<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 01:50:26 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/@thegreatwent/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Dems Lose Ground - And Touch - With Hispanic Voters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Why is this happening? First of all, the far left is spinning a narrative about an oppressively racist country. And it doesn't resonate with many Latinos because these are people who came to America seeking]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/politics/@thegreatwent/dems-lose-ground-and-touch-with-hispanic-voters</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/politics/@thegreatwent/dems-lose-ground-and-touch-with-hispanic-voters</guid><category><![CDATA[politics]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[thegreatwent]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2021 03:43:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/YpihifdXP4WNbGMdjw7e3DuhJWBvCw4SfuLZsrnJYHEpsqZFkiGGNCQPP3sFzV9Eqb1LxWzSMu6FaHuyM3QMu7Ysqej6HGCoocarn2vMk2vTLRS9EEKcWFRCKnrDijzYwfYgr8MqVHZaKYnEDT9Azhx48Sxj349vdkDeq1qXr1Sv?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, The Evergrande Fallout is Not Complete]]></title><description><![CDATA[Good read from the WSJ on the evolving story of Evergrande's slow collapse. We all thought this story was over a few months ago, but it isn't. The default exists in tranches. You have domestic vs international]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/evergrande/@thegreatwent/no-the-evergrande-fallout-is-not-complete</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/evergrande/@thegreatwent/no-the-evergrande-fallout-is-not-complete</guid><category><![CDATA[evergrande]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[thegreatwent]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2021 17:29:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/YpihifdXP4WNbGMdjw7e3DuhJWBvCw4SfuLZsrnJYHEpsqZFkiGGNCQPP3sFzV9Eqb1LxWzSMu6FyKQXXYL3UHaBuEvGVfZn87KLBEJyNYVH4kKRR16X3Hc7zoUtkHUs1WBV7JqLkQBett2UtBeW4qFZ8LhFPHtFTRDnkGfCQVhY?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[San Francisco Crime is Real - Despite the Denials by Progressives]]></title><description><![CDATA[Another typical day in a typical neighborhood in San Francisco. This one is striking by the sheer routine of it all. Multiple bystanders witness and shrug. The statistics show that crime is up, while people]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/crime/@thegreatwent/san-francisco-crime-is-real-despite-the-denials-by-progressives</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/crime/@thegreatwent/san-francisco-crime-is-real-despite-the-denials-by-progressives</guid><category><![CDATA[crime]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[thegreatwent]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2021 01:33:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/S5Eokt4BcQdk7EHeT1aYjzebg2hC7hkthT45eBsKopqrGLPrS9pxpAUh3qbkhz8Zrwkkxw8?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Milton Friedman is Still With Us - And That's a Good Thing]]></title><description><![CDATA[A great little primer from the WSJ on inflation, its causes, its cure, and how it is a hidden tax on the poor. For those young people who don't know, Milton Friedman was an emminent economist. He provided]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/inflation/@thegreatwent/milton-friedman-is-still-with-us-and-thats-a-good-thing</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/inflation/@thegreatwent/milton-friedman-is-still-with-us-and-thats-a-good-thing</guid><category><![CDATA[inflation]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[thegreatwent]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2021 20:32:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2dk2RRM2dZ8gKjXsrozapsD83FxL3Xbyyi5LFttAhrXxr16mCe4arfLJSKQb1cDmHJcVmKdngHJ8f1bssaFpmsbaW2M7D1Rom1p4QGMRauLVq1MTy1cH43bvkqSpnUewF6vRyrrLh2aNczsEDLeotDKp8kURYQqNd4eQ3Tv62J?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon Proves Capitalism Works]]></title><description><![CDATA[During his primary campaign, Bernie Sanders waxed poetic about how the government needs to intervene in labor markets to boost worker wages. He also made a similar point about the government's need to]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/capitalism/@thegreatwent/amazon-proves-capitalism-works</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/capitalism/@thegreatwent/amazon-proves-capitalism-works</guid><category><![CDATA[capitalism]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[thegreatwent]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2021 03:38:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/YpihifdXP4WNbGMdjw7e3DuhJWBvCw4SfuLZsrnJYHEpsqZFkiGGNCQPP3sFzV9Eqb1LxWzSMu6FD4mho2N6ZuyxXNhXgZYFQghR3kAAXZV4gLEwmWzfJ2DyAhhciFXx2RGCcW2j2XWLw5WhzonVhBwKAsJDZ2RoaCAwztnAZAYn?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[BTC Bull Thesis Will Never Die]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you think it can't happen here in the USA, you may be in for an ugly surprise. The best bull case for BTC is alive and well. Turkey is an extreme example because the country is run by a leader with]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/btc/@thegreatwent/btc-bull-thesis-will-never-die</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/btc/@thegreatwent/btc-bull-thesis-will-never-die</guid><category><![CDATA[btc]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[thegreatwent]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2021 17:25:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/YpihifdXP4WNbGMdjw7e3DuhJWBvCw4SfuLZsrnJYHEpsqZFkiGGNCQPP3sFzV9Eqb1LxWzSMu6FYfK2KsWTVrhpEkF9GmFuH9LCfjVDGPSwRdrkEH5HVqS6PmUz8N5NLf1HNB3eyd9dzP1JvoAYNoyYmuoXn8BHd7oMfTtZ6XY2?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberal Gaslighting Will Backfire]]></title><description><![CDATA[When Dems get their clocks cleaned in the 2022 midterm, they will cry. And they will blame gerrymandering, they will blame "white backlash", they may ever blame Russian interference. But this]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/crime/@thegreatwent/liberal-gaslighting-will-backfire</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/crime/@thegreatwent/liberal-gaslighting-will-backfire</guid><category><![CDATA[crime]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[thegreatwent]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2021 14:47:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/YpihifdXP4WNbGMdjw7e3DuhJWBvCw4SfuLZsrnJYHEpsqZFkiGGNCQPP3sFzV9Eqb1LxWzSMu6Fnbej5Qm8yxwfvhXhf2SSUMbXgYTpp1dZrNYE4Bw9K7xKmyfWpMuEdU3NpmNbdT4rWDGEKpy1qGDG489cFYE2cGTEXW7Zmtdt?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gerrymandering for All]]></title><description><![CDATA[This article from Nate Silver's 538 is very interesting, and bucks the MSM narrative about gerrymandering - one that concludes gerrymandering radically and unambiguously favors Republicans. What is clear]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/politics/@thegreatwent/gerrymandering-for-all</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/politics/@thegreatwent/gerrymandering-for-all</guid><category><![CDATA[politics]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[thegreatwent]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2021 06:44:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/YpihifdXP4WNbGMdjw7e3DuhJWBvCw4SfuLZsrnJYHEpsqZFkiGGNCQPP3sFzV9Eqb1LxWzSMu6FazSjXVTqpqw9Ja1QE2TQtiCr3e54xS4sXhbshZ9SZf9auQvvaBoTRwui3qtYpcSAbX2aPEwhXcuiPQrexBgJt3rKkSDdoJUv?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seeing Racism in Everything is a Religion ]]></title><description><![CDATA[See news link below - a group of useless academics are claiming that the farmers market is racism. And that food is racism. The idea that society is the product of white men - or that our way of thinking]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/crt/@thegreatwent/seeing-racism-in-everything-is-a-religion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/crt/@thegreatwent/seeing-racism-in-everything-is-a-religion</guid><category><![CDATA[crt]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[thegreatwent]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 05 Dec 2021 17:20:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/YpihifdXP4WNbGMdjw7e3DuhJWBvCw4SfuLZsrnJYHEpsqZFkiGGNCQPP3sFzV9Eqb1LxWzSMu6EmwFFqNoYCJy6mvygduD3g2Zq1z7BKG3huK13Bet7mRMawrbH64479f5D8GsK1Mn8cWRhLWCHxC1Q8H4yF6XNUQtSRWhRj4S2?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Covid Masks & No Bail = Payday for Criminals]]></title><description><![CDATA[Masks are harmless of course. So are anti-covid no bail policies to keep jails properly socially distanced. Put the two together and you have a perfect combination of incentives for people to smash and]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/crime/@thegreatwent/covid-masks-and-no-bail-payday-for-criminals</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/crime/@thegreatwent/covid-masks-and-no-bail-payday-for-criminals</guid><category><![CDATA[crime]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[thegreatwent]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 05 Dec 2021 17:09:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/YpihifdXP4WNbGMdjw7e3DuhJWBvCw4SfuLZsrnJYHEpsqZFkiGGNCQPP3sFzV9Eqb1LxWzSMu6EzL6PmVSra45YehwYqqkr647FVJ4iHxoy9pH8tkkTW2tE3oEtBhAF4tiCovFraCqcdLNxgwefGaNsAGpSHXFBiXgs6saDgzkn?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avenge the Dinosaurs!!!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Falcon 9 helped pull NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, spacecraft across the sky and into orbit. NASA intends for the spacecraft to redirect the 530 feet-in-diameter asteroid moon Dimorphos]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/spacex/@thegreatwent/avenge-the-dinosaurs</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/spacex/@thegreatwent/avenge-the-dinosaurs</guid><category><![CDATA[spacex]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[thegreatwent]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2021 04:45:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/YpihifdXP4WNbGMdjw7e3DuhJWBvCw4SfuLZsrnJYHEpsqZFkiGGNCQPP3sFzV9Eqb1LxWzSMu6FNeVmeCNiUXm3kGfpCiucJcHgfMLn5iWbXMmLDm1wFXjrA7yZzfz7XbzSor47jGZjyEbpZhmDY8pLLjMtVHdDVpCF3QZ98z5c?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[San Francisco's Decline Into Crime and Madness ]]></title><description><![CDATA[The drama unfolding with self-described Marxist and San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin keeps getting more interesting. Approx 1/3 of prosecuters in his office have now either quit, or been purged using strong]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/sf/@thegreatwent/san-franciscos-decline-into-crime-and-madness</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/sf/@thegreatwent/san-franciscos-decline-into-crime-and-madness</guid><category><![CDATA[sf]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[thegreatwent]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2021 23:51:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/S5Eokt4BcQdk7EHeT1aYjzebg2hC7hkthT45eFaq3zcYa6J4fuTXXHsQhdGCYJmxLLfJokA?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[More Compelling Use-Case for Crypto]]></title><description><![CDATA[Another compelling use-case for crypto here. What happened to this journalist is wild. He deposited his paycheck at BofA, shortly thereafter his money mysteriously disappeared. Without any notification]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/irs/@thegreatwent/more-compelling-use-case-for-crypto</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/irs/@thegreatwent/more-compelling-use-case-for-crypto</guid><category><![CDATA[irs]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[thegreatwent]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2021 23:46:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/YpihifdXP4WNbGMdjw7e3DuhJWBvCw4SfuLZsrnJYHEpsqZFkiGGNCQPP3sFzV9Eqb1LxWzSMu6FnbnAY1NjTbNTbnmgg33HY5GMT94eXVZz8rsVSXHM4m4jZqzfHRPZaSEkPhuYbyVAYeHEHqRizronfVG8kiTBMsP1wCYyn5Yi?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bjorn Lomborg Solution to Climate Change]]></title><description><![CDATA[I love this so much I don't know how to contain myself. $1.8B of PRIVATE MONEY flows into a fusion startup. This is how solutions are made. The public sector is almost incapable of achieving good results]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/fusion/@thegreatwent/the-bjorn-lomborg-solution-to-climate-change</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/fusion/@thegreatwent/the-bjorn-lomborg-solution-to-climate-change</guid><category><![CDATA[fusion]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[thegreatwent]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2021 06:25:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/YpihifdXP4WNbGMdjw7e3DuhJWBvCw4SfuLZsrnJYHEpsqZFkiGGNCQPP3sFzV9Eqb1LxWzSMu6EngCvN94tqr8ULa8awPPVZvPD7WhMCwZsFZ4jZWqctmViziBURQ6Ty7bSgFs2XfB12aRN4SNX3MqMdTdt5bfz2bma1Zvysnxn?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Covid 1984]]></title><description><![CDATA[From vaccination lotteries to now $4,000 fines for not getting vaccinated, I do not understand what the world governments are trying to do. My concern is that compliance just emboldens these non-sensical]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/covid/@thegreatwent/covid-1984</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/covid/@thegreatwent/covid-1984</guid><category><![CDATA[covid]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[thegreatwent]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2021 05:49:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/YpihifdXP4WNbGMdjw7e3DuhJWBvCw4SfuLZsrnJYHEpsqZFkiGGNCQPP3sFzV9Eqb1LxWzSMu6FxewrWyggMNScHVHfZFt7wiDtViA4pjfgr182nzNDZP62qFwRpAWMfEudru8u8S7zQ9XD2d7dkMXhxNZ9mc9wiqk7qsSwNjWe?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Slow Death of San Francisco]]></title><description><![CDATA[Looking at SF, it's like rubber-necking on the highway at a terrible wreck. The entire downtown is boarded up in response to the crime wave (which progressives insist is not really happening). The crime]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/politics/@thegreatwent/the-slow-death-of-san-francisco</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/politics/@thegreatwent/the-slow-death-of-san-francisco</guid><category><![CDATA[politics]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[thegreatwent]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2021 05:20:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/YpihifdXP4WNbGMdjw7e3DuhJWBvCw4SfuLZsrnJYHEpsqZFkiGGNCQPP3sFzV9Eqb1LxWzSMu6EyqkHEX51mq1qeWtZW1TGbEvfJeM52JXCUgJTrckmkieo8jMBEVKmNW1qCxprkaSDauWTWbqRZ8EppXSDnoA9NcdpEDQBduE6?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Test for BTC on the Horizon?]]></title><description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago BTC maxmilist and PayPal Cofounder Peter Theil said something very profound about the price of BTC: "What is a $60,000 signaling about how people feel about inflation, MMT, and the]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/btc/@thegreatwent/new-test-for-btc-on-the-horizon</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/btc/@thegreatwent/new-test-for-btc-on-the-horizon</guid><category><![CDATA[btc]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[thegreatwent]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2021 19:26:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/NTy4GV6ooFRmaCXZ8UYgPhoud1kjiNX8QokLEZtbBKLuLWQ9yt7K3o4Vr2ih1jKBwjw6WbcixxAJaccBw6ahbNexhSo34CZ8qp7SJnHkZnq5SB8tLbtkakmUmWMyvuTE5HFtJ5wMQtKsXem1R8XMR4imkip19R1GV2dHBSjG?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[What do Covid Numbers Tell Us?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Attached is the global daily cases, with the first year of the pandemic corrected for ascertainment bias. The ascertainment bias starts at 10x and linearly approaches 1x by Jan 1, 2021. All of 2021 uses]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/covid/@thegreatwent/what-do-covid-numbers-tell-us</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/covid/@thegreatwent/what-do-covid-numbers-tell-us</guid><category><![CDATA[covid]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[thegreatwent]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2021 19:16:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/YpihifdXP4WNbGMdjw7e3DuhJWBvCw4SfuLZsrnJYHEpsqZFkiGGNCQPP3sFzV9Eqb1LxWzSMu6EmyQbZwz9S4scrFoLYqkxi7Vs2q1cPpN7rL6Hj29fgzpxhVDstjykyAr7Vn2MKFw3orL3f3oMXKtUWqGoy6z2Z9AiVBkbZyJn?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is EOS Dead?]]></title><description><![CDATA[I'd love to hear your thoughts on this folks. Is EOS dead? Or put more specifically, are people developing DAPs on the EOS network? Forgive my noobishness on this topic, as the I'm not very informed on]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/eos/@thegreatwent/is-eos-dead</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/eos/@thegreatwent/is-eos-dead</guid><category><![CDATA[eos]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[thegreatwent]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 28 Nov 2021 19:48:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2dk2RRM2dZ8gKjXsrozapsD83FxL3Xbyyi5LFttAhrXxr16mCe4arfLJSKQb1cDmHJcVmKdngHJ81U5Do6P3FiLkn6bzWie2CB6n8aNh6p12g2vfjSKjpLZuE8Rvdu7rYv58TTmUZgH2z1A7W6XPd545EuFSAZTGdQJzyGAbGa?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Infrastructure Spending Needs an Overton Window Shift]]></title><description><![CDATA[This article should be required reading in every highschool civics class (do they even still have that in school??). Amazing quote from the king of machine politics Willie Brown: “In the world of civic]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/infrastructure/@thegreatwent/infrastructure-spending-needs-an-overton-window-shift</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/infrastructure/@thegreatwent/infrastructure-spending-needs-an-overton-window-shift</guid><category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[thegreatwent]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 28 Nov 2021 18:46:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/YpihifdXP4WNbGMdjw7e3DuhJWBvCw4SfuLZsrnJYHEpsqZFkiGGNCQPP3sFzV9Eqb1LxWzSMu6EzN1mh65agMxoRvLrcBV2Dz4oMFD7zb7TSZGnGVmCfEDDGzaGUi3UpQ6Q2sRVBeD8kvCTwMGh9umcVubAQyzx5xtiyGrhfzMC?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item></channel></rss>