Going off what I’ve read, on the more severe end of the NPD spectrum you have malignant narcissism and anti-social personality disorder, which are widely regarded as being untreatable:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00030651070550020701

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12144-019-0147-1

A lot of research strongly suggests that narcissism is actually a personality trait.

All of the research indicates that people on the far end of the narcissistic spectrum cannot be treated. NPD seems to be rooted in personality rather than it being a treatable illness. Trying to treat them would be like trying to make an intellectual person no longer curious about the world around them.

Post modernism seems to be overly concerned with the human condition being like wet clay. Moldable into anything. But evidence suggests that some people can be selfish, sadistic and disagreeable because of evolution. No amount of therapy can make them less selfish. Pharnaceutical research suggests that some drugs can very briefly allow narcissists to experience empathy. But no therapy has shown to work reliably on extreme cases.

There are a number of open weight open source models out there with all their data sourced from the public domain. Look up BLOOM and Falcon. There are others.

Everything you wrote lined up with the article on wikipedia so if you got something wrong I didn’t see it.

I’m referring to the book “This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly” the title of which mocks the oft repeated defense of bubble investors:

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w13882/w13882.pdf

But their point is that every single asset bubble ended up popping, despite the protections instituted by banks and governments. They also point out that the bubbles have been getting bigger and bigger

I’m not sure what you mean, but no, I don’t think that and I didn’t write that but i can understand the confusion because it’s not well known how QE works. Some forms of QE prevent crashes. The Fed can achieve this by taking the bank’s failing debt instrument off the books, and swapping it for a t bill.

Sorry I appreciate your comment. So I read (erroneously?) that central bankers had done away with the reserve ratio in the fractional reserve banking article. And that just seems like a reckless thing to do given how prone to bubbles our economy is.

One of the main points in “this time is different” is that despite the math, we are experiencing greater and greater asset bubbles and at no point in world history were things actually different.

Thanks for the reply. I hope you don’t let my spelling or use of ex nihilo (this is the exact language used by the fed and economists, I didn’t just make it up) turn you off, because at a policy level they are pursuing policies that keep real estate prices high.

This seems like an already failed banking model which places lenders at the front of the pack and will lead to only larger asset bubbles. Japan’s Kiretsu system of banking led to banks taking out loans to cover up their own investment losses as they had put their money into an asset bubble which collapsed. Banks then committed wholesale fraud by disguising such losses on their books. The Japanese government then used quantitative easing. They create money ex nihilo, swap the money for a t bill, then they bought the toxic assets by giving t bills to the bank. The bank doesn’t sell the t bill, they merely collect interest on it.

The main effect is a system in which bubbles are never popped and consumers suffer a declining standard of living in order to keep asset prices high.