When did oysters become $4.50 each??? I could really use some of that deflation right now. You might want to look at where they had been harvested from and where they are harvested from now. Several years ago it was possible to get Apalachicola Bay oysters -- shucked, and I've generally considered ...

"Institutional ownership" is a fairly accessible statistic for any particular company's stock, and the delta on that follows. Might not exactly match what you mean by "industrial players," but something.

Fraud it until they applaud it?

Oh - on an almost totally unrelated note, Clarence Thomas had been revealed to have behaved like just another corrupt republican. I’m shocked! Never mind his corrupt wife… Original article. I think he committed a crime in his failure to disclose his benefactor Harlan Crow's largess. Obviously he vi...

 But, on the other hand ...    The President Can Pardon Trump (wsj opinion -- Vivek Ramaswamy) He's thoroughly wrong, and I wonder how it is he has a law degree. The argument is, basically, (a) Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg brought felony charges against Dumpster for falsifying business r...

Poland isn't a Catholic country anymore, at least that's what happened with my local family - once devout Catholics. Isn't that basically what happened with Ireland? Daniel? A woman there told me in a field of low cairns that a lot of them were built fairly recently ... because the Catholic Church ...

It's pretty alarming how much sexual abuse of minors was tolerated in the past. There are/were some creepy people with high profiles out there: Bill Wyman, Steven Tyler, Schrödinger, very likely at least one member of the British royal family. And those just the ones whose creepiness has been expose...

Looking just now at the  US Treasury yield curve , I see 1 month rates of 4.74%, creeping up to peak at 4.97% at 4 months, then trailing down to 3.48% at 10 years, 3.81% at 20 years, and 3.67% at 30 years. And this general pattern -- high-ish immediate rate picking up for a few months and then dropp...

I could be wrong on this, but it is my understanding that the current indictment is for crimes committed under NY state law. A resulting conviction would not be subject to presidential pardon - that only applies to federal convictions. And the NY governor may or may not be inclined toward offering ...

Has anyone got a comparable number for the proportion of the US bank domestic assets and liabilities that are guaranteed by government? Well, Bard says, "As of December 31, 2022, the proportion of US bank domestic assets and liabilities that are guaranteed by the government is approximately 10...

I don't think DeSantis will ever be President. He makes Ted Cruz seem likable. My guess is that Dumpster gets convicted of several crimes but his lawyers are able to arrange plea deals to avoid prison for him. The plea deals, however, will involve some sort of house arrest and staying away from soci...

I would love to discuss this as I’m the dumbest in the room. I might challenge you for that title, because I'm just a dabbler in all this. From my perspective, the recent bank troubles and the 2007-8 financial collapse were both strongly related to the differences between book value and market valu...

Bard asked:  How much have banks drawn upon the lending under the Federal Reserve's recently enacted Bank Term Funding Program? Bard responds: According to the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, as of March 28, 2023, banks have drawn down $1.5 billion under the Bank Term Funding Program (BTFP). This is...

Could AI ever predict "Black Swan" events? 

I bet it could precipitate them, and probably will.

A seahorse is a fish, so ...