The Illusion of the US #Stock# #Market# While US stock market indices are rising in nominal terms, they are actually losing ground. Not only are they lagging behind #gold# and #silver#, but they are underperforming compared to international markets like China and Vietnam. Furthermore, the US #Dollar# has depreciated; for instance, #European# investors have seen their purchasing power in the US increase by roughly 5% just by holding their own currency.

Is the self an illusion? Julian Baggini argues this question is too simple. He argues that the self is both a construction and real, drawing on philosopher Derek Parfit's ideas to describe a complex, ever-changing, many-sided self which better aligns with our everyday experiences.

Bitcoin: The Illusion of Greed and Exit Liquidity “With Price Momentum already exhausted at level 20 and the FEI Score locked in a zone of absolute noise (99.53%), the stage is set for a Long Squeeze.” – By @GugaOnChain Read more ⤵️

"Linear time is an illusion." Elif Shafak on why our sense of time and reality is wrong: "There is magic in life, in daily life, in even the most ordinary, seemingly ordinary moments. That's one of the reasons why I don't like this term magical realism, because it assumes that there is the world of magic and then there is the world of reality. Whereas I think in life everything is constantly mixed." "We want to think of time as a much more linear, steady march. But when you pay attention to a river, a tree, a rock, just the soil itself, there is no linear time there."