#banking collapse

[2mo3cm-man]

[wildhannimal]

Holy Cow Dude.

Literally it's immediately getting so bad.

Genuinely can't even post the things I wish I could advise most people to do right now.

Next up for markets: A crisis of confidence in the dollar

[celestielbeing]

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[aropride]

is anyone else using alcohol as a painkiller or is it just me and house out here

[neverfruit]

I got mcr tickets 💪💪 fighting through that queue while at work

[nappingpaperclip]

CEASEFIRE NOW

Glory to our martyrs, power to the people and our love of liberation.

people were even more crazy driving by our protests today than usual, but louder and more than those folks were the ones who honked and waved and screamed in support of our message:

free Palestine

free Congo

free Sudan

hands off Lebanon

we don’t want to pay for world war 3, we want money for education and to help climate refugees, our neighbors in North Carolina, Tennessee, Florida, and everywhere else impacted by climate collapse. When Biden-Harris administration is giving money to Ukraine & Israel while the people I grew up with are fleeing and navigating through collapsed infrastructure while another category 5 hurricane forms

We’ve had more hurricanes this year than ever before, all worse. Israel’s bombing in their regional slaughter is killing thousands while simultaneously dumping chemicals into the soil and atmosphere, heating up our Earth faster than ever before.

NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE!

DONT BE SILENT DONT BE WEAK

FOR HUMANITY WE MUST SPEAK!

SILENCE IS COMPLICITY, if you are silent and willfully ignorant to suffering, one day you will look down at your palms and see them red with blood.

[lgcyuxi]

I bet I can still beat you. 90s trader!yuxi

Born in Shanghai to a literati family in the early 60s, Lucy's family relocated to Hong Kong briefly soon after she was born due to political concerns before settling in the UK, where she was subsequently raised.

Her competitive streak and desire to prove herself persisted as always; after her Year 11 maths teacher discouraged her interest in the subject as not a girls' subject, she decided to pursue maths in university instead out of spite. This was when the the excitement about personal computers was in full swing and she was no exception to that, finding it all terribly exciting. After a serious conversation about it with her Newnham mum, who was studying computer sciences (they didn't have enough upper years in maths to assign her one), she made the decision to switch into that.

Thanks to her father and now brother both working in the industry, she was able, after much fighting, to land herself a seat on the trading desk as a junior quant. It wasn't as much of an issue when she was still back office crunching the numbers and patching up issues with the models, but as her team realized that she excelled under pressure and had a excellent intuition for it, moving her to the floor more often than not, many of her more negative traits were brought out out of necessity. A blustery loudness and a quiet aggression: she needed to be heard and taken seriously. She liked her models — the only children she'll ever have she liked to say — but she also loved the breakneck pace of trading, seeing live how they performed and the green when markets closed, so she didn't mind the change all that much and welcomed it, despite her also being sent everywhere to events as blatant brokers bait. The Asian business was booming as China opened up, and she was sent to lend support there.

Then that f***er in Singapore tanked the entire bank and she was out of a job. HSBC extended an offer in their FX team, and seeing no better option, she took the pay cut and jumped ship. She was doing well, on the promotion track, when the first signs of the financial crisis started to emerge. It was already bad enough being in Hong Kong with the political uncertainty of the handover, those [insert colourful language here] had to drag the rest of the region into the mess. She was running on perpetually low levels of sleep, and never had she had so much alcohol, ringing up all her connections — family, classmates, anyone — for all rumours on those pillocking central bankers who simply did not get it , the mumpsimusing Yanks wrecking havoc through the IMF, the nimmyhammering governments forcing themselves into the mess. As an intellectual exercise she reveled it, the sheer incompetence of the regulators contributed significantly to her hair loss. If you asked her about whether or not she was shorting ASEAN currencies in the leadup she would respond with a "No comment." If you asked her about whether or not she took any performance enhancers during her career she would also respond with a "No comment."

Luckily, she survived those years with her head, hairline excluded, intact and lived through the drama of the Y2K bug to tell the tale of it. If she were sane she realistically would've ended up in some cozy position until retirement except she still had a bone to pick with those busybody regulators and would not be paid to go into a central banking. I'd like to think she's exactly the type of asshole to drop into some senior role at a HFT firm because of her superiority complex about Doing Things Better Than Everyone Else at the most fundamental level just because she can, and also she's still a bit of a nerd who loves playing god with her models. They don't speak to her, they sing.

Her family dynamics are around the same, and her base personality is roughly the the same too, with her general asshole-ness being amplified to be taken seriously as one of the guys. She's probably one of those women who takes personal offense to the idea of diversity quotas though she is supportive of diversity programmes and would make a great mentor if anyone had the guts to approach her like that. She is also an equal rights hater.

[hyuuukais]

i keep seeing videos on tiktok abt the new venue in toronto and the skz concert and it's making me increasingly worried 😭

[dw-flagler]

funny how much victoria places squarely on the shoulders of tattletale. she COULD HAVE STOPPED THE ENDBRINGERS AT ANY TIME but she DIDN’T just so that leviathan could KILL MY FAMILY. honey you sound insane.

[postpunkblunt]

[girderednerve]

we have been watching star wars skeleton crew (no one be mean to me) which is very bad (obviously), but sadly i cannot stop watching it because it has an old republic mint in it. a mint! where they made the money! i have been complaining for like a decade that the money in star wars makes no sense (a man might have his preoccupations, mightn't he) & finally, a show which has heard my exhortations & decided to ruin my life about it by being willfully fucking dumb

[beforeliteracytherewasdeez]

Mi primera cuenta fue en el Banco Federal. That's it, that's the punchline.

@aire1111 stay for the tags, this is gonna be a doozy for you

[lexydakitten]

months have accumulated into Cozy little minecraft town oh my god. it is so cozy. i have done a good job i think im so hyped, im gonna cook so hard on the serverlore stuff, that retcon was actually divine intervention /silly. dma you will get the love you deserve and the quality you deserve i will make it happen this time. third time's the charm im bouncing up and down

[palms-upturned]

Trying and failing to ignore how much worse I feel all the time than I used to and how badly I’m doing at taking care of myself and my environment and how well I used to be able to handle everything just a year or two ago compared to now is making me feel like my brain and body are both turning into toxic slutch

[aisuigetsu]

feel like ive done more communication in the past month than i have all year

[halfdeadwallfly]

catch me crying in the library bc i realized that my sibling deleted the pinterest board they made for me