RIP to the smartest guy of all time

The Fed is a national treasure and the envy of the world. Apart from making monetary policy decisions and financial regulations, it’s a world premier economic and financial research institution. The Fed employs over 400 economists incl 300 at the Fed Board in DC and 100 at the

what’s wrong babe you haven’t touched your Dongfeng Motor Corporation Ltd. concrete mixer-brewed pu’er tea

Release the 400 hour biplane cut

In the Rush Hour 3 end credit bloopers when Chris says to Jackie “after everything we’ve been through… Rush Hour 1, Rush Hour 2” that’s cinema baby

When people give me directions and say “you can’t miss it” buddy you have no idea what i’m capable of

what would call a such law?

A really clean look at a big problem in the public pension fund space: political interference in the allocation of capital. In this case, PE firms that donate to the campaigns of pension fund board appointees are rewarded with fund flows, & (unsurprisingly) underperform.

just remember… it’s always the most over before you’re so back

Guy in front of me at the DMV has never heard of "tap" or "insert" card as a payment method. He keeps laughing and telling the clerk "I'm a sliding guy"

Some are saying Trump is destroying BLS because he says he doesn't like the "phony numbers." But Chamath knows the truth: Trump is just really mad that firms and households sometimes take too long to answer surveys, which has implications for measurement error

…This is literally how France has the best bridges in the world?

this is one of those weeks that’s made it abundantly clear that not only are we never going back to sane, “business as usual” politics, but we’ve mutated out of hyper-partisan, authoritarian Trump 1.0 politics into a far, far uglier beast. and it’s all just really sad.

The company that makes Nutella just posted a job that more or less involves hedging Nutella risk. This is literally the job I was born to do.

In Argentina after they started cooking the official inflation statistics, they leaned on McDonald’s to cut the price of a Big Mac to improve their score on The Economist’s Big Mac Index that was used as a private sector alternative — much Trump could learn here.

these gpt-5 numbers are insane 🤯

It’s so funny when long time members become executives of large agencies. It can go poorly, but sometimes it ends up like this

This is one of the greatest feats humanity has ever seen and it won’t be recorded cause it’s preseason