Paul Gift
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@MMAanalytics
Sports economist | MMA researcher | BJJ 🟪 | Former ABC-certified referee & judge | Former MMA contributor for Forbes Sports & OG Bloody Elbow | All views mine
Breaking: Inflation soared to 3.8% in April, the highest in three years, driven by higher gas prices on.wsj.com/4eHmbYW
President Trump said he supports suspending the federal gasoline tax, responding to a surge in fuel prices driven by the war in Iran on.wsj.com/436XBJH
Gambler collects $1.3 million in cash at the Bellagio sportsbook and then enrages The Internet by tipping big
A funny thing happened on the way to launch day. The @nytimes wrote about Platypus Economics. Brian O'Keefe asked tons of questions, interviewed all sorts of folks, and produced something I'm a little stunned by. nytimes.com/2026/05/06/bus… (gift link)
Breaking News: The FDA has blocked publication of research that found widely used Covid-19 and shingles vaccines were safe. nyti.ms/49dtF24
A man was attacked in the streets on San Diego. Turns out he was a BJJ Brown Belt. It ends the exact way you would expect it to…
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Wednesday he would stay on the central bank’s board after his chairmanship ends next month to defend the institution from what he called unprecedented legal attacks from the Trump administration. on.wsj.com/4tHrdt7
Chatri on ONE turning a profit 2017 “very close to profitability” 2019 "will be profitable within 18 to 24 months" 2020 "will be profitable within 12 months" 2022 "turn profitable in the next 3 years" 2023 "hit profitability in its core business by the 2nd half of 2024"
Found this clip from Jan 2024 where Chatri definitively declares that by year’s end, ONE Championship will have “kuroji” (to be in the black). ONE’s recent filings show they made a loss of $47M for that time period.
Trump’s DOJ just filed what may be the most deranged written Motion ever. It reads more like a Truth Social post dictated by Trump himself. What an embarrassment. The Motion is filled with inappropriate personal insults. It literally calls the National Trust for Historic Preservation name “FAKE” and says the group is “very bad for our Country.” It accuses them of suffering from “Trump Derangement Syndrome” and frames their lawyer as “the lawyer for Barack Hussein Obama.” This is an actual line from the filing: “because it is DONALD J. TRUMP, a highly successful real estate developer, who has abilities that others don't, especially those who assume the Office of President, this frivolous and meritless lawsuit was filed.” This is how the Department of Justice is writing now? Then comes the opportunism. The filing leans heavily on the White House Correspondents’ Dinner incident and uses it to push Trump’s long-standing obsession with building a ballroom. Instead of addressing what went wrong, it argues that none of this would have happened if Trump’s project already existed. They claim “bipartisan support” because of support from…John Fetterman. The lawsuit also claims at multiple points the ballroom won’t cost taxpayers anything—something we now know to be false. Every DOJ lawyer who put their name on this should be ashamed. And it should be a major scandal that it appears that Donald Trump is the one who actually wrote this. So much for DOJ independence.
