

take this [insert latest hypno-op] an’ shove it, i ain’t a [ibid]ing here no more,

some say you want a revolution; i’d rather god click the big “TA-DING!¡!” and we ain’t dumb no more,

is this the real life, is this just fantasy island, caught in a crapslide, no escape from devil’s island,

we ain’t the world, but we sure are the children,

papa don’t preach, hey, hey, we’re the monkees,

you can tell by the way i use my talk, i’m a easily distracted,

stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive..

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