Insider Weekly: When Will The Great Australian Housing Boom End?

Welcome back! Hat tip to Stephen for this beauty from Santa Barbara, California. In This Week’s Musings and Observations: Aussie housing: Walking a tightrope blindfolded after a bottle of Kalashnikov vodka Cobalt/EV vs. the rare earth mania of 2011 BMW (Maybe I’m biased) Fantasy land (More on the Tesla’s truck) Combustion engines dead?

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The Candle Problem (And Why Bitcoin Is Misunderstood)

Karl Duncker, that’s who came up with it. The Candle Problem, that is. If you haven’t heard of the candle problem, here’s the skinny. In 1945, just as Hitler was murdering himself (thankfully), psychologist Karl Duncker was turning his attention to how humans solve problems. He came up with “the candle

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Elon Musk Pulls An ICO

First up, this beauty received by one of the crew here at HMS Capitalist Exploits: Marketing an ICO… Killer! The Tesla ICO Speaking of ICOs, last week something amazing, breathtaking, and revolutionary happened. We had another ICO… the very first of its kind. An Initial Car Offering. Pundits said it was an unveiling

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Brace Yourself, This Market Is About To Skyrocket

Don your suits, ladies and gentlemen. We’re going back in! Slowly at First, the Ship Turns This is an update to our uranium Trade Alert of December last year.  The Trade(s):  We’re doubling down on our holdings of uranium stocks and buying in equal amounts: GoviEx Uranium (GXU:TSX) Fission Uranium (FCU:TSX)

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The “Other” Side of Asymmetry You Never Hear About

Everyone’s heard of “The Big Short”. We’ve Hollywood to thank for that, and thank them I will. After all, who didn’t love Margot Robbie explaining how it all worked? Even Mrs. Chris liked her. Of course, our heroes correctly bet against these mortgage backed securities smoking piles of isht and

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“But The Elites Will Just Ban Bitcoin!”

I was thinking about this as I’ve been reading….and re-reading the absolutely brilliant book “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind” by Yuval Noah Harari, who is one of my new favourite thinkers. In particular, there is a chapter which takes a sword to the notion that empires always crush rebellions

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