Hyman Minsky on success

Success breeds a disregard of the possibility of failure.

~ Hyman Minsky

Alan Futerman on Israeli attempts to limit civilian casualties in Gaza

Israel, it's been what, six months into the operation and they killed 24,000 of which 14,000 are Hamas terrorists.  And so it's obvious that Israel is doing whatever it can in order to reduce civilian casualties.  Because, of course, any person of goodwill in the world don't want to see people dying and war is horrible, and what is going on is terrible.  It's a human tragedy, of course, but who is responsible for that?  It's Hamas...  It's obvious that the official policy of the state of Israel is not to commit genocide.  Figures prove it.  But it is the official policy of Hamas to commit genocide.

~ Alan Futerman, "THE CASE FOR ISRAEL - FULL SHOW," Visions of Freedom, 3:12:10 mark, June 11, 2024

Alphonse Chan on the U.S. push to onshore high end semiconductor manufacturing

Q: The United States has also taken a number of steps to insulate itself from the risk of Taiwan being attacked or some kind of disruption abroad by bringing chip manufacturing home to the United States.  How has that been going?

Alphonse Chan: Well, it's the United States and other countries in Europe and Japan as well.  They are all trying to secure their chip supply by again onshoring, as you mentioned.  And I'd say so far that has not led to chip production in the United States as of today.  Manufacturing chips is a hugely complex process and you simply can't throw up a factory with cinder blocks.  These are actually engineering marvels of the world.  And Taiwan Semiconductor has had trouble, number one building these facilities in Arizona and staffing them, and they continue to have labor issues today.  When this [the CHIPS Act] was announced it was thought that that would bring leading edge chips manufacturing to the U.S. and that might be a nice political statement, but by the time these facilities are up and running, those chips will no longer be leading edge.

~ Alphonse Chan, Jr., "Taiwan, Semiconductors, and the Global Economy - Silvercrest," 8:40 mark, June 18, 2024

Stephen A. Smith on Caitlin Clark and the racial bias of America

No matter how far we've advanced, no matter how far we've come, even when we had a black president a decade ago, even when we had a woman as the Democratic nominee for the presidency of the United States in the year 2016...  Even with all of these "advancements" per se in our society, Caitlin Clark is a reminder, as great as she is through no fault of her own, America is still more receptive to marketing white folks more so than anybody else.  It's what they've looked for and what they pray for and they're getting it [with Caitlin Clark].  That's the reality.

~ Stephen A. Smith, "Caitlin Clark stands against hate," The Stephen A. Smith Show, 8:15 mark, June 16, 2024

My response:

Ok, how about some proof, SAS?  Where are your receipts?

Here is the counter evidence: Michael Jordan, Shaquille O'Neill and Lebron James, arguably the three most marketable athletes in modern history.  According to Sportico, Lebron was the top paid athlete in endorsement deals last year at $80 million. 

Sorry, SAS, that can't happen in a systemically racist society.  The real racists are those clamoring for victim status claiming to fight racism.  It's the Oppression Olympics.  Can you understand how white males might get turned off by this incessant gaslighting?  Look at what happened to NBA ratings when the NBA decided to go full activism during the BLM protests.  Activism is not good for business.  If you keep it up, SAS, you'll learn that lesson the hard way.

Dave Rubin on the left: "Everyone wants to be oppressed"

It's an oppression Olympics.  It's a hierarchy of oppressions.  So you've got to figure out how you are oppressed.  If you have a limp, you're this much oppressed or if you're a Jew this much oppressed or a Muslim this much oppressed.  Everyone wants to be oppressed.

~ Dave Rubin, "Leaving the Left," John Stossel, 4:10 mark, September 25, 2018

Antti Ilmanen on risk

Risk is ultimately more about survival than volatility.

~ Antti Ilmanen, AQR Capital Management

Jerry West on competition

I'm just ultracompetitive.  I will be till they put me in the grave. 

~ Jerry West, 1938-2024