Economic Man ("Muskago Delenda Est")
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Retired RE and special situations investor (GS and own firm). Economics (Bowdoin College/LSE) and Finance (Univ of Mich). Libertarian. NOT INVESTMENT ADVICE.
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Joined March 2016
This is why tennis is the greatest sport in the world. A 🧵.
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Apparently, intelligence is not 100% heritable.
Elizabeth Simons, daughter of late hedge fund billionaire James Simons, has given $250,000 to a super PAC supporting New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani
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America’s superpower has always been our ability to attract the best, brightest and most ambition from around the world (and then allowing them to flourish and uplift everyone). This turn to mindless nativism is depressing and scary. @ATabarrok .
marginalrevolution.com
In my posts The Sputnik vs. DeepSeek Moment and The Answers, I contrasted America’s reaction to Sputnik—expanded funding for education in math, science, and foreign languages; creation of agencies...
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The world is very lucky that the Finnish PM went to a US college on a golf scholarship and Putin plays hockey and does judo. This is how policy is made in Trump’s Idiocracy. @P_Kallioniemi .
wsj.com
“He’s a very good player,” President Trump said of Alexander Stubb, who warned after the two played a round at Trump’s club that Russian President Vladimir Putin couldn’t be trusted.
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What do we call an economic system where the government owns the means of production? 🤔🤔🤔🤔.
The Trump administration is in talks with Intel to have the US government potentially take a stake in the beleaguered chipmaker, helping support the company’s effort to expand domestic manufacturing
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Elizabeth Warren is why the word “harridan” has to come back into common usage. She is unable to talk without screeching. If they remake “Cuckoo’s Nest,” I nominate her for the role of Nurse Ratched. @SenWarren.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren endorses Zohran Mamdani for NYC mayor. REPORTER: "Democratic socialism—is this what the party should look like?". WARREN: "Yes, you bet!"
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I don’t understand. Foreigners are paying these tariffs. How can you “rebate” something that has never been paid?.
thehill.com
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) has introduced legislation to provide $600 tariff rebates to almost all Americans and to their dependent children, a proposal that would give a family of four $2,400. Hawle…
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UFB. Hamas uses Palestinians as human shields specifically to create "martyrs" for PR purposes, but this guy is pissed at Israel for feeding him too inconveniently. And idiots like CNN treat this like a serious comment.
CNN: "All of Gaza will die within days if more aid does not enter.". *Israel airdrops aid to Gaza*. CNN: "No, not like that!"
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Anyone who isn't nauseated by this has a terminal case of TAKS ("Trump Ass-Kissing Syndrome").
thehill.com
A House Republican’s bill would strip former President Kennedy’s name from the Washington institution created in the 35th commander in chief’s honor and instead have it known as t…
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This, it goes without saying, is why Trump wants to be President: wanting others to assuage his pathetic ego in order to get access to OPM. He's such an a-hole that he doesn't want to use his own money to buy the sycophancy he craves.
🚨BREAKING: In a shocking moment, Trump says Gaza owes him a “thank you” for sending $60M for food: “You really at least want to have somebody say, thank you… And it makes you feel a little bad.” Millions are starving. Most are children. He is a SICKO.
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Right wingers are hypocrites about sex. So, they have these types of scandels. Lefties are hypocrites about money. So, they tend to have financial scandels. I have seen studies that find, on average, this is true.
Ryan Walters, the Oklahoma schools chief who wants bibles in the classroom and Christianity taught to kids, just got caught watching adult content. On his work computer. During a Board of Education meeting. Read that again.
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I have a friend who (at least) pretends to be MAGA. But he also admits that it's just nihilism. This is a real thing. There are some people who like Trump just because he's a destroyer.
MAGA has no culture beyond online rage. There is no revival of Christianity or patriotism. MAGA is hurting manufacturing, canceling infrastructure, blocking energy, gutting research, and slowing the economy. This is a movement that builds NOTHING.
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Tim Scott is not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but even he has a look on his face like "WTAF is this guy talking about?".
“Japan gave us $550 billion. We get 90. They get 10. It’s not a loan or anything. It’s a. It’s uh. Uh signing bonus.” - Trump. What? .
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And @SenSanders still thinks that we need to make college free so that we can send even more of these highly mature, independent and capable young adults to a 4-year daycare center. We are doomed.
This is wild. My parents were pretty involved parents. They took me to Wal-Mart, got a bunch of stuff for my dorm room, hugged me, and left. There were just so many fewer ways to hover without the Internet. I had to figure most things out after they left. That was the norm.
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One less vote for @JDVance in 2028.
Ladies and Gentlemen, we got him! Hunted and Destroyed!.#FAFO #RussianUkrainianWar #RussiaIsATerroristState #Huffman
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What is the economic system called where the political leader gets to decide "the projects he thinks are the most important for America"?. 🤔🤔🤔🤔.
Secretary @HowardLutnick breaks down how Japan lowered their tariff rate on cars by investing $500B into American projects: "The Japanese have bought the ability to be down to 15%, and then @POTUS can invest in the projects he thinks are the most important for America."
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If I were negotiating one of these agreements, I would definitely want a clause that, in the event of a SCOTUS ruling overturning the tariffs, there is a return to 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘴 𝘲𝘶𝘰 𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦.
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The Trump administation is a cross between "Idiocracy" and "Elmer Gantry.".
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If Dante were alive today, I am sure he would designate a special place in hell for Trumpkins who lie through their teeth while prominently displaying their religious crosses.
Trump has signed legislation cumulatively adding $13 trillion in debt in his 4.5 years as president - dwarfing every other president in our lifetime. Give me a break.
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"Obama was 'sedacious'. ". Well then he should definitely be indicted for "sedacion." . I certainly hope that Adam Smith was right when he said "[b]e assured, my young friend, that there is a great deal of ruin in a nation." Since we are testing that theory.
Trump: We found absolute -- this isn't like "Evidence" or like -- this is proof, irrefutable proof that Obama was seditious, that Obama was trying to lead a coup, and with Hillary Clinton and all these other people, but Obama headed it up. This is the biggest scandal in the
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This is what happens when you combine a lawyer with the NYT Op-Ed page. Pure economic illiteracy emerges. (With the exception, of course, of @scottlincicome.).
marginalrevolution.com
Zephyr Teachout’s NYTs op-ed on grocery store prices is poorly argued. The food system in the United States is rigged in favor of big retailers and suppliers in several ways. Big retailers often flex...
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