candy49 in # war • 8 hours ago • 1 min readThese are the missile hits on US bases in the Middle EastHere is the graphic: source The base in Kuwait has taken the most impacts. Kuwait offers the flat entrance for ground forces into the province of Khuzestan, in Iran. A full ground…candy49 in # war • 3 days ago • 2 min readTrump tends to TACO when the 10-year Treasury yield approaches 4.5%Here is the US 10-year Treasury yield chart: source Circled in red is the yield on Monday March 23rd, just before Trump tweeted that he was "negotiating" with the Iranians. We saw this…candy49 in # war • 4 days ago • 1 min readWhy does the United States have a huge venture capitalist eco-system but Europe, Canada and Australia do not?The answer is Middle East petrodollars. It works like this: The Gulf monarchies make vast surplus profits selling oil and gas to the world for dollars. These dollars are then invested in the…candy49 in # war • 5 days ago • 1 min readAmericans lift sanctions onIranian oil!!!This is a big deal. US sanctions on Iranian oil exports have been in place for a decade. That meant that anyone who bought Iranian oil faced secondary sanctions through the dollar network (accounts…candy49 in # war • 11 days ago • 2 min readIs Netanyahu dead?Twitter is swirling with rumours that Netanyahu is dead, with thousands of people scrutinising recent video footage released by the Israeli govt to check for signs of AI. Putting aside the AI…candy49 in # war • 14 days ago • 2 min readWhy are people talking about the draft?It all started with Senator Blumenthal's comments on March 10 after he and his Senate colleagues were given a briefing on the status of the Iran war. Here is a clip: Notice the bit about…candy49 in # war • 15 days ago • 1 min readThis is why the Iranians are attacking the Gulf statesAmerican war planners appear to have been taken aback by Iranian strikes on the Gulf States. They thought this war would follow the pattern of the 12-day war last year, when Iran only fired missiles…candy49 in # war • 22 days ago • 1 min readThe war is going badly...Yesterday, all the OSINT accounts on X were deprioritised by the X algorithms. To find them you had to search them out by name. In addition, all the Gulf States and Israel have banned people filming…candy49 in # china • last month • 1 min readWill the gold standard come back informally?Look at this chart of the Chinese government's reserves: source The reason the Chinese were holding so many US Treasuries is that the Chinese yuan is pegged to a basket of currencies - so…candy49 in # hive • 2 months ago • 2 min readLosses have an asymmetric impactI was pondering the impact of the 60% drop in the price of Hive and Steem in the last four months. (Do people realise how amazing it is that Blurt has held steady in dollar terms in this brutal…candy49 in # debt • 2 months ago • 2 min readThe US government is spending more on debt interest than defence for the first timeThe main reason President Trump gets to throw his weight around on the world stage is down to the might of the US military. As we saw in Venezuela. But what happens when the Americans can't afford…candy49 in # stablecoins • 2 months ago • 1 min readHolding dollar-based stablecoins is incredibly riskyTrump's Greenland and Canada debacles have caused the dollar to resume it's downward trend. Here is a chart of the dollar plotted against G10 currencies (black line) and Emerging Market currencies…candy49 in # hive • 2 months ago • 2 min readIt's been 3 years since I powered down my HiveI wrote a post at the time explaining my reasoning. I got a good price as I explained in the next post : When I started powering down the Hive price was about $0.90. When I received 1/13th…candy49 in # hive • 4 months ago • 1 min readHivewatchers objects to me promoting Blurt...I left a message on taskmaster4450's blog and got the following response: I often promote Blurt to people who've been downvoted on Hive, but this is the first time Hivewatchers has…candy49 in # hive • 4 months ago • 1 min readTaskmaster4450 is being downvoted on hive by you-know-whoIt's been going on for over 3 months - take a look: He continues to post because he's using inleo.io - so he's earning Leo (the leo.voter account continues to upvote him). He's powering…candy49 in # hive • 4 months ago • 1 min readOf the top 20 Hive witnesses, 8 are powering down...... even though the price is just 10 cents. See the following screenshot: It comes from the following website: The ones with the black piggy bank icons are powering down. If you click…candy49 in # hive • 4 months ago • 1 min readHive did another fork - rewards will be lowerHive put through another hard fork on 19th Nov, which wasn't much discussed. The few articles before the fork referred to the change in curation strength: your vote does not drop each time you…candy49 in # hive • 4 months ago • 1 min readThe markymark has been selling hiveHere is the table of hive whales: source: I make that 470,356 hive sold off since last year. While continuing to blame redfish for selling their earnings on their 15 cent posts for hive's…candy49 in # hive • 6 months ago • 1 min readThe "We Are Alive" community got attacked on HiveAnother month, another community gets attacked on Hive. The current target is the "We Are Alive" community. You can read about it here: They've made a back-up community on Blurt: And here…candy49 in # hive • 7 months ago • 1 min readThe downvotes on Hive from the Blurt gang are starting to stingCalling @mariuszkarowski , @ctime and the gang. The following article will amuse you mightily: People dish it out but they can't take it Ole acid is having to self-vote to counter it, the…
