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A lot of people don't know just how corrupt the IOC is, I suspect if this was common knowledge there would be a hugely increased number of people calling for boycotts of the Olympics.


Open market operations of various central banks certainly impacts equity prices of publicly traded stocks. In some cases the holdings are enormous: https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Markets/BOJ-tops-pension-wh...


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In a heavily inflationary environment this practice could turn out to be entirely maladaptive. What percentage of inflation year on year will you change your mind at? Do you even have a line?


Just be very careful with this stuff and make sure to talk to a psychiatrist that knows what they are doing. I've seen a few people get prescribed benzodiazepines for anxiety related issues from general practitioners who didn't know what they were doing and the results were vastly worse than if nothing had been done. A tolerance can very quickly be built in which this class of drugs become vastly less effective and the withdrawals in particular were especially brutal. A public case of this was seen recently with Jordan Peterson lately and it shows just how serious this matter is (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ktjZhih3LQ for an example of how serious the health consequences are).

Whatever you do just make sure you are informed, psychoactive drugs are a serious matter.


Nothing so serious as a cup of coffee.


The monetary system in many places was already mostly private, most money is created by commercial banks and we have institutions like central banks with private ownership in many countries.


I think a lot of skilled software developers might be unaware of just how bad the practices can be in non-software companies regarding software development.

A few years back I remember a big corp explicitly telling me that a project for an Excel based integration between some systems would have easily got buyin and budget. Despite it being in a broader sense a crappy tool for the job due to everyone having excel installed and almost nobody being able to get approval in a reasonable amount of time for anything else to get installed it did appear to be the easiest option in the circumstances. Before this I think I was one of those people who just ruled out using Excel for integrations because I just couldn't see how it could possibly be the best option in any circumstances.


It's a bit like getting struck by lightning, you deal with this when it happens if it happens. This is sufficiently unlikely for most people that it's not worth being too concerned about it when other exceedingly more dangerous and pressing matters could be dealt with using that same energy.


How do you account for differences in the purchasing power of those dollars you are making the measurement in?

An example of why this is relevant: https://www.investing.com/indices/zimbabwe-industrial


There's definitely some very big problems with people demanding fixed interest returns when demographics aren't good: https://realinvestmentadvice.com/the-unavoidable-pension-cri...


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