Will need to have several different Sabbath elevators to avoid a long ride to your floor.

Booked breakfast meetings yesterday and today a 20 minute walk from my house and wouldn't you know it, it rained both days.

Daily Mail: French spies are immune to honeytrap schemes as their wives 'already know they're having affairs', France's 'MI6' reveals dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

Everybody knows that the Russian Orthodox Church is funded by the Russian government. But did you know that the Ecumenical Patriarch's side has been funded by the US Government? The Atlantic piece didn't tell the whole complex geopolitical story. More: orthochristian.com/126469.html

The money chart.

Really interesting article from Brian Potter about what makes housing so expensive. construction-physics.com/p/what-makes-h…

An underappreciated driver of inflation relates to cars, which have become more technical and more costly to fix, which is showing up in auto insurance rates (white line) and repair costs (blue line). Gains in those areas have far outpaced the broad #CPI (red line) since 2021

There's a certain segment - just a segment - of the conservative donor community that expects the people and organizations they fund to behave as employees or minions.

Was talking to a pastor today whose largest donor left the church because it refused to let his wife control…

Indiana firms got just shy of $500 million in venture capital investments in the first quarter of this year per Techpoint.

Another reason to just say no to gambling. aaronrenn.com/p/reject-vice

WSJ: ‘Responsible Gambling’ Campaigns Always Fail. That’s the Point wsj.com/business/hospi…

WSJ: Stay Put or Pay Up: Home Buyers Lose Hope for Lower Rates wsj.com/economy/housin…

My latest asks what it is American conservatives want to conserve. They all support the basic American political tradition. But beyond that there are three rival visions: social conservatism, cultural conservatism, and bourgeois values.

I know this is such a 2 yr old take, but Wall Street and Miami, after a Covid fling, are now married.

I’ll be really surprised if in a decade a decent chunk of finance that is in, and has always been in, NYC, CT, & Chicago hasn’t fully moved here.

'If HP can disable my printer, if Roku can shut off my television, if Tesla can change the life of my car battery remotely, are the devices I own really mine?'

theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

Mitch Silver is the real deal.

Translation: 'When I was a member of Judiciary, I saw the abuses of the FBI, hundreds of thousands of abuses. And then when I became speaker, I got the confidential briefing from a different perspective: They said if I didn't support FISA, I wouldn't be speaker for much longer.'