Matthew F Cox (The Saucetown Investor)

Oregon is in a buyers market right now, you just have to give sellers the time to learn that for themselves. Every deal we've bought has been some version of this: Deal hits market → We offer → Seller tests market → Seller comes back months later ready to deal.

@senatorbabet Go checkout the startup scene in 99% of countries on earth. Then get back to me on the “they create nothing, just take” part

Capital gains tax shouldn’t exist. I risk my money. I build the business. I make the investment. I do the work. I take the risk. So why the hell should the government take a cut of my success? They risk nothing. They create nothing. They just take. Parasites. F’en parasites.

@TheHyland3r @JohnLeFevre Well it’s dropped as much from 2010-now as it did from 1975-2010. So that’s a meaningful speeding up of the decrease. And tbh I’d rather young people be out drinking than hanging out online and making no friends and/or not dating.

Yes, look at the chart. And what you see with the chart is that the free fall started in the late 1980’s, then plateaued for a few years in the mid 1990’s, then resumed that free fall in the late 1990’s and hasn’t let up since. The rate of decline is very sharp all the way down from that and only a little bit shaper over the recent years, but not to any meaningful degree relative to the overall trend that resumed beginning in the late 1990’s. You may say that you are not supporting binge drinking, but for kids to go back to drinking alcohol at anywhere near the rates that they did in this graph, you would statistically have a much higher binge drinking rate regardless. So it’s a moot point to say you may not support it but it would happen regardless because of the natural consequences of getting back to those higher levels at a population level. If you are lonely then you can remedy that without alcohol. You’re presenting a false dichotomy when you present it as an either or (either drink or be lonely) issue.

Skipping drinks with colleagues, friends, and women in your 20s & 30s to “protect your health” is quietly sabotaging your career, your social circle, and your dating life. Learn to drink responsibly. A few drinks build bonds that kale smoothies never will.

@TheHyland3r @JohnLeFevre Yes it’s been decreasing for decades, but the pace of the decrease has picked up massively… look at the chart. Not supporting binge drinking, but go out and have some beers. No one is claiming alcohol is good for you, but loneliness is worse.

Look at the graph. The trend in drinking less alcohol has been going on for many decades, long before people start socializing a lot less. The correlation probably has very little to do with people not socializing anymore. And to what degree that it does have anything to do with it is probably a downstream effect from not socializing rather than being contributory in any causal way. Kids are generally practicing some better and healthier habits compared to previous generations. Not only are they not drinking as much, but they are not smoking as much either. Alcoholism and smoking was a really big thing decades ago and a lot of people got cancer from it at a population level, which was a burden to the healthcare system. Telling kids to go back to regular weekends of binge drinking is not a very good thing. It will just increase cancer rates more. Alcohol itself is a carcinogen, even in very small amounts. And it also contributes cancer cases and deaths at a population level in the country. For breast cancer alone, alcohol contributes about 16% of cancer cases. Of course let’s not get into alcohol related deaths or cancer from smoking.

@TheHyland3r @JohnLeFevre Yes you can socialize without drinking. Yes the decrease in drinking is not the only cause of the loneliness crisis. But I’ll stand on my point that the correlation is meaningful, and that young people should go out, have some drinks, and even get in a little trouble.

People are spending more time not socializing for a number of reasons. It’s multifactorial. One of the biggest reasons is the internet/smart phones and work from home and the division between the sexes, not just because ppl aren’t drinking. That’s the bigger cause of loneliness. Not drinking is just partly amplified by ppl spending more time in doors online, gaming, etc. The trend in the decline in drinking was in full swing for many decades, even in the 80’s and 90’s when people still socialized a lot more as well. So again, the issue isn’t lack of drinking. It’s not replacing drinking with better forms of socializing. That’s like a drug user who mainly does drugs at rave clubs saying he can’t socialize anymore because he gave up drugging at rave clubs. Nonsense. You gave up socializing because 1) that was the only thing you used or did to socialize and 2) you gave socializing up because you had no replacement for it. There are all kinds of social events ppl can go to to socialize and many of those same events or outlets ppl are also doing less, not just not drinking. Recovering alcoholics have been doing it for many decades especially. So again, it’s a lack of socializing across the board, not just not drinking. And many things are ‘social lubricants’ — not just alcoholic. Music, culture, good foods and comedy/laughter are all those. Go to a good stand up comedy show and you can have a great time without drinking and feel socially lubricated.

@AriFleischer It’s kinda funny, him and Trump are on different sides of the aisle… but they both love to do this stuff where they make up numbers out of thin air and market is as a “win”

What nonsense is this. Mamdani didn't do anything - all he did was change assumptions and projections. Mamdani is actually one of the least consequential mayors NYC has ever had. He actually does nothing - except move his mouth. His Socialistic agenda lacks support, even in NYC.

@davidsirota The same skills that allowed them to amass that amount of wealth are often the same ones that make them remain miserable once they have it.

If you have $10 million in a high-yield savings account, you’re pulling $500,000 a year in interest for doing literally nothing. Why are you on here? Why aren’t you just always off hanging out, doing cool shit, never looking at this garbage? I truly don’t get it. Now do hundred millionaires and billionaires. Like, literally they and whole generations of their kin will never have to financially worry about anything. Why are so many of them so unhappy and angsty and locked into so many stressful things in the attention economy? I can’t get my head around it

@TheHyland3r @JohnLeFevre If you want to go out and socialize minus alcohol, wonderful. But the issue is the decrease in drinking is moving in unison with an increase in loneliness. It’s a nice thought that everyone socialize minus the booze. In reality? They call it “social lubricant” for a reason.

That’s dumb logic. That’s like saying you need to learn to ‘smoke responsibly’ in order to have a social life. You don’t need to be drinking alcohol to have a social life. If you feel that you need alcohol in order to socialize with people then that’s a you problem. Plenty of ppl can socialize at a nice place with good food and music and friends without drinking.

The other day my buddy told me: “Matt, as I get older I just don’t get in the middle of other people’s beefs. You do you. Not worth getting in the middle.” He was talking about relationships, but it’s true in business as well. Gossip and drama always loses.

@ChrisDJackson @JoeBiden If you play the result and ignore the optics of him with a microphone, the Biden years were pretty damn good

Turns out @JoeBiden was a damn good president.

Tyrese Maxey arrives for Game 5 👀 Sixers look to win their first game of the series down 4-0 to the Knicks tonight at 7:00pm/et on Amazon Prime! (@NBA)

@JDVance Vance is smart enough to know this is horrible policy

The American Dream doesn’t belong to the highest bidder on Wall Street. It belongs to the American people, who work hard, save up, and play by the rules. I applaud President Trump’s leadership on this issue and urge the House to pass this bill.

@APompliano 🎯

It should go without saying, but the midterm elections will essentially come down to whether the cost of living is going up or down for the average American. The direction of travel is not good at the moment, so the current administration will have to figure out how to destroy the short-term inflationary pressures within the next 90 days. If they don’t, Democrats will have a field day in November.

@JustinWStapley Dude it’s a skit. Having three different guys in SNL skits does not represent “being unable to differentiate” between them.

This SNL skit is just really demonstrative of why the left, and it's vessel the Democratic Party, was never going to provide any meaningful solution to the populist era we're in. The likes of Kavanaugh and the likes of Hegseth and Patel couldn't be more different, just completely different in every way. Yet, to lefty writers at SNL, they're viewed as exactly the same thing. And you simply can't overcome this moment of populism if you have zero capacity to differentiate between a solid originalist judge like Kavanaugh and populist clowns like Patel and Hegseth.

America celebrates success. New York embodies that ethos. The NYC pied à terre tax targets second homes worth > $5M. It's defensible policy. Mamdani's delivery in front of Ken Griffin's penthouse was idiotic. Let the policy work. Don't doxx a US citizen for being successful.

@getnickwright 1. You’re absolutely right. Horrible play and there is no case to be made that he shouldn’t have been ejected. 2. His coach has to say this.

I’m not sure what I find more outrageous: Wemby (who once upon a time said he studied the rules of the All Star Games Skills Challenge!) pretending he didn’t know a Flagrant Two gets you ejected, or his coach justifying the dirtiest/most dangerous play of the playoffs. Come on.

@TheModerateCase Yea this stuff is pathetic. We have this system for a reason. But… the other side doesn’t have much of a leg to stand on when you’re claiming the 2020 election (which wasn’t all that close) was stolen.

Hillary didn’t ‘beat’ Trump. There is no national popular vote for President. We hold 50 separate state elections. The Electoral College was deliberately designed by the Founders TO STOP a handful of big cities/coasts from ruling the rest of the country. We’re a constitutional republic, not a pure democracy, exactly to avoid tyranny of the majority. People who don’t understand that are precisely why we still need it. Idiots.

Always the home team.

@scruffyy90 @401Casey Like I said, I admit I have Manhattan privilege on this topic

@therealmattcox4 @401Casey If you don't live in manhattan, it sucks a lot of the time if youre one or two neighborhoods away from Manhattan, which the bulk of riders are. Not many alternatives for those who live in the outerboroughs. Your statement is the crux of the issue the avg NYer making this claim.

It’s interesting that no one that leads NYC politically has any interest in subway modernization or expansion. Just a total non-issue to all the pols here.

@VanyaWright @Settftonesvvi @401Casey Well it’s a legitimate question. In all seriousness, why wouldn’t you move if it sucks?

@therealmattcox4 @Settftonesvvi @401Casey Oh gee how original I never thought of that