Chava

"There are no more committed or slyer socialists than the writers of luxury real estate stories in major newspapers." - @matt_levine

Billionaires amass more through inheritance than wealth creation, says UBS >> ft.com/content/394423… oh, but don't worry, the new generation of billionaires cares more about the "societal impact" of their investments

best time of year to get *revealed preference* music recs

the summary I needed... and now I can never look again rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

there go the SEC's climate disclosure rules (maybe) bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

now add student loans bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-…

celebrating a no-buy week for maximum smugness

@JimCostelloCRE It shows that their instinct when they don't like something is to use the power of the state to ban it, which is... authoritarian. There's a discussion to be had about the ethics/safety/human impact of a totally new industry, but this isn't that.

cultivated meat is woke now smh politico.com/news/2023/11/1… Florida Republican wants to ban lab-grown meat >>

one day maybe I'll care about business and then read my to read list of great business journalism books and be smart

I need a cutlery set that's 90 percent small spoons

confused by people who are furious about the media getting the hospital bombing wrong, which would suggest they think hitting civilian targets is reprehensible, and yet.... vehamavin yavin

idk why everyone is so mad about diner journalism, it's a step up from embedding tweets

@natemcdermott are you... back?

I need a tw for the term "judeo christian"

the great thing about reading in a second language is how much it simplifies the world (to your level in that language), and exposes how much language can actually obfuscate

"We condemn these acts committed in our names."

sounds great, but presumably these people need to leave their neighborhood at some point? theguardian.com/cities/2023/oc… The US community that banned cars >>

this is definitely not the moment for this but the way yeshiva-educated people who never learned English use capital letters is fascinating... I really don't understand what logic they use (it's not hard: first word in a sentence and proper nouns!)

does the writer of this piece not understand that if you don't go to the office 5 days a week, you go to the gym more, or the playground, or knitting groups, or writing workshops... like, how do people not understand that math? nytimes.com/2023/10/20/ups…

Losing count of how many Ofers and Amirs I know who work in New York real estate...