Laurel

My views are a personal "special arrangement sanctioned by history"

Postwar Germany antitrust saga @econliberties

[Laurel @BalanceCrafting]

Servile men will insinuate "with a plausible affectation of wisdom and concern, How prudent it is to please the powerful—How dangerous to provoke them." 1768

[Laurel @BalanceCrafting]

@CNBC https://t.co/gxH3MXNTBR

[Charles Benoit @Charles_Benoit]

A century ago, in 1926, 🇺🇸 was enjoying the inheritance of a century's worth of protective tariffs.

Our import reliance was down to silk, rubber, coffee and tea.

For sugar, we'd gone from total import reliance during the first 50 years of the Republic up to supply half of our own consumption.

Sugar is the only product to have benefited from protection since the early 1990s, and as a result, 75% of the sugar consumed today in America is produced here.

I hope to live to see at least one other agricultural crop get this home market protection!

[CNBC @CNBC]

Elon Musk says it would be an 'honor' to hire Nvidia's Jensen Huang https://t.co/GwyLGaZunT

[The Washington Sun @washingtonsun]

The residents want Delaware to regain its former second congressional district, which the state lost to reapportionment in the 19th century. https://t.co/z3Adduzs1r

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Some companies are offering office plants and gardening as a covered insurance benefit under the umbrella of wellness. https://t.co/nlx8jkKVg2

[Reuters Legal @ReutersLegal]

A trio of House Republicans are unlikely to allow Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to send his company's general counsel to answer questions on his behalf about his alleged relationship with a Chinese spy, according to a person familiar with the discussions. https://t.co/o5O10KkDJ7

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

Analysts are just ignoring the smuggling story. This is absolutely astonishing! A failure across the industry

[Max Chafkin @chafkin]

strange how easily Huang’s peers are giving him a pass given how much they like to talk about our “race with China” in AI. Lying about an affair with an accused Chinese spy seems pretty bad if you’re in the advanced chip business! Or maybe that was just an excuse to deregulate?

[Jessica Livingston @jesslivingston]

Now that everyone's talking about Elizabeth Holmes again, we should recalibrate by hearing the story of the original whistleblower, Tyler Shultz.

https://t.co/20btEDsT1z

[Laurel @BalanceCrafting]

@MajorityDems @mattcorridoni *except for the free press you keep kicking out

[Laurel @BalanceCrafting]

@MajorityDems @mattcorridoni *except for the free press you keep kicking out

[David Dayen @ddayen]

So Sirota raised a stink and @MajorityDems let their guys in.
And now the day before the conference, our guy has been kicked out. I guess we're scarier!

[Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley]

The hyperscalers are morphing into vertically integrated behemoths that control everything from copper mining, to power generation, to infrastructure investment.

This kind of concentrated corporate power hasn't been seen since the trusts of the Gilded Age
https://t.co/UAGBbBPaTh

[Jason Kint @jason_kint]

wow, missed this. As press did, too. DC Attorney General just won motion to consolidate in its Zuckerberg lawsuit. Meta also lost Summary Judgment setting stage for trial for case largely similar to $25B penalty in New Mexico last month. Cambridge Analytica scandal 10+yrs out.

[Laurel @BalanceCrafting]

.@MajorityDems to the free press, again

[David Dayen @ddayen]

So Sirota raised a stink and @MajorityDems let their guys in.
And now the day before the conference, our guy has been kicked out. I guess we're scarier!

[David Dayen @ddayen]

So Sirota raised a stink and @MajorityDems let their guys in.
And now the day before the conference, our guy has been kicked out. I guess we're scarier!

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

Jensen Huang oversaw two different accounting scandals (2002 and 2022), created a disgraceful circular financing ecosystem to inflate demand, threatened and mistreated reviewers of his GPUs, and had at least two affairs. Spare me any “good man” bullshit

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

CNBC saying Nvidia tap could tap Tim Cook as potential replacement for Jensen Huang.

Would be the craziest X profile bio update ever:

[Phillip Berenbroick @pberenbroick]

“Nvidia’s board of directors has opened an independent investigation and hired the law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz to look into the spying allegations.”

Lawmakers, enforcers, etc should be clear nothing about Wachtell investigation is privileged

https://t.co/e9YYaE1ZRE

[UAW @UAW]

The UAW will only stand with Congressional leadership that commits to immediately begin addressing the retirement and healthcare crisis. Let's get to work.

[Laurel @BalanceCrafting]

https://t.co/kUkc0reAhW

[Laurel @BalanceCrafting]

Germany Google tying decision under DMA