Tag: market manipulation

Empyrean Sloth

I sat surrounded by seven monitors, their blue light painting my skin the color of deep water. The apartment hadn’t seen daylight in weeks. Blackout curtains sealed away the world beyond these walls, beyond the constellation of charts that mapped my slow descent into nothing. The numbers flickered. Bitcoin down eighteen percent in twelve hours. […]

Shepherd’s Gold

I made my first million dollars on the gold/silver trade. It seemed simple, trading money for money when the rest of the population was chasing paper, the illusion of value based on violence to back a currency. The general population aren’t historians, nor do they care about why they exist in their own predicament. The […]