Co-host of the Odd Lots podcast.
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Why do so many people have such mistaken ideas about how commercial banks and the Fed work? Sure some of it is on account of individual malefactors spreading deception. But IMO some real soul searching is due in the fiat community about how we communicate with the public.
Full text of our conversation with @dsquareddigest is out. This is one of the key elements to why SVB had that huge Treasury position. The company got a massive inflow of deposits (during the 2021 startup boom) and needed that yield to finance its business model.
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Incredible. One of the most crucial links in the supply chain, has been for years, built on the premise that some workers would provide labor for free.
Wow, check out the timing of the text that California sent out to the public, and then the moment that electricity consumption in the state started to roll over.
Instagram is putting a context warning label on memes that connect inflation to corporate greed (HT: @IolaElla )
1997: World's best human chess player gets destroyed by computer. 2017: World's best chess computer gets destroyed by Artificial Intelligence program that had only learned about chess a few hours earlier.
Horrific economic toll. 3.2 million initial weekly jobless claims in one week. Previous crises and recessions are barely a blip on this chart.
Oh my. Some Silicon Valley startup was set to announce layoffs today. But it had to cancel the announcement, because the SVB collapse means it currently doesn't have the money to offer severance
Goldman predicts that over 2 million people are going to file for unemployment benefits this week. You can barely see the 2008 crisis on this chart!
BREAKING: JOBS REPORT OBLITERATES EXPECTATIONS 528K new jobs. Unemployment rate drops to 3.5%, wages accelerate to 5.2% YOY Economists had expected 25K new jobs and the unemployment rate to hold steady at 3.6%
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