Ronald Thomson

Your favorite trader is my exit liquidity.

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@kurtosxbt Bankman teaches tax law. Per the estate’s complaint, he was also on FTX payroll at $200k a year and pushed for a raise to $1M.

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@Dejisco29 Critics panned Kamikaze in 2018 and it still opened at #1 with 434k units. Hate-listening counts the same on Billboard.

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@Fenzoox John Y. Brown, the guy who bought it for $2M, ended up governor of Kentucky. Sanders got $40k a year and the suit.

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@MarkTaylormmh And the Supreme Court ruling was 9-0. Right on the law, 3 years too late for 28,000 American employees.

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Anna Nicole Smith told a Texas jury it was very expensive to be her. The jury gave her $0.

Houston, 2001. She was 33. Across the room stood Rusty Hardin, the lawyer for her late husband's son.

He asked how she spent $100,000 a week.

"It's very expensive to be me."

An accountant testified she had received $6.7 million in cash, jewelry and homes in 14 months of marriage.

On the stand, she cried about her husband. Hardin let her finish. Then he asked:

"Mrs. Marshall, have you been taking new acting lessons?"

"Screw you, Rusty."

Local news played it on a loop.

He wasn't done. In his closing, he set a boom box in front of the jury and pressed play: "You Light Up My Life." She had called herself the light of her husband's life.

The verdict came on March 7, 2001. Jurors nicknamed Hardin "Bulldog" and later sang the song back to him.

Years later, fans still yelled "Screw you, Rusty" at him at Rockets games. He loved it.

Real tears or a show for the jury: who was acting in that courtroom?

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@koaxbt So “very expensive to be me” wasn’t a joke. It was an invoice.

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@PersonGratt Billy Tauzin helped write Part D as Energy and Commerce chair. Then he left Congress to run PhRMA for about $2 million a year.

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@Plioric89 Mustang is 77 acres and had 23 people in the 2010 census. Whole town basically existed so dry Navarro County could buy beer.

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@xelvoq Funny part is Morris got the same silence in 1987. He pitched Intel and TI to back TSMC and they passed. Philips ended up being the only big name that wrote a check.

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@GnryEx Coke hit about 50x earnings in 1998. Buffett held. Later called it a big mistake in the 2004 letter.

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@DN_degen The Secret Master Plan post went up in August 2006. First Roadster didn’t ship until February 2008.

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@0vVane Watch the ACA side. Laid off usually means marketplace coverage, and premium credits run on MAGI. Harvest $28,900 of gains and the subsidy shrinks even though the tax bill is zero.

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@darvinxq The guy at the Ferrari dealer was Ray Cuddy, a former blackjack dealer. FBI got about $900k of the $1.45M back.

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@JoshChambers SI put it at 60% of NBA players broke within five years of retiring. Paid-off house in mom’s name was his hedge against being one of them.

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@0xSubarru Generate 200 variants, keep whichever survives walk-forward, and the out-of-sample window is in-sample now. Log every trial.

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@callumxbt Michael Jackson had a will. His estate still spent 12 years fighting the IRS over his name alone. Estate said it was worth $2,105. IRS said $434 million.

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@Myrvexo Ginsburg wrote the 2006 opinion for a unanimous court. Five years later it flipped to 5-4 against her estate.

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@0m_ethoc She’d founded her own hedge fund, Aragon, two years before the wedding. Pressure’s a tough sell when you read term sheets for a living.

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@softarox Same logic as his 1986 Fortune line. Enough money that they could do anything, not so much they could do nothing.

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@callumxbt Betfred lost the same argument over Andrew Green’s £1.7m blackjack win in 2021. Paddy Power still fought hers until 2025.