“Why aren’t you cheering Trump & DOGE? I thought you wanted spending and deficit cuts!" Because I’ve been doing this for 25 years and can’t be tricked by gimmicky nonsense. Trump’s first term added $8 trillion in enacted spending hikes and tax cuts to the deficit - half of

Wake me up when DOGE goes after the defense budget that’s where the real waste of our tax dollars is happening Until then get this performative anti-woke bullshit off my timeline

I think a big reason the conservative movement is so obsessed with intelligence is that they’re largely devoid of it

Holy shit bro

After several delays, Department of Government Efficiency has finally posted its purported savings. Why did it take so long to create a simple webpage with a 1000-row table? Who knows! Let's dig in. Headline number: $55B saved. They list the savings per nixed contract. This should be easy to verify then. 🧵

Microsoft will literally invent a new form of matter instead of fixing Teams

Gary Becker was the original famous Chicago School economist that believed households exist as rational utility maximizing entities run by household heads for their own private benefit. His wife committee suicide.

LMAO, it looks like DOGE canceled the Security and Exchange Commission's Westlaw access, because Elon's team saw "Thomson Reuters" and thought it had to do with the news agency.

We’re seeing in real time that a bunch of people didn’t take macroeconomics in college or high school

NEW 🧵: Is human intelligence starting to decline? Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s. What should we make of this?

Trump's tariffs have had exactly the opposite of the intended effect. 40% of American manufacturers have delayed or cancelled investments.

“Apple has more of an impact on job creation in China than all of China has on America.” Wow

BuccoCapital Bloke This is what I wrote in my book review. This will become a thing. Few books have the potential to spark a movement or influence policy—this is one of them. While Americans proudly celebrated Apple as the crown jewel of innovation and capitalism, few paused to question where the

If you look closely you can see that all the beverages already had containers

this was a banger reposting it

Star Wars-ass picture.

Google Deepmind is using AI to actually cure cancer while OpenAI and xAI use it to make porn bots

Libertarianism is great until you run out of other people’s money

Indian IT folks reading this note in which HSBC delivers the most immaculately crafted backhanded compliment ever: 😂

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god