Re:Jane Street suffers $15B hit after meltdown at Situationa...
by dmix on Friday August 14, 2026 @08:49PM
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Always been a bit wary of Patrick. He reminds me of those people who in the 1990s/2000s would have become professional talking head guests on CNN. The older ex-academic/ex-industry guys who knew how to spin popular news stories into sound bites for the general public, while offering a veneer of authority. I'd rather get analysis from people who don't chase pop news stories for a living.
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Re:Jane Street suffers $15B hit after meltdown at Situationa...
by fancyfredbot on Friday August 14, 2026 @09:12PM
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He's offering entertainment not investing advice.
But he is very entertaining and has more than a veneer of authority. His early educational YouTube videos covering topics like derivatives pricing are genuinely very good.
Re:Jane Street suffers $15B hit after meltdown at Situationa...
by dmix on Friday August 14, 2026 @09:30PM
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> His early educational YouTube videos covering topics like derivatives pricing are genuinely very good.
Which is a common story these days. Nothing wrong with that, there are worse people who become the Youtube-content guy. I've just gone down that road enough times to know to eject early.
Re:Jane Street suffers $15B hit after meltdown at Situationa...
by mitthrowaway2 on Friday August 14, 2026 @09:35PM
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Is there anything he's said in particular that, given the benefit of hindsight, you feel has turned out to be misleading in retrospect?
Speaking for myself only, but if I were going to post a comment like yours on a public forum insinuating doubts about a specific person and vaguely implying their analysis is not trustworthy, I'd come armed with at least once example.
Re:Jane Street suffers $15B hit after meltdown at Situationa...
by threatofrain on Saturday August 15, 2026 @02:51AM
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If we were talking about random niche people or some kind of inside drop on information, sure. But this is a generic argument lodged against one of the big prolific content creators, which means that the burden of evidence really falls on anyone who has the energy and will to spend. The information is well exposed and catalogued.
For people with 1M+ followers, anything that could be said has already likely been said.
Re:Jane Street suffers $15B hit after meltdown at Situationa...
by newsomix9xl on Friday August 14, 2026 @09:57PM
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Sort his YouTube videos by date and go to his oldest videos. He didn't used to do that.
So you can blame him for that style lately, but its not all he can do.
Re:Jane Street suffers $15B hit after meltdown at Situationa...
by totetsu on Friday August 14, 2026 @11:06PM
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It’s good to be weary of any YouTuber. I don’t think he’s a sensationalist. it’s not like he’s saying “don’t listen to those other people, I’ll bring you the -real- info”. And he’s sighting journalists and experts and providing references. When he introduces a framing concept it’s usually from a published book. When other commentators were telling me that big tech was hiding their debts to make their balance sheet look better, he offered a more he offered the more neutral perspective that it’s normal to count purchase agreements that way. But that spreading disclosure of information across so many places so that only the careful notice, leads to partial revelations, where being right doesn’t matter. Which seems a more useful take away than just big tech is being fraudulent about the ai bubble.
Re:Jane Street suffers $15B hit after meltdown at Situationa...
by inigyou on Friday August 14, 2026 @09:09PM
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That leaves basically nobody.
Re:Jane Street suffers $15B hit after meltdown at Situationa...
by dmix on Friday August 14, 2026 @09:34PM
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This isn't the TV news era. If you're into learning science you're not limited to choosing between the Michio Kaku or Neil deGrasse Tyson types. Same with finance and economics or any other topic.
Re:Jane Street suffers $15B hit after meltdown at Situationa...
by bb-connor on Friday August 14, 2026 @09:10PM
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100%
Re:Jane Street suffers $15B hit after meltdown at Situationa...
by thechairman12 on Friday August 14, 2026 @09:03PM
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agree