That's too bad. Integration on the merchant side would be a rich vein to mine, too, especially given the differential in Amex card fees. The risk is potentially reducing their swipe fees, but I don't see that as big threat. People can use visa anyway. But presenting a lower-cost merchant option, with a relatively distinct customer profile, alongside Amex as a pitch to merchants may open doors

I haven't seen strike merch in a while...agree that it would be great to have the store back online.

is the mechanism here the yen gets stronger, so carry trade looks shaky, so liquidate assets to repay loans denominated in yen? Hence, the decline in Japanese stock prices?

Or he ignored it. Only invest what you can lose, etc.

This is probably a dumb question, but I'm trying to grasp the mechanics. Why were larger banks hit harder in 2019? Higher rates drive down bond values, but that reduces the denominator. Was it primarily variance in assets between the two classes of banks? That's the story told for the recent regional crisis.

Is it objectively worse than any other altcoin? I don't know. If it died tomorrow, would the space be better with BNB or whatever as the "next Bitcoin"? Maybe it's actually good for hard money and the development of sufficient network effects for Bitcoin because it's a honeypot for all the bad ideas. Saylor says there's "no second best" but that's just hyperbole. If there was a coin/network, not as flawed as Eth, that was 90% as "good" as Bitcoin, say, it would be less of a shitcoin than Eth, sure, but would probably set back the movement for money separate from government, primarily by lessening or delaying network effects. Maybe bitcoiners should be happy letting ETH play the Washington Generals here.

thanks. I'll check it out.

Great question. This seed oil thing seems strange. I maybe can buy there's some marginal impact, but the way it is talked about implies there's some definite, measurable, material negative association. Otherwise, it's like chemtrails to me. Or another food/culture dogma, like Taleb talks about.

Mandibles isn't a bad into too. Storytelling sells

"why" is the wonderfully interesting follow up. While assuming the left is not motivated by some evil drive but are human beings that want to do right.