Benjamin Morris

[Brian Sullivan @SullyCNBC]

Bankman-Fried and his cadre were all what’s known as “effective altruists” .. the basic idea is believing in getting rich mainly so you can then give it all away for the better good.

SBF gave/threw away so much money, often not even knowing where it was going per Lewis’ book.

But he did knowingly try to buy elections, often giving candidates money who he’d never met … and in some cases the candidate had no idea where the money even came from. Hundreds of millions of dollars. That was most shocking to me.

Threat to democracy and buying elections aspect of the FTX story not getting enough attention.

[Benjamin Morris @BenMorris17]

@Scholars_Stage Why? The value is in the exclusivity, not the quality of education

[Benjamin Morris @BenMorris17]

Kirkwood / Herta superteam for Andretti F1

[Benjamin Morris @BenMorris17]

@iamjakestream @typesfaster @balajis I think we’ve found that the nuance of bonds vs loans, AFS vs HTM accounting and bank capital requirements does not find fruitful conversation on this app

There’s a reason bank finance was considered nerd work

[Benjamin Morris @BenMorris17]

@MagnusMacro @macrogliblyglo1 Inversion is off

4.5% 1 yr and 3.5% 10 yr could revert

[Benjamin Morris @BenMorris17]

@iamjakestream I agree about rain, which is mostly lack of drainage capacity. Wind is also a game changer

[SAN FRANCISCO FIRE DEPARTMENT MEDIA @SFFDPIO]

ROAD CLOSED DUE TO TREE DOWN
2800 BLOCK OF FOLSOM

[Benjamin Morris @BenMorris17]

Did you mean to write “criminal looter of non-profits” Ken Langone @kevin_stank @CNBC ?

Legacies matter for old crooked bankers

[Benjamin Morris @BenMorris17]

@collectingcars_ Stepnose so perhaps more fitting as a GTA tribute than GTAm

Pretty either way

[Benjamin Morris @BenMorris17]

@aohereng @thevscc @BugattiTrust More of the Kurtis please!

[Benjamin Morris @BenMorris17]

@MagnusMacro I’d love to visit Sicily.

Not what you’re asking, but Crete in Sept/Oct is glorious

[Benjamin Morris @BenMorris17]

@MagnusMacro Why vacation in Europe in August?

That’s swimming upstream

[Benjamin Morris @BenMorris17]

@mwoodski @brendan_mcaleer @ToastyDecline 💯 Doran’s first Z was one of the only Nismo-built bodies-in-white

If I find pics I’ll share, probably on an old phone

[Benjamin Morris @BenMorris17]

@osullyville What do you think happened to assets in the pension fund?

Same thing as your 401k, you just won’t know until you retire

[Benjamin Morris @BenMorris17]

@kupat__ This isn’t all - need to discuss the stability mechanism was to sell more LUNA to support UST - that’s why it lost way more than the $2.5B reserve, and LUNA/UST crashed together

Careful with high-level takes, that’s how people ended up buying these things in the first place

[Benjamin Morris @BenMorris17]

@joshu Miatas this weekend then? 26 is a healthy field

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@theOlliePickard I do think kinematics would be intuitive for many people

But the world is complex enough I also think most people don’t care how things work, just that they do work (your followers notwithstanding)

[Benjamin Morris @BenMorris17]

@LJKawa But the vix!

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@AdamSinger You’re supposed to drink Dr Pepper now

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@morningmoneyben Barred owl?

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@AntonioMJuliano Ha! My first thoughts about this were “arbitrary clusterfuck”