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Clavicular was on his phone mid-club - then put it away, took Piper Rockelle's hand and spun her across the dance floor 😭
Bacara, Miami, phones up everywhere, and neither of them stopped laughing for eighteen seconds straight 😭
He walked up to Clavicular's camera, told it to get away from him, then hit it with the "Alpha" line like it was a threat 😭
"Get the fuck away from me, bro."
"You don't want to mess with the Alpha."
Clavicular kissed a girl in the middle of a packed club, then walked straight over to the man standing right beside her and confessed the whole thing to his face like he was proud of it 😳
"I kissed your mom first."
Clavicular strapped a professional poker player into a live lie detector and got a flat YES when he asked if he was part of the FSB - then the man said he could not explain it 💀
"Are you part of the FSB?" - "Yes."
"You brought a spy to my house?"
Clavicular just got name-dropped on American Horror Story 💀 a date tells him “your face is slightly bruised, like that clavicular guy who hits his own face with a hammer” - and he answers “yeah, yeah, I do that. I’m into looksmaxxing” 😭🔥
Clavicular's 18 year old girlfriend confirmed her body count of 16 on a LIE DETECTOR at Camp Looksmax and he went silent 😭💀
She came in GLOWING, band-aid still on her bu*t, and then the nurse opened the photos and started swiping slowly
“be honest… can you even tell the difference?”
THE SAME $100. IN THE S&P 500 IT BECAME $1,082 IN 30 YEARS. IN MEDALLION IT BECAME $2.1 MILLION. 37% A YEAR AFTER FEES. THEN THEY STOPPED TAKING OUTSIDERS' MONEY.
In my article I write that the crossover arrives after one doubling period of your return, and that the clock is the same for everyone: a bigger saver has a bigger crossover in dollars but reaches it in exactly the same time. Saving more does not shorten the wait. It raises what is waiting at the end of it.
0:24 "this fund? 37% after fees. Who the hell did 37% after fees?"
0:41 "1994, Medallion achieved a 70% return. And in 2000, it hit a record 98.5% return in one year."
1:30 "In 1988, if you were to put your money in the S&P 500, 30 years later, would have been worth $1,082."
1:36 "But if you were to put in the Medallion Fund, that $100 alone, not $100 every month, not $100 every year, just $100 one time, that $100 would be worth $2.1 million."
Medallion is that clock at maximum speed. From 1988 to 2021 the fund returned 62% a year before fees and 37% after fees, the number the traders in the video keep repeating because nobody else was close. In 1994 it did 70%. In 2000 it hit a record 98.5% in one year. As of 2024 the fund was valued at $10 billion.
The $100 example is the cleanest picture of the crossover I have found in the wild. Put $100 in the S&P 500 in 1988 and 30 years later it is $1,082. The same $100, one time, in Medallion, is $2.1 million.
In my framework both portfolios run the same mechanism: growth matching contribution. The difference is that one doubling period repeats in decades for most people, and there it repeated inside a single year.
And then the part that proves how much the clock is worth. Most funds beg for more money. Jim Simons did the opposite: the fund shifted to being open only to current and former employees, and outside investors were bought out entirely. Nobody outside is allowed to ride that clock. That is what it looks like when the asset side of your equation does more work than any paycheck ever could.
HE SAID IT WAS NEVER ABOUT MONEY. IT WAS ABOUT COVERING A $60 MILLION LOSS. THAT COVER-UP BECAME A $1.8 BILLION HOLE. THE SENTENCE: EIGHT YEARS IN PRISON.
In my article I write that catastrophes are born small: a small failure, then concealment, then compensation, then revelation. Yasuo Hamanaka is that whole ladder running in slow motion, and his own words in court state the thesis plainly.
0:12 "His sentence? Eight years in prison."
0:46 "1.8 billion dollars that Sumitomo suffered from their copper trades, the damage to their reputation was also a big blow."
0:59 "after serving his sentence he was released from prison a year early in 2005."
1:50 "my motivation for doing the things I did was never due to personal gain but to cover for that initial loss of 60 million end quote."
Look at the sequence. In 1997 he was found guilty of four counts of forgery and fraud. The banks that had lent him money then spent years suing each other into settlements of 100 to 200 million dollars, small change against a minimum loss of at least 1.8 billion dollars for Sumitomo. He walked out in 2005, a year early, and disappeared into a quiet life in Tokyo.
The confession is the part I keep returning to. Asked why he did it, he said it was never personal gain. It was to cover that initial loss of 60 million dollars. His superior backed him up in court on this. That is exactly the moment my article warns about: the first loss was survivable, the admission would have been almost free, and instead he chose silence.
The video ends by asking you to imagine if he had simply accepted that first loss and moved on. In my framework the final collapse never creates the loss. It only reveals what the silence was already compounding. Eight years in prison is the invoice for a 60 million dollar hole that nobody was willing to name in time.
A BANK ACCOUNT WITH 3.95 BILLION EUROS IN THE CAYMAN ISLANDS. BANK OF AMERICA IMMEDIATELY CALLED IT FAKE. THE REAL HOLE IN PARMALAT: 14 BILLION EUROS. THE FOUNDER'S CONFESSION GREW FROM 2 BILLION TO 8 TO 14.
In my article I write that catastrophes are born small: a small failure, concealment, compensation, revelation. Parmalat is the clearest case of that whole ladder running at once, and it ended with a fax that said the money was not there.
0:52 "That's when Parmalat sent the letter claiming €3.95 billion were in a Bank of America Cayman Islands account. Bank of America immediately said the account was fake."
1:20 "The real hole was €14 billion, nearly twice the company's reported assets. It was Europe's largest bankruptcy in history."
1:39 "He initially claimed the fraud was only €2 billion. Then €8 billion. Then €14."
1:49 "In 2010, Tanzi was sentenced to 18 years in prison. His CFO, Fausto Tonner, got 14 years."
Read it through my frame. Red flags appeared and were ignored: in 2001 an analyst asked why the company was paying such high interest rates on its debt if it had billions in cash, and the answer was that the cash was locked up offshore. Investors believed him. That is the part I call reputation shielding the weak point.
Then compensation hit its limit. 150 million euros in maturing bonds came due and the money was not there, so the letter went out claiming 3.95 billion euros at Bank of America. In my framework the final trigger never creates the loss. It only opens the account the system already owed.
The confession is the part I keep coming back to: 2 billion, then 8, then 14. He had been moving money in circles since 1990. Over 100,000 investors lost money, retirees among them. The line at the end of the video could have been mine: fraud does not just happen, it compounds.
A CURRENCY TRADER AT A SMALL BALTIMORE BANK. AS REPORTED AT THE TIME: $750 MILLION FOUND MISSING. HIS LAWYER'S LINE: HE IS NOT A THIEF. MY ARTICLE CALLS THIS THE CONCEALMENT STAGE.
In my article I describe four stages every catastrophe moves through: small failure, concealment, compensation, revelation. The Allied Irish desk case in Baltimore is one of the cleanest recordings of the middle two stages, and the neighbors outside give you the reaction for free.
0:34 "It doesn't make any sense how they didn't notice it and didn't let him get away with it."
1:01 "I think that what, there will not be, as has been reported, $750 million found missing from All First Allied Irish. There's certainly not money missing."
1:19 "I've been in contact with the FBI and the U.S. Attorney's Office mainly just to make sure that they understood that Mr. Rusnik was in Baltimore, living at home."
1:29 "He's not a fugitive, as was reported early on. He's not going anywhere. He's here to help try to get to the bottom of this."
Stage one and two in one picture: nobody noticed for years, and the first public defense was that there was nothing to notice. I wrote that the most dangerous thing is not the mistake but the concealment, and the lawyer in the clip is selling exactly that product: not a thief, no money missing, nothing going anywhere.
Stage three, compensation, happened inside the desk for years: I described it as fixing it one more time, and the amounts kept doubling until the bank itself said as has been reported, 750 million dollars found missing. The final trigger never created that number. It only opened the account.
Stage four is the outside reaction: the FBI and the U.S. Attorney's Office already in contact, neighbors demanding revenge, and my favorite line in the clip, it doesn't make any sense how they didn't notice it. In my framework that sentence is the whole revelation stage: the truth arrived where it was cheapest to say, outside the bank.
ONE LONE FUTURES TRADER. MORE THAN $7 BILLION IN LOSSES AT ONE BANK. ALMOST 5 BILLION EUROS IN FICTITIOUS TRANSACTIONS NOBODY CAUGHT DESPITE THE CONTROLS.
In my article I describe four stages every catastrophe moves through: small failure, concealment, compensation, revelation. Societe Generale is the cleanest example of all four running at once, and the bank itself did not see it coming.
0:00 "A case of bank fraud in France, more than $7 billion lost all by a lone futures trader."
0:12 "He says he's not sure how controls work when it comes to a sum like this, but it's true, almost 5 billion euros is enormous."
0:26 "The union says it's concerned the 30-something trader may have tried getting spectacular results all to boost his bonus."
0:43 "Finance minister Christine Lagarde wants answers on how none of the fraud was detected despite controls to prevent it."
Stage one and two in one picture: fictitious transactions hiding positions, and nobody escalating. I wrote that the most dangerous thing is not the mistake but the concealment, and here the concealment grew until it was almost 5 billion euros. What worried the union most: the trader may have been chasing spectacular results to boost his bonus.
Stage three arrived as the market itself: the fictitious transactions became known as stock markets tumbled, not through an internal alarm. In my framework the final trigger never creates the catastrophe, it merely opens the account the system already owed.
Stage four is the question that stays: how none of the fraud was detected despite controls to prevent it. My answer in the article: most systems do not fail from a lack of information, they fail from a lack of courage to call information what it is.