SAN FRANCISCO -- The parents of a 26-year-old OpenAI researcher turned whistleblower who was found dead in his San Francisco home in November 2024 are intensifying their push for answers, expanding their advocacy into a full-time effort to challenge the official ruling of suicide.
Suchir Balaji's death was ruled a suicide by the San Francisco medical examiner, but his parents, Poornima Ramarao and Balaji Ramamurthy, believe he was killed and are calling for further investigation.
His death comes three months after publicly accusing OpenAI of violating U.S. copyright law while developing ChatGPT, and almost exactly a month after he went public with his allegations in an interview with the New York Times.
@Meade -- what is the basis for your bullish adviceon stocks? Does it include 1929-32; 1965-82; 2000-02; 2007-09?
In the first two cases, bear markets destroyed 80-90% of stocks' value. In the latter two, blue chips only declined 45-60% but NASDAQ, the hotties, dropped 65-78% with plenty of (briefly) hot names going to zero. Indexes, of course, try to beat that statistical problem by periodically dropping weak stocks and adding strong names.
Current valuation levels are higher than: 1929; 1965; 2000; 2007; or anything else for which there are accurate records. Stocks did recover in 1932 but the Dow Industrials did not attain their pre-crash level until the mid-1950s. Long time to wait underwater.
There is much more risk in stock prices today than at any of those prior peaks. Trouble is, only Warren Buffett seems to appreciate that fact.
I'm going to watch the Tom Hanks WWII effort sooner or later (as much as I can stand) but I have already seen enough of the Roman Empire doc to write it off.
Definitely a case of "better than nothing" being a high bar.
Was Talarico ever photographed with a long term girlfriend in the past? I have not seen it, and doubt it exists, because I think he is as queer as a 7 dollar bill. "Not that there is anything wrong with that, right"? So why the hiding. Don't Jim McGreevey down my back and tell me you are straight. Man up. My God. As a very conservative D who has not voted D since 1992, are there any normal masculine D Anglo men? Fucking clown show.
Kai Akker writes: “There is much more risk in stock prices today than at any of those prior peaks.”
The reason is simple: there are more buyers than sellers. The market is being underpinned by relentless retail inflows into index trackers and the momentum stocks of the moment. As long as unemployment remains low, this dynamic is unlikely to change.
This AI-driven rally is stirring up memories of the dot-com era, which began with the launch of the Netscape browser in 1994 and peaked with the bubble in 2000. If history offers any parallel, we may still be in the very early stages of this AI bull market, with a promising long-term outlook.
That said, stocks never go straight up, and this cycle won’t be any exception. My main takeaway from the dot-com boom and bust is that the investors brave enough to hold the high-flyers through years of extreme volatility on the way up were often the same ones who rode them all the way back down. Will that pattern repeat this time? It’s too early to tell. The dot-com boom lasted roughly seven years; by comparison, the AI boom is still in its infancy.
Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, noted yesterday that he believes current stock valuations are high—including JPMorgan’s own—and that he isn’t comfortable buying at these levels. While no CEO is a guaranteed market-timing expert, Dimon has lived through many cycles. Still, as always in the markets, we never truly know how it will unfold.
Former President Joe Biden has filed a lawsuit against the Justice Department seeking to block the release of files related to interviews he conducted with a biographer that later became a central part of a special counsel investigation into his handling of classified documents.
Biden's lawsuit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia seeks to block the Justice Department from releasing about 70 hours of audio files and transcripts to the House Judiciary Committee from interviews with ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer that were used for his 2017 memoir "Promise Me, Dad." The interviews were conducted in 2016 and 2017.
Biden and his attorneys have long maintained that the files are exempt from the Freedom of Information Act.
The suit comes after three separate Freedom of Information Act lawsuits were previously filed attempting to unseal them.
In one suit involving the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, attorneys for the Justice Department told a federal judge earlier this month they planned to release the files, with redactions, to both the committee and the Heritage Foundation on June 15 barring a ruling on the issue.
Mr. Biden asserted executive privilege over the recordings in 2024 after House Republicans attempted to access them.
"Joe Biden's Justice Department tried to hide audio recordings that clearly demonstrate a significant decline in his cognitive abilities as far back as 2016," a Justice Department told CBS News in a statement Wednesday in response to the lawsuit. "This is the most transparent Department of Justice in history, and we will fight to ensure the American people can hear these recordings and draw their own conclusions about the former President's mental acuity before he sought the presidency."
I've seen a lot of posts about young men having AI "girlfriends" recently. It occurred to me, there is one aspect of men's intimacy needs that an AI "girlfriend" could easily fill. That is the need to open up without judgement. Something escorts report such as the one below in a Q&A on YourTango in 2023. The AI "girlfriend" is not likely to lose interest in a man if he opens up. Just as the escorts know not to do.
Sure, someone will hack the AI "girlfriend" and use the info against men, but the risk is less than telling a woman in your life. Because, you know its coming back sometime later if you tell your girlfriend or wife.
"Q: Sounds like you do a lot more talking than most girls would assume!
A: Absolutely, 100 percent. You see, one thing women don’t understand is how often guys just want to unload on an emotional level. The problem is that they get worried about girls judging them. They get worried about asking girls to compliment them, or being seen as “too weak,” and that ends up keeping their guards up.
Most men crave a girl who doesn’t judge them, but they never see that in real life. Every time they hear a girl poke fun at a guy for not having a big enough dick, not having a nice enough body, or not doing something, they get a little bit more defensive.
The thing is, you can’t bottle all of yourself out like that and stay healthy. You need an outlet. For some guys, just chatting with me and hanging out with me is the outlet they need. I mean, it’s not like an escort will judge you."
This is interesting. It's a reactor with a collection of videos of people walking and talking in DC parks that apparently Trump cleaned up and repaired (according to the videos). Not the National Mall, other fountains that had been shutdown for years.
"I've Never Seen These Fountains Work or the City This Clean" People Say Trump Fixed Washington D.C. https://youtu.be/f4Nh8UYKIvQ
“Jill Biden said she thought her husband was having a stroke in the debate.” If this were true shouldn’t she have immediately after the debate taken him to the hospital? Even stopped the debate? Such reckless disregard for his wellbeing. Of course, it’s not true. Just another stupid story which wouldn’t stand up to scrutiny if the press did its job.
I meant to watch Sinners yesterday. Irish vampires. Here's a clip: Rocky Road to Dublin.
That's a classic Irish lullaby, apparently. We sing it to our babies. Or at least when we're drinking. Here are The Ramparts rocking that song in an Irish pub.
Sinners was a big nominee for the Oscars but they got wiped out by the Marxist express. Went home with actor and screenplay awards, and one or two others.
I got sidetracked watching Spider-Noir instead. In lovely black and white. Also had Irish baddies. A coincidence, I hope, otherwise my subconscious is working against me.
My last apartment complex was filled with Hispanic families with little kids. The kids played outside constantly. They all loved my dog. So happy. It reminded me of my own childhood.
What's interesting about that article is how dangerous screens are, and how isolating they can be. I've felt that myself, as an adult. But it's especially dangerous to see it in children.
Anyway, it struck me that this is a first world problem. The kids I saw, recent immigrants, did not have this problem. In fact, many of them spoke way better English than their parents. And they had no problem playing outside in the mud and dirt.
We often say "first world problem" like it's no big deal. But cultural problems are huge. For instance, in my culture, breast cancer is a big problem for women. In cultures where breast-feeding goes on for two years, they don't see a lot of breast cancer.
Anyway, instead of grounding children, I suggest your next punishment is to take their screens away.
U.S. Military Conducts New Strikes on Iran ~ WSJ 'Strikes come after Iran launched drones at commercial ships. Iran says it struck at U.S. base in response.'
It may take a political or economic crisis at home for Trump to understand how badly he has handled this situation. In the interim, the Israel lobby and its mouthpieces in U.S. media outlets like Fox News, which Trump listens too, are going to tell him to "stay the course".
If Trump allowed himself a moment of honesty in 2024, he would have made the theme song from "Titanic" his campaign rally song instead of "Y-M-C-A". Kind of feels like we really hit the iceberg this past February.
…behind the scenes the Democrat scrum to inherit Al Green’s responsibilities at the State of the Union speeches must look like seagulls with open box of Triscuits at the beach…
Oil analysts say that crude prices are up because of the continuing blockage of the Strait of Hormuz. But Althouse commenter Rehajm has a different explanation.
As a principled libertarian, I'm going to ignore the government persecution of E. Jean Carroll and wait for Althouse to write another piece about the NYU students who don't like Jon Haidt.
Kai Akker said... @Meade -- what is the basis for your bullish adviceon stocks?
He probably looked at the market. You claimed two days ago it was a sellers market, yet the market rose both days. Two days, you had a 50/50 chance that the market might at least end low on one of those days. It didn’t. You are also the same guy that claimed the market was set to crash in March, and before that in December. Yet the close yesterday for almost all indexes were all time records.
I won’t ask you for your basis, because you provide them. I want to know why you still believe them when they are wrong?
Many stocks are indeed wildly overpriced relative to historical metrics and they "seem" to be in a bubble. I've been right about bubbles and wrong too -- the proof comes only after a collapse. Tech is notorious for boom/bust, to include autos and electric devices back in the day. So, you place your bets and take your chances. That's the entire point of diversification. Don't put all your eggs in one basket (or here, all in the Magnificent Seven).
Stock valuations are not calculated the same way as in the past:
- Corporate dividends for some maturish tech firms shifted to buybacks (see Apple).
- The rise of the 401k and end of pensions put a huge bias toward weekly blind buys of whatever is in the common S&P and international funds.
- Retail and international investors don't think like old-time Wall St. players who controlled the market through massive fees and commissions. Wall St. now pushes trading, skims tiny transaction fees, uses internal high speed trading, and has the Bloomberg Terminal "insinder chatter club" to profit before the broader market.
- Bonds became the dumping ground for government debt, making high dividend stocks (e.g., SCHD) a popular consumer alternative to low yield bonds with similar risks (e.g., AGG, BND). This further inflates stock valuations in the cashflow retiree crowd.
- The wealthy and 99% of government employees/elected officials are heavily invested in stocks/401ks. As such, they see threats to stock valuations as threats to their personal futures: Economics of law partnership self interests rather than as clear-eyed and critical managers.
- One way out of an inflated stock market is a crash. Another way out is inflation of everything. Given that Biden and Trump (and Obama) are big spenders, entitlements demand spending and push inflation. While the market is 'overvalued', government dead money bonds keep the fantasy alive. For now.
"Free-market democracies are always 5-10 years from collapse." Or seem that way.
Was Talarico ever photographed with a long term girlfriend in the past? I have not seen it, and doubt it exists, because I think he is as queer as a 7 dollar bill.
I would like to start separating gay men into 2 groups.
There is a group of gay men that have lower divorce rates than straight men and are remarkably positive forces in our country. Men like Grenell.
We can't group them in with the men that like little girls and little boys and stand in women's locker rooms naked and want to chemically castrate kids with drugs.
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ along with $1.8bn of Kleptocracy said...
Oil analysts say that crude prices are up because of the continuing blockage of the Strait of Hormuz. But Althouse commenter Rehajm has a different explanation.
And they will be down months before the midterms.
Funny part is that oil prices are higher than during the Biden years, but gas prices are lower than during the Biden years.
Hmm...
Does that mean that Democrats just want high gas prices and only complete retards will listen to you?
Gavin Newsome could lower the national average gas price by 10 cents with the stroke of a pen. Why doesn't he? Could it be that all Democrats are lying greedy sacks of shit?
I learned long ago not get in a discussion with the internet over investments but a bit of economic history might not hurt- bubbles always and everywhere are caused by excess credit expansion. High valuations can stay high or move higher for what seems an eternity. It takes a catalyst for the correction to occur. Usually it s the debt can’t be supported…
New York State Assemblyman Alex Bores, who is running for Congress in New York's 12th District, has proposed the Anti-Insurrectionist Act that would force residents to pay a 100% state income tax on any money they receive from the $1.7B slush fund.
“It’s simple. If you’re a New Yorker and you take from this illegal slush fund, New York state will tax 100% of it. If you storm the Capitol and take from the slush fund -- too bad, we're taking it."
The latest poll shows the CA billionaire tax passing. This tax is retroactive and the amount of wealth confiscated can be changed by the Legislature in the future. If both retroactive taxes and arbitrary legislative threshold both are deemed legal, the Legislature could decide what the threshold is on December 31st. They may decide to drop it to a million dollars. If this passes and you have any assets-like a home-the locusts will come for you. There’s no reason to stay if this passes.
…one caveat- in lower interest rate environments markets can tolerate multiple expansion to a certain extent, and since markets are forward looking mechanisms…take a look at the yield curve…
Those who did not eye the exit from CA a generation ago have been asleep. They previously taxed pensions for retirees outside the state. This led to the federal ban of 1995:
Kristen Mag @kristenmag · 12h This is a real photo of university students in Iran in 1971. A few years later the government forced all women to cover their heads with hijabs.
It happened so fast.
So forgive me if I’m not amused by AOC and Mamdani wearing garments that represent this oppression of women.
RJW said... New York State Assemblyman Alex Bores, who is running for Congress in New York's 12th District, has proposed the Anti-Insurrectionist Act that would force residents to pay a 100% state income tax on any money they receive from the $1.7B slush fund.
“It’s simple. If you’re a New Yorker and you take from this illegal slush fund, New York state will tax 100% of it. If you storm the Capitol and take from the slush fund -- too bad, we're taking it.
I love this idea.
The federal government should put a 100% tax on state property taxes. All revenue collected by a state and any property seized because of state property tax delinquencies should go to the federal government.
It should also have a 100% tax on income from speeding tickets and red light cameras collected by any state.
I think AI is a bubble. I recognize that I'm missing out on free gains thanks to the marketing spent on expanding that bubble. I think it is a bubble not because of AI in and of itself, but because of the basics of its infrastructure: data centers. Data centers have a high demand for memory chips at a time when there is a weak supply to meet that demand (again, opportunity for free momentary gains). Moreover, data centers have a high demand for electrical power at a time when most countries have curtailed electrical power growth. Yet there is significant investment in AI to deliver despite the inherit problems of its supply chain. Then you can get into exactly what is AI supposedly delivering? Can consumers purchase AI enabled computers, that have doubled or tripled in price because the silicon needed to build them has been sucked up by data centers?
Achilles, I think you are leaving money on the table. If a person interferes with ICE performing their duties; that person's income should be taxed at 100%.
Would you actually have to be convicted of insurrection or would it just apply to anyone Democrats don’t like? Also, what is the legal definition of “storming the Capitol”? It seems that could apply to many different groups in many different situations.
What about investigating Christine Blasey Ford, the Kavanaugh accuser? She was initially rejected as a kook by Senator Dianne Feinstein's office in 2018 as TDS was still spreading.
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I was always curious what happened to Chip Roy.
The first I heard of him he said all the right things.
Then he acted like a Democrat.
It must be the human skin suits they give lawyers when they pass the bar.
SAN FRANCISCO -- The parents of a 26-year-old OpenAI researcher turned whistleblower who was found dead in his San Francisco home in November 2024 are intensifying their push for answers, expanding their advocacy into a full-time effort to challenge the official ruling of suicide.
Suchir Balaji's death was ruled a suicide by the San Francisco medical examiner, but his parents, Poornima Ramarao and Balaji Ramamurthy, believe he was killed and are calling for further investigation.
His death comes three months after publicly accusing OpenAI of violating U.S. copyright law while developing ChatGPT, and almost exactly a month after he went public with his allegations in an interview with the New York Times.
All five are splendid. Kudos.
First non wetsuit pond swim this season. Water temperature a perfect 69°F. A bald eagle soared by before we entered the water.
A lovely, rich palette with the golden alexander.
Yeah that was a curious one
I think the last is most evocative
https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/2059756739906670836
Stranger than fiction
@Meade -- what is the basis for your bullish adviceon stocks? Does it include 1929-32; 1965-82; 2000-02; 2007-09?
In the first two cases, bear markets destroyed 80-90% of stocks' value. In the latter two, blue chips only declined 45-60% but NASDAQ, the hotties, dropped 65-78% with plenty of (briefly) hot names going to zero. Indexes, of course, try to beat that statistical problem by periodically dropping weak stocks and adding strong names.
Current valuation levels are higher than: 1929; 1965; 2000; 2007; or anything else for which there are accurate records. Stocks did recover in 1932 but the Dow Industrials did not attain their pre-crash level until the mid-1950s. Long time to wait underwater.
There is much more risk in stock prices today than at any of those prior peaks. Trouble is, only Warren Buffett seems to appreciate that fact.
Wonderful pix.
I'm going to watch the Tom Hanks WWII effort sooner or later (as much as I can stand) but I have already seen enough of the Roman Empire doc to write it off.
Definitely a case of "better than nothing" being a high bar.
https://share.google/hgdvYzu0mMXKp2YSe
A corrective
The longest day and other project relayed the brutal cost of the allied victory without being gratuitous
Was Talarico ever photographed with a long term girlfriend in the past?
I have not seen it, and doubt it exists, because I think he is as queer as a 7 dollar bill.
"Not that there is anything wrong with that, right"? So why the hiding. Don't Jim McGreevey down my back and tell me you are straight. Man up. My God. As a very conservative D who has not voted D since 1992, are there any normal masculine D Anglo men?
Fucking clown show.
Platner also attacked favorite son the lead sheepdog chris kyle
Is he going to blame that on ptsd
They are pretty much all psychos as candidates
Talarico is trans? Homo or sim? Social? Humane? He is Democratic.
Pod person
WSJ: US military conducts new strikes on Iran
Kai Akker writes: “There is much more risk in stock prices today than at any of those prior peaks.”
The reason is simple: there are more buyers than sellers. The market is being underpinned by relentless retail inflows into index trackers and the momentum stocks of the moment. As long as unemployment remains low, this dynamic is unlikely to change.
This AI-driven rally is stirring up memories of the dot-com era, which began with the launch of the Netscape browser in 1994 and peaked with the bubble in 2000. If history offers any parallel, we may still be in the very early stages of this AI bull market, with a promising long-term outlook.
That said, stocks never go straight up, and this cycle won’t be any exception. My main takeaway from the dot-com boom and bust is that the investors brave enough to hold the high-flyers through years of extreme volatility on the way up were often the same ones who rode them all the way back down. Will that pattern repeat this time? It’s too early to tell. The dot-com boom lasted roughly seven years; by comparison, the AI boom is still in its infancy.
Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, noted yesterday that he believes current stock valuations are high—including JPMorgan’s own—and that he isn’t comfortable buying at these levels. While no CEO is a guaranteed market-timing expert, Dimon has lived through many cycles. Still, as always in the markets, we never truly know how it will unfold.
Life imitates Star trek
https://x.com/CharlesMullins2/status/2058549607794102447
Is that imminent peace deal with Iran signed yet?
95% done -- 2 weeks on Tuesday
Biden sues Justice Department to block release of audio files from biographer interviews (CBS News)
Former President Joe Biden has filed a lawsuit against the Justice Department seeking to block the release of files related to interviews he conducted with a biographer that later became a central part of a special counsel investigation into his handling of classified documents.
Biden's lawsuit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia seeks to block the Justice Department from releasing about 70 hours of audio files and transcripts to the House Judiciary Committee from interviews with ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer that were used for his 2017 memoir "Promise Me, Dad." The interviews were conducted in 2016 and 2017.
Biden and his attorneys have long maintained that the files are exempt from the Freedom of Information Act.
The suit comes after three separate Freedom of Information Act lawsuits were previously filed attempting to unseal them.
In one suit involving the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, attorneys for the Justice Department told a federal judge earlier this month they planned to release the files, with redactions, to both the committee and the Heritage Foundation on June 15 barring a ruling on the issue.
Mr. Biden asserted executive privilege over the recordings in 2024 after House Republicans attempted to access them.
"Joe Biden's Justice Department tried to hide audio recordings that clearly demonstrate a significant decline in his cognitive abilities as far back as 2016," a Justice Department told CBS News in a statement Wednesday in response to the lawsuit. "This is the most transparent Department of Justice in history, and we will fight to ensure the American people can hear these recordings and draw their own conclusions about the former President's mental acuity before he sought the presidency."
More at the link.
That the earth can tell such a story in just a few minutes is truly breathtaking. I love your daily sunrise posts. The rhythm of Althouse blog.
Trump’s refusal to release any of his medical records has reporters wondering just what it is that Joe Biden is hiding
Jill Biden said she thought her husband was having a stroke in the debate.
Follow up question: Jill, it wasn't a stroke, was it?
I've seen a lot of posts about young men having AI "girlfriends" recently. It occurred to me, there is one aspect of men's intimacy needs that an AI "girlfriend" could easily fill. That is the need to open up without judgement. Something escorts report such as the one below in a Q&A on YourTango in 2023. The AI "girlfriend" is not likely to lose interest in a man if he opens up. Just as the escorts know not to do.
Sure, someone will hack the AI "girlfriend" and use the info against men, but the risk is less than telling a woman in your life. Because, you know its coming back sometime later if you tell your girlfriend or wife.
"Q: Sounds like you do a lot more talking than most girls would assume!
A: Absolutely, 100 percent. You see, one thing women don’t understand is how often guys just want to unload on an emotional level. The problem is that they get worried about girls judging them. They get worried about asking girls to compliment them, or being seen as “too weak,” and that ends up keeping their guards up.
Most men crave a girl who doesn’t judge them, but they never see that in real life. Every time they hear a girl poke fun at a guy for not having a big enough dick, not having a nice enough body, or not doing something, they get a little bit more defensive.
The thing is, you can’t bottle all of yourself out like that and stay healthy. You need an outlet. For some guys, just chatting with me and hanging out with me is the outlet they need. I mean, it’s not like an escort will judge you."
This is interesting. It's a reactor with a collection of videos of people walking and talking in DC parks that apparently Trump cleaned up and repaired (according to the videos). Not the National Mall, other fountains that had been shutdown for years.
"I've Never Seen These Fountains Work or the City This Clean" People Say Trump Fixed Washington D.C.
https://youtu.be/f4Nh8UYKIvQ
The second photo reminds me of those colorized postcards from the 50s.
narciso said...
"Life imitates Star trek"
Dammit Jim, I mean narciso, I was expecting scantily clad green alien babes, not E = mc2. What a letdown!
Oh that blue!
“Jill Biden said she thought her husband was having a stroke in the debate.”
If this were true shouldn’t she have immediately after the debate taken him to the hospital? Even stopped the debate? Such reckless disregard for his wellbeing. Of course, it’s not true. Just another stupid story which wouldn’t stand up to scrutiny if the press did its job.
I like that top one. So beautiful. Your sky is something.
“Jill Biden said she thought her husband was having a stroke in the debate.”
If true, she is the only one on the planet who thought that. Funny, being a doctor and all.
I meant to watch Sinners yesterday. Irish vampires. Here's a clip: Rocky Road to Dublin.
That's a classic Irish lullaby, apparently. We sing it to our babies. Or at least when we're drinking. Here are The Ramparts rocking that song in an Irish pub.
Sinners was a big nominee for the Oscars but they got wiped out by the Marxist express. Went home with actor and screenplay awards, and one or two others.
I got sidetracked watching Spider-Noir instead. In lovely black and white. Also had Irish baddies. A coincidence, I hope, otherwise my subconscious is working against me.
Mendota never looked better!
The Kids These Days
That's a pretty good article.
My last apartment complex was filled with Hispanic families with little kids. The kids played outside constantly. They all loved my dog. So happy. It reminded me of my own childhood.
What's interesting about that article is how dangerous screens are, and how isolating they can be. I've felt that myself, as an adult. But it's especially dangerous to see it in children.
Anyway, it struck me that this is a first world problem. The kids I saw, recent immigrants, did not have this problem. In fact, many of them spoke way better English than their parents. And they had no problem playing outside in the mud and dirt.
We often say "first world problem" like it's no big deal. But cultural problems are huge. For instance, in my culture, breast cancer is a big problem for women. In cultures where breast-feeding goes on for two years, they don't see a lot of breast cancer.
Anyway, instead of grounding children, I suggest your next punishment is to take their screens away.
ALL you can do is laugh at them. They always accuse others of what THEY are.....
Brandon Gill
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Democrats: "Sexist Republicans are turning America into the Handmaid's Tale!"
Also Democrats:
https://x.com/realBrandonGill/status/2059804960766697621?s=20
I didn’t watch that one so their accusation has no impact on me…
U.S. Military Conducts New Strikes on Iran ~ WSJ
'Strikes come after Iran launched drones at commercial ships. Iran says it struck at U.S. base in response.'
It may take a political or economic crisis at home for Trump to understand how badly he has handled this situation. In the interim, the Israel lobby and its mouthpieces in U.S. media outlets like Fox News, which Trump listens too, are going to tell him to "stay the course".
If Trump allowed himself a moment of honesty in 2024, he would have made the theme song from "Titanic" his campaign rally song instead of "Y-M-C-A". Kind of feels like we really hit the iceberg this past February.
Burge’s Law of New Yorker cartoons applies here- Every Kak comment can be improved by adding at the end "I think I'm going to kill myself"
Bonus relevant Burge re: Kak comments: Never before in commenter history has there been so much supply for so little demand…
E. Jean Carroll is under DOJ investigation for perjury. Good. I hope she hasn’t spent her millions yet.
Trump’s a junkyard dog when it comes to crap like this.
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/05/27/doj-launches-investigation-of-e-jean-carroll-n3815351
…behind the scenes the Democrat scrum to inherit Al Green’s responsibilities at the State of the Union speeches must look like seagulls with open box of Triscuits at the beach…
Oil analysts say that crude prices are up because of the continuing blockage of the Strait of Hormuz. But Althouse commenter Rehajm has a different explanation.
As a principled libertarian, I'm going to ignore the government persecution of E. Jean Carroll and wait for Althouse to write another piece about the NYU students who don't like Jon Haidt.
Kai Akker said...
@Meade -- what is the basis for your bullish adviceon stocks?
He probably looked at the market. You claimed two days ago it was a sellers market, yet the market rose both days. Two days, you had a 50/50 chance that the market might at least end low on one of those days. It didn’t. You are also the same guy that claimed the market was set to crash in March, and before that in December. Yet the close yesterday for almost all indexes were all time records.
I won’t ask you for your basis, because you provide them. I want to know why you still believe them when they are wrong?
Many stocks are indeed wildly overpriced relative to historical metrics and they "seem" to be in a bubble. I've been right about bubbles and wrong too -- the proof comes only after a collapse. Tech is notorious for boom/bust, to include autos and electric devices back in the day. So, you place your bets and take your chances. That's the entire point of diversification. Don't put all your eggs in one basket (or here, all in the Magnificent Seven).
Stock valuations are not calculated the same way as in the past:
- Corporate dividends for some maturish tech firms shifted to buybacks (see Apple).
- The rise of the 401k and end of pensions put a huge bias toward weekly blind buys of whatever is in the common S&P and international funds.
- Retail and international investors don't think like old-time Wall St. players who controlled the market through massive fees and commissions. Wall St. now pushes trading, skims tiny transaction fees, uses internal high speed trading, and has the Bloomberg Terminal "insinder chatter club" to profit before the broader market.
- Bonds became the dumping ground for government debt, making high dividend stocks (e.g., SCHD) a popular consumer alternative to low yield bonds with similar risks (e.g., AGG, BND). This further inflates stock valuations in the cashflow retiree crowd.
- The wealthy and 99% of government employees/elected officials are heavily invested in stocks/401ks. As such, they see threats to stock valuations as threats to their personal futures: Economics of law partnership self interests rather than as clear-eyed and critical managers.
- One way out of an inflated stock market is a crash. Another way out is inflation of everything. Given that Biden and Trump (and Obama) are big spenders, entitlements demand spending and push inflation. While the market is 'overvalued', government dead money bonds keep the fantasy alive. For now.
"Free-market democracies are always 5-10 years from collapse." Or seem that way.
Political Junkie said...
Was Talarico ever photographed with a long term girlfriend in the past?
I have not seen it, and doubt it exists, because I think he is as queer as a 7 dollar bill.
I would like to start separating gay men into 2 groups.
There is a group of gay men that have lower divorce rates than straight men and are remarkably positive forces in our country. Men like Grenell.
We can't group them in with the men that like little girls and little boys and stand in women's locker rooms naked and want to chemically castrate kids with drugs.
A reminder from another thread
Michelle & Barack & Bernardine & Bill: The Real Story of the Obamas and the Terrorist Couple – TinaTrent.com https://share.google/QQXQq3awxOLjlPiT1
Kai is reaching full cramer idiocy
Kai is reaching full cramer idiocy
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ along with $1.8bn of Kleptocracy said...
Oil analysts say that crude prices are up because of the continuing blockage of the Strait of Hormuz. But Althouse commenter Rehajm has a different explanation.
And they will be down months before the midterms.
Funny part is that oil prices are higher than during the Biden years, but gas prices are lower than during the Biden years.
Hmm...
Does that mean that Democrats just want high gas prices and only complete retards will listen to you?
Gavin Newsome could lower the national average gas price by 10 cents with the stroke of a pen. Why doesn't he? Could it be that all Democrats are lying greedy sacks of shit?
I learned long ago not get in a discussion with the internet over investments but a bit of economic history might not hurt- bubbles always and everywhere are caused by excess credit expansion. High valuations can stay high or move higher for what seems an eternity. It takes a catalyst for the correction to occur. Usually it s the debt can’t be supported…
…but no question- trailing p/e’s in the high teens and twenties usually mean trouble…
New York State Assemblyman Alex Bores, who is running for Congress in New York's 12th District, has proposed the Anti-Insurrectionist Act that would force residents to pay a 100% state income tax on any money they receive from the $1.7B slush fund.
“It’s simple. If you’re a New Yorker and you take from this illegal slush fund, New York state will tax 100% of it. If you storm the Capitol and take from the slush fund -- too bad, we're taking it."
I’d need to know the quote that’s being referenced…
https://www.malone.news/p/the-ebola-story-youre-getting-is?
The latest poll shows the CA billionaire tax passing. This tax is retroactive and the amount of wealth confiscated can be changed by the Legislature in the future. If both retroactive taxes and arbitrary legislative threshold both are deemed legal, the Legislature could decide what the threshold is on December 31st. They may decide to drop it to a million dollars. If this passes and you have any assets-like a home-the locusts will come for you. There’s no reason to stay if this passes.
If you throw molotovs at police cars alex?
…one caveat- in lower interest rate environments markets can tolerate multiple expansion to a certain extent, and since markets are forward looking mechanisms…take a look at the yield curve…
California is still a good catalyst for Nevada properties…
Are all the leg wearing pirate patches
There’s no reason to stay if this passes.
…if it passes you’ve stayed too long…
Morgan freeman voice Nadlet freed the Capitol Bomber from 1984
AOC is in a Hijab.
Now you have to laugh.
You just have to laugh at them. They are so stupid.
Those who did not eye the exit from CA a generation ago have been asleep. They previously taxed pensions for retirees outside the state. This led to the federal ban of 1995:
https://www.congress.gov/committee-report/104th-congress/house-report/389/1
They now aggressively pursue "part-time resident" income and function as old-time East Germany per audits of everything they can find:
https://htj.tax/2024/02/am-i-a-california-resident-for-tax-purposes-the-ultimate-guide/
https://www.lataxattorney.com/practice-areas/residency-audits/
…this is why she wears what she does- looking out for her constituents……says we could balance the budget if entitlements went only to the entitled
Re Trump medical records: he is still more transparent in that regard than Obama. Cry harder kak.
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This is a real photo of university students in Iran in 1971. A few years later the government forced all women to cover their heads with hijabs.
It happened so fast.
So forgive me if I’m not amused by AOC and Mamdani wearing garments that represent this oppression of women.
https://x.com/kristenmag/status/2059805766488613219?s=20
RJW said...
New York State Assemblyman Alex Bores, who is running for Congress in New York's 12th District, has proposed the Anti-Insurrectionist Act that would force residents to pay a 100% state income tax on any money they receive from the $1.7B slush fund.
“It’s simple. If you’re a New Yorker and you take from this illegal slush fund, New York state will tax 100% of it. If you storm the Capitol and take from the slush fund -- too bad, we're taking it.
I love this idea.
The federal government should put a 100% tax on state property taxes. All revenue collected by a state and any property seized because of state property tax delinquencies should go to the federal government.
It should also have a 100% tax on income from speeding tickets and red light cameras collected by any state.
I think AI is a bubble. I recognize that I'm missing out on free gains thanks to the marketing spent on expanding that bubble. I think it is a bubble not because of AI in and of itself, but because of the basics of its infrastructure: data centers. Data centers have a high demand for memory chips at a time when there is a weak supply to meet that demand (again, opportunity for free momentary gains). Moreover, data centers have a high demand for electrical power at a time when most countries have curtailed electrical power growth. Yet there is significant investment in AI to deliver despite the inherit problems of its supply chain. Then you can get into exactly what is AI supposedly delivering? Can consumers purchase AI enabled computers, that have doubled or tripled in price because the silicon needed to build them has been sucked up by data centers?
Achilles, I think you are leaving money on the table. If a person interferes with ICE performing their duties; that person's income should be taxed at 100%.
VDH beating back the stupid Thucycides Trap claptrap:
https://jewishworldreview.com/0526/hanson052826.php
Would you actually have to be convicted of insurrection or would it just apply to anyone Democrats don’t like? Also, what is the legal definition of “storming the Capitol”? It seems that could apply to many different groups in many different situations.
"As a principled libertarian, …"
You misspelled 'fabulist'.
St Croix: “ In cultures where breast-feeding goes on for two years, they don't see a lot of breast cancer.”
Where are these cultures? Asking for academic purposes. CC, JSM
Federal government supplies a tax credit for any amount confiscated by the state, paid for by a reduction in that state’s transfer payments from fed…
The DoJ has opened a criminal probe investigating E. Jean Carroll for perjury.
As they should, Mary Beth.
What about investigating Christine Blasey Ford, the Kavanaugh accuser? She was initially rejected as a kook by Senator Dianne Feinstein's office in 2018 as TDS was still spreading.
Mosby, click on the link!
Asia. All the breast-feeding 2-year-olds are in Asia.
Maybe it shrinks people? My mom got me onto peanut-butter as soon as possible.
Tomorrow is the last day to sell in May.
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