Piousbox - Issue Dec'22

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"Education is the only weapon against poverty."
-- anonymous, rephrased
"Success is more difficult than failure."
-- anonymous, rephrased
"Making money takes practice like playing the piano takes practice."
-- anonymous, rephrased
"Everything happens for a reason, but sometimes the reason is that you are stupid and make bad decisions."
-- anonymous, rephrased
"Plans are useless, but planning is critical."
-- anonymous, rephrased
"Leverage is the root of all evil."
-- me
"Debt is the root of poverty."
-- me
"never let a good crisis go to waste"
-- anonymized
  1. What is RRP, how does it work, and why is it being used at all?
    By piousbox on 2022-12-31
  2. Complete DD of the FDIC meeting. Credit Suisse is the tip of the Iceberg. A Clearing Corporation is borked in Europe and the US doesn't have regulatory power to stop the Titanic from hitting the iceberg.
    By piousbox on 2022-12-30
  3. Shorting and FDT'ing on Bonds and T-bills is the most direct way to extract wealth from population, by increasing money supply and inflation
    By piousbox on 2022-12-29
  4. Man, if superstonk was an investment firm, I’d be terrified
    By piousbox on 2022-12-28
  5. Yesterday, equity traders bought two puts for every call. It was the most bearish sentiment in the options market. Ever.
    By piousbox on 2022-12-22
  6. XRT has run out of money!!
    By piousbox on 2022-12-22
  7. Citadel Sold but Not Purchased History
    By piousbox on 2022-12-20
  8. Today we're marking the rare doubling of reported borrow costs of GME
    By piousbox on 2022-12-20
  9. Japanese Yen is in free fall and connection to US treasuries and overall market, pt 2.
    By piousbox on 2022-12-20
  10. The similarities between Madoff's arrest and SBF's arrest and how they could possibly explain, but in no way justify, the government's inaction with Citadel, Virtu, DTCC, and others
    By piousbox on 2022-12-18
  11. The Dollar Endgame: ADDENDUM PART 2
    By piousbox on 2022-12-16
  12. Citadel's $65B Timebomb - meme dump
    By piousbox on 2022-12-16
  13. Understanding Citadel's $65-billion in 'Securities Sold, not yet purchased' filing
    By piousbox on 2022-12-14
  14. Biggest Ponzi Scheme in History
    By piousbox on 2022-12-08
  15. Gamestop Earnings: misses estimate, but achieves positive cash flow
    By piousbox on 2022-12-08
  16. Citadel directly registered and subsequently withdrew 13m Gamestop shares last quarter
    By piousbox on 2022-12-08
  17. COMMENT AGAINST the FEDERAL RESERVE & FDIC proposal setting up retirees and pensions as Bag Holders!
    By piousbox on 2022-12-05
  18. Two Tiered Monetary System
    By piousbox on 2022-12-03
  19. Major Signals are Flashing Code Red in the Shadow Banking System- Reverse Repo hitting $1T is just the Tip of the Iceberg
    By piousbox on 2022-12-03
  20. The Dollar Endgame - ADDENDUM: Q&A
    By piousbox on 2022-12-02
  21. Bloomberg Terminal is no more. OpenBB Terminal 2.0 has just been released.
    By piousbox on 2022-12-01
  22. Your Assets Aren't As Safe as You Think: The False Facade of Insurance Committed by Brokerages with FDIC Sweeps and SIPC Coverage(And how you'll get left behind post-MOASS). The case study for DRS of EVERYTHING - and Associated Self-Custodianship
    By piousbox on 2022-12-01
  23. The Dollar Endgame Part 5.0 - "Enter the Dragon"
    By piousbox on 2022-11-30
  24. At dawn... We ride.
    By piousbox on 2022-11-24
  25. ._.
    By piousbox on 2022-11-23
  26. I think I found the shares...
    By piousbox on 2022-11-23
  27. Citadel Used 2008 Bailout Money to Begin the GME Shorting Saga
    By piousbox on 2022-11-21
  28. Have YouTubers Been Getting Paid to Bash GameStop?
    By piousbox on 2022-11-21
  29. [German DD] Research on CM-Equity AG and all FTX companies located in Germany and Switzerland including their leadership. Connection between Binance Germany and FTX discovered. Part 3/3
    By piousbox on 2022-11-18
  30. [German DD] Research on CM-Equity AG and all FTX companies located in Germany and Switzerland including their leadership. Connection between Binance Germany and FTX discovered. Part 2/3
    By piousbox on 2022-11-18
  31. [German DD] Research on CM-Equity AG and all FTX companies located in Germany and Switzerland including their leadership. Connection between Binance Germany and FTX discovered. Part 1/3
    By piousbox on 2022-11-18
  32. Titled "apes laughing", unattributed
    By piousbox on 2022-11-16

  1. What is RRP, how does it work, and why is it being used at all?
    By piousbox on 2022-12-31
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  2. Every indication that 2023 will be a miserable year
    By piousbox on 2022-12-31
    Actually, just one indication: SOMA = The Federal Reserve System Open Market Account For the entirety of 2023 they are projecting negative income, i.e. losses. The losses the FED incurs nowadays, at the end of 2022, are as follows: Read More >>>
  3. Happy New Year!
    By piousbox on 2022-12-30
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  4. Complete DD of the FDIC meeting. Credit Suisse is the tip of the Iceberg. A Clearing Corporation is borked in Europe and the US doesn't have regulatory power to stop the Titanic from hitting the iceberg.
    By piousbox on 2022-12-30
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  5. &
    By piousbox on 2022-12-29
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  6. Bubble Girl I
    By piousbox on 2022-12-29
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  7. It appears that apes are not feeling the pain of 2022, either
    By piousbox on 2022-12-29
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  8. Shorting and FDT'ing on Bonds and T-bills is the most direct way to extract wealth from population, by increasing money supply and inflation
    By piousbox on 2022-12-29
    Nowadays, 8% of shorts in bonds market fail settlement. Shoring T-bills and bonds is a monetary policy tool used by governments and central banks to raise capital and manage their debts. It involves the sale of government securities, such as T-bills (short-term debt obligations) and bonds (long-term debt obligations), to investors in exchange for cash. The cash raised through the sale of these securities is then used to finance government operations and pay off outstanding debts. Read More >>>
  9. Man, if superstonk was an investment firm, I’d be terrified
    By piousbox on 2022-12-28
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  10. A Gift from Tanashi
    By piousbox on 2022-12-27
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  11. It appears that the rich have not felt the pain of 2022
    By piousbox on 2022-12-25
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  12. Ho Ho Ho! Merry X-mas!
    By piousbox on 2022-12-25
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  13. Productivity vs real earnings in the US -- what happened ca 1974?
    By piousbox on 2022-12-23
    Somewhat related to the most recent US elections, I've been researching the whole "white working class" situation, and one strange anomaly has popped up. When one looks at a graph of productivity (for the US) vs real wages, there is a marked "disturbance in the force" around 1974. Read More >>>
  14. Yesterday, equity traders bought two puts for every call. It was the most bearish sentiment in the options market. Ever.
    By piousbox on 2022-12-22
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  15. XRT has run out of money!!
    By piousbox on 2022-12-22
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  16. US bitcoin miner Core Scientific files for bankruptcy
    By piousbox on 2022-12-22
    tl;dr:
    • Core Scientific reiterated it could run out of cash before the end of the year as lawsuits are piling up.
    • Core Scientific has been affected by the bankruptcy of lender Celsius's mining arm, one of its biggest clients.
    • Two other companies sued CORZ in November: Sphere 3D (ANY) and McCarthy Building Companies. A class-action lawsuit was filed in the same month in Texas courts alleging failures to disclose important information to investors.
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  17. ._.
    By piousbox on 2022-12-22
    FIN
  18. Happy Birthday, World! <3
    By piousbox on 2022-12-21
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  19. 2022-12-21 Site Updates
    By piousbox on 2022-12-21
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  20. Citadel Sold but Not Purchased History
    By piousbox on 2022-12-20
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  21. Protagonists :: CEASE
    By piousbox on 2022-12-20
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  22. Today we're marking the rare doubling of reported borrow costs of GME
    By piousbox on 2022-12-20
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  23. Japanese Yen is in free fall and connection to US treasuries and overall market, pt 2.
    By piousbox on 2022-12-20
    Read More >>>
  24. Japan Securities Clearing Corp (JSCC) issues emergency margin call
    By piousbox on 2022-12-20
    Update: false alarm, everybody. The JSCC published several files (updated their models) regarding margins, specifically emergency margins. Nobody got margin-called, and nobody failed a margin call. Read More >>>
  25. On Resilience and Achieving
    By piousbox on 2022-12-20
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  26. The similarities between Madoff's arrest and SBF's arrest and how they could possibly explain, but in no way justify, the government's inaction with Citadel, Virtu, DTCC, and others
    By piousbox on 2022-12-18
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  27. Wow I didn't know I'm such a nerd...
    By piousbox on 2022-12-16
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  28. The Dollar Endgame: ADDENDUM PART 2
    By piousbox on 2022-12-16
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  29. 202212 USA Politics - Meme Dump
    By piousbox on 2022-12-16
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  30. The railroad strike - meme dump
    By piousbox on 2022-12-16
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  31. Senator Merkley introduces bill to ban hedge funds from owning residential housing
    By piousbox on 2022-12-16
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  32. Citadel's $65B Timebomb - meme dump
    By piousbox on 2022-12-16
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  33. Bullshit jobs - a theory (notes)
    By piousbox on 2022-12-16
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  34. Sketchfab celebrates 10M members
    By piousbox on 2022-12-16
    Viewable on desktop only: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/celebrating-10m-members-5m-3d-models-30a54dc3420f4df6a6b7a76584483fcb?utm_source=triggered-emails&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=new-model-uploaded-by-following FIN
  35. Understanding Citadel's $65-billion in 'Securities Sold, not yet purchased' filing
    By piousbox on 2022-12-14
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  36. USA Rails Workers Strike for Better Benefits
    By piousbox on 2022-12-13
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  37. FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried arrested in the Bahamas after U.S. files criminal charges - meme dump
    By piousbox on 2022-12-13
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  38. Marketing: permission marketing, direct marketing. Thought leaders like Seth Godin.
    By piousbox on 2022-12-12
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  39. Thank you letter example templates
    By piousbox on 2022-12-08
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  40. Meta Bunny 59
    By piousbox on 2022-12-08
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  41. 2022-12-06 Site Updates
    By piousbox on 2022-12-08
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  42. Biggest Ponzi Scheme in History
    By piousbox on 2022-12-08
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  43. Bank of Canada is losing money for the first time ever
    By piousbox on 2022-12-08
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  44. Gamestop Earnings: misses estimate, but achieves positive cash flow
    By piousbox on 2022-12-08
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  45. Citadel directly registered and subsequently withdrew 13m Gamestop shares last quarter
    By piousbox on 2022-12-08
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  46. COMMENT AGAINST the FEDERAL RESERVE & FDIC proposal setting up retirees and pensions as Bag Holders!
    By piousbox on 2022-12-05
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  47. Language Vendor VI
    By piousbox on 2022-12-05
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  48. Haymaker by u/Algebutter
    By piousbox on 2022-12-04
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  49. Language V
    By piousbox on 2022-12-04
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  50. Language Vendor IV
    By piousbox on 2022-12-03
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  51. Two Tiered Monetary System
    By piousbox on 2022-12-03
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  52. Major Signals are Flashing Code Red in the Shadow Banking System- Reverse Repo hitting $1T is just the Tip of the Iceberg
    By piousbox on 2022-12-03
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  53. The Dollar Endgame - ADDENDUM: Q&A
    By piousbox on 2022-12-02
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  54. Language Vendor III
    By piousbox on 2022-12-02
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  55. Blackstone limits withdrawals at $125bn property fund as investors rush to exit
    By piousbox on 2022-12-01
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  56. Bloomberg Terminal is no more. OpenBB Terminal 2.0 has just been released.
    By piousbox on 2022-12-01
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  57. Language Vendor II
    By piousbox on 2022-12-01
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  58. Your Assets Aren't As Safe as You Think: The False Facade of Insurance Committed by Brokerages with FDIC Sweeps and SIPC Coverage(And how you'll get left behind post-MOASS). The case study for DRS of EVERYTHING - and Associated Self-Custodianship
    By piousbox on 2022-12-01
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  59. Loopweeb #230
    By piousbox on 2022-12-01
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  60. The Dollar Endgame Part 5.0 - "Enter the Dragon"
    By piousbox on 2022-11-30
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  61. The Picasso Content Management System II
    By piousbox on 2022-11-30
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  62. Titled "Picasso Content Management System"
    By piousbox on 2022-11-29
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  63. 2022-11-28 Site Updates
    By piousbox on 2022-11-28
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  64. Crypto lender BlockFi files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
    By piousbox on 2022-11-28
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  65. An Electric Puppy
    By piousbox on 2022-11-28
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  66. Language Vendor I
    By piousbox on 2022-11-27
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  67. Re 02 Okusora Keita
    By piousbox on 2022-11-26
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  68. Biosphere 12 - Romicon Revola
    By piousbox on 2022-11-25
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  69. At dawn... We ride.
    By piousbox on 2022-11-24
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  70. Order Tetsuya Fukushima
    By piousbox on 2022-11-24
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  71. 2022-11-23 Site Updates
    By piousbox on 2022-11-23
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  72. 2022-11-22 Site Updates
    By piousbox on 2022-11-23
    A small update on paper, but it took a comfortable amount of time to implement, not too long, not too short, and the update is already being used in production. The update is:
    • Implemented email campaigns functionality in PiousboxCRM.
    FIN
  73. ._.
    By piousbox on 2022-11-23
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  74. Scene 24 From Here to Eternity Simon Ng
    By piousbox on 2022-11-23
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  75. I think I found the shares...
    By piousbox on 2022-11-23
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  76. An oldie but goodie!
    By piousbox on 2022-11-22
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  77. Electric Puppy II
    By piousbox on 2022-11-22
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  78. Citadel Used 2008 Bailout Money to Begin the GME Shorting Saga
    By piousbox on 2022-11-21
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  79. Have YouTubers Been Getting Paid to Bash GameStop?
    By piousbox on 2022-11-21
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  80. Placeholder
    By piousbox on 2022-11-20
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  81. Grayscale prepares for bankruptcy
    By piousbox on 2022-11-20
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  82. Commentary on Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)
    By piousbox on 2022-11-18
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  83. An Abstract Painting
    By piousbox on 2022-11-18
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  84. FTX Contagion Spreads
    By piousbox on 2022-11-18
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  85. Cleo, an assassin by SpecialOpsLab
    By piousbox on 2022-11-18
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  86. [German DD] Research on CM-Equity AG and all FTX companies located in Germany and Switzerland including their leadership. Connection between Binance Germany and FTX discovered. Part 3/3
    By piousbox on 2022-11-18
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  87. [German DD] Research on CM-Equity AG and all FTX companies located in Germany and Switzerland including their leadership. Connection between Binance Germany and FTX discovered. Part 2/3
    By piousbox on 2022-11-18
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  88. [German DD] Research on CM-Equity AG and all FTX companies located in Germany and Switzerland including their leadership. Connection between Binance Germany and FTX discovered. Part 1/3
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  89. Placeholder
    By piousbox on 2022-11-16
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  90. How money works: Intro
    By piousbox on 2022-11-16
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  91. A Meta Bunny
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  92. Titled "apes laughing", unattributed
    By piousbox on 2022-11-16
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  93. Genesis, a crypto lender, halts redemptions and originations
    By piousbox on 2022-11-16
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  94. Piousbox Logo Interpretation I
    By piousbox on 2022-11-15
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