Global Macroeconomic and Geopolitical Trends
Persia remembers what modern empires and rogue states forget: The West sees Iran. Iran sees Persia. Markets are beginning to feel the difference. Empires often assume they are dealing with a country. They are not. They are dealing with a civilization. Persia is layered, patient, and historically accustomed to absorbing outsiders rather than collapsing under […]
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What is the VIX and why is it relevant to investors? The Volatility Index, known as the VIX or FEAR index, helps measure how much the stock market might swing in the future. It looks at options prices on the S&P 500, hinting at how investors feel and what they expect in the market. 1.
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The 17th Week of Trading 2022. Holding short positions, especially leveraged short positions, is like holding a tiger by the tail. Great fun until you get savaged. We’ve been short with leverage of all the major indices in the United States since April 4th, 2022. Despite our warning last week to rig for stormy weather,
“If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy”. Phil Zimmerman “We didn’t love freedom enough.” Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn “Cryptography is the ultimate form of non-violent direct action”. Julian Assange XMR/USD 3 Month Price Action In January, we delved into the reasons why Monero is one of the most attractive cryptocurrencies in the marketplace https://theimpartiallens.com/the-weekly-lens-crypto/.
The Eleventh Week of Trading 2022. As we mentioned last week, stocks were poised to have a rally, “we do see a bounce in equities and a pullback in Commodities.” The markets had the best week since the 2020 election; all indices squeezed higher. The Nasdaq soared over 8% last week, and the rest of
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“Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.” Ayn Rand “To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.”― Anthony Burgess Here at the Impartial
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“More recently, the West began using technology to flatten the very physical evidence of natural cycles. With artificial light, we believe we defeat the sleep-wake cycle; with climate control, the seasonal cycle; with refrigeration, the agricultural cycle; and with high-tech medicine, the rest-recovery cycle.” ― William Strauss, The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy “Sometime before the year
Recent events reminded me of what my colleague sent to me on 22 March 2020: ‘If humans ate the bat that gave us the Wuhan Virus, what did the bat eat? Perhaps the bat ate a butterfly… The “butterfly effect” is an idea, commonly used in “chaos theory”. It shows that a small change… like a “butterfly
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