Ryan Bamforth
@RyanBamforth
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Health researcher ————————————-Probably not in your MySpace top 8
Joined May 2019
In 2000, Elon Musk tried to rebrand PayPal as https://t.co/BBM8GTWvT5, but was forced out by the board and replaced as CEO by Peter Thiel. Now he’s doing the same to Twitter, but is surrounded by sycophants who can’t tell him it’s a bad idea. Read more: https://t.co/rZGze8niM6
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This was a scoop I had 5 years ago about a bank deregulation bill, with the following quote from @SenSanders
https://t.co/BsHA2EVjmz
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Real story: Former McKinsey who made 230k$/year gets 3M in VC fund to start a business. The business: Charge 6000$/year to insanely rich people to help them plan vacations and birthday parties. Feel bad story: debunked.
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This is my annual roundup of labor data on union membership, elections and strikes. How is the U.S. labor movement doing? #UnionYes #UnionStrong #1u
https://t.co/5t4AWbZFNT
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What is something that the very wealthy inherit more of from their parents? This paper shows the answer is "a job." In Canadian data, on average 40% of all kids worked at some point at the same place of work as their dad, but for the top 1%, it is 70%. https://t.co/7eCpZkciWR
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How do I know so much about how @elonmusk does things? I spent 3 years investigating Tesla at @BusinessInsider from 2018-2021. Here are some of sloppy, dangerous, callous, things I learned:
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Health Economist @RyanBamforth will be splitting his time presenting 2 posters this morning at #KidneyWk! PO519- a review of home hemodialysis training time in people using the @QuantaDT SC+ HD device PO542- a cost utility analysis of real-time #potassium monitoring in HD
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Fantastic piece: “In a strange way, then, the current inflationary crisis is actually an expression of a much deeper deflationary trend built into the very laws of motion of capitalism.” https://t.co/LFDd5z3Bpj
brooklynrail.org
When the monster is unveiled, there is not really a surprise: high wages, free-flowing stimulus checks, too much money spent on social programs—all different ways of saying too much money in the...
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The savings-and-loan crisis of the 1980s cost Americans dearly. Crypto might just do the same. Will the government step in to clean up the mess—or cover it up? @nkulw writes on Ponzi schemes, stablecoin dreams, and the triumph of deregulation. https://t.co/RhrmLHHLo4
thebaffler.com
Cryptocurrency’s capacity to encode both hard-money crank politics and climbing profits places it on a continuum with previous American financial scandals.
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cops going after journalists harder than they did the school shooter
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This is the story of the 2022 economy right here: The top half still have plenty of $$, savings and spending power. The bottom half, especially the bottom 20%, are struggling. They are cutting back on spending and shopping for cheaper brands
MORGAN STANLEY: “The bottom quintile of households has less excess cash than they did in 2019.” [Jonas]
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For the first time in my lifetime, news of a Supreme Court ruling has leaked: they’re overturning Roe v. Wade.
politico.com
“We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,” Justice Alito writes in an initial majority draft circulated inside the court.
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its simple, what elon needs to do to is just borrow against TSLA so he can buy Twitter so he can successfully pump and dump TSLA in order to stave off margin calls on the shares he borrowed against to buy Twitter so that he ca
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