Travis

Sports. Financial Markets. *Thoughts are my neighbors.

[Travis @DenverThings]

This is Denver. Everywhere you turn. So pleasant taking your kids for a bike ride and all the trails are littered with trash, drug addicts, and needles. Can’t wait to vote @denversmayor out of office. @dobetterdnvr

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@MrBeast 4,745,999

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@z_Kiarie @espn lol and you could point to multiple yellow and red cards Paraguay should’ve gotten against France that they didn’t.

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@keithedwards @secretsqrl123 True, I just died yesterday from it.

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@MySportsUpdate Antonio Brown 2.0

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@dobetterdnvr @Denver_Fire Where? I live in Athmar park and don’t recall seeing or hearing anything.

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@Jack_Brentnall Ah click bait by someone that doesn’t know shit about soccer

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@ESPNFC It’s all rigged. Messi vs this is all the proof you need.

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@MattBarnaby3636 He’s too small. Illinois raised, Denver the last 10 years. He gets bullied in the playoffs.

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@money_cruncher People chase “get rich” avenues instead of long standing, long term, wealth building routes. Max your 401 and use leftover $ to gamble.

[The Money Cruncher, CPA @money_cruncher]

People are financing $70k trucks at 7% APRs and complain they can't invest

Keep that cheap $10k Toyota and fund your Roth IRA for 8 years

$60k delta could grow to ~$480k in 30 years when you are retiring

The truck will be worth $10k in 10 years..

Stop trying to impress people who don't even care about your car

[Ian Miller @ianmSC]

It really is remarkable that the three largest cities in the most powerful country on earth are led by some of the most incompetent people we’ve ever seen

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

Chicago lost the Bears this week. A team that's been in the city since 1921.

They didn't lose them to a bigger market or a better deal. The Bears decided they'd rather be a tenant in Indiana than deal with Illinois for one more year.

Think about how badly you have to run a place for that to be the smart move.

They lost them for two reasons.

The people running Illinois would rather villainize a builder than keep one. And they're bad at their jobs.

In 2021 the Bears spent $197M on the old Arlington Park racetrack.

Before they could break ground, Cook County valued the empty lot at $192M (Bears said $60M). They were salivating at the chance to extort a building that didn't even exist yet.

That fight dragged on for years.

The Bears were ready to put $2B into the stadium. All they wanted was a promise the county wouldn't reassess them into oblivion, plus $855M for infrastructure everyone uses. Roads, transit, utilities. A $3B project, two thirds of it private money pouring into Illinois.

Springfield had since 2021 to get this done. They dragged it to the final night of session, passed it through the Senate at 3:39AM, and the House went home without voting.

So now it's all gone.

The funniest part? This started because Cook County tried to grab the tax early. They knew a built stadium would pay $53M a year. Now they get under $4M on a vacant lot. No jobs, no buildout, no new anything.

Congrats on fighting for scraps and losing the whole prize.

Pritzker: they're "an $8.5B valued business" that doesn't need propping up.

But be smart for a second. Almost every NFL city throws in public money for a stadium. Not charity. The return is real. Tourism, hotels, restaurants, jobs, game days, property tax on a huge development. The math works.

Indiana did the math. While Illinois sat on it for years, Indiana passed a bill in months, put up $1B, and took the team.

And the Bears took a worse deal to get there. In Illinois they were going to own their stadium. In Indiana they rent it from the state. A team that wanted to build its own home gave up ownership just to escape Chicago.

Nobody won but Indiana. The Bears lost their stadium. Illinois lost the team, the $2B, and $53M a year in taxes.

Pritzker after they left: "I wasn't willing to give up billions of dollars of taxpayer money to give it to a billionaire-owned family or team."

There it is. "Billionaire-owned."

That's how Democrats talk about any business right before they run it out of town. Call them a billionaire, act like you're saving working families, take a victory lap while the tax base drives across the state line.

Meanwhile they're running the whole state into the ground. And you already know how this ends. You're living in it.

Pensions are $143B in the hole, worst in the country and not close. You pay $6,285 a year in property taxes, double the $2,969 national average, for a city that's $1.15B in the red. The mayor called its finances "the point of no return."

When you run things this badly, you sell what's left.

They leased the parking meters for 75 years to Morgan Stanley and a sovereign wealth fund in Abu Dhabi. Took $1.15B and burned through it in two years. The investors already made it all back, with 58 years left to collect.

Sold the Skyway. Sold the downtown garages. Every asset that made money, gone for one check.

But a fixed property tax rate for a team that's been here 106 years? That's "propping up billionaires."

Companies are leaving. Boeing for Virginia. Caterpillar for Texas. Citadel for Miami. In 2023 alone Illinois lost 56,000 people and $6B in income to other states. The ones who left earned a third more than the ones who moved in.

Indiana didn't outbid anyone. AAA credit, 16 years straight. A $676M surplus. Fourth-lowest debt per person in the country. They just weren't a disaster.

Illinois could have collected $53M a year. It chose zero. Ignore all the bad management but make sure to stick it to those evil, pesky billionaires.

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@ChicagosMayor @ChicagoMPO Resign. You’ve ruined Chicago already.

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@WarMonitor3 Putin won’t survive the war. Even if there’s a cease fire, Russia will feel this for a decade in their economy, and it’ll cost Putin his job. That’s a win for Ukraine. Now they just need to start pushing back Russia, which I have doubts about.

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@MySportsUpdate And he won’t get suspended because he plays for the chiefs

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@KofiSam261852 @ESPNFC Tf do you think he’s doing you dunce?

[Zero Tolerance Policy @ThoughtCrimes80]

Colorado leads the country in rape, larceny, and car theft, but those things aren’t nearly as important as renaming of the proposed Front Range Passenger Rail service to “CoCo.” ⁦@GovofCO⁩ 🤡

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@P_Kallioniemi @secretsqrl123 All the butt hurt Russians in the comments 😂😂😂

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@BuzzPatterson That’s a dude.