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As a good suburban Protestant, I have never been inside a confession booth before, but I’m going to make one here in front of all of you, because I have been burdened by guilt and must pay public penance for my sins. It has to do with these two, whom I adore deeply as most of you know.
After the market closed today, once he got all his short-dated call positions in place, Trump sent out his 57th “War is Over!!” declaration of the past three weeks:
Long-time readers know of my disposition toward government, and by government, I mean any government, be it federal, state, or local. I consider them to be a magnet for waste, fraud, and laziness, and I daresay if every single government employee on the planet vanished instantly into thin air, almost all of us would be vastly better off (to say nothing of demonstrably wealthier).
The frustrating thing about government waste is that you can’t do a damn thing about it. you just have to live with the fact that your assets are going to the worst of humanity. Here in my fair city of Palo Alto I have read about countless instances of the kind of crap that makes me despise government more by the day. First, there’s this gem:
I have left crypto alone for a while, but I’d like to at least anticipate when I would be interested in putting on a trade. I’ll start with Ethereum, which I believe could rally until it hits that dashed blue line (at $2600 or thereabouts).
Longer-term readers may recall that last summer I frequently alluded to an absolutely insane experience which I simply called The Tale. Surely after all the hints I’ve dropped, you’ve put the pieces together, but it all kicked off due to this event from last June:
