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In America during tax season, every individual uses a number to identity themselves- a number that holds the key to their financial, governmental, legal identity. Expect there is no way to verify it easily - it’s not biometric. And if someone steals it you are screwed. It’s wild

Must have been a lot of presidential promises to not fire the head of the Fed

Stocks now less than 11% off all-time highs -- highs that sparked fear and loathing about a tech-like bubble

S&P 500 now down just 3.3% since just before Liberation Day. Turns out the biggest disruption to the trading order in modern history was priced in.

Started using ChatGPT to make ever-niche on-the-fly Spotify playlists and now I can't stop

Odd Lots makes it to Vulture’s top podcasts of 2025! vulture.com/article/new-be…

I hate how stock markets have actually acted rationally since April. Front-running both the disruption of the modern trading order and now the apparent rollback. That might turn out to be wrong, but it's rational

Officially the start of Punjabi boy summer

Today Trump appeared to announce that he’s not seeking formal trade deals after all, in the biggest head-scratcher yet, and it’s elicited comically little commentary because no one knows anything

Are DMs down?

One day, OnlyFans and Microstrategy will get into the S&P 500, owning the pension libs and reviving ESG and custom indexing

AI can't actually do logic or reason, and yet it's still better at your job than you

Oil continuing to absorb the shock, with stock futures flat

U.S. stock futures open marginally down

Incredible resilience in US stock futures to all the tariff threats. The great desensitisation of Wall Street continues

Dollar higher, amid growing institutional adoption

Not much of a reaction to that jobs report in private-asset valuations right now

What’s the point of an American who isn’t conscientious or extroverted, when you already have English people?