Isaac Baxter

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Isaac Baxter

@i2gbaxter

Cambridge Economics Undergrad. Seahawks football and some other nonsense. Most likely getting annoyed at someone.

York, England Beigetreten Mayıs 2025

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Isaac Baxter@i2gbaxter·1h

@patriot1776tex @BadEconomicTake @pskpspspss @ITARviolation That money isn't vanishing into thin air though, it's being used on another thing that gives higher returns, so net asset position rises over time. Your hypothetical isn't mano a mano.

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TexasPatriot@patriot1776tex·1h

@BadEconomicTake @pskpspspss @i2gbaxter @ITARviolation It does, if you lock your cash in for 26 years but i put mine on my mortgage you have to pay 1.1 million while i only pay $890k and have 12 years of payments ($504k) i get to pocket compared to you.

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addison raetheon@ITARviolation·12h

spent… $260k… paying down a mortgage… at 3.75%…

Average Money Joe MD@averagemoneymd

Last month, we received a family gift of $260,000. We debated a lot and ultimately decided for a few reasons to drop it all on our 3.75% mortgage. Our mortgage went from $750k --> $490k We recognize we could have made much more investing, but it felt secure to take a little risk off the table. Mortgage calculator shows this will save us $285k in interest. We then recasted our mortgage and our payment dropped from ~$3,800 to ~$2,400. A little bit closer to freedom.

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Isaac Baxter@i2gbaxter·2h

@bookmarkerbot1 @patriot1776tex @ITARviolation Depends on where you are. But in some cases yes

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enefes@bookmarkerbot1·10h

@i2gbaxter @patriot1776tex @ITARviolation After taxes it ends up the same.

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Isaac Baxter@i2gbaxter·11h

@patriot1776tex @ITARviolation There's an arbitrage you're missing. Your cash can make more this 3.75% risk free.

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TexasPatriot@patriot1776tex·11h

@ITARviolation He just took the $260k (that he was already going to pay) and saved $280k for a $540k swing. Now in 12 years he’ll won’t have to pay the bank $3500 every month for 14 more years. This is huge

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Isaac Baxter@i2gbaxter·15h

@neocentrist 1. If he was gonna get one it would have happened by now 2. Why what did he do

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neocentrist@neocentrist·1d

fwiw i think the number is closer to 66% but also imma be really upset if saez ever gets a nobel

Ryan Cummings@weakinstrument

Diamond and Saez (2011) find that the optimal top marginal tax rate (the peak of the laffer curve) is 73 percent. Diamond has a Nobel Prize in economics, and Saez will likely get one in the future.

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Isaac Baxter@i2gbaxter·20h

@ablainer9 @ZacSchultz7 @sam_d_1995 It's not like a person is gonna move directly from low to high cost. But the housing market doesn't have distinct breaks, so this would put downward pressure across the spectrum

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Andy B.@ablainer9·1d

@ZacSchultz7 @sam_d_1995 I used to own a studio apartment in New York City. High end and low end are completely different markets. This will not decrease the overall housing cost.

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sam@sam_d_1995·1d

the cool thing about this policy is that there is a very easy way for the rich to avoid it: they can simply live in NYC full time instead of incentivizing the rich to leave New York it incentivizes them to *stay* in New York

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@NYCMayor

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

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Isaac Baxter@i2gbaxter·21h

@CanuckSavage @alanfryermedia Yeah the political landscapes are definitely different, but that's mainly a religious thing. Hungary is mainly Catholic.

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🚜🇨🇦Based Hillbilly@CanuckSavage·22h

@i2gbaxter @alanfryermedia yeah right. No Hungarian Conservative would support Abortion.

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Alan Fryer 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱@alanfryermedia·1d

This is quite something. The new Hungarian PM goes on state TV to announce the end of state TV.

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Isaac Baxter@i2gbaxter·22h

@CanuckSavage @alanfryermedia He's still conservative, just not an extreme one like Orban. Probably similar to a Tory in the UK/Canada

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🚜🇨🇦Based Hillbilly@CanuckSavage·22h

@alanfryermedia Ok, maybe I was Wrong about this guy. Im happy to be wrong if this is the Result.

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Isaac Baxter@i2gbaxter·1d

@eddiewatson31 Congrats on the two dollars!

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Ukata, Edwardson@eddiewatson31·1d

My first-ever literary academic paper won a huge award!!!! It’s an award usually given to PhD students in their fourth year, for excellence in research, and I won it! Me! 🥹

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Isaac Baxter@i2gbaxter·1d

@janecoaston @byjoelanderson No his job is to 🗿

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Jane Coaston 🏔️@janecoaston·2d

@byjoelanderson Has AJ Hawk ever spoken

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Joel D. Anderson 🆓@byjoelanderson·2d

Love that a 3-hour block of television in the middle of the workday on ESPN is “deep red territory.”

Micah@micah_erfan

Josh Shapiro is going into deep red territory and winning over people. More democrats should follow his lead.

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Isaac Baxter@i2gbaxter·1d

@Sherman_FFB Why do we all think safeties aren't valuable? There might be stats I haven't seen but I feel like the narrative of it being low value is a little overblown

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Sam Sherman@Sherman_FFB·1d

NFL GMs during free agency: uhhhhh there’s just no way we can pay the Super Bowl MVP RB more than rotational deep threat Rashid Shaheed NFL GMs during the draft: positional value is a neoliberal globalist conspiracy

Peter Schrager@PSchrags

Text from a respected NFL GM in response to a heated discussion we had on "The Schrager Hour" over whether a team can really take a safety (Downs) in the top 5 in 2026: "Throw positional value out this year." Food for thought.

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Isaac Baxter@i2gbaxter·2d

@stickymanziel12 @hawkblogger @NFL_Researcher It's more often that when you are leading the game, you tend to get high TOP from that (running the ball more, opponent throwing more and getting out of bounds more). So it's true, but TOP doesn't cause winning, it's more vice versa.

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Sticky@stickymanziel12·2d

@hawkblogger @NFL_Researcher The most winningest teams usually have high TOP and are efficient scoring

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NFL Researcher@NFL_Researcher·2d

Fewest giveaways in own territory in 2025... 1. Eagles - 4 2. Bears - 5 3. Chiefs - 6 3. Patriots - 6 3. Rams - 6 Most giveaways in own territory... 31. Seahawks - 16 32. Browns - 20

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Isaac Baxter@i2gbaxter·2d

@cowlonfull But basketball fucking rocks

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Kalon Fullerton@cowlonfull·2d

European rich guys get obsessed with American sports and American rich guys get obsessed with soccer. They both take the worst ideas from the other and then we all have to suffer the consequences

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Isaac Baxter@i2gbaxter·2d

@Artur_Wasz @KareemRifai You talk from putin's

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