Please note this thread does not constitute investment advice, please consult your own financial adviser before making any investment decisions relating to this article, the value of your investments can go up as well as down. If Liz Truss and Robert Tchenguiz succeed in getting people to pay £500,000 each to be a founding member then perhaps I have misunderestimated the appeal and popularity of Liz Truss. TSE
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I never thought I would live in a world that America would be a risk to the West but that’s where we are now. As PBer Boulay noted on the previous thread ‘I saw [the plan to pull Italy, Austria, Poland, and Hungary away from the EU] earlier with an accompanying map and it was stark how by trying to disrupt Poland, Austria and Hungary it creates a very helpful buffer for Russia to try and spread its tentacles westwards.’…
I am not sure there’s any value in these markets. A market I would like to see is if the SNP win a majority or not. TSE
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Next year one of the major political betting markets will the be the American midterms and last night’s results do indicate it will be a humiliating night for the Republicans but a lot can happen in a year but if Trump keeps on denying the cost of living crisis then I suspect it will get worse for the Republicans. TSE
The Manhattan Institute has done a detailed poll of Republican Party supporters and the different groups they might fall into. The whole thing is worth reading, but one result that jumps out is on conspiracy theories. Republican voters are markedly more likely to believe an array of these, including 41% saying that 9/11 was an inside job, 37% endorsing Holocaust denial and 33% that vaccines cause autism. If we just focus on Holocaust denial and look at demographic groups, the report reads:…
Scenario: Three hundred meters below the North Atlantic In the icy darkness, an autonomous glider—a torpedo-shaped drone the size of a kayak, drifting on programmed currents—suspends its descent. Its acoustic sensors detect something: a faint anomaly in the background hum of current and marine life, barely distinguishable from the ocean itself. The onboard algorithm processes, classifies, hesitates. Three hundred miles southwest, in the operations room of HMS Somerset off the coast of Ireland, the data arrives as a flicker on…