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A country does not rise to the level of its innovation. It falls to the level of its industrial commons. | more 👇

[Real Charts @RealChartsCap]

🚨PLEASE ASSIST, I'm crowd sourcing

A list of American inventions that America can no longer produce.

Because the tech was sold, failure to cross the "valley of death" (commercialize), lack of govt support, aggressive foreign investment, or any other reason.

Please reply to this X/tweet and I'll thread them.
Bonus points for supporting links!

I'll start...

[Real Charts @RealChartsCap]

Nice chart.

[Mike Bird @Birdyword]

I think the fact that the world's second-biggest economy (and the biggest exporter) is in the midst of a deep Japan 1990s-like housing depression with no sign of any end is the under-discussed economic phenomenon of the current era (chart via Oxford Economics)

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@TMTLongShort 100%. Basically my podcast & YT feed and reading list.

I’d add:
- Make it in America by Liveris
- Global Trade and Conflicting National Interests by Gomory and Baumol
- The Great Rupture by Shvets
- Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy by Janeway
- my subst*ck on InduPol

[Real Charts @RealChartsCap]

Let’s go!

[Ksenia Moskalenko @kseniam0s]

The US government will give your startup up to $1.55M and take 0% equity.

@NSF's America's Seed Fund is open again after Congress reauthorized it in April.

Three tracks:
- Phase I: up to $305K to prove the idea
- Phase II: up to $1.25M to build it
- Fast-Track: up to $1.55M, both phases in one go

Who can apply:
- US-based startups with 500 or fewer employees
- 51%+ owned by US citizens or permanent residents
- Not majority owned by VCs
- All the work done in the US

How it works:
- Send a 3-page Project Pitch first
- NSF invites the best ones to submit a full proposal
- Next full proposal deadline: Nov 4

Phase I funding rates have run about 10 to 20%. It's work, but nobody takes your cap table.

Application link 👉 https://t.co/f5CcZoC1bf

Bookmark and tag a tech founder who needs this.

[Real Charts @RealChartsCap]

https://t.co/VEfkNttlxE

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@NTFabiano Slow is smooth, fun is farther.

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@Scholars_Stage I know a few foreigners who were jailed in China. It’s no joke. Do Not F around. It is Not the same place as America.

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@kofinas Can’t wait to listen. Logan is top notch.

We republished this piece, maybe helps paint part of the picture. https://t.co/drK4UNSDqA

[Real Charts @RealChartsCap]

Listening to Ben on #investlikethebest on @colossusmag

My 2cents:

$GOOGL can and should raise equity if they believe the AI upside is great but are less sure of the timing.

Debt is an awful option if the timing of the ROI is uncertain.

[Patrick OShaughnessy @patrick_oshag]

Anyone read anything excellent lately?

Any format

[Real Charts @RealChartsCap]

@Molson_Hart Another way to work on your speaking is watch a TV show and repeat everything they say, pausing to do so. This also helps pacing, phrasing. Which is another reason besides tones people misunderstand.

Also remember Chinese are misunderstanding each other all the time!

[Real Charts @RealChartsCap]

@Molson_Hart Wǒ shì yī zhǐ zhāngyú

WoO SHi YI ZhI ZHANGyU

[Real Charts @RealChartsCap]

@Molson_Hart Try the pinyin method that uses capital letters to show the direction of the tone. Write them out and put them around your home.

Octopus would be: ZHANGyU
yaNGreN
JIAO’Ao
bAmiAO ZHuZHanG
QIRuaN PaYIng

If it’s 3rd tone and not enough letters, double a letter: TAi KeEXI

[Michael Pettis @michaelxpettis]

There seems to be a growing acknowledgement around the word that Keynes was right when he proposed at Bretton Woods a global trading regime that limited persistent trade imbalances and restricted global financial flows.

In her new Foreign Affairs piece, Lori Wallach proposes a similar restructuring of the global trading regime, arguing that because our current trading system rewards countries that improve their manufacturing competitiveness by suppressing wage growth relative to productivity growth (and by ignoring environmental costs), it's no surprise that income inequality has risen across most countries over the past four decades.

Like a growing number of analysts, she argues that countries should be free to choose their own growth models, but they should not be able to externalize the associated costs via their trade and capital accounts.
@WallachLori
https://t.co/x2hpDfioOJ via @ForeignAffairs

[Real Charts @RealChartsCap]

@4xCaliban Chinas has a welfare system and it is disruptive. But in the way the leaders want.

https://t.co/drK4UNSDqA

[Taisu Zhang @ZhangTaisu]

This speech on the state of the Chinese economy by Li Daokui is a pretty accurate representation of how the actual economics profession *in China* views the current situation. In short, it’s not optimistic. In fact there’s very little resemblance between their views and the portrayal of the Chinese economy commonly seen in Western policy circles or on Western social media.

[Real Charts @RealChartsCap]

@ZhangTaisu Li Daokui always talented with the way he presents his pessimism. Huge respect for him.

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@grok what could be going on here?

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@sama what’s going on here? ChatGPT can’t recite Ephesians 6:12.

[Real Charts @RealChartsCap]

Wild stuff folks. Can read Ephesians 1:3-5 from a screenshot but not 6:12.

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@sama what’s going on here? ChatGPT can’t recite Ephesians 6:12.

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@carm1nee Similar to the baby seal nonsense: 21 years and $1 billion to deepen a channel in Savanah River.

Why do we do this to ourselves?