Burthill

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Burthill

Burthill

@bryanstein1

参加日 Nisan 2009
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DEFCONWarningSystem
DEFCONWarningSystem@DEFCONWSALERTS·
Mojtaba Khamenei, an extreme hardliner, is named Supreme Leader of Iran.
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Sarah Adams
Sarah Adams@sarahadams·
@ACTBrigitte So it’s propaganda, I’ll wait for the Starlink posts haha
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Burthill
Burthill@bryanstein1·
@_supcaroline I forgot how sickening that was until now. Thanks
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Ryan Cohen
Ryan Cohen@ryancohen·
The Hollow Men American capitalism is rotting from the head down. We have replaced the "Owner-Operator"—the risk-taker-with a new, parasitic class of corporate bureaucrat: The Risk-Free Insider. By "Insider," I am not referring to a specific title. I am referring to the entire administrative state that has captured the modern corporation. This includes the Directors who exist solely to collect fees, the Executives who exist solely to collect bonuses, and the Managers who exist solely to hire consultants. These are the hollow men of the boardroom. They are masters of PowerPoint. They wear the right suits. They say the right buzzwords about "governance" and "ESG." But they are mercenaries fighting a war with someone else’s ammunition. In a functioning economy, authority is tied to liability. If you make a bad decision, you lose your own money. That fear of loss is the only thing that keeps a business honest. It forces you to cut waste, obsess over the customer, and stay late to fix what is broken. Today, we have severed that link. We have rigged the game so that heads, the Insider wins; tails, the shareholder loses. If the stock goes up, the Insider collects a massive performance bonus. If the stock crashes due to their own incompetence, they are fired with a "Golden Parachute" worth tens of millions. They are gambling with the house’s money, and they never leave the table poorer than they arrived. This looting starts in the boardroom. We have normalized a "Country Club" culture where directors are selected based on social profiling rather than their ability to build a business. The modern board member is often a professional tourist—paid an average of $350,000 a year. Let’s be brutally honest about what that number represents. The average director is paid nearly five times the GDP per capita of the United States. They earn more for attending four quarterly lunches than the vast majority of Americans earn in five years of hard labor. And for what? Most of these directors are "over-boarded," sitting on three or four boards simultaneously. They treat directorships as a gig economy for the elite. They fly in, rubber-stamp a compensation package they didn't read, and fly out. They collect checks from companies they do not understand, do not use, and certainly do not love. They are not there to ask hard questions. They are there to be collegial. They are there to protect the other Insiders. And what happens when these boards hire executives who also have no personal capital at risk? We get the Delegation Economy. When a Risk-Free Insider faces a crisis—bloated expenses, a broken supply chain, or a stale product—they do not roll up their sleeves. They hire a consultant. They pay a strategy firm millions of shareholder dollars to produce a 100-page deck telling them what they already know. This is not management. It is intellectual money laundering. They use shareholder capital to buy an insurance policy for their own careers. If the plan fails, they can blame the consultants. They delegate the work because they are terrified of the responsibility. They would rather preside over a slow, comfortable decline than risk a bold mistake. While American Insiders are busy optimizing their severance packages, our global competitors are optimizing their products. They are not slowed down by bureaucracy. They are not waiting for a slide deck. They are outworking us. If we continue to fill our C-suites with administrators instead of operators, we will lose our edge. We will see iconic American franchises hollowed out by fees, managed for the benefit of the Insiders, while the true owners—the shareholders—are left holding the bag. The time for polite governance is over. If we want to save the American economy from mediocrity, we must demand a return to the "Owner’s Mentality." We need leaders who treat shareholder capital with the same reverence they treat their own savings. The era of the Risk-Free Insider must end.
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THE MASKED INVESTOR - BSB
THE MASKED INVESTOR - BSB@masked_investor·
Gunfire erupts at ice rink in Pawtucket Praying for the families of anyone there
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苏禾
苏禾@menglu599·
为什么外国女性看着普遍成熟丰满些,是因为谈恋爱次数多吗?
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Catturd ™
Catturd ™@catturd2·
The Super Bowl in the USA just had a halftime all in Spanish. I’m dead serious, I will never watch a NFL game again as long as I live. Not one second. The NFL is officially dead to me. Is anyone feeling this besides me? Fck the NFL.
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Peter Tarr
Peter Tarr@ProfitsTaken·
Not watching the Super Bowl but I am putting together another trade profile article for this week. ✊to all the other boring types out there (or market interested)
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THE MASKED INVESTOR - BSB
THE MASKED INVESTOR - BSB@masked_investor·
✍️✍️ $BTC Trying to reclaim $69K and print a local bottom. You think the bottom is in??
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Burthill
Burthill@bryanstein1·
@LandonTengwall When you think the dust has settled and it’s time to just think about football, you realize it’s like having instant, uncontainable diarreah.
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LandonTengwall
LandonTengwall@LandonTengwall·
Damn that sucks
Matt Zenitz@mzenitz

The #Packers are hiring Penn State’s Noah Pauley as wide receivers coach, sources tell @CBSSports. Rising star who interviewed for the 49ers OC job last year. Has developed future top three round draft picks like Jayden Higgins, Jaylin Noel and current Packer Christian Watson.

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greg
greg@greg16676935420·
Holy crap I just saw 2 sharks
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Charles V Payne
Charles V Payne@cvpayne·
Gamestop Development I'm not going to interview Ryan Cohen today. Ryan is working on something monumental, and he would not be able to say much. We both agreed that "I cannot answer that on advice of counsel" is the last thing anyone wants to hear. I'm on pins and needles like everyone else. Hope to have news and the interview soon. @ryancohen $GME
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greg
greg@greg16676935420·
Just thought of a brilliant idea
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Burthill
Burthill@bryanstein1·
@jasoncabinda From what you said, She handled it like a pro and then beat up her racquet (I can see that). Are there actually people judging her negatively? Clowns
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