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Dough

https://fullchan.net/?3c65dfea6ca09211#22dfiDDbfAzmTyDzM9iaEjaJBeJeZ6zc621aBSUb94Kk

no homo yo's

>>131054

>>131057

Ty B

mucho appreciate dhat!!

>>131057

tyC

yes gb gonna be like 6 gorillion dollar man at some point. fuse dis, rod dat kek

much non homoic luv yer way brah

awwwww sheit... gonna 187 thomas

Clarence Thomas Hospitalized with an Infection After Experiencing ‘Flu-Like’ Symptoms

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/03/20/clarence-thomas-hospitalized-infection-experiencing-flu-like-symptoms/

stopped next door for a sec to see wut wuz up...

baker claimed ghost bred then said eff it.

JAKE31 USAF Combat Sent north with LAGR333 (chek't) KC-135 tanker north from RAF Mildenhall

Heading north for "Cold Response" NATO fuckery

1 of 2 Combat Sents

FORTE11 Global Hawk RQ-4 drone setting up shop-will prolly be on this track still in the morning

Italian AF IAM1442 KC-135 tanker arriving back at Rome from Beirut ground stop of about 2 hours

>>131076

https://www.theblaze.com/news/babylon-bee-twitter-suspended-rachel-levine

From Record Selling To Panic Buying: A Week For The Hedge Fund History Books

If one had to describe last week's turmoil in the hedge fund world it would be just two words: "sheer chaos", because we have finally reached a point where smart investors have given up trying to predict what comes next and instead are merely trying to react (as fast as possible) to the newsflow.

As Goldman's Prime Brokerage explains, "the desk has witnessed the increasingly high level of difficulty in terms of navigating this market (10 out of 10 difficulty?). Indeed, the most recent GS PB flows data suggests that "investors are now chasing trends – buying on rallies, selling on selloffs - instead of anticipating what comes next, as that has become virtually impossible."

Witness the latest out of GS PB over recent sessions

*Prime Flow for Mar 11-14thth (SPX -2.03%) -- Largest $ net selling since early January

(and proof of the example mentioned in Mkt Fags report on friday)

>>130909 pb

>The NAS just made it back to the 50DMA but only just and even that took an over 8% move in 4 days because monday it was down so 8% in four days....absolute lunacy following and just behind is the SP500 with 6% rise in the same 4 days.

*Prime Flow for Mar 15th (SPX +2.14%) -- Largest $ net buying in 3 weeks

*Prime Flow for Mar 16th (SPX +2.24%) -- Largest $ net buying since late January

*Prime Flow for Mar 17th (SPX +1.23%) -- Overall book slightly net bought (1-Yr Zscore +0.2)

The numbers in terms of actual hedge fund activity are even more remarkable:

*Net selling from Friday (3/11) and Monday (3/14) combined was the 3rd largest over any 2-day period in the past decade (behind late Dec ’18 and early Jan ’22).

*Fundamental LS -6.0% (alpha -2.0%) vs MSCI TR -3.7%. Fundamental LS managers experienced negative alpha performance in 9 of the 11 trading days MTD.

*Fundamental LS Gross leverage has fallen -7.6 pts MTD – the 3rd largest decrease over any 10-day period behind Mar ’20 and Dec ‘18.

Fundamental LS Net leverage has fallen -7.5 pts MTD – the largest decrease over any 10-day period on record (since Jan ’16)-see cap #3. It is this phenomenon of extreme swings that has underscored a "short gamma" market (however, as we noted on Friday-and so did Mkt Fag-, dealers are now slightly long gamma so the volatility may finally quiet down)...don't count on that habbening until after the Qtrly close as they are all getting caught with dicks in hand each time the neckline (previous days close) gets breached without any real conviction-the meandering during mid-day. ... which results in one thing: buyers higher, and sellers lower-AKA PANIC BUYING. .. a shift we haven't seen in some time.

The relentless, trend-less roller coaster in stocks, explains why yet again, hedge funds are painfully under performing their benchmarks, with Equity L/S managers down -10% YTD on an asset-weighted basis and down around -6% on a simple average basis. The problem is that with hedge fund positioning the lowest in two years both gross and net..... any continued ramp higher will lead to another panicked, frenzied chase higher. Of course, if instead we see a reversal of last week's furious stampede, brace for the selling as hedge funds - already shellshocked - resume their liquidating ways.

and when that habbens ...dhere ain't shit that J-J-J-Janet and the inkjets can do about it over the medium term. They can have an arresting effect for a few sessions-which is exactly what they did prior to last week but they were noticeably absent last week.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/record-selling-panic-buying-week-hedge-fund-history-books

https://www.patriotpub.org/gatherings/xjn6z79szyp4av98a53w4d6lbklcsj

Joe Biden to visit Poland for urgent talks with NATO, European allies amid Ukraine crisis

after Brussels on Thursday

US President Joe Biden will be travelling Poland's capital city Warsaw to discuss the ongoing Ukraine crisis with Poland President Andrzej Duda, the White House informed on Monday. He will also hold urgent talks with NATO and other European allies.

Biden will discuss how US, alongside its allies and partners, is responding to the humanitarian crisis that Russia’s unjustified and unprovoked war on Ukraine has created. Biden will first travel to Brussels and then to Poland on Friday to meet with leaders there, press secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement.

The announcement regarding Biden's visit to Warsaw comes as Russian forces concentrate their fire upon cities and trapped civilians in a nearly month-old invasion of Ukraine.

Poland is a crucial ally in the Ukraine crisis. It is hosting thousands of American troops and is taking in more people fleeing the war in Ukraine. It became the face of many evacuations from Ukraine, including that of Indians stuck in the war-torn country. Poland has been one of the most vocal countries in asking fellow NATO members to consider getting more involved to rein in the bloodshed.

White House officials have said Biden has no plans to travel to Ukraine. Secretary of State Antony Blinken had briefly crossed into Ukraine from Poland as a show of solidarity alongside that country’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba.

https://www.indiatvnews.com/news/world/joe-biden-poland-visit-march-25-urgent-talks-with-nato-european-allies-russia-ukraine-war-crisis-latest-updates-white-house-2022-03-21-765181

swiping these with text doesn't show up so well-the moar text the less depth so here two swipes and original in da middle

>>131037 pb

SAM610 USAF G5 es from Shannon, Ireland ground stop refuel so most likely Gulf or farther for this-could also be Tel Aviv too

>>131074

FORTE10 Global Hawk RQ-4 drone on northern Poland runs-dis will be here for a bit then switch to north/south along Belarus/Ukraine border

>>131092

>>131096

obviously can be done adding txt to already swiped but just wanted ta see how it looked dis way.

Make moar tomorrow before I go.

night B

normal time

click dhat one

ttyitm

UK Bred with a new open source pic dated 17DEC2013 which is a MATCH for the light pattern of the Q WW pic. (See pic related)

Nao you might say, Didn’t you post a vid dated 15DEC with one more burned out bulb than the Q pic? Yes we did. Just another one of those things we deal with.

The pic source says it was taken on 17DEC but we are still trying to check on it. One theory raised by this is that we could be seeing an intermittent failing light bulb.

Or the ‘taken’ date is incorrect. Sometimes posted dates get confused with taken dates.

But we still have another what we call ‘stake in the sand.’ Meaning we are over the target. Currently trying metacrawler for moar pics. This one ends with a -09 so we are hoping for moar pics. But meta being stingy.

In any event, this pic has a quite nice detail. Blessings, Anons.

Just before sunset look at Middle East and Yerp

Let's start in Iraq and Middle east/Med

Hungarian AF HUAF147 departed north from Baghdad Int'l afer a little moar than 3 hours on the ground

62-3513 USAF KC-135 tanker in it's usual piosition over nw Iraq

RAF RRR9831 A330 coming out of Syria abd back to Cyprus

Algerina AF 7TVPG G5 west from Baku, Azerbaijan

Yerp

French AF CTM2052 A400M descending for Constanta, Romania

NATO02 E-3TF Sentry AWACS on the track over northern Romania

Polish AF PLF101 737 Polish President Duda heading es over Romania

LAGR250 USAF KC-135 tanker ne

Italian AF IAM1413 767 sw from Rzesow Airport Poland

REDEYE6 USAF E-8C Joint STARS wn after it's north/south runs

RAF RRR9911 A330 MRTT trackin' just west of where REDEYE6 wuz

RAF 0HAVOC12 Eurofighter just got a tank full 'o gas from RRR9911

Italian AF IAM4670 C-130 on descent for Rzesow

Dutch AF MMF20 MRTT settiing up for refueling tracks just south of Bydgoszcz, Poland replacing MMF18 who is heading west

RAF RRR7229 RC-135 Rivet Joint trackin north/south along Polish border area of Belarus/Ukraine

JAKE11 USAF RC-135 Rivet Joint done with it's eastern Poland traces and west

There is/are moar up but these are the biggins and it does look a 'mess' but why they are listed as who is where doing what.

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=477ff4,ae068c,43c6f6,0a400b,3b7772,4d03c8,48d982,ae0669,33fe7d,ae1491,43c700,43c60d,33fff1,480c41,43c38c,ae01d1,480c42

Dis wut BOTUS doing in about 25 minutes

11am EST Not AF1 Joe hosts a secure call with President Emmanuel Macron of France, Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany, Prime Minister Mario Draghi of Italy, and Prime Minister Boris Johnson of the United Kingdom to discuss their coordinated responses to Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified attack on Ukraine

https://factba.se/biden/calendar

Love the language towards the end

>>131112

Duda to Chisinau, Moldova

Polish AF PLF101 on descent for Chisinau, Moldova

The President of Poland, Andrzej Duda, pays a visit to the Republic of Moldova

https://trm.md/en/radio-moldova-promo/presedintele-poloniei-andrzej-duda-intreprinde-o-vizita-in-republica-moldova

Looks like a stop at Sophia after this

President Radev invites his Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda to visit Bulgaria in the coming days

https://bnr.bg/en/post/101617572/president-radev-invites-his-polish-counterpart-andrzej-duda-to-visit-bulgaria-in-the-coming-days

SPAR98 USAF G5 wn from Constanta AB, Romania

NATO weenies leaving after about 2.5 hours on the ground

Departed Warsaw earlier today with a stop at Rzesow Airport prior to Constanta

Warsaw-Constanta-Warsaw yesterday and arrived to Warsaw on 0319 from Ramstein

Boeing wins patent on uninterruptible autopilot system

Published 4 December 2006

New technology can be activated by the pilots, government agencies, even on-board sensors; not even a tortured pilot can give up control; dedicated electrical circuits ensure the system’s total independence

Boeing’s is, of course, not the first autopilot technology in existence, but this one has been designed with counterterrorism first and foremost in mind. Not only is it “uninterruptible” — so that even a tortured pilot cannot turn it off — but it can be activated remotely via radio or satellite by government agencies. The system might even include senors on the cockpit door that activate the autopilot of a certain amount of force is used against it. “There is a need for a technique that ensures the continuation of the desired path of travel of a vehicle by removing any type of human decision process that may be influenced by the circumstances of the situation, including threats or further violence onboard the vehicle,” the patent application explains. To make it fully independent, the system also has its own power supply, independent of the aircraft’s circuit breakers.

https://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/boeing-wins-patent-uninterruptible-autopilot-system

Mkt Fag: Morning Market report...hedge funds still chasing tail(s) muh 'puter can't tell me wut to do edition

After an initial pop, courtesy of the easily manipulated and razor thin order book Futures trading, it has given that up and dumped down. That pop lasted all of ten minutes and was met with the usual "Sell Mortimer!". That has been exhausted and currently witnessing a pretty choppy bounce on declining volume-black line in cap#2-this is moar proof that there has to be a bit moar than normal human involvement becasue usually the HFT algo's all kick in at abut the same time and you see a slower, moar steady rise-they can't just buy it all at once or it increases price paid. They are being VERY cautious-see above from last night >>131084 . They simply habs no idea what to do so treading lightly. Metals got a good pop and the charts are digesting that noa-coming off of that flurry nao.- see cap#4 for Ag are usual bigger of two movers %-wise.

The same FED head-who actually had a sort of realistic projection of GDP last year-and quickly "adjusted" for reflect colleagues moar "transient" approach to inflation (Atlanta) is making noises again-this the reason they are gioving for the drop: “I penciled in six rate hikes for 2022 and two more for 2023,” Bostic said in a speech Monday to a National Association for Business Economics conference in Washington. “I recognize that I am toward the bottom of the distribution relative to my colleagues, but the elevated levels of uncertainty are front forward in my mind and have tempered my confidence that an extremely aggressive rate path is appropriate today.” The problem is that the market already noes it's gonna be a raise in Prime at every meeting and taken away starting in 2023 see here and already known over a month ago >>126758 pb FOMC Minutes: "Faster" is the Word-calculatedrisk

But "muh surprise" right?...kek

People always need an excuse as to why the markets do what they do. Won't come to own conclusion so the Fin MSM habbily provide it for them.

Here is one reason of many...it's not just a Fed Head restating what they already knew in early February...thanks tards. Member we habs the 7 year still out performing the 10 year (see cap#3 for 10) as it's taken off nao after being just below 2.25% last weds. This 7 year is nao about 4 basis points higher see https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/bond/tmubmusd07y

The dollar is relatively quiet after it's dive last week see cap #4 here >>130909 pb

U.S. Curve Flattest Since 2019 Versus U.K.’s as Fed, BOE Diverge

The U.S. yield curve hasn’t been this flat in more than three years compared to its U.K. counterpart as the Federal Reserve takes a more hawkish stance than the Bank of England. The yield on 10-year U.K. bonds jumped 10 basis points on Monday, widening the gap with two-year paper to about 31 basis points. That compares with a 22 basis-point gap for the equivalent U.S. spread.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-21/u-s-curve-flattest-since-2019-versus-u-k-s-as-fed-boe-diverge

see here from last Tuesday : >>130538 pb Fresh part of Treasury yield curve inverts, with 7-year rate trading above 10-year yield

Au/Ag digesting a pop earlier-see cap #4 for our higher performer Ag (on a % basis up or down).

Had a little pause on Ag and it continues the trend up

Oil continues it's march off that just below $100 lrecent low and will reamin elevated for two reasons: Armaco's expected next "chunk" in an IPO and the EIA said it would remain abouve $100 so Poof!! it does but it is moar of the former rather than latter-see cap #5

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EIXIC

https://www.kitco.com/charts/livesilver.html

https://www.macrotrends.net/2566/crude-oil-prices-today-live-chart

https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/bond/tmubmusd10y

>>131119

SPAR98 short "hop" to Bucharest and on ground nao

>>131120

>>131121

>>131120

SAM602 USAF C-32A on ground at Shannon, Ireland for ground stop/refuel after departing Athens. Greece

Arrive at Rome on 0318 from JBA depart

Depart to Dubai on 0319

Depart Dubai to Athens on 0320

Departure from Athens earlier today

This was the MIA C-32A that has returned to Int'l service

https://twitter.com/gospaceforce/status/1505907077599969280

>>131097

SAM610 USAF G5 went to Tel Aviv

>could also be Tel Aviv too

India Ignores Western Pressure, Buys 'Cheap' Russian Crude

With China refusing to bend the knee to Washington's "denounce Putin" demands, it appears the Biden administration's narrative that the world is united against Russia is creaking at the seams as Bloomberg reports that cheap Russian Urals crude is finding willing buyers in India.

And why wouldn't they... With Urals Crude trading at a stunning $30 discount to Brent, who can blame India for snapping it up. "Russia is offering oil and other commodities at a heavy discount. We will be happy to take that," one of the Indian government officials said. The official added that such trade required preparatory work including transportation, insurance cover and getting the right blend of crude, but once that was done India would take Russia up on its offer.

Hindustan Petroleum Corp. recently bought 2 million barrels of the grade for delivery in June, and other processors are also seeking cargoes, according to people familiar with the matter. Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd. and Bharat Petroleum Corp. are looking to buy Urals crude for delivery in May and June, the people familiar with the plans said. Oil Minister Hardeep Singh Puri told lawmakers on Monday that Indian buyers have contracted the equivalent of about three days’ worth of the nation’s oil needs from Russia, which will be supplied over the next three to four months. That works out at about 15 million barrels of Russian oil, given India’s daily oil requirement of five million barrels. “Even if we were to scale this up considerably, it would still be literally a drop in a larger bucket,” the minister said in India’s parliament.

moar

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/india-ignores-western-pressure-buys-cheap-russian-crude

>>130265 lb India Is Mulling Rupee-Ruble Payments System For Trade With Russia

>>131124, >>131120, >>131127, >>131128

Boeing is Dow's biggest loser as shares slide after reported crash of Boeing 737 jet operated by Chinese airline

Boeing Co. is dragging down the Dow Jones Industrial Average Monday morning, with its shares tumbling after a Boeing 737 jet operated by a Chinese airline reportedly crashed. Shares of Boeing BA, -3.84%, the Dow's biggest loser in Monday morning trading, are down around 5%, according to FactSet data. Chinese state media broadcaster CCTV said the accident, involving a China Eastern Airlines Boeing, occurred near the city of Wuzhou in Teng county, according to an Associated Press report Monday.The Wall Street Journal reported that the aircraft was a 737-800 and not a Boeing 737 MAX, citing the Aviation Safety Network database. The Dow DJIA, -0.52% was down around 0.5% Monday morning, while the U.S. Global Jets ETF JETS, -2.28% was off 2.7%, FactSet data show, at last check. Boeing made up around 2% of U.S. Global Jets ETF's net assets as recently as March 18, according to the holdings listed on U.S. Global Investors Inc.'s website.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/boeing-is-dows-biggest-loser-as-shares-slide-after-reported-crash-of-boeing-737-jet-operated-by-chinese-airline-2022-03-21

Just after sunset

2 Israeli AF Re'em 707 tankers up GIANT 1 and 2-usually only see one of these at a time

GIANT1 on descent to the south and GIANT2 just north of Jerusalem

>>131129

SAM602 USAF C-32A departed Shannon after a ground stop/refuel west

02-4452 USAFSOC C-32B east from McGuire AFB, NJ

SAM655 USAF G5 KAF AC of interdast (high level) west from JBA depart

RCH0220 USAF C-17 also west from Dover AFB

SPAR18 USAF C-40C west from JBA depart

>>131089

https://medicineforthedead.substack.com/p/jack-maxey-this-dog-does-hunt?s=r

Jack Maxey - This Dog Does Hunt

Fed Chair Powell: FOMC "Not assuming significant near-term supply-side relief" on inflation

Turning to price stability, the inflation outlook had deteriorated significantly this year even before Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The rise in inflation has been much greater and more persistent than forecasters generally expected. For example, at the time of our June 2021 meeting, every Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) participant and all but one of 35 submissions in the Survey of Professional Forecasters predicted that 2021 inflation would be below 4 percent. Inflation came in at 5.5 percent.

For a time, moderate inflation forecasts looked plausible—the one-month headline and core inflation rates declined steadily from April through September. But inflation moved up sharply in the fall, and, just since our December meeting, the median FOMC projection for year-end 2022 jumped from 2.6 percent to 4.3 percent.

Why have forecasts been so far off? In my view, an important part of the explanation is that forecasters widely underestimated the severity and persistence of supply-side frictions, which, when combined with strong demand, especially for durable goods, produced surprisingly high inflation.

The pandemic and the associated shutdown and reopening of the economy caused a serious upheaval in many parts of the economy, snarling supply chains, constraining labor supply, and creating a major boom in demand for goods and a bust in services demand. The combination of the surge in goods demand with supply chain bottlenecks led to sharply rising goods prices (figure 4). The most notable example here is motor vehicles. Prices soared across the vehicles sector as booming demand was met by a sharp decline in global production during the summer of 2021, owing to shortages of computer chips. Production remains below pre-pandemic levels, and an expected sharp decline in prices has been repeatedly postponed.

Many forecasters, including FOMC participants, had been expecting inflation to cool in the second half of last year, as the economy started going back to normal after vaccines became widely available.3 Expectations were that the supply-side damage would begin to heal. Schools would reopen—freeing parents to return to work—and labor supply would begin bouncing back, kinks in supply chains would begin resolving, and consumption would start rotating back to services, all of which could reduce price pressures. While schools are open, none of the other expectations has been fully met. Part of the reason may be that, contrary to expectations, COVID has not gone away with the arrival of vaccines. In fact, we are now headed once again into more COVID-related supply disruptions from China. It continues to seem likely that hoped-for supply-side healing will come over time as the world ultimately settles into some new normal, but the timing and scope of that relief are highly uncertain. In the meantime, as we set policy, we will be looking to actual progress on these issues and not assuming significant near-term supply-side relief.

https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2022/03/fed-chair-powell-fomc-not-assuming.html

C202 US Coast Guard G5 se from Miami Int'l ground stop of about 3 hours-inbound from Reagan National Airport

https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1505966403375050763

KAMALA: "The significance of the passage of time, right? The significance of the passage of time. So when you think about it, there is great significance to the passage of time.”

Sounds like comms. Repeat a word or phrase 3 times is often a giveaway.

Related to CERN coming back online tomorrow?

wussup yo's. literally just getting on since 8:30 today. irl is off the hook.

gonna try an catch up on habbenings.

Mrs G here

Procedure went well and has about half the pain right now. He is resting and laying flat for the next 24 hours.Will be back when he can.

Thanks for the good vibes!

>>131156

Glad pain is down, fingers crossed.

We'll be here, home fires burning.

o7

>>131156

tyvm mrs G. awesome news that he is recovering. tell em' fam is always here

GB says thank you and he appreciates the support.

>>131161

wahoooooo

smoooooov sailing yo's

>>131161

swift recovery

>>131160

hey wakes

howsa?

still around?

>>131161

have a good night and a better tomorrow

>>131175

was eyein real close wakers

thinkin hard bout it

kek

you nose me well

>>131177

dem diggies

kek

hongree. did the earlies bake next door and on a very long wurkfag call

ride neber enz.

all guud wif you n g's?

>>131180

Fallout From London Nickel Trading Fiasco Will Be Extensive, Expert Says

March 22, 2022 

The London Metal Exchange’s (LME) extraordinary decision on March 8 to halt nickel trading after a short squeeze triggered by a Chinese metal tycoon’s large short position sent commodity prices skyrocketing to more than $100,000 a ton will have far-reaching ramifications for Chinese firms in global markets

That’s according to Christopher Balding, an economist and analyst of Chinese business affairs.

Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the price of nickel, a metal heavily in demand for the manufacture of electronic vehicles and other uses, had risen partly as a result of the heavy concentration of deposits of the precious metal in Russia, which massive sanctions have now cut off from much of the world.

The spike in the commodity price frustrated a huge short position held by Xiang Guangda, founder of Tsingshan Holding Group, one of the world’s biggest nickel and stainless steel producers. Guangda bet that nickel prices would go down, not up.

When nickel’s trading price surged dramatically in early March, Tsingshan struggled to pay margin calls, putting its creditors in a difficult position. The price rise was further fueled as brokers and bankers of Tsingshan rushed to buy back nickel contracts to stem losses. At its peak, prices shot up to a record $100,000 a ton.

The exchange stopped nickel trading after several small brokers claimed that they would default if prices remained at record levels, according to a Wall Street Journal article. It was the first time the LME had halted trading since 1988.

Tsignshan is now reportedly facing billions in trading losses; The largest counterparty to the bet JPMorgan Chase reportedly had $1 billion in exposures.

The resumption of the nickel trade on the London exchange began tentatively on March 16, with daily upper and lower price limits in place.

According to Financial Times, the exchange canceled all 5,000 nickel trades worth nearly $4 billion that had been executed on March 8.

LME’s move to halt trading raises “very serious concerns,” according to Balding, who said the exchange was shut down “basically to protect a specific Chinese company from incurring the losses … when the price of metals skyrocketed.”

“I suspect the reason it isn’t being talked about is because of the events in Ukraine,” he told The Epoch Times.

“This will absolutely prove a watershed moment, especially when governments are considering whether or not they should be allowing Chinese firms as key stakeholders in markets, whether they’re commodity or stock markets.”

Balding added that the events of March 8 were not only “a serious blow” to the LME but are likely to make themselves felt in the markets of Chicago and New York, where many participants place their faith in “high-quality trading venues” backed up by a sound legal system.

“I believe that in the days and weeks and months ahead that this would prove a very consequential and serious event as we look back, primarily in how financial traders and financial market participants treat the CCP’s involvement in markets around the world,” Balding said.

“When they are currently leaning on the scales of a market to benefit certain Chinese parties, that tends to be frowned upon by market participants,” he added. “That’s going to have a significant impact on how countries view Chinese involvement in their markets in the future.”

These developments come at a time when the Chinese economy already faced “a significantly more difficult year,” Balding said. He alluded to the CCP Congress coming up in the fall, at which leader Xi Jinping is widely expected to be appointed to a third term as party secretary.

“This is what in China effectively amounts to a reelection campaign year, where they like to generally have very strong economic numbers with the reelection. So, with the high debt levels and export numbers expected to be flat from the previous year, there’s going to be a lot of pressure on the Chinese economy in 2022,” he said.

https://m.theepochtimes.com/fallout-from-london-nickel-trading-fiasco-will-be-extensive-expert-says_4352038.html

>>131178

yeppers chief

all guud

no grits wars in sight yo

guud to see ya back in regular form again, breathing a sigh of relief, gots to let it all hang out n shietz

so ya think that trailer big enough for an freezer?

askin for a fren

taco tuesday muh ass

>>131183

kek

may need a dingy fer tha deep freeze

>>131188

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?currentFeatureId=us6000h6nr&extent=-66.79191,-322.73438&extent=83.06877,104.76563&magnitude=all&showUSFaults=true&baseLayer=satellite&list=false&settings=true

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000h6nr/map

>>131148

>>131198

yeah?... tell dat to poor pepe

>>131200

audible kek

>>131204

>>131148

Governor DeSantis Issues Proclamation Rejecting NCAA ‘Trans Champion’ And Declares Female Emma Weyant Rightful Winner

Gov. DeSantis issued a proclamation in support of Florida native Emma Weyant as the ‘rightful winner’ after trans athlete Lia Thomas was declared the first transgender athlete to win an NCAA championship.

Governor DeSantis rejected trans athlete Lia Thomas’ claim to the NCAA’s Division I 500-yard Freestyle championship during which Thomas finished a full second ahead of former Olympian Emma Weyant.

Thomas, who was born Will Thomas, came out as transgender to their family in 2018 and only began transitioning in 2019 and swam for the University of Pennsylvania men’s team until the 2021-2022 season.

Highlighting Weyant’s impressive achievements as both a student and athlete, DeSantis reiterated Florida’s view that allowing individuals who are biologically male to compete against women “perpetuates a fraud against women athletes” and “erodes opportunities for women.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/governor-desantis-issues-proclamation-rejecting-ncaa-trans-champion-declares-female-emma-weyant-rightful-winner/

>>131208

A good salad can be the best salad.

wite peeps confused huh

>>131211

“They were the best of salad days. They were the worst of salad days...”

>>131207

wut up muh kneegroes.

just stoppin in to say hi

spent muh 24 hours flat to gibs it best op to werk.

Now it's the blahs wif it-that should last a few days.

>>131225

muh brotha frum anudda mutha

guud to see you but go rest.

the ghost known as fuggen Blythe Masters makes an appearance

Blythe Masters SPAC Merger Sends Forge Global Stock Soaring

Forge Global Holdings Inc. soared in the first day of trading after completing its tie-up with a blank-check company led by Blythe Masters, the former JPMorgan Chase & Co. executive who helped create credit default swaps.

Shares of the private-securities marketplace gained as much as 166% in Tuesday trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the FRGE ticker. It’s the first session for Forge Global after it combined with special-purpose acquisition company Motive Capital Corp. Masters, who was Motive’s chief executive officer, will remain on the board of the combined entity. The rally goes against the tide for SPACs and their post-merger progeny, which have plunged since enthusiasm for blank-check companies peaked in February 2021. SPACs are called blank checks because they raise money for buying an operating business without giving a specific target, implicitly asking investors to rely on the expertise of their management.

The quality of most other blank-check ventures has deteriorated, in part because they featured celebrities and sports stars without track records of business expertise. The IPOX SPAC Index is down about 40% from its highs of last year, and the De-SPAC Index that tracks post-merger performance has lost more than 60%.

By contrast, Masters is an acknowledged financial star on Wall Street after more than two decades working with derivatives at JPMorgan, and later joining Digital Asset Holdings in 2015 where she was a high-profile advocate of blockchain for finance.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-22/blythe-masters-spac-s-merger-sends-forge-global-stock-soaring

Blythe Masters

Member of the Board of Directors-Credit Suisse

Chair of Credit Suisse Holdings (USA), Inc. (2021–present)

Chair of the Digital Transformation and Technology Committee (2022–present)

Member of the Compensation Committee (2021–present)

Member of the Risk Committee (2021)

2019–present Motive Partners

President of Motive Capital Corporation II (SPAC) (2021-present)

Member of the Board of Directors of CAIS (2021-present)

Consultant of Apollo Global Management2015–2018

Digital Asset Holdings LLC-DAH-this is from where Blythe just vanished from in 2018 and did not "surface" in public until the process to be elected to Credit Suisse BoD

also DAH was the start of basically digitizing the entire derivative shit pile.

Chief Executive Officer (2021-present)

CEO and Member of the Board of Directors of Motive Capital Corporation I (SPAC) (2020-present)

Motive Partners, Founding Partner (2019-present)

But it is her role here that allows her to have a special place in hell alongside Jamie Dimon and the "clean-up crew" as Head of Global Commodities

1991–2015 J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.

Head of Corporate & Investment Bank Regulatory Affairs (2010–2014)

Head of Global Commodities (2007–2014)

Chief Financial Officer Investment Bank (2004–2007)

Head of Credit Policy and Strategy and Global Credit Portfolio (2002–2004)

Co-Head of Asset Backed Securitization and Head of Global Structured Credit (2000–2002)

Co-Head of North American Credit Portfolio (1998–2000)

Head of Global Credit Derivatives Marketing (1995–1998)

Various Roles in Fixed Income Markets (1991–1995)

https://www.credit-suisse.com/about-us/en/our-company/our-management/board-of-directors/blythe-masters.html

So all the shitty credit products that started to detonate in 2006 (even though they tried to hide it) you can thank Blythe for those and the insurance (CDS) so eagerly allowed to be applied to them.

from 2014-see cap #2 as well

How Blythe Masters pioneered the credit default swap

https://moneyweek.com/316602/profile-of-blythe-masters

>>131226

glad to hear from ya

just posted one thang

seems it pretty slow from wut I can tell and see below too

>>131227

headed back now

can only lie down for so long so I will be making a pop in here and dhere.

CONGRATULATIONS RON!

Now on to the primary.

Argentina Raises Key Rate to 44.5% as Inflation Heats Up

Argentina’s central bank raised its benchmark rate Tuesday for the third time this year as inflation continues to speed up.

Officials increased the key, 28-day Leliq rate by 200 basis points to 44.5%, according to a statement. The announcement comes after President Alberto Fernandez declared a “war on inflation” last week, adding days later that the government will take “all necessary measures” to combat price increases. Government data last week showed consumer prices in February rose 4.7% from January, the fastest monthly pace in nearly a year and the third straight month of higher inflation. Raising borrowing costs above Argentina’s 52% annual inflation rate is a pillar of the monetary policy the government agreed upon in its pending program with the International Monetary Fund. Tuesday’s rate increase boosts the effective annual rate, which accounts for compounded interest, to 53.3%.

Policy makers at the central bank consider that the effective annual rate is the one that needs to exceed inflation to comply with the IMF’s goal of positive rates. After not raising borrowing costs for a year despite high inflation, the government’s IMF agreement has made the central bank shift its inflation strategy. Along with raising rates, the monetary authority has committed to printing less money this year to finance government spending.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-22/argentina-raises-key-rate-to-44-5-as-inflation-heats-up

Heading towards Zimbabwe

Trudope leaving for Brussels

Canadian AF CFC01 A310 departed Ottawa Int'l east to Brussels

Times local

9:30 a.m. The Prime Minister will arrive in Brussels, Belgium.

5:05pm Prime Minister will hold a bilateral meeting with the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola.

5:30 p.m. The Prime Minister will deliver an address to the European Parliament.

7:30 p.m. The Prime Minister will hold a bilateral meeting with the Prime Minister of Finland, Sanna Marin.

8:35 p.m. The Prime Minister, along with the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, will deliver brief remarks.

8:45 p.m. The Prime Minister will attend a working dinner with the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. European Commission Headquarters – Le Berlaymont

https://pm.gc.ca/en/news/itineraries/2022/03/22/prime-ministers-itinerary-wednesday-march-23-2022

Royal Saudi AF RSF1170 A330 departed Dover AFB after about 6 hours on the ground-arrived yesterday

Won't talk to Not AF1 Joe d'oh....kek

out for now

>>131099

take care, feel better.

WRWY.

o7

BOOM BOOM BOOM?

https://twitter.com/rising_serpent/status/1506427047878569993?s=21

>>131255

>>131257

New #Durham Filing: 👇🏼

storage.courtlistener.com/reca

He’s asking for extensions on discovery deadlines because:

A. There are so many documents

B. Ukraine situation has slowed FBI’s ability to produce discovery & declassification process

>>131253

Boom

Boom

Boom

was confirmed on 17th

>>131259

>>131191, >>131193, >>131194

https://twitter.com/kylenabecker/status/1506413018200125441

https://twitter.com/RealMacReport/status/1506424927548805134

cakes, we might as well let this bake ride fer a bit. pretty quiet. if you want i will bake it or we can let it ride for a few hours. just let me know.

FRESH BREAD

>>131267

>>131267

>>131267

FRESH BREAD