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Macro Perspective on the Capital Markets, Economy, Geopolitics, Technology, and Digital Media

In finance, it can be easy to be blindsided by what you dont know.

This plea is NOT to central bankers or policymakers. Their bloated egos, gross stupidity, and blatant self-interest rendered them deaf to anything other than fawning (but very much undeserved) applause and accolades. No, dear reader, this plea to stop and listen to history is for you.

The financial feel-good tale about how The Mooch, aka Anthony Scaramucci, turned the prospect of a dreaded day on a Caribbean cruise into lunch with S.B.F., aka the billionaire crypto entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried, and walked away with an opportunistic and timely multi-million-dollar investment into SkyBridge Capital.

It was said that Paul Tudor Jones never hired a trader who hadn’t lost money. The more I trade the more I appreciate the intelligence of that approach

Macro Perspective on the Capital Markets, Economy, Geopolitics, Technology, and Digital Media

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

Wall Street’s Changing Culture When Genius Failed is likely to be a classical primary authority. Lowenstein is a deeply professional writer, who reduces the arcane complexities of derivative dealings to lucid prose, and focuses on the crucial components in a confusing complex story. He brings the icy precision of the battlefield surgeon to the deafening chaos of Wall Street conflict. His chilling assessments of such phenomena as the appalling Larry Hilibrand, perhaps the key force at LTCM, a ...

>> frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. with major funding from the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation. committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. with additional funding from the park foundation. committed to raising public awareness. >> tonight on frontline... long before the economic meltdown... the story of one woman who tried to warn about the threat to the financial system. >> she saw some...

>> frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. with major funding from the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation. committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. with additional funding from the park foundation. committed to raising public awareness. >> tonight on frontline... long before the economic meltdown... the story of one woman who tried to warn about the threat to the financial system. >> she saw some...