Chris Vroom

@kloss_xyz ahead of its time

when your friends meet your clawdbot

@unusual_whales Another example of fiscal excess.

BREAKING: Senator Hawley introduces bill to send $600 tariff rebate checks to Americans

@Delta we don't

Reasons why New Yorkers ❤️ to fly Delta out of LGA 🧵

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@ContraireSous @NeilChecking @JustinWolfers Does not seem to have impacted the enormous US trade surplus on filmed entertainment.

@NeilChecking @chrisvroom @JustinWolfers The world market has a lot more restrictions (and bans) on US films than this creates. This should have been done years ago.

If Trump is serious about tariffs on movies, it's a very dangerous escalation. Tariffs have not traditionally been applied to services, and the United States is a massive net exporter of services. We would be extremely vulnerable to any service-based retaliation.

@novogratz Agree. In 2000, GDP per capita in the US was about equal to Europe, now it's almost double.

The story that America is getting “ripped off” or taken advantage of just does t ring true to me. We are the richest country on earth. Our per capita income of roughly 60k makes our average worker a 1 percent income earner for the rest of the world. We are 4.2% of the world’s population yet are 26% of global gdp. What am I missing? Team USA has the most innovative private sector, deepest capital markets, best universities and a work ethic. We have been winning since way before I was born in 1964.

@Therealtesp @JustinWolfers China is a big market for US film exports. The US is not a big market for Chinese film imports.

@chrisvroom @JustinWolfers You do realize this is targeted at China, correct?

@RayDalio I'll get over my ego barrier if you tell us the positioning implications of where the US stands in your Changing World Order opus (great read).

When I refer to your "ego barrier," I'm referring to your subliminal defense mechanisms that make it hard for you to accept your mistakes and weaknesses. Your deepest-seated needs and fears--such as the need to be loved and the fear of losing love, the need to survive and the fear of not surviving, the need to be important and the fear of not mattering--reside in primitive parts of your brain such as the amygdala, which are structures in your temporal lobe that process emotions. Because these areas of your brain are not accessible to your conscious awareness, it is virtually impossible for you to understand what they want and how they control you. They oversimplify things and react instinctively. They crave praise and respond to criticism as an attack, even when the higher-level parts of the brain understand that constructive criticism is good for you. They make you defensive, especially when it comes to the subject of how good you are. At the same time, higher-level consciousness resides in your neocortex, more specifically in the part called the prefrontal cortex. This is the most distinctively human feature of your brain; relative to the rest of the brain, it's larger in humans than in most other species. This is where you experience the conscious awareness of decision making (the so-called "executive function"), as well as the application of logic and reasoning. #principleoftheday

@atrupar This is funny because the US wants Europe to relax health standards on US beef exports - restricted currently due to the use of hormones that are banned in Europe - but ok to apply US health regs on China dolls.

Stephen Miller: "If you had a choice between a doll from China that might have lead paint from it that is not as well constructed, as a doll made in America that has a highly environmental and regulatory standard ... and those two products are both on Amazon, that yes, you probably would be willing to pay more."

@DavidBCollum The demographic death spiral currently being experienced by Japan argues otherwise. forbes.com/sites/joelkotk…

People are shitting pickles over shrinking demographics globally. Here is my contrarian view: any system requiring new entrants to pay for existing players is a Ponzi scheme. We should let the population shrink--suck it up for a generation or so. It would be better for the planet and better for resource consumption problems. My personal bias is that alt-lefties should tie their tubes, but that is just my take.

If we want to avoid a debt crisis, we need to get our deficit down to 3% of GDP. There are many ways to do that, using the levers of cost cuts, interest rates, and revenue. But we need to do it fast. The question for policymakers is how much can you deliver from each of these levers without breaking things that are problematic. My advice: Don’t let politics get in the way of achieving the goal. #principles #howcountriesgobroke #Economics

@atrupar Hmmm...Comparative Advantage?

Lutnick: "We invent the iPhone, which is awesome. Why do we let everyone else build it? Why can't we build it here? ... we need hundreds of thousands of Americans who work in those factories."

@Acyn FDR, working with Congress, passed 15 major pieces of legislation that sought to improve the lives of millions. time.com/7281249/congre…

Vance: you sit in the oval office and see portraits of presidents past and most of them have been place holders, people who allowed their staff to sign executive orders with an auto pen instead of men of action

@Acyn The govt is going to stop releasing economic stats because they're "fake news."

Trump on GDP: You probably saw some numbers today. I have to start off by saying that's Biden, not Trump. Because we came in on January -- these are quarterly numbers

@Acyn what about sales tax? or the Federal taxes payable (and visible) on airline tickets?

Reporter: The WH Press Secretary called it a hostile act for companies like Amazon to display the costs of tariffs.. do you think consumers should know how much more that they are required to pay? Thune: That’s a conversation that the folks at Amazon will have to have with the president..

@unusual_whales US GDP per capita was half the UK in 1870, it was equal in 2000, now it's double. The statement is false. Tariffs are a regressive tax on the people.

Trump: "In 1913 they traded to the income tax system. We used to be all tariff. And we had no income tax and we had the wealthiest country we ever had proportionately from about 1870 to 1913. We had more money than anybody."

@mikematvei modesty would have been a better path

@BillAckman @Nike insanely insensitive

The idea that @Nike would make light of the holocaust using Hitler-red imagery in a post-October 7th world is stunning. Heads need to roll. WTF Nike?

@sombrilla_cap @twobitidiot ignoring the courts defines abandoning the rule of law

@twobitidiot You’re clearly intelligent in some capacity but this shit and dog whistle re: race war? Will you also support DJT stepping around Congress? Considering your views on superfluous nature of the judiciary… let’s make DJT King, fuck it! #modernday #lobotomycandidate

The United States no longer has a functioning rule of law. It is transparent now. Trump must ignore the courts and burn down every pillar of the Blue Tower (academia, administrative state, media, NGOs, and Activist Legal complex)