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washparkhorn

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  1. China puts Taiwan in check. Taiwan now must decide how to respond to ChiCom incursion into Its territorial waters.
  2. Beware the bear market rally(?).
  3. OPEC+ signals oil consumers can puns sand on production increases. https://www.opec.org/opec_web/en/press_room/6984.htm
  4. The Right can’t meme:
  5. NYT Thomas Friedman oped on why the Pelosi trip was not a good idea: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/01/opinion/nancy-pelosi-taiwan-china.html
  6. Understood, but whether additional pressure is wise at this juncture is where I err towards caution. I expect this will rally Chinese patriotism at a time when ChiCom leadership is being tested internally (weak domestic demand; zero Covid policy, housing instability). China’s largest trading partners (the US and the EU) are headed towards recession, which will only exacerbate China’s slowing growth. The ChiComs are doing a fine job killing themselves - so why interrupt them?
  7. I see no benefit in the Speaker of the House visiting Taiwan other than the signals intelligence we gather from the Chinese response. It is an escalation of the Pivot begun by Obama and carried forward by Trump. Human error in this setting could be catastrophic. The cost-benefit analysis does not support this visit.
  8. Nationalist Christians (Nat-C’s) the worst.
  9. Correct. /thread lock
  10. Elites Theory of Democracy (tldr - cannot trust the voting majority to do the right thing)). https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/democracy/#ElitTheoDemo Neoliberalism provides another approach to the “problem” of the majority making “bad” voting decisions (tldr: corporations should make decisions traditionally left to government (privatization). https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/democracy/#ElitTheoDemo
  11. Very well done. The cinematography is outstanding. The original soundtrack music (Mogwai) fits perfectly. One episode left.
  12. Plenty of room at the Denver Airport Reeducation Camp for the Q-diots.
  13. IG Cuffari needs to go - now - and the AG must investigate his actions. This is not his first transgression: https://www.pogo.org/letter/2022/04/pogo-calls-on-president-biden-to-remove-dhs-ig-joseph-cuffari
  14. The Five Eyes arrangement has been around since 1943. It's a well-known secret. As for the data, Snowden revealed there are efficient search tools for immediate decision-making situations (think: ticking clock scenarios). Hell - these are official actions.by public servants. There is no expectation of privacy. The messages should have been saved. This is just a redundant tool to recover them. No need to disclose the source of the backed-up files. Get them to the DOJ and Congressional Oversight Committees. Problem solved.
  15. Any one of the Five Eyes will suffice.
  16. Investigating an attempted coup certainly appears to be a proper reason to use the data passively collected by our intelligence community. There was (and is) a clear and present danger.
  17. PCE came in hot. No basis for Fed to begin dovish pivot with PCE data. UMich is next data point ahead.
  18. CPAC hosting Nazis. Color me surprised. Orban, Stephen Miller and Majorie Taylor Greene are scheduled to speak. A regular who’s who of white nationalism.
  19. When interest rate hikes rise to the level that make mortgages unaffordable, people will need apartments.
  20. Copper is a good bellwether for global economic health.
  21. Recession is determined by the NBER. The NBER defines “recession” as: GDP “estimates” are often revised: NBER will make final determination after GDP numbers are finalized. More importantly, the economy of the US (and the world) is slowing. The Fed is intentionally slowing the US and world economy to fight inflation (via rate hikes and reducing its balance sheet). The Fed is willing to risk recession in order to defeat inflation. Everything else is politics - and not a proper topic for the 6th Street Journal. Take it to the Cloak Room.
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