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EBDITA and accounting games - 2023 February 18
Accounting games seem to have become more common in the markets lately. People far wiser than me have been commenting on this from some time now, I was reminded of this when I came across a video from a Berkshire Hathaway public meeting that was filmed in 2003 that was talking about the impact of EBDITA on company reports.
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Mindat.org is amazing! - 2023 February 18
While researching for the series of posts about metals I found mindat.org which is an amazing open database of information about minerals and rocks along with information about where they are mined.
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Central bank interventions and price discovery - 2023 February 18
Do we really have free markets if there's ongoing large interventions being made into those markets even if it's under the guise of monetary policy?
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What makes metals valuable - 2023 February 15
What makes metals valuable to us?
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Foundational chemistry ideas needed to understand metals - 2023 February 13
To understand metals we need to understand some basic chemistry concepts.
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What is a metal - 2023 February 13
What exactly is a metal?
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Metals series introduction - 2023 February 12
Introduction to the series of posts about metals, what they are, how they are used, and how the markets around them work.
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Looking back at the RPA hype cycle - 2022 December 26
Looking back at the RPA hype cycle at the end of 2023
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FTX and madoff, simlarities and differences - 2022 December 03
The FTX crypto exchange collapse has some interesting things in common with the Bernie Madoff ponzi scheme but some very notable differences as well.
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The fall of FTX - 2022 November 13
The FTX crypto exchange has collapsed in spectacular fashion.
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