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His tune sure has changed since last year
October 30, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Twice in a week or so, always blew my mind prices could go negative.

Funny story is that Dowchem in MISO when they first joined made some errors with their offers (assume price insensitive) and had DA prices of something like -$3000. They complained to MISO to undo but was their own fault, ouch.
October 15, 2025 at 10:20 PM
So you’re not having incredibly productive lunch meetings on Surface, the table that changed everything?
September 26, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Find somebody to love you like MISO loves Capacity Advisories in the South.
September 8, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Oof.
August 19, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Logan’s reaction on Succession is all I think about when I set a Patek now.
August 5, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Riley my spirit animal
July 5, 2025 at 7:44 AM
This made my day when I stumbled across it a few years ago.
July 1, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Completely mystified by this announcement until I learned what "black liquor" meant:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_l...
June 7, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Rogue wave!!!

iykyk
June 5, 2025 at 6:23 PM
The unseen artistry of ISO node naming is perhaps coming to a close.. MISO's new model has some sadistic names coming up.

"omg AMIL.176872 is blowing out again"

vs.

"Petee another freebie"
May 27, 2025 at 8:17 PM
A sign I saw in Italy, loosely translated (initially thinking it meant something like “here lie strawberries of love):

“I will find you and open you up like a newspaper you piece of ****”
-on a tree in a little charming Italian garden
May 27, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Rubio every morning
May 2, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Written in 1924.. not too many articles written in 1990 "internet advertising to be 1% of US GDP in 30 years".
April 29, 2025 at 1:01 PM
April 7, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Looked up "asceticism" in my Trump pictionary (solid gold front/back binding, only has pictures next to words and weighs 85 pounds) and they have this:
April 3, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Like this chart punctuates, % of household (and nonprofit?) assets in stocks at ATH:
March 30, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The FT (particularly the free Alphaville) has been covering them lately quite a bit. Liked this survey they posted today:
March 27, 2025 at 4:06 PM
And here I'd thought they'd dipped into the Glengarry leads.
March 26, 2025 at 12:43 PM
The relentless march of progress.
March 25, 2025 at 9:31 AM
important to read the footnote in the article (direct screenshot).. not all of us love a future where scamming is legal.
March 24, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Just your typical conservative who likes to cosplay as a Democrat.
March 23, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Next please interview these people and let us know how they did it... lucky bastards.
March 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
“third quarter is looking great!!”
March 21, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Wild juxtaposition of two sub-markets in PJM from latest SOM report (for financial entities):

FTR - total profit increased from $113m to $383m YoY

UTC - dropped from $41.2m to $0.2m, 99.4% decrease YoY (!!!)
March 14, 2025 at 11:50 AM