Luke Gromen

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Founder & President, Forest for the Trees (FFTT). Author of "The Mr. X Interviews, Volumes I & II.” RT not endorsements.

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Tweet Oct 15, 2023

Thread on UST funding and RRP. Backdrop: US treasury debt outstanding has gone from $22.7T to $33.2T over the past four years (9/30/19 to 9/30/23), and 30.9T a year ago. So +$2.3T 1y and +$10T 4y. The -12m deficit is $1.7T per below, as of 9/30 (Tre

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Tweet Nov 30, 2022

1/ On January 10, 1901, the world was changed forever. Up on Spindletop Hill, just south of Beaumont, Texas, an enormous geyser of oil exploded into the sky, much to the awe of the drillers who made it happen. twitter.com/DoombergT/status/15979621179

by Doomberg and Michael Shellenberger

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Tweet Nov 29, 2022

Some key points from this discussion on the geostrategic and security dimensions of monetary policy, which Fed officials & US policy makers ignore at their peril: Starting book quote "If the contemporary hegemon has an unknowing headquarters, it's t

by Matthew Pines

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Tweet Nov 3, 2022

A few old fashioned things I still believe: You can tell everything you need to know about a person by observing (1) how they treat service workers and (2) whether they put their shopping cart back. (read on)

by Sahil Bloom

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Tweet Sep 8, 2022

Let's talk electricity. Europe is in danger of rolling electricity shortages from what I call a crisis of confidence. I will explain why, back it with data & kindly ask YOU to share it as the fix lies in voting for balanced policies. We must adap

by Alexander Stahel

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Tweet Sep 24, 2022

1/ On July 26, 1941, President Roosevelt seized all Japanese assets in the US and imposed a strict oil embargo on the country. Britain and the Dutch East Indies – the colonial predecessor to modern-day Indonesia and a major oil supplier to Japan – qu

by Doomberg

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Tweet Sep 21, 2022

US national security & monetary policy seem to be increasingly working at cross-purposes. Now, we see the Fed & Treasury driving the USD up even as the WH/Congress push industrial policy & the Pentagon is increasingly focused on rebuilding the defen

by Matthew Pines

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Tweet Apr 1, 2018

1/ Here are some REALLY interesting findings from a controversial empirical paper asking: *WHY do some people become ENTREPRENEURS?* Of the many findings + hypotheses, a few stand out -SIGNALING theory -REJECTING a system that REJECTS them...

by Josh Wolfe

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Tweet Apr 1, 2022

My climbing buddy successfully summited Everest earlier this year...& a big part of his success was not staying in the "death zone" too long where oxygen is insufficient to sustain human life. The economy has a similar "recession zone"...we are t

by CH

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Tweet Mar 9, 2022

Mexico considering reducing oil exports to achieve self-sufficiency in fuels and stop selling oil abroad by 2023. China has asked state refiners to consider pausing exports of gasoline and diesel. Hungary has discussed banning agriculture exports. Ru

by Craig Shapiro

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Tweet Mar 8, 2022

I completed my doctoral thesis at Oxford last year on Russia's military interventions in Ukraine and Syria. Based on that research, I am sharing some thoughts on why Russia invaded Ukraine and what Putin might do next /1

by Samuel Ramani

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Tweet Feb 16, 2022

Capital is misunderstood. Because capital is misunderstood, the fact that we are presently witnessing a catastrophic destruction in forward capital is invisible. When people think of capital, they think of money because that's how we interact with

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