Then do you want to explain the 1:1 correlation between interest rates and inflation?

Or this investopedia article?

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/12/inflation-interest-rate-relationship.asp

And a market crash would be something like the Great Depression, where there was world-wide hyperinflation and money was worthless. This specifically happened because the gov refused to bail out corporations.

The closest that we’ve gotten was Covid. But even then, it was understood that there would be a recovery after vaccine deployment.

What Volcker did wasn’t special. Interest rates must be raised or lowered in proportion to inflation caused by supply or demand disruptions. That’s it.

It’s one of the many maintenance mechanisms needed to maintain capitalism. If handled incorrectly, without centralized control, the economy will crash every time there’s a disruption. That’s why we say there’s no such thing as the free market.

In this case, interests rates were raised in response to the 1979 oil crisis causing massive inflation. It’s not a conscious choice or a change in policy, but rather a response to material conditions.

As a result, this is why you need to look at trends on a longer scale in order to even out these disruptions to find the macro trend. And these macro trends usually have to have something huge as a root cause, like the fall of a rival superpower. Not a temporary increase in interests rates.

If the inflection had happened in 1983, then the profit margin wouldn’t have fallen to all time lows in Jan 1992.

If the Soviet Union did not dissolve, then there would still be a bipolar world order, and profit margins would have stagnated due to a lack of opportunity for exploitation.

As I said, look at the trend. There’s only one major inflection point throughout the entirety of the data, and that’s in 1990, corresponding with the collapse of the USSR.

Or you can take a look at the link I posted.

Publicly traded assets grew on the scale of 15-30% annually, over these two years

That’s the covid recovery. When looking at ROI trends, you need to look at 10 yr blocks.

Furthermore, ROI is measured as profit margin. Currently, there is a trend upwards, the start of which corresponds to the fall of the Soviet Union.

https://dqydj.com/sp-500-profit-margin/

I think that just by making this post, you already know how this is going to play out.

At the very least, these indicators can be viewed as how much their conditions could potentially improve.

Measures such as the stock market and GDP were meant to act as proxies for measuring how well the economy was accomplishing its stated purpose, which is to improve the standard of living for everyone.

I would argue that they aren’t and never have been a measure of how well the economy is at distributing resources. Stocks haven’t been accessible to the working class until recently. And GDP is neither normalized to PPP nor gives any indication as to its distribution among the populace.

The “economy” (read: bourgeois economy) has never been connected to the masses. If you measure how well businesses are performing, then it only tells you how well businesses are performing. That’s why these indicators are lagging and not leading.

Yea, I just want to give you some context going into the speech.

Trade with EU is exploitative of eastern Ukraine and the trade deal will prevent its development. The whole of Ukraine was split on the issue between east and west.

The whole thing started with the comprehensive trade agreement between Ukraine and the EU. Yanukovich had wanted trade with both Russia and the EU. But both Russia and the EU were forcing Ukraine to pick a side. Making a trade agreement with the EU would have forced Ukraine to change their regulations, negatively impacting trade with Russia, and having them become more dependent on the EU. There was also a significantly higher chance their net trade would decrease if they signed this agreement. So if they went with the EU, it would have totally screwed over eastern Ukraine.

I should mention that at the time, Russia was providing the majority of trade with Ukraine by a fairly wide margin. So it was much more practical to go with Russia.

The decision to put the EU trade agreement on hold, had sparked euromaiden, leading Russia to reclaim Crimea in response, which sparked the civil war.

I should also mention that Ukraine is a third world backwater country. Its gdp per capita is lower than some African nations, and is three times lower than their neighbours Russia and Poland. It’s not a country full of Nazis and reactionaries, no more than Guatemala. It’s just people who’ve been fucked over and exploited.

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You can also get GPU’s in Iran through digikala, for only like a $20 markup.

It’s a useful way of viewing risk/reward and it’s not incompatible with communist theory.

For example, if you take the prisoner’s dilemma and change the risk/reward structure, you can change the equilibrium such that it’s far more likely to have people cooperate.

Unfortunately, that’s not really something that people talk about all that often, because it’s only used to optimize winnings for one party, not to optimize for maximum societal benefit.

9/10 i thought it would be 50/50 nazis/zionists but it wasn’t.

I’m tired 90% of the time, but I’m so used to it that I don’t feel tired until there’s a lull.

I get maybe 5-7 hr of sleep a night. I got 7 hr last night and 4 hr the night before.

Spend some time on Reddit and you’ll learn through practice.

IMO, it’s a waste of time

Whenever you see democracy, it means bourgeois democracy.

The catch is that you’re eating coal yoghurt.

The coal is used as feed to grow the culture, similar to how milk is used to grow bacteria in normal yoghurt.

Edit: methanol derived from coal or any other source would be used to feed the culture