saw a nice bumper sticker: honk if you have to poop
learned the united nations projects the twelfth billion human will never be born
completed the first four weeks of perry mehrling's money and banking
we have here, the, financial times
i have intellectual ancestors that i respect and that i try to build on
finance
thinks there's no such field as monetary economics, that it should be
finance instead of money, that in an efficient market, there's no
liquidity problem. if all prices are exactly at their efficient market
price, there's nothing for liquidity to distort..there's no such thing
as a firesale
all banking is a swap of ious
what is the ontological status of currency?
the history of american central banking is a history of war finance
the alchemy of banking
balance sheet way of thinking
liquidity kills you quick
they also tried to raise reserves from world money markets, which mean london, which often disrupted world gold markets..so the united states is this big child..in the world monetary system, and every fall, it throws a little fit. and it causes the international gold market to go crazy, europe got sick of this, and they sent us some help, paul wallberg, to help us create a central bank, but we did some of this on our own too, there was agitation for a central bank, as well. the key moment was 1907, the financial crisis of 1907 when jp morgan sort of showed us how we could get out of this crisis ourselves
here's the ultimate credit: mortgage..who lent the money for this creditor? if you follow through, you say, well, citibank borrowed from hsbc, who borrored from chase, who borrowed from you. in a certain sense, i bought it from you and you lent me the money for it. now, i don't owe it to you. i owe it to these intermediaries so if i default, you'll still get your money. but in terms of the actual source of funds, it's here until you spend these. you can spend these, and then somebody else has to be the source of funds..you have transferred your assets from a house into a deposit account
it's like another page in the thriller you're reading. like another clue you get about whodunit, and that's part of my excitement everyday in teaching this class too..i've just put in real time, my notion of what's happening in the world based entirely on what i've just read in the ft and these prices. i have no secret information..we will see what happens in the next few months..and then we'll get some more information and we'll form another hypothesis
read the universe in a nutshell. here, there, everywhere be dragons
i still get two or three letters a week telling me einstein was wrong
we had sidestepped kant's antimony of pure reason by dropping his implicit assumption that time had a meaning independent of the universe
galaxies are distributed roughly uniformly throughout space
the french also felt that the name as they translated it, trou noir, had dubious sexual connotations and should be replaced by astre occlu, or "hidden star."
read the new topping book
many if not most people play with some form of s/m energy
force that shy little thing to tell you what she wants
accessing your shadow, as a top or as a bottom, can put you into a state of tremendous emotional vulnerability, and you may need lots of nurturing and acceptance while you are in that state
this is our theater, and the bottom's response is our applause
go into a scene with an "outline" of possible activities - a menu that we can move through or skip around or even ignore if we think of something better to do, but that's always there to fall back on if we feel stuck..plan an outline with two or three times as many items on it as [you] could ever actually do
ask about the journey - talking gets us back in our heads - and welcome your friend back
the blindfold..don't withdraw touch by accident - this is a powerful stimulus, and you want to stay purposeful with it. don't leave a blindfolded person alone in a room
some dominants like to control their submissive's behaviors with a goal toward improving his life - making sure that he quits smoking or does the work he brought home for the night or gets his daily exercise. others require that their submissive give them valuable service of some kind - maintaining the household, caring for the dominant's body or possessions, or even managing or training other submissives. still others enjoy training their submissives in postures, vocal mannerisms, forms of address or types of service that are particularly appealing to the dominant - for example, kneeling with the knees 14" apart, eyes down, back straight, while proffering a cup of coffee
we seek out opportunities to struggle with these conflicts so that we have a chance to make the story come out differently
read about the evolutionary branches of mammals dipping a toe into the oceans
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