Not a word on the market crash

I am reading the international press on the internet and there is no mention of the almost 3% fall on Friday's market rout and almost 10% in the last week. I think this week was dramatic in important events, yet the media ignores them. In my former blog, I reached the definite conclusion that American media was lying and falsifying reality, that it was tendentious and fake. They keep ruminating about Stormy, a prostitute that once was fucked and paid by Donald. So what?

Stock Market Crash

My saving account is 10% below last year and falling. The market is totally frightened by President Trump's aggressive moves: tariffs on Chinese exports to the USA, and the appointment of Bolton, a warmonger as national security adviser. After eight years of Barack Obama sedate passivity, the world is shitting in its pants. No kidding.

Yet America's goal is clear: it will not allow the emergence of a rival. Not another Soviet Union. Is China a potential rival? Yes. China denies it and tries to maintain a very low profile. How will Trump stop it? I do not know.

Two sectors slumped the most: Technology and Finance. They are exposed to foreign trade and uncertainty. Wall Street prefers stability, but the current situation was untenable. I think Trump is doing what has to be done, he is a strong leader, but I too am a bit frightened.

Dreaming of Three Bodies Problem

Friday is the noisiest day in my neighborhood. People is out on the streets till the evening, when it all quiets down. Sabbath morning is silent and only some religious people walks covered with white talit (ritual shrouds) to the early morning praying in the synagogue.


I feel lonely and longing for human touch.

P.S.: Reading The Three Body Problem trilogy. At first, it strikes how the Chinese author always presents the characters with a precise definition of their academic ranks and their positions in the hierarchy. Most Chinese. Second, in the whole thousand pages work there is no mention of sex or even a realistic romantic relationship; the characters act on the basis of cold career-advancement or other material motivations. Third, the characters have no families nor children. They live in a contemporary Chinese communist society, where the United Nations is world government. Naturally, the lingua franca is Chinese, and the Chinese are dominant. Four, the figure representing the evil Trisolans, Sophon, is a Japanese woman dressed as a ninja, beautiful and cruel.

Furthermore, another feature of the Marxist foundations of the Three Body Problem universe, is the absence of evolution: a man is a man in the past and in the far future. They can be substituted since they are all identical. No genetics, no evolution. Only technological civilization advances from era to era. The bottom line is that the universe is mechanical, although tremendously complex and interesting. God? No. It is physics, that's all.

Science fiction is not about the future, it is criticism of the author's society. The technical fireworks just camouflage the oppressive nature of the Chinese society of our generation.   

 P.P.S.: In our world, Wall Street loves President Trump but now, as it is becoming obvious that Trump is not a standard fake politician but he does what he says, Wall Street is frightened by this unknown phenomenon. Bloomberg's front page:

A Horror Week for the Dow Has Investors Begging for Trump Respite

Leishmaniasis in Israel

We have this ugly rodent, the rock bunny,   שפני הסלע  that  is a protected animal, cannot be hunted or killed. It carries the bacteria causing Leishmaniasis, a leper-like disease that had been eliminated decades ago. The multiplication of this biting pest means the return of disease.  People is thirsty for "Nature" and believe - from children's books - that it is benevolent and harmless. But Nature is indifferent to us.

When an Inbred Clan ruled the World

It seems incredible that the weak-minded idiot on the picture, with a ridiculous bird on his head, would be the all-powerful Emperor of Germany. Wilhelm was grandson of Queen Victoria and all European royalty were his double-first cousins. This inbred, degenerate clan led humanity to the terrible World War I and to the killing trenches of Verdun. Wilhelm exhibited a violent hate against the Jews: "Let no German ever forget this, nor rest until these parasites have been destroyed and exterminated from German soil!" Herzl vainly tried to convert him into a Zionist, to assist the Jewish People's Liberation by establishing the Jewish State, but he as other monarchs were hopeless.  Wilhelm advocated a "regular international all-worlds pogrom à la Russe" as "the best cure" and believed that Jews were a "nuisance that humanity must get rid of some way or other. I believe the best thing would be gas!"

Hundred years have passed and the criminal Kaisers and Czars are forgotten and their seed is no more. Here am I from those they planned to gas vomiting on their graves. 

IQ Demystified

Already 7% of the differences in IQ can be identified at DNA level.

"We found 187 independent loci associated with intelligence, implicating 538 genes, using both SNP-based and gene-based GWAS. We found evidence that neurogenesis and myelination—as well as genes expressed in the synapse, and those involved in the regulation of the nervous system—may explain some of the biological differences in intelligence." (quoted by James Thompson from Nature).

Intelligence relates to better synapses, generation of new neurons, thickness of the myelin sheath, etc. Nothing mysterious. It is truly depressing.  
 

Excessive Capital Accumulation

The world is awash in savings and there is a disequilibrium between available investable capital and available loan requests and investment opportunities. In special, in Israel we have many individuals with large savings and they have no safe and profitable investment vehicles. The banks are promoting investing in foreign stocks and loans, because the excess money here will inevitably be channeled into the local bourse and real estate (apartments for rent). Since people keep saving, TASE will surely go on inflating, and apartment prices will go on increasing. The State is budgeting much resources toward infrastructure, but the execution capacity of the population has reached a limit, and we have full employment. Importing foreign workers is unacceptable for a country already suffering from dangerous ethnic diversity.

The result is growing foreign exchange reserves that have to be invested abroad in low yielding bonds. Britain a hundred years ago solved this problem by investing in foreign colonies, like Argentine railways and slaughterhouses, or African plantations. Ultimately, there had to be a war to consume excess savings and excess productive capacity. If so, the safest bet is to buy shares in the armament industry.