Oddbean

Summarizing 2023: A subset of events for the year. -China's economic re-opening stagnated. Had the first negative foreign direct investment flow in over two decades. And yet simultaneously, China surpasses Japan as world's biggest auto exporter. Huge gap between domestic consumption and export prowess. -There was a US banking crisis involving a duration mismatch rather than a credit event. Resulted in some of the largest bank failures in American history, and the collapse of the 167-year old global systematically important bank, Credit Suisse. Liquidity was provided to the market and stocks went up toward all-time highs. -The United States ran enormous deficits, resulting in one of the biggest divides between monetary policy and fiscal policy on record. Amid the deficits, consensus outlooks for a recession go largely contradicted, as some industries boom while others stagnate. -Russia's invasion of Ukraine drags on. Russia's Prigozhin launches a rebellion, captures Rostov-on-Don and pushes hard toward Moscow, but then calls it off and agrees to leave. Prigozhin dies in a plane crash two months later, attributed to a bomb on board. -A coup in Niger effectively pushes out France's presence from the country, and more broadly sheds light on France's ongoing presence in many African nations including with the CFA Franc. -Israel suffers its worst terrorist attack in decades by Hamas, and responds with orders of magnitude more force on Gaza including major civilian casualties, and this war remains ongoing. Global public attention shifts from Ukraine/Russia to Gaza/Israel, and widely polarizes people across the world. -The first recorded instance of space combat occurred as Israel intercepted a missile from Yemen in low Earth orbit. Yes, Earth's first known instance of non-test space combat was initiated not from within the United States, Russia, or China, but from Houthi rebels in Yemen. -The first self-identified anarcho-capitalist candidate becomes head of state for a country, and for a G20 country no less. Calls for ending Argentina's central bank, after decades of uncontrolled fiscal monetization, inflation, and economic stagnation. If Argentina dollarizes, it would be the biggest country so far to do so. -The Suez Canal is effectively closed over dangers posed to ships from Yemen. This impacts global shipping costs and energy, but likely hurts Egypt the most. -Multiple other conflicts persist, including Myanmar's bloody civil war. Despite enormous casualties, these types of conflicts go largely ignored by the world because they don't materially affect the macroeconomy or bring major powers into potential conflict. -The US federal government brings attention to UFOs/UAPs with multiple hearings, commissions, etc. But nobody really gives a shit. The public is like, "With all this going on, can we save the aliens topic until next year? Thanks."

Thank You, Lyn. Enjoy some calm Christmas days. nostr:nevent1qqstj4na3394ej9dzjnv2wly7yp2w3mzzu7ywms9wpncqmhd7h0k5ncpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqzyr4tpe6k6v4cp0x5vneas39cqspsxp66z04tcdve5a3vntr6hy057qcyqqqqqqgetggqd

Massively cucked take on Israel there Lyn. there was no "terrorist attack" - there was an attempt by Hamas to take hostages, but most of the hostages were slaughtered by the IDF tanks and Helicopters before they could be taken back to Gaza. furthermore Israel was warned a week in advance ( by Egypt ) that Hamas will do this on the 50th Anniversary of Yom Kippur but instead of preparing Israel did the opposite - they told IDF to stand down for HOURS, before finally moving in and massacring Hamas and Hostages together. Israel's goal was to Maximize Israeli Civilian casualties - almost all of them at the hands of IDF, as reported by the survivors. the number of casualties was then exaggerated and used to unleash a Genocide on Gaza with a bombing campaign targeting primarily Hospitals, Schools, Media Outlets and so on - which is what Israel does in every "war" ( Genocide ) with Gaza. It should be noted Israel showed ZERO concern about potentially killing the hostages while bombing locations where Hamas was ostensibly holding the Hostages in Gaza, nor while flooding the Tunnels where, again, Hamas was ostensibly holding the Hostages. ZERO concern for Israeli hostages was shown by IDF at any point in the conflict. Europe was then told to accept the refugees, while European Jews started screaming "antisemitism" and threatening to move to Israel basically. Which is more or less the same game plan Jews had during WW2 and creation of Israel in the first place. If it ain't broke don't fix it.

my favorite part of all this is that according to Polls less than 4% of Israelis trust Netanyahu ( yes 4% as in less than one in 25 Israelis ) but if anybody in the West criticizes him they are immediately fired from their job or expelled from their University. because Jews totally do not control the West.

Although it is just a "summary", I agree with you. How does one define "terrorist attack"? Violence commited by Muslims? It definitely seems that way. So yeah, it would be nice if Lyn would comment on or clarify her stance on that as I'm sure she understands the intricacies of the situation. It's pretty clear to me which side is and has been conducting terror on a helpless population for many years now.

we live in a country where the greatest crime is not Rape, Murder or even being a White Man - it is Antisemitism ( which means speaking the truth about the Jews ) and Lyn works in the financial industry which is run by Jews with names like Silver, Gold, Diamond and just simply BANKMAN. Lyn's job is to support and promote free speech platforms like NOSTR and start thought provoking discussions and it is then MY job to actually educate you. 😃

the definition of Terrorism is the use of fear and violence for political ends. since Hamas was trying to take hostages for purposes of exchanging prisoners it doesn't qualify as terrorism, but an attempt to free Palestinian prisoners who were found by Israel to be guilty of the crime of living on the land they were born on. in fact there is no such thing as Israel - it is correctly termed "The Zionist Entity" and it is as much a state as CHAZ ( Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone ) in Seattle was a state. It isn't. It's an occupation and has no right to exist. Only difference from "CHAZ" is that "Israel" has Nukes ... which are pointed at Europe ... because they are "our greatest Ally" ( TM ) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Hill_Occupied_Protest Israelis will say " we have nowhere else to go - Israel is the only Jewish State there is " ... well that is a nice sentiment ... if only Jews cared that White people will have nowhere to go once they finish flooding white countries with Nonwhites. Whites will soon become minorities in almost all White Countries less than a Century after Jews changed our immigration policies while they themselves escaped to Israel. We are supposed to recognize Israel as a Jewish State ( even though it's just a military occupation of Palestine ) but they refuse to recognize European countries as White Countries. FUCK JEWS. i am a Jew and every decent non-retarded Jew agrees with me that we Jews are a plague. this is why we teach white Children to believe that White people are a plague - because we Jews always project. we project our own crimes on Palestinians in Palestine and on Whites in White countries.

if Jews don't want to be marched into the Ocean all they have to do is convert to Christianity or Islam. but they will never do that because their religion promises them that they are G-d's chosen people and all other people are just animals born to serve them. ( read the Talmud ). so they will continue to slaughter Palestinians like Animals because their religion teaches them that this is what they are supposed to do. and then they will act as victims because they did nothing wrong since all they are doing is following the word of their G-d. it never occurred to them that "the word of their G-d" is simply what they themselves have written down in their own books for their own benefit and not exactly admissible as evidence in court when they are judged for their crimes ... Jews are an insane, genocidal, lunatic death cult and if we don't stop them they will destroy everything.