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May 16, 2023Liked by Rudy Havenstein

The stability of rules is the bedrock of peace. -Robert Breedlove.

If the rules are fluid, whoever makes the rules becomes the gamemaster. #endthefed

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Hey Rudy, you are sorely missed on the WEF-moderated social platform formerly known as twitter.

Guess who else worked at Davis Polk? Yeah we know you know. "From 1981 to 1983, Powell was a lawyer with Davis Polk & Wardwell" A fish rots from the head...

Best regards,

Occupy The Fed

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Thanks amigo. Keep up the good fight.

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Similar quote:

"It is hard to imagine a more stupid or dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong."

— Thomas Sowell

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Reminded me of this:

"No one man nor group of men incapable of fighting or exempt from fighting should in any way be given the power, no matter how gradually it is given them, to put this country or any country into war." - Hemingway, 𝘕𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘦𝘹𝘵 𝘞𝘢𝘳

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...."The Carlyle Group, a small charity that helps future regulators adjust to massive wealth". Priceless

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May 16, 2023Liked by Rudy Havenstein

Marriner Eccles is to Randal Quarles like Prescott Bush is to POTUS Bush Sr and W. And it goes on.

Alongside King Charle’s photo you astonishment that we live in a world where there are still Kings - but these days their power is largely toothless - it’s all pomp and ceremony

However, we in the US have king-makers - but with none of the fun pomp and ceremony - just all of the hedonistic narcissism

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May 16, 2023Liked by Rudy Havenstein

"Not all of them were related to our regulatory framework."

More like, who am I married to, where am I invested, who did I go to college with, where did I work previously, where do I hope to work next?

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Complete lack of all ethics. I wish I believed in hell.

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