SomerandomguyfromTx

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SomerandomguyfromTx

SomerandomguyfromTx

@Somerandomcd7t

Beigetreten Kasım 2025
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SightBringer
SightBringer@_The_Prophet__·
⚡️Houston is what happens when the physical world starts mattering again. That chart is a regime signal. A metro that large adding that much real GDP that fast means capital is flowing toward throughput, energy, logistics, engineering, fabrication, and movement of actual molecules. Houston is not winning because it has better vibes. Houston is winning because the economy still runs on power, pipes, ports, chemicals, steel, freight, and scale. That is the part a lot of people still do not get. The last cycle trained everyone to worship abstraction. Apps, media, software, branding, financial engineering, digital prestige. Then the world got more constrained, more fragmented, more inflationary, more physical. Suddenly the winners look different. Power matters. Land matters. shipping matters. Industrial competence matters. Houston lives there. The deeper truth is that Houston is one of the clearest expressions of American hard power inside a city. Energy complex. Port complex. petrochemicals. aerospace adjacency. medical scale. construction. immigration. Business formation. It is one of the few places in America where the old industrial world and the new compute world can actually shake hands. AI can talk all day about transforming civilization. Civilization still needs electricity, cooling, concrete, gas, transport, and buildable land. Houston sits closer to those choke points than most of the prestige cities that dominate the cultural conversation. That is why this growth matters at size. Small boomtowns can rip for a while on one narrow driver. Houston doing this means the underlying machine is broad. It has enough depth to convert population, capital, infrastructure, and commodity advantage into real output. That is a very different thing from a tourism bounce or a housing sugar high. The highest coherence read is simple. America is rotating back toward cities that can do hard things. Not talk about them. Not regulate them. Not aestheticize them. Do them. Houston is ugly, functional, rich in substrate, and built for scale. In a serious era, those traits start compounding. That is what this chart is really saying. The future is getting more physical again. Houston was already there.
Misha G.@tastybits

Houston economy is growing at 10.6%. That’s remarkable at this size.

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Cigarette Nostalgia
Cigarette Nostalgia@CigsMake·
A 1970s Delta Air Lines ad seemingly geared toward businessmen with multiple ‘lives’ in different cities.
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genXbitcoin
genXbitcoin@GXbitcoin·
@_The_Prophet__ They voted for Jasmine Crockett! Might want to rethink whats happening there! Yeah I know why she's gone, but machine to put here the seat is still there.
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WallStreetUnicorn
WallStreetUnicorn@WallStUnicorn·
@bennpeifert Anything retail gets to touch, sucks from the start. Start at $2 trillion, what room is left for upside for retail? Years to grow in to that valuation
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Mark Allen
Mark Allen@MarkAllenMulti·
Average rents have gone from $1530 to $1300 in DFW. Probably lower through the year and maybe next year, but should rebound thereafter. There’s opportunity in the window.
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paintbrush
paintbrush@TXpaintbrush·
@MarkAllenMulti Why would it rebound Mark Are you going to burn down an equivalent amount of old supply to balance out all the new supply delivered?
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Houstonomics
Houstonomics@Houstonomics·
Houston leads the U.S. in population growth Added ~126,700 residents (2024–2025) the highest in the nation Slightly ahead of Dallas-Fort Worth Growth rate: +1.6% YoY (still well above U.S. average of 0.5%)
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Ben Hunt
Ben Hunt@EpsilonTheory·
Can’t have a TACO without TOFU (Trump Often Fucks Up).
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Theo Wold
Theo Wold@RealTheoWold·
Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will hear one of the most consequential cases of the last 50 years: Whether the 14th amendment grants birthright citizenship to the children of illegal aliens. When I worked in the first Trump admin, I drafted the original executive order ending birthright citizenship for illegal aliens that ultimately went unsigned until the beginning of last year-- and now finds itself at the center of this case. To put it simply: President Trump has every single legal and historical precedent in his favor. When the 14th amendment's birthright citizenship clause was written, illegal immigration was a foreign concept. The 14th Amendment was specifically intended to clarify citizenship for the children of freed slaves. It did not guarantee that a 9-months pregnant Guatemalan could illegally cross the Rio Grande, give birth, and have their child considered an American citizen. The Left always cites the Wong Ark Kim case from 1898 to claim this as settled law, but that case did not apply to illegal aliens. The plaintiff was the son of one of the thousands of Chinese laborers who were brought legally to America during the 19th century to work on the transcontinental railroads. The Supreme Court has never adjudicated the question of whether children born within our borders to somebody who broke our nation's immigration laws are legal citizens. The answer is “no,” and the Court should absolutely uphold the President's executive order. We don't give citizenship to the children of foreign diplomats born in America. In the same way, we should not give citizenship to children of illegal aliens. No European country, not even the Vatican, grants birthright citizenship to children born to unlawful residents. Democrats are naturally freaking out about this case. Why? Because it's a terrifying prospect for the future of their party. They've seen the data showing how much population loss blue states have seen over the last few years. It's possible that California could lose up to six electoral votes in the next census. The only way they can maintain their power is by continually replacing the population with the children of illegals. It's one of the major pillars of Democrat power and it may just be coming to an end.
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Anahira
Anahira@TexasKiw1·
@Houstonomics Illegals, Muslims and H1B visa holders. Go on be honest.
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Emre
Emre@emre_mayo·
@conorsen The Iran war will be his legacy and everything else will be forgotten. Just as the wars were W legacy.
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Conor Sen
Conor Sen@conorsen·
We know how people today think about the late ‘90s economy — when times are hard at some point in the 2040’s the broad-based economic nostalgia will probably be for the Trump 1.0 economy.
Arin Dube@arindube

A striking fact I learnt researching my book: For those in the bottom half, much of the real wage growth between 1979 and 2019 happened over just 7 "tight" years. For top wages, full employment wasn't a big deal. For bottom wages, it was the nearly the whole game.

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SomerandomguyfromTx
SomerandomguyfromTx@Somerandomcd7t·
@conorsen There will never be nostalgia for Trump, dude will go down as the worst President in history and left the country with $46 trillion in debt!
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