Brian Butler

@kaledora And what’s your prediction? Money lies in the bet

about to find out whether art of the deal brinksmanship ends very well or very poorly

@kaledora Popecast

I think the pope should start a podcast

@kaledora To the guillotine!

Whoever redesigned the Apple Photos app deserves to be drawn and quartered

I'm *shocked* Tiafoe vs. Shelton isn't the night match on Ashe tomorrow. Wow...

@usopen @BenShelton @FTiafoe Highly disappointing and questionable scheduling…….

It's an all-American tilt on a Friday afternoon in NYC! 🍿🍿🍿

This Ashe schedule surprises me Thought we'd get a Shelton/Tiafoe and Gauff/Svitolina Night Session, instead we get neither in it.

.@JoeSquawk debates @SenWarren about price-gouging/price control proposals:

19-year-old Coco Gauff wins the US Open for her first career major title!

@KamalaHarris Broken window fallacy.

Over 13 million new jobs created—that’s Bidenomics.

The gov’t has about 48 hours to fix a-soon-to-be-irreversible mistake. By allowing @SVB_Financial to fail without protecting all depositors, the world has woken up to what an uninsured deposit is — an unsecured illiquid claim on a failed bank. Absent @jpmorgan @citi or @BankofAmerica acquiring SVB before the open on Monday, a prospect I believe to be unlikely, or the gov’t guaranteeing all of SVB’s deposits, the giant sucking sound you will hear will be the withdrawal of substantially all uninsured deposits from all but the ‘systemically important banks’ (SIBs). These funds will be transferred to the SIBs, US Treasury (UST) money market funds and short-term UST. There is already pressure to transfer cash to short-term UST and UST money market accounts due to the substantially higher yields available on risk-free UST vs. bank deposits. These withdrawals will drain liquidity from community, regional and other banks and begin the destruction of these important institutions. The increased demand for short-term UST will drive short rates lower complicating the @federalreserve’s efforts to raise rates to slow the economy. Already thousands of the fastest growing, most innovative venture-backed companies in the U.S. will begin to fail to make payroll next week. Had the gov’t stepped in on Friday to guarantee SVB’s deposits (in exchange for penny warrants which would have wiped out the substantial majority of its equity value) this could have been avoided and SVB’s 40-year franchise value could have been preserved and transferred to a new owner in exchange for an equity injection. We would have been open to participating. This approach would have minimized the risk of any gov’t losses, and created the potential for substantial profits from the rescue. Instead, I think it is now unlikely any buyer will emerge to acquire the failed bank. The gov’t’s approach has guaranteed that more risk will be concentrated in the SIBs at the expense of other banks, which itself creates more systemic risk. For those who make the case that depositors be damned as it would create moral hazard to save them, consider the feasibility of a world where each depositor must do their own credit assessment of the bank they choose to bank with. I am a pretty sophisticated financial analyst and I find most banks to be a black box despite the 1,000s of pages of @SECGov filings available on each bank. SVB’s senior management made a basic mistake. They invested short-term deposits in longer-term, fixed-rate assets. Thereafter short-term rates went up and a bank run ensued. Senior management screwed up and they should lose their jobs. The @FDICgov and OCC also screwed up. It is their job to monitor our banking system for risk and SVB should have been high on their watch list with more than $200B of assets and $170B of deposits from business borrowers in effectively the same industry. The FDIC’s and OCC’s failure to do their jobs should not be allowed to cause the destruction of 1,000s of our nation’s highest potential and highest growth businesses (and the resulting losses of 10s of 1,000s of jobs for some of our most talented younger generation) while also permanently impairing our community and regional banks’ access to low-cost deposits. This administration is particularly opposed to concentrations of power. Ironically, its approach to SVB’s failure guarantees duopolistic banking risk concentration in a handful of SIBs. My back-of-the envelope review of SVB’s balance sheet suggests that even in a liquidation, depositors should eventually get back about 98% of their deposits, but eventually is too long when you have payroll to meet next week. So even without assigning any franchise value to SVB, the cost of a gov’t guarantee of SVB deposits would be minimal. On the other hand, the unintended consequences of the gov’t’s failure to guarantee SVB deposits are vast and profound and need to be considered and addressed before Monday. Otherwise, watch out below.

@barstoolcarl Lou Piniella

Reply to this tweet with your favorite fat guy in baseball history

@thehill Solved it!

Quidditch announces name change amid furor over ‘Harry Potter’ author J.K. Rowling trib.al/A0WT4sC

Boom Roasted

@BuckSexton The beauty of federalism. Who cares

Higher percentage of mask wearers in Asheville, NC than back in Manhattan What is going on here

#BREAKING Caterpillar announces it's leaving Illinois for Texas. Ten years ago, then-CEO Doug Oberhelman spelled out what needed to be done to fix Illinois' business climate and keep great jobs here: a sustainable budget w/ lower taxes + lower workers' comp costs. He was ignored.

Many people simply use the terms "misinformation" and "disinformation" to mean "information, whether true or false, that I would rather people not possess or share." reason.com/2022/06/04/you…

@Weesesports Smh… no respect

Novak Djokovic takes the second set 6-4, after being down a double break. Over two hours on court to complete two sets. Going to take a mammoth of a performance from Rafael Nadal to come back in this one. #RolandGarros

"Shot of the tournament or shot of the year? 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐲 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐡!" Words cannot describe what Carlos Alcaraz just produced at Roland-Garros 🤯✨ #RolandGarros | @alcarazcarlos03

@DavidSacks Yes.

Can the stock market keep going down every single day? Asking for a friend.