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After this weekend's riots, France's bond spread has spiked again. Now at 146 basis points.
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Pro tip: Hang paintings so that the light on them is coming from the same direction as the light in them. If you can match the color too, that's even better.
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The tragedy of it all is that rioting against inflation and cost of living by destroying stores just increases inflation and cost of living.
Fiscal issues lead to social issues, which lead to more fiscal issues and more social issues.
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Awards are rewards for compliance and tools of submission.
King Charles III strips 15 people of honours - check the full list ift.tt/kvUEbJD
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Right now, NASA engineers are fine-tuning the Roman Space Telescope after its August launch, achieving nearly 30% sharper images than predicted. Its wide-field surveys of dark energy, matter, and exoplanets will flood science with transformative data. Most ignore the quiet calibrations, but in 20 years those maps will redefine our cosmic model.
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One of my favourite Harry Potter loopholes doesn't even involve magic. It involves exploiting the Muggle economy.
Hagrid tells us there are 17 Sickles to a Galleon. Sickles are silver, Galleons are gold. Simple enough.
Except gold and silver don't have a fixed exchange rate in the Muggle world. Their market value fluctuates constantly. Before 1900, the gold-to-silver ratio averaged around 16:1, which is pretty close to the wizarding world's 17:1 rate. Throughout much of the twentieth century, however, it averaged around 45:1.
See where this is going?
Wait until the market heavily favours gold. Melt your Galleons down and sell the gold in the Muggle world. Use the money to buy as much silver as possible, then take that silver to Gringotts and have it converted into Sickles.
Finally, exchange those Sickles for Galleons at the fixed 17:1 rate.
Congratulations. You've potentially turned a small pile of wizarding gold into a much larger pile of wizarding gold, simply by exploiting the difference between Muggle market prices and Gringotts' fixed exchange rate.
No Dark Arts. No Horcruxes. No elaborate schemes.
Just precious metals, a fixed exchange rate and a wizard who understands arbitrage.
The real question is why nobody in the wizarding world seems to have built an entire financial empire around this.
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Neither Cartier-Bresson, Banksy nor Cold War Steve could have come up with such an image. Absolutely perfect composition and lighting (even the road signs are perfect)! 😍
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The Tesla Model 3 with FSD is mind-blowing. Jessica and I drove to the gym without touching the controls once. It backed out of our driveway, drove there, and backed into a parking space. It's amazing that you can buy so much future for $40k.
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When the "reference discount rate" (mortgage rates) on an interest-rate sensitive asset like housing triples yet the price of that asset still rises 33%, the currency is the issue.
Blue = US Single Family Home Prices in USD, 2002-date (up 180%)
Red = USSFHP in gold (down 81%)
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This was already expressed by Seneca who said that if you are trying to distinguish yourself with your strength, an ox will always be stronger than you. So work on being maximally human.
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🚗 Volkswagen factory in Germany vs China
Labor cost per hour
🇩🇪 Emden: €74
🇨🇳 Tianjin: €12
Annual working hours per worker
🇩🇪 Emden: 1,282
🇨🇳 Tianjin: 2,065
Sick leave rate
🇩🇪 Emden: 10.5%
🇨🇳 Tianjin: 1.0%
Cars built per employee per year
🇩🇪 Emden: 29
🇨🇳 Tianjin: 51.3
Factory cost per vehicle
🇩🇪 Emden: €4,850
🇨🇳 Tianjin: €1,078
Electricity cost per kWh
🇩🇪 Emden: €0.15–0.23
🇨🇳 Tianjin: €0.06–0.10
Source: BILD, Deutsche Welle (September 2026)


































