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We are all Bill Hwang

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@joerogan almost a building sized air filter. This could be the end of breathing brake dust!

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@A61741isback @GRDecter He says it all right there. “We will @use computers …..to better DRIVE the pricing of assets”. It’s not predicting behavior it’s driving it, that’s how they win

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@nytimes @jack @Twitter hey guys this would be a good time for you to turn vine back on.

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@paleofuture @mcerasa The mortality rate on influenza is not a hard question.

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@pmarca According to Sri Lanka not so great.

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@elonmusk @boringcompany Check out this electric self driving car that operates in a tunnel. It can even link up with other cars to become more efficient.

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@GearoidReidy The New Zealand Health Survey 2020/21 found that around 1 in 3 adults were classified as obese, whereas only 3.6 percent of Japanese have a body mass index (BMI) over 30, which is the international standard for obesity. Japan has been doing things right for A LOT longer….

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This may be one of the most impressive (and creative) uses of AI I have ever seen. The world is about to change.

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I spent most of this past weekend experimenting with DALL·E 2, OpenAI’s new AI system that can create realistic images from a written description. I curated a book of 1000 robot paintings. You can view the entire thing online at #dalle

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@jack @DavidSacks @jack your twitter game is 🔥🔥 today. keep it coming

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Putin takes vendettas to the next level, this is not surprising at all if you have read Red Notice by @Billbrowder

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@TheStalwart My best guess.... here is what the chart probably would have looked like if Bill Hwang never touched it.

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@dwr Nobody builds power outlets next to toilets. I think if that was standard, most houses would have one already.

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@rajenms @jack @JoyAnnReid ill reply for him, because I already know what he's going to say... "bitcoin fixes this"

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@ValueSituations @Revolution_Cap Been going on forever in the art market.

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@oneunderscore__ Got a sneak peak at the new logo after musk and his “capital partners” take over

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@LeveragedLayman I lived in Tokyo for 5 years and after moving back to the states started to get lower back pain after about 2 years living here. Attribute it to the fact that I do so much less walking. Tokyo is a walking city, minimum you are walking 2 miles a day. Core muscles

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@AshleyDudarenok @IntrinsicInv So basically 2 CVS reciepts.

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@DylanLeClair_ if you get degen enough you might even start looking at Japanese "value traps", where you can find a long list of companies that are free cash flow/earnings positive, have zero debt, trade at 0.5x book and have 2x more cash than their market cap

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@JessicaNutt96 Imagine how different the world would have been, if the ancient Greeks realized Ouroboros didn't have to be a snake eating its own tail.

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Things that make you go hmmmmm.... how can the BOJ own 114% of the #358 10yr bond なぜ日銀は #358 の 10 年債を 100% 以上所有できるのでしょうか? @acrossthespread @fujimaki_takesi

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@naval in your scenario, oligarchs and tyrants of tomorrow will be those who hoarded and control the supply of crypto, creating a larger wealth gap

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@DogPutty @JoshCryp @IronFinance First rule of gambling is not to call it investing.

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@spiralcal I think the problem here is the assumption that twitter is a place for discussion. Anyone with a decent amount of followers dictates ...and if you try to discuss you end up blocked. Twitter is a powerful tool, and it shows us how even small amounta of power lead to dictatorship

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@ElonBachman From Hawaii today. Friend takes her toddler in the water with on her surfboard (since beaches are closed) . Waves start to get too big so she gets out, sits on the beach. Cops on ATVs tell her she must go back into the rough water, with her toddler.. as a matter of public safety.

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@Jkylebass @jennablan Ma for the win but lets give second place to Masayoshi Son and the Softbank Vision Fund...

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@neelkashkari Request for all central bankers: whenever you talk about inflation targeting you must point out that it means raising the cost of living. It’ll be a public service. Thanks.

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@GabeStanton @johnauthers @TheStalwart Because you are the Bank of Japan and can print JPY. They are the only ones really buying. They own more than 100% of some of the latest issue 10yr. They also own more than 50% of ALL government bonds and 80% of all Japan listed stock ETFs. They are all consuming and if you

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@fundstrat So....Can we finally stop taking @fundstrat seriously?

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@EpsilonTheory When the parking lot is charging $50/day but the illegal parking ticket is $35…

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@FusionptCapital @MacroAlf been waiting all my life to find the perfect fit for that chart!

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@LiviamCapital @scheplick Can we #timestamp this thread. When the people of the future ask us how it was possible we repeated 1999 all over again, we can show this to them. Everyone still dreaming of 10-100 baggers after of a decade long, generational bull market.

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So it turns out we were all using too much leverage.

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@CapitalValor @puppyeh1 Warren Buffett buying woke everyone up. The TSE is pushing hard on a corporate governance improvement plan. Trying to address the fact that over 60% of all listed companies trade below book value in japan. Lots of cash hoarding companies may be forced to return to shareholders.

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@KyleSamani @Squee451 @MikeMcDonald89 @knlae_ @QWQiao @robustus Is it even considered a derivative when you are basically giving away and option for free? Although you may want to consult the IRS about gift taxes for this one

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@SvdHijden @jsblokland haha right, my twitter feed is full of "oil below $15". nobody bothers to pull up the June contract, or August for that matter where its at $31.

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First time attempting a digital painting @Procreate made it pretty easy, amazing software

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@cburniske I guess this doesn’t even look that bad next to that photo. 😂

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@KennethDredd I mean sex is great, but have you ever tried throwing tomato soup on a Van Gogh

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@fujimaki_takesi 彼らは、2％のインフレを達成するために急進的な政策を2年間実施する必要があると述べました。 2013 年から 2015 年にかけて、日銀は債券市場の 11% から 25% の所有権を獲得しました。現在50%以上

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@MarketStandings @QTRResearch just look at all the replies to this tweet alone to see that emotional buy-ins are not exhausted or overwhelmed yet. impossible to predict when, but when it rains it will pour.

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⁦ @JulianKlymochko ⁩ we spend so much time looking for arb in capital markets when the real lowest hanging fruit in arb has shifted.

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@Citrini7 was sitting just a little too high on this one. waiting for another sub 10bp implied (on the #360 ) print in the night session when the euros panic buy.... nice one that you got in there... just beware of the July meeting

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@HRGPFOREVER @DiMartinoBooth @business FEMA should just go long Nasdaq to pay for all this.

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@Ross__Hendricks Bing is probably the #1 used browser in the world for downloading google chrome

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Little by little, and then all at once

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@EricRWeinstein when you have a true prodigy (genius) enter the game... the paradigm shifts in a big way. also the advancements in safety gear and water safety culture encourage risk taking. its hard to push the limits if you don't have well trained guys with a jet ski ready to pick you up

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@Sean_YCharts @ycharts Might as well throw Nissan in on that side for good measure. Don't worry it won't move the needle.

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You have to wonder how the history books are going to look at all of this...

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Sometime in the next few years buying CDS on Japanese banks is going to be the black swan trade to retire on

BOJ may have crafted new tool for post-YCC era - analyst

A new monetary tool introduced by the Bank of Japan to keep long-term interest rates from rising could ultimately become a new policy target once the bank abandons its yield control, a former central...

www.reuters.com

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@Rainmaker1973 @JossFong GARUDA WISNU KENCANA in Bali is 122m and was somehow left out. It’s one of the tallest!

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This is something that warrants some attention.

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@FredWick7 @cburniske Seems like all the crowded (institutional) trades are going pear shaped in big ways today

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@WillManidis Important to check sources! This chart comes from an article titled "Limitations of the Food Compass Nutrient Profiling System" and shows the shortfall of using an algorithm to profile nutrition.

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@irbezek If a SPAC falls in the woods....

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@financialjuice 10 year bonds have not traded in 4 days, yen is in collapse (while they are intervening) and they keep extending subsidies on energy to keep that CPI number artificially low. Kuroda going to send his successor into oblivion when he retires... jeez

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@NickGiva this is just so sad. I've been trading Japan for 17 years now... and seeing it unravel like this is just so depressing to watch. Cannot believe the BOJ is announcing more easing, increasing purchases on super long dated bonds They have 50% of the entire JGB market already....

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@OfficialVicR @sentdefender 2008 is really went it wall went haywire

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@SLazoja @QTRResearch ill let you in on a little secret. there wont be a day they stop buying. this is the "true" market from here on out

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@DeItaone *BOJ SPENDS MORE THAN 1 TRILLION YEN ON FIXED-RATE BOND BUYING

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@nikolatrevor @JohnSimmoms2 @SEC_Enforcement so its not just the cars... but a full scale copy of Tesla you are going after... SEC violations for improper tweets and all.

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@scheplick

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@Hipster_Trader We are definitely screwed but not because of future killer robots, but rather our overwhelming inability to distinguish reality from fiction.

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@TheStalwart Rhenium. Hearing it’s rare.

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@pmarca i smell a new social media app to compete with Twitter and GETTR. It can be called BLOKD. Everyone is automatically blocked by default and your own echo sounds through the eternal chambers of the app code.

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@cburniske can i vote with a jpeg

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@ayeshatariq @Mayhem4Markets And somehow the BoJ and MOF have the audacity to say the excessive yen weakness is due to speculation….

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@JeffSnider_AIP Check out the move in 10yr japan government bond futures last night. Never seen anything like it

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@saxena_puru can you show some examples of billionaires moaning over the GME valuation? talking heads on CNBC sure, but I'm just not seeing the outcry from the "elites" you are talking about. Melvin got a capital injection. This "elites are crying" is a false narrative.

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@arkitus they would probably be on the dall-e waiting list

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How it started How its going

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@davegaraffa @elonmusk @boringcompany This is true! I lived in Tokyo for 5 years where the subway is hyper efficient.

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@TradingThomas3 just dont read the comments. or turn them off. i think lots of non haters out there who never comment but like to see your thoughts.

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@EconguyRosie price stability of stocks and bonds. The mandate is to raise the cost of living (CPI inflation) to target price stability (of assets). Socialism for asset holders.

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@Birdyword Japanese corporations sit on massive piles of cash and wait, while the BOJ continues to manipulate stocks and bonds. Japanese companies need to invest that cash into organic wage/price growth, and finally end this era central bank intervention.

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@dlacalle_IA from his testimony in congress today *KURODA: SECURING FUNDS MAY BECOME TOUGH IF MARKET FAITH LOST and also you can't forget this one *KURODA: JAPAN ISN'T EVIDENCE FOR MODERN MONETARY THEORY

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@Birdyword Aaaaand hes going to be arrested again before he can talk. *TOKYO PROSECUTORS PLAN TO RE-ARREST GHOSN ON NEW CHARGE: SANKEI

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@ThinkingUSD learn something new every day. Tredecillion is the word of the day today

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@deepvaluepubs Per week or month?

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@JulianKlymochko Higher taxes & inflation are the main factor’s that have ended previous equity bull markets.

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@saxena_puru When you post something like this, you should also explain the concept of warrant arbitrage. Your followers (and maybe you) need to understand that a great deal of SI is likely a hedge against warrants (trading too cheap).

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@PPathole @elonmusk Or we could just have a better life here on earth with less people consuming resources and a more sustainable relationship with the environment.

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@Trinhnomics actually many bond funds will get a higher return on purchasing non USD denominated negative yielding bonds and swapping out the FX vs buying UST. Basically when you account for the interest rate differential and the basis it profitable to buy - yielding bonds for many funds.

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@zhusu Mangostten tree takes 15 years to fruit. Almost there....

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@Biohazard3737 people who say bitcoin or anything else is in "bear market" because it dropped 20%

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Some thoughts on the Bank Of Japan

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@naval Hmmm, the data suggests personal gun ownership is around 44% Republicans and 20% Democrats. Even assuming large margins if errors in polling, it's nearly impossible to get to half/half.

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@peterktodd and all of that new wealth flowing to the top 1% will be put to work making sure we don't have a problem like this again.... by automating away the jobs that failed the pandemic test (basically any job done by a human in a public setting)

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@bgrahamdisciple this does not seem very "passive investor"

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Do you want an edit button?

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@elonmusk @SenSanders This is the marketing campaign to setup a blame structure for the impending Tesla stock price decline

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@StuartHameroff great to see you active on twitter.

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@TonyGallippi @balajis Bitcoin evangelists think in terms of fiat creation, I.e millionaires. Only a few of those 10,000 could cash out into USD before the bubble collapse would start. As long as everyone HODLs then they remain millionaires. Paradigm shift is if people stop looking at price in USD.

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@zhusu @2xdog Now if just do that same thing 100x bigger... you can call yourself the head of the SoftBank vision fund.

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@scheplick the bigger the shitshow this is, the more we need that money printer to go brrrrrrrrrrr

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A decade ago it was temporary aggressive monetary policy to achieve 2% inflation in 2 years. Here we are today with Japan CPI over 2% looking for excuses. @acrossthespread *KURODA: JAPAN’S 2% INFLATION WON’T LAST NEXT FY YEAR AND BEYOND

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@krugermacro As global central banks move into permanent negative interest rate policy they will need a method to enforce negative rates. Cash is the enemy of negative rates, so it's not surprising they see digital currency adoption as an opportunity to try to ban cash. Japan will be first

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@pierre i think poor training is just the tip of the iceberg in this case. this man is a murderer plain and simple

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