Ben Ritz

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Happy New Year! 🥳

Gotta say, it’s hard to imagine a more fitting coda to my time on Twitter than being the lead quote in this article nytimes.com/2022/12/21/sty…

@MartinDobelle I hope to see you again on a different platform that encourages a less superficial and combative style of engagement :)

Well my friends, I think this is it: I’m out. No more Twitter for me starting in 2023. I won’t delete my account for now just in case something changes my mind down the line, but at this point you should assume that I am logging off at midnight tonight and won’t be coming back.

@ne0liberal @ppi Shoulda picked a password that was harder to guess than “Tac0trucks”

@BudgetBen @ppi Ben will be secretly tweeting from our account within 3 days

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It’s bittersweet for sure. I’ve made some of my best friends and professional contacts through Twitter. But I was starting to hate the kind of discourse it fostered even before becoming The Elon Show and at this point I really think we’d all be better off if it just went away.

This kinda went under the radar in the year-end crush, but congrats to the @SaveStandard folks who successfully defeated Marco Rubio time. Can’t imagine him getting another sneak attack through the Senate like he did this year & I don’t see how it makes a comeback anytime soon.

You should just get a car with no toxic historical baggage, like a Ford or a Volkswagen latimes.com/opinion/story/…

1/8. A point which is often lost in discussions of inflation and central bank policy. Inflation is fundamentally the outcome of the distributional conflict, between firms, workers, and taxpayers. It stops only when the various players are forced to accept the outcome.

Especially true of Twitter users

The internet has made the media landscape much more competitive and empowered customers to get what they want — the big problem of media is that the consumers of media have bad taste and don’t care about the truth!

Houses are the least “affordable” since 1982 when 30-year mortgage rates were over 14% calculatedrisk.substack.com/p/inflation-ad…

@CentristMadness @ppavnr I bet Pavan has read a grand total of zero books in college, at least so far

@ppavnr Pavan you should have read many books in high school and college!

@RalfThePowerful To be clear, I mean adult-length book books read cover-to-cover (ie not counting like The Cat in the Hat, government reports, or school textbooks). But yes I am aware this still puts me well below average especially within my profession. Just not how I best absorb information 🤷🏻‍♂️

What a great story. I wish every member of Congress was half as intellectually curious as @RepDonBeyer, we are very lucky to have him representing us in VA08

"My sins here are *embellishing* my resume." To “embellish” is to adorn, decorate, enhance, gild, beautify, and festoon, and, on occasion, it means to “exaggerate.” This Santos did not do. He just made shit up out of whole cloth. open.substack.com/pub/morningsho…

10 failed concepts of 2022: DeFi Meme stocks Zero-Covid Russian military MMT Transitory Defund SPACs Herd immunity ESG