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There are few more beloved New Yorkers right now than Jalen Brunson, the Knicks point guard and team captain, who led the beloved New York basketball team to the NBA finals for the first time in 27 years.⁠ ⁠ And who has been there with Brunson since (almost) day one? His wife, Dr. Alison Marks Brunson, a Jewish physical therapist and the mother of their very adorable young daughter, Jordyn James, who was named after Ali's late Jewish father, James. ⁠ ⁠ The couple started dating while at Adlai E. Stevenson High School in the suburbs of Chicago, and went to homecoming and senior prom together. After college (they dated long distance!) Jalen proposed in their high school gym. ⁠ ⁠ “She’s sacrificed a lot without really knowing what’s in it for her," Jalen said in their wedding video (which includes shots of the horah and the couple's ketubah.) "She was committed. She wanted the best for myself, and sometimes it felt like she wanted the best for me before her… she’s pushed me to be better."⁠ ⁠ @Kveller ⁠ Wedding screenshot via @ emmak_films video

> you’ll never start a rocket company > you’ll never build your own engines > you’ll never be able to use off-the-shelf parts > you’ll never survive three launch failures > you’ll never reach orbit > you’ll never win NASA’s trust > you’ll never launch cargo to the ISS > you’ll never compete with Boeing > you’ll never compete with Lockheed > you’ll never make rockets reusable > you’ll never land a rocket vertically > you’ll never land one on a drone ship > you’ll never reuse a booster > you’ll never fly the same booster 10 times > you’ll never fly the same booster 20 times > you’ll never fly the same booster 30 times > you’ll never recover and reuse the fairing > you’ll never lower launch costs > you’ll never launch every month > you’ll never launch every week > you’ll never launch multiple times a week > you’ll never carry astronauts > you’ll never replace Roscosmos > you’ll never fly civilians to orbit > you’ll never manufacture satellites at scale > you’ll never build the biggest constellation ever > you’ll never make satellite internet work > you’ll never make satellite internet fast > you’ll never make satellite internet affordable > you’ll never serve rural customers > you’ll never serve aircraft and ships > you’ll never build a methane rocket engine > you’ll never make full-flow staged combustion work > you’ll never build the most powerful rocket ever > you’ll never build a rocket bigger than Saturn V > you’ll never build it out of stainless steel > you’ll never launch Starship > you’ll never separate Super Heavy and Starship > you’ll never relight Raptor in space > you’ll never bring Super Heavy back > you’ll never catch a booster with Mechazilla tower arms > you’ll never launch 85% of mass to orbit worldwide > you’ll never change the economics of space > you’ll never force the entire industry to copy you > you’ll never win > you’ll never IPO   Congratulations to @elonmusk and the SpaceX team. You did what countless people said was impossible, and you did it time and time again.   Today is your day. You deserve this. May it be a glorious one.

A must watch, superb, long-form interview with Secretary Bessent by the All-In crew in which Fannie and Freddie are discussed as potential core assets in a U.S. sovereign wealth fund, which I discuss below: The only credible scenario where Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (“F2”) become core assets of a sovereign wealth fund in the @realDonaldTrump administration is a world in which they emerge from conservatorship respecting the shareholders’ place in the hierarchy of claims. Those that suggest the government will simply convert their already paid off senior preferred stock (“SPS”) into common stock diluting shareholders are missing a few facts: (1) The SPS has already received $301 billion, $25 billion more than it was contractually entitled to receive, and the excess $25 billion was paid to the government more than five years ago. In other words, the SPS has been fully retired with interest plus a $25 billion overpayment, considerably more in today’s dollars. (2) Those who argue that the government won’t forgive an asset that currently sits on its balance sheet (as the government did not credit the cash flow sweep payments against the SPS at the time they were paid) have not considered that the government, as the owner of penny warrants on 79.9% of the common stock of both companies, will recover 79.9 cents of every ‘forgiven’ dollar of senior preferred. When you wipe out a liability of a company in which you own 79.9% of the common stock as the residual claimant, you immediately recover 79.9% of the erased liability, in this case, in the increased value of the government’s warrants. (3) The future value of the $25 billion overpayment to the SPS by the time of F2’s exit from conservatorship is of greater future value than the 21.1% of F2 that will go to public shareholders from the ‘forgiven’ SPS, which fully compensates the government for any ‘leakage’ to shareholders from the public’s 21.1% ownership. (4) If the government massively dilutes shareholders by converting the SPS to common stock and does not credit the $301 billion cash flow sweep payments and $25 billion overpayment, the trading values of F2 will be permanently impaired, making F2 a poor core asset for a sovereign wealth fund. What investor, institutional, retail or otherwise will assign a fair value to a company controlled by the government which wiped out the previous investors in the company? F2 common stock is held by many millions of retail and institutional investors who are @realDonaldTrump supporters. The President has a track record in looking after his constituents and keeping his promises, most notably here in a public letter in 2021 committing to F2’s release from conservatorship. I would not expect him to act differently here. Lastly, Secretary Bessent’s idea of making Fannie and Freddie core assets of a new U.S. sovereign wealth fund is a superb one. Over the very long term, Fannie and Freddie represent a royalty on first mortgages secured by the US housing market, which is a low-risk, high risk-adjusted return investment that will generate large and growing dividends that can be invested in other sovereign fund assets. The long term returns on F2 will significantly exceed the cost of U.S. Treasurys enabling our country to deleverage over time. $36 Trillion of debt and growing is a frightening liability for the future. We can address our country’s solvency problem by reducing spending and government waste, but also by increasing the asset side of our country’s balance sheet. F2 can be an important part of the solution. And the stocks of both companies will trade at a substantially higher price with the US government shares no longer being part of the overhang. Our model assumed the government would be selling its shares ratably over the five years after emergence from conservatorship.