I wouldn't be surprised at all:

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Hmmm... I don't even really feel like I can hazard a guess. I know he said he would, but I might even put less stock into what Trump says than what Biden says. I kind of feel like he would have promised to hang Ross if that's what he thought the audience wanted to hear. Ultimately, I expect Trump to do whatever is in the best interest of Trump; and, I have no idea what that would be with regard to Ross.

On the bright side, this ought to make it a lot easier for Trump to pardon whomever he wants.

Wow! This is quite an amazing compilation. So many 'news' presenters uncritically accepting what a politician will do or not do based purely on what "he said...". Either they have never met a politician before; or, they really just saw themselves as nothing more than Biden's public relations department. 🤔

Well, obviously, prosecuting Hunter would only serve to help Putin.

"Experts on pardons said they could think of only one other person who has received a presidential pardon so sweeping in generations: Nixon, who was given a blanket pardon by Gerald Ford in 1974."

Even then, Ford pardoned Nixon for a specific time period that had ended a full month before he issued the pardon - unlike Joe's pardon of Hunter which extended all the way up to and including yesterday for some reason.

I've just been obsessed with trying to keep track of this fraudulent system ever since the 2008 Global Financial Crisis.

Yes. M1 includes demand deposits (checking, savings, etc) at banks - which includes an awful lot of money banks just made up to lend to their customers. M2 also includes more medium-term deposits like money market funds - which includes even more money banks had loaned to their customers. Then there's M3 - which includes even more bank loaned money that the Federal Reserve doesn't even bother trying to track of anymore.

M0 (or Monetary Base - which is technically slightly different than M0) accounts for only money that are liabilities to the Federal Reserve (i.e. excluding the money banks loaned that they didn't have).

(this is how the U.S. categorizes M0, M1 and M2, though I believe other nations may differ slightly).

December 1, 2024 was just yesterday. 🤔 Hunter, what were you doing this weekend?

I find it amusing that the pardon covers nearly 11 years up through and including even yesterday (as if Joe knows that Hunter might not have behaved himself over the Thanksgiving holiday or something). What would really be funny is if Joe ultimately feels the need to amend the pardon to extend through Jan 1, 2025. 🤣

Have you observed the direction of that motion over the last 10 days or so? It might not feel that way if you had paid $500+/share and are now wondering what happened to 20% of it.

The machine depends on continuously attracting new investment - which is easy when Bitcoin is ripping; not so much when it's not. As a comparison, new investments aren't required to increase Apple's share price because selling iPhones in itself generates the necessary capital to sell more iPhones.

Economics is already inherently a social science. Offering 'vibes' as an explanation for the state of an economy is therefore nothing more than a tautology. This is almost as dumb as if they were blaming higher prices on 'greed'... o, wait...

There are plenty of people who paid over $500 per MSTR share a little more than a week ago when BTC was still less than it is now (before hitting its ATH). Since then, both reached new ATH's before significantly pulling back. BTC has recovered, but those MSTR shares are still currently down over 20%. It may be that we've already seen a microcosm of what the unwinding of the flywheel will look like. (still good for earlier MSTR adopters at the expense of the later MSTR adopters).

I just noticed that since so many of my Nostr follows also contribute to so much audio content online, my brain defaults to attempting to read their notes to me in the applicable voice... except for nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx . I think my brain might just be having trouble associating his completely laid back personality with all caps.

The green line represents my minimum expectations. The yellow line is my panic threshold. Ultimately, though, my strategy is to DCA as consistently as possible regardless of price. $30K just means more for me. 😉

The NBC News article eventually does, too. The problem is that this isn't journalism. It's simply uncritically regurgitating industry propaganda that's fed to them.

You're not suggesting that the American Farm Bureau Federation would have a motive to gaslight about food prices on the biggest meal-day of the year, are you?

Imagine pissing away the credibility your predecessors had built up over centuries and being reduced to name-calling those who are replacing you with 300 words of cleverness at a time.

Big Holiday Sale???! 🤞

I have no knowledge of Ledger; but, if they offer a service to recover your keys for you, then it be so.

Don't use anything that involves exposing your keys and/or seed phrase to the Internet in any way.

I'm not going to offer any specific alternative because there are always trade-offs. There is no perfect solution. It's worth doing your own research so that you force yourself to become intimately familiar with what those trade-offs are, and can then make the choice that works best for your particular situation/use case/technical ability.