
Two ounce Canadian silver “Kraken” coins via user u/Geltmascher on the Silverbugs sub-Reddit.
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Two ounce Canadian silver “Kraken” coins via user u/Geltmascher on the Silverbugs sub-Reddit.
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Implied volatility over the past few weeks has managed to blue-ball me worse than my first high school date. At least back then I finally got lucky on the third turn. But this attention whoring bitch tease of a market just keeps on making hot promises but then never puts out. That at least until yesterday afternoon when the FOMC – unexpectedly – put some fear of God into what has become a long term manic depressive but short term over complacent marketplace.
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Adoration Of The Golden Calf. Picture from the 12th Century Hortus Deliciarum of Herrad of Landsberg. Via Wikimedia Commons.
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Star Trek: The Wrath Of Khan poster reimagined with incoming FTC Chairwoman Lina Khan as Khan and Google co-founder Larry Page and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos awaiting her wrath. Image via the Portfolio Armor art department.
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