Random Walk In Agency MBS data, the majority of first-time homebuyers are age 34 and under. That means the median first-time homebuyer is 34 or younger. Hasn't changed a lick post-COVID.

We could have solved this problem in 2013, but Ted Cruz wasn't having it.

Renters skew left, and home owners skew right, and this trend has been increasing over time. So you get Republicans freezing property taxes, and Democrats freezing rents.

This post is emblematic of the now seemingly pervasive rhetorical gaslighting by strawman, where the strawman is an imagined stereotype of group that either doesn't exist or a collage of different views they find ridiculous/offensive rolled into one. Sophomoric is now mainstream

Great thread that illuminates the distortions in grading at Universities, in this case disability accommodations. No easy answer.

Trump is lying. Debt is not being reduced very substantially; it’s not being reduced even a little bit. In fact, debt is increasing substantially. There is no tariff surplus. A so-called tariff dividend is simply socialist wealth redistribution wrapped in MAGA, Inc., populism.

“When hostile forces want to bring disarray to a society and overthrow a political regime, they always start by opening a hole to creep through in the ideological field by confusing people’s thoughts” - from a 2006 manual published by China’s Central Propaganda Department You

Bravo: "We also need more bundle payments. If you’re going to the hospital for a knee replacement, you don’t need 10 separate charges."

This is why people don’t trust academics. This is our gaslighting.

The is reason I call out dipshits is this. Dipshits like this don't understand the policy that incentivizes the "financialization" of "things", the capitalization of which is my passion. Dipshits like this call out typos while defending failed theories from the math challenged,

This dude thinks Americans are dupes with no agency. Good Grief.

yeah, you are entitled to endless lattes said Stalin, never.

This country would absolutely legalize beers in cars

This is insane: The Trump administration is arresting the wives and husbands of US citizens when they show up for their green card interviews, even though they entered legally and have no criminal record. So much for family values. nytimes.com/2025/11/26/us/…

France’s rail operator SNCF tried bidding to build CA high speed rail over a decade ago. They gave up to go to North Africa, which was less dysfunctional. Morocco now has a high speed rail. California still does not.

95% of reindustrialization projects in the US are Chinese industrial products reconfigured into widgets and doodads. We're cosplaying as an industrial power until we figure out how to build large CapEx projects in commodity-like businesses.

Yes! All new housing supply is helpful. The middle class and working class need a robust market where supply overwhelms demand. That means land-use deregulation. The truly poor need direct help from government- social housing can do that. These 2 things are not contradictory.

Tim Walz is 100% responsible for massive fraud in Minnesota. We let Tim Walz know of fraud early on, hoping for a partnership in stopping fraud but no, we got the opposite response. Tim Walz systematically retaliated against whistleblowers using monitoring, threats, repression,

The existence of speech-imitating bots cannot destroy universities or learning. Those that cannot figure out what learning is at its core and how to foster it in a world with this technology, on the other hand, are in serious trouble. currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-des…

Yeah, and CPA's that distribute these things without thinking deserve to lose business.