
Dave Speers
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Dave Speers
@davespeers
🏡 Real Estate Innovator | Disrupting Industry Norms | Philly Through & Through | 🦅 Eagles | ⚾ Phillies | 🏀 Sixers


📊 USD share of global transactions: February 2026: 49.2% March 2026: 51.1% RECORD The dollar hit its highest share of international payments. The world isn't replacing the dollar. It's building more infrastructure that requires the dollar. More US LNG → more dollar-denominated energy trade. More sanctions risk → more dollar-clearing dependency. More geopolitical fear → more dollar safe-haven flows. De-dollarization is a direction. Not a destination anyone is arriving at. I wrote a nice article about is last week: themerchantsnews.substack.com/p/buffett-and-…


If the UK joined the US as the 51st state. We would be the poorest state in the entire union. Mississippi which is portrayed at swamp dwelling hillbillies in majority of international media is above us. I don’t think people grasp how far we’ve fallen in real terms when it comes to GDP per capita. We’ve seen no growth for almost an entire generations. We’ve seen our productivity decrease and our tax increases. The average person on the UK, on £50,000 is less well off than your average Mississippi swamp dweller.








IT'S GAME DAY! 🏈 From Bourbon Street to the Superdome, the FOX SUPER BOWL LIX PREGAME SHOW is set to deliver five hours of packed coverage highlighted by exclusive interviews, special features and live reports. Coverage begins at 1:00 PM ET on FOX. #SuperBowlLIX | #KCvsPHL









🚨 NEW: President Trump announces the nomination of @russvought to Director of the Office of Management and Budget.



Big paper I have been waiting for: what are the real impacts of AI on programmer productivity? It is a randomized controlled trial using the older, less-powerful GPT-3.5 powered Github Copilot for 4,867 coders in Fortune 100 firms. It finds a 26.08% increase in completed tasks.


NEWS: Amazon Alexa will be powered by Claude AI around October according to Reuters. This is huge news and the hardest competition you can ever imagine for Advanced Voice Mode and Gemini Live. Purely due to Alexa’s potential market reach.






