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@realJoelFischer @BillAckman

A 2 star chief running towards danger. May God bless the NYPD 💙

It took MIT several years to figure out that Bidenflation was caused by government overspending. Our education system is a failure. Follow: @WallStreetMav

Days like to today are a reminder to automate your investing so you automatically buy more when the market is down. No panic - just consistent buying. “Be greedy when others are fearful”

@YIMBYLAND 💯

You should do WHATEVER IT TAKES to keep fare evaders off of your transit system. Your transit will cleaner, safer, more efficient, and overall more pleasant for the hard working citizens that depend on it.

I personally do not trust our current crop of politicians with any more tax money given the massive amounts of fraud, waste, and grift going on. I think it is totally reasonable to discuss tax rates, capital gains tax changes, etc. Not a fan of any sort of wealth confiscation.

A lot of talk about a “wealth” tax on billionaires. While we have a lot of issues, confiscating wealth is unlikely to be the answer. Any tax that starts with billionaires will inevitably end up being imposed on the rest of us.

@JayCaruso Communist nonsense

Absolute drivel with no grounding in basic economics. Poverty exists because Elon Musk is very wealthy? That makes zero sense.

@shanaka86 Decapitation strike - sounded like that was always the plan

BREAKING: Israel just struck the Assembly of Experts building in Qom. This is not a military target. This is the 88-member clerical body constitutionally responsible for selecting Iran’s next Supreme Leader. Reports indicate the building was hit while members were casting ballots to choose Khamenei’s successor. Read that again. They bombed the election. Not the military. Not the nuclear programme. Not the IRGC command structure. The constitutional process for selecting the one person who could theoretically unify the regime, negotiate on its behalf, and sign a ceasefire. Three days ago I wrote that the market’s four-week timeline depends on a negotiated ending. A negotiated ending requires a counterparty. A counterparty requires a legitimate leader. A legitimate leader requires a selection process. That selection process was happening inside the building that just got hit with heavy-tonnage bombs. Follow the chain. The Supreme Leader is dead. His replacement Defense Minister is dead. The acting replacement is reportedly dead. The only mediator in the region, Oman, is being bombed by the regime it was trying to help. The IRGC has fragmented into indiscriminate retaliation. And now the 88 clerics tasked with reconstituting legitimate authority have had their building destroyed mid-vote. Every link in the chain that leads from “war” to “ceasefire” to “de-escalation” to “insurance reinstatement” has been severed. Not by accident. By design. The US-Israeli targeting doctrine is not just degrading Iran’s military capability. It is systematically destroying the institutional architecture required for the war to end through negotiation. Reinsurers do not reinstate coverage into a regime that cannot reconstitute its own leadership. The actuarial blockade timeline just extended again. There is no one to negotiate with. And now there is no process to produce one. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

@farzyness @BillAckman

Iran now has a chance to become one of the most prolific, advanced, and rich countries in the world. Iranians are young, smart, hungry, and insanely hard working. One of the greatest rises in human history is about to happen. Feeling unbelievably optimistic.

@JimmysSeafood @nytimes @TheAthletic

@nytimes @TheAthletic Go fuck yourself

From @TheAthletic: "The U.S. men’s hockey team won Olympic gold for the first time since the 'Miracle on Ice' 46 years ago, and for a time, the joy belonged to everyone," our columnist writes. "By the next day, it didn’t." nyti.ms/3ZQQALI

The Democratic Party Has Become Anti-American Prosperity Bernie Sanders says billionaires shouldn't exist. Ro Khanna, Silicon Valley's own congressman, just backed a wealth tax on unrealized gains. When the founders said they'd leave, he quoted FDR: "I will miss them very much." Here's what nobody in the Democratic Party can answer: "What is your plan for American prosperity?" Not redistribution. Not fairness. Prosperity. Growth. Building things. They can't answer it. They don't even try. That's why Silicon Valley walked away from them. The numbers tell you everything. The federal government spends $19,932 per year for every man, woman, and child in America. That's $80,000 for a family of four. Just federal. Before your state takes its cut. That number has nearly TRIPLED since 1975. Adjusted for inflation. Per person. Education: $20,387 per student. Third highest on the planet. Math scores DROPPED over 20 years. Estonia spends half what we do and destroys us. Healthcare: Most expensive on earth. Double the next country. Life expectancy ranks behind Cuba. We tripled the budget. Outcomes got worse. And Bernie's answer is more money. Khanna's answer is tax founders on stock they can't even sell. You don't have a revenue problem when you're spending $80K per family and kids can't read. You have a broken machine. Here's what Bernie won't tell you about his favorite talking point. He praised China for "more progress in addressing extreme poverty than any country in the history of civilization." He's right. 800 million people. Greatest economic achievement in human history. But China was poor, starving, and stagnant WHEN it was actually communist. The Great Leap Forward killed millions. That was the system working as designed. Then in 1978, Deng Xiaoping did the unthinkable. He let people build things. Private enterprise. Foreign investment. Special Economic Zones. Today 60% of China's economy is private sector. 9 out of 10 new jobs come from private companies. China got rich by doing the exact opposite of what Bernie proposes. He accidentally proved his own framework wrong. Ro Khanna saw all of this. Co-authored the CHIPS Act. Talked about production, factories, competing with China. Watched the playbook work. Then went home to California and endorsed taxing founders on imaginary money. The builders noticed. And they left. Marc Andreessen voted Democrat his entire life. Clinton. Gore. Kerry. Obama. Hillary. Then the Biden administration "flat-out tried to kill us." FTC blocking deals. SEC suing crypto companies. AI regulation modeled after Europe. A continent that hasn't built a major tech company in 30 years. Andreessen said the administration showed "seething contempt" for the people building the future. So he left. Musk left. Sacks. Chamath. Palmer Luckey. Bill Ackman. All left. Not because they love Trump. Because the Democratic Party declared war on the people who build things. When the builders warned California that a wealth tax on unrealized gains would trigger an exodus, Khanna laughed. Peter Thiel started planning his exit. Larry Page set up LLCs in Florida. Vinod Khosla, a Khanna donor, told him publicly: "You are so wrong." Even Newsom opposed it. California: $97 billion surplus to $68 billion deficit in three years. 200,000 people leaving per year. Dead last on U-Haul's migration index five years running. Tesla left. Chevron left. In-N-Out left. The state that invented Silicon Valley is punishing the people who built it. The politicians are mocking them on the way out. Now stop listening to the policy. Listen to the language. "Billionaires shouldn't exist." "They didn't build that." "Economic royalists." "I will miss them very much." Every civilization that destroyed itself started by demonizing its builders. France, 1789. Government spent itself broke. Instead of fixing the machine, they turned on the wealthy. What followed wasn't equality. It was the Terror. Guillotines. A dictator. Decades of collapse. Mao did the same. Anyone who built anything was the enemy. China starved for decades. Until 1978. The year they stopped punishing builders. The year the prosperity started. Venezuela. Cuba. Soviet Union. Same script every time. Demonize success. Seize assets. Promise equality. Deliver poverty. Bernie Sanders and Ro Khanna aren't storming the Bastille. But they're writing the speeches that come right before it. The countries that went from poverty to prosperity in a single generation? Singapore. South Korea. Taiwan. Hong Kong. They didn't tax wealth. They created it. Low taxes. Export discipline. Fiscal accountability. Rewarding the people who build. That's what a prosperity agenda looks like. America tripled its budget in 50 years and can't explain where the results went. This was never a revenue problem. This was never "the rich aren't paying enough." It's a thinking problem. The builders already left. The exodus is real. The only question is whether anyone figures this out before there's nothing left to redistribute.

@Gubloinvestor I see a little Pedro Pascal in Mexican Trump

If Trump was born in other countries 😄

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@BillAckman “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury.”

Worth a read on politics and the incentives of the voters.

Frugality does not equal cheap. Being frugal means focusing on quality over quantity and consumerism. Be thoughtful about how spend your money, save regularly, and focus on what is most important to you.

New to investing? Start here 👇 1️⃣ Put money in your 401(k) up to the company match (that’s free money) 2️⃣ Choose a Roth 401(k) if your job offers it 3️⃣ Then open and fund a Roth IRA Simple steps. Big long-term payoff.

@CGInvesting10 All stocks. Mag 7 types, Berkshire and a few others

How many stocks/etfs should you have in your Roth IRA? Personally I have 4