Wow, everything really is downstream of housing affordability. This paper (long but very interesting, recommended reading) makes a compelling case that our housing crisis helps explain the rise of the degen economy and the shape of Gen Z culture. What happens when young people

The $140K Poverty Line Debate is Missing the Point Michael Green's viral claim that $140,000 should be the new poverty line has been thoroughly debunked. Scott Winship, Noah Smith, Tyler Cowen, and others have picked apart his methodology: he used Essex County, NJ data (94th

Here’s another long .. and bad … purported … take down of the NY Times article on Sacks. I won’t go through everything because mostly he just seems to have a problem with basic journalism providing context on who Sacks is, but I will say he really, really blows right over the

Absolutely shameful practice, but fantastic piece of investigative reporting. “If they’re called on it, they’ll say, ‘Oh yeah, our mistake,’” Kennedy said. “Until they’re called on it, they’re happy to let those scanner errors bring in the millions.”

DOGE closed offices, killed programs, eliminated jobs, and deprived people of medicine and aid. What it didn’t cut: federal spending. That went up. Of the agency's top 40 savings claims, 28 were wrong. nytimes.com/2025/12/23/us/…

So when China launches a special op to seize the president of Taiwan: or Russia tries to do the same for Zelensky - what exactly do we say? You can’t do that, it’s illegal?

You can't claim to care about the First Amendment if you believe this. Treason is a capital offense. Imprisoning or executing people for their words is impossible to reconcile with any understanding of free speech. Incoherent and un-American.

This is indefensible. The victim’s legally owned handgun was removed from the scene, and then ICE agents shot him multiple times. It’s far from law enforcement — it’s just murder. Those who defend this don’t care about law or order. It’s about money, power, and protecting an

If I were a founder in Khosla's portfolio, I'd just give them the money back. He is such an embarrassment.

An extraordinary paragraph. buff.ly/uH5ykhX

Four days before Trump’s inauguration, lieutenants to an Abu Dhabi royal secretly signed a deal w/the Trump family to buy a 49% stake in World Liberty Financial for $500M, according to documents & people familiar. The buyer paid half up front, steering $187M to Trump family

To call this the most corrupt administration in American history doesn't really do it justice, because no prior president, Republican or Democrat, would have even conceived of a grift on this scale "Four days before Donald Trump's inauguration last year, lieutenants to an Abu

Brian Sutterer MD lol thanks doc. My ACL was fully functioning until last Friday. Just because it seems impossible to you doesn’t mean it’s not possible. And yes, my ACL is 100% ruptured. Not 80% or 50%. It’s 100% gone.

Excited about Google Play's Device Recall Beta and trying to get access. Tried Google Support and our Google Cloud account manager but no luck. Sam Bright any help would be great!

Nailed it NerdWallet. No notes.

This is a quote from Katherine Boyle about why a16z doesn't need to apologize or be embarrassed. Truly astounding. I think they should be. x.com/MikeIsaac/stat…

Statement from Anthropic sounds so much more like a government than our actual government

I can't out of my head the apparent fact that we (the US) blew up a school and killed over 150 school-aged girls. reuters.com/world/middle-e…

Continuing my thread of nonsense email outreach in consumer finance. C’mon CK.

"You owe it to your grandchildren" My grandfather lost over $1M gambling while he was alive. His addiction cost him his marriage and sent a rift through our family. I know prediction markets can seem like fun and games, but you can lose a lot more than money. Your