SusanShafferSolovay

"Common sense is not so common." Voltaire, 1764. Still proving true today. Past life: finance person NYC

[SusanShafferSolovay @SusanSolovay]

@MilkRoadAI When the US Mint stopped minting pennies because it cost more than the value of a penny, that should have been a signal to start a copper position then. How's the price of nickel these days LOL

[X @XaviercMiller]

Here’s what I think will happen in NYC under Mahdami.

The free buses and government grocery stores won’t happen, they never do. They sound good during campaigns, but collapse under basic math. You can’t run a city on ideas that cost billions and produce no revenue.

The only way to make housing affordable is to build more housing. The free market lowers prices, not regulation. Every time politicians try to control rent or force affordability by decree, developers stop building and landlords stop maintaining. Supply dries up, the quality collapses, and the few properties that remain skyrocket in price.

Once landlords can’t make a profit, they sell, lose properties, or walk away. Eventually, the government takes over.

Taxes will rise to pay for the promises, and the middle class will be the ones shouldering the burden. The rich will relocate, the poor will depend on subsidies, and the productive class will be squeezed from both sides.

Thriving businesses are the foundation of any thriving city. When they leave, everything else follows, jobs, schools, grocery stores, stability. Chicago already proved this. Boeing, McDonald’s, Caterpillar, Citadel, nearly 70k jobs, all gone. Now they’re facing billion-dollar deficits, half empty schools and neighborhoods without grocery stores.

I saw someone who lived in a rent-controlled apartment in California put it perfectly, he said his landlord could no longer afford maintenance so the pool was filled with dirt, the floors had soft spots, and the foundation ended up cracking. That’s what overregulation does, it destroys quality.

People who voted for this will eventually feel the pain but they won’t blame the policies or the politicians, they’ll blame the rich for leaving.

This conversation is always difficult because most people simply don’t understand market dynamics or incentives. In a free society, people act in their own self-interest. If you remove profit and reward dependency, productivity dies and the city with it.

If you think things are expensive now, just wait until they’re “free.”

[SusanShafferSolovay @SusanSolovay]

@ParikPatelCFA Why is no one talking about how Navaro his book Death by China, used a fictional scholar named “Ron Vara,” to add weight to his claim that “Chinese junk” is killing Americans. Ron Vara, who is hostile toward China, doesn’t exist! @elonmusk

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@ElonMuskAOC Uno

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@chamath https://t.co/XtdZFo6Jy3

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@chamath https://t.co/qLCalXzm9c

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@chamath Animal protein is the real killer ruining the planet and our bodies. The link between animal protein, diabetes & heart disease has been well established. Big ag/cattle/dairy/food cover and obfuscate the facts with studies they pay for. Criminal.

[Ella Ke @EllaTravelsLove]

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When the president of MIT
Sally Kornbluth, president of UPENN Elizabeth Magill, and Harvard President Claudine Gay were asked whether calling for the murder of Jews is considered a violation of the university's code of conduct or an act of harassment, all three responded that it depends on the context.

Despite U.S. rep @RepStefanik giving them multiple opportunities to clarify and be unequivocal, they did not agree.

They stated all that calling for the murder of Jews is a violation of the ethical code only under certain conditions that were not explicitly detailed.

Anti-Semitic violence has spread across American universities. The leading higher education institutions that drive global innovation are in practice nothing more than nests of terror and hatred.

One cannot wonder what would be their stance if the question was about Afro-Americans or any other minority.

Please SHARE!

#Harvard
#MIT
#Upenn

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[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

BREAKING: The IDF has released a recording which they allege is of the terrorists talking about the Hospital bombing.

Do you believe it wasn't the IDF now?

Terrorist #1: “I’m telling you this is the first time that we see a missile like this falling…

Terrorist #2: “and so that’s why we are saying it belongs to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.”

Terrorist #1: “What?”

Terrorist #2: “They are saying it belongs to Palestinian Islamic Jihad.”

Terrorist #1: “It’s from us?”

Terrorist #2: “It looks like it!”

Terrorist #1: “Who says this?”

Terrorist #2: “They are saying the shrapnel from the missile is local shrapnel and not like [IDF] shrapnel.

Terrorist #1: “What are you saying (name)?”

Terrorist #2: “But God bless, it couldn’t have found another place to explode?”

Terrorist #1: “Nevermind, yes, (name) they shot it from the cemetery behind the hospital.”

Terrorist #2: “What?”

Terrorist #1: “They shot it coming from the cemetery behind the Al-Ma’amadani Hospital, and it misfired and fell on them.”

Terrorist #2: “There’s a cemetery behind it?”

Terrorist #1: “Yes, Al-Ma’amadani is exactly in the compound.”

Terrorist #2: “Where is it when you enter the compound?”

Terrorist #1: “You first enter the compound and don’t go toward the city and it’s on the right side of the Al-Ma’amadani Hospital.

Terrorist #2: “Yes I know it.”

[SusanShafferSolovay @SusanSolovay]

Treat your ears to another @theycallmesolly songwriting colab w/ @nessabarrett #AmericanJesus https://t.co/MnPLOIzxFj

[SusanShafferSolovay @SusanSolovay]

"My mirror is a liar
Inside, I'm still a child
Who's tryin' to find her way back home
How come nobody warns us
About what's coming for us
That you will live and die alone" #seasonsbeberexha Congrats @theycallmesolly @BebeRexha @DollyParton https://t.co/92CtsnEK3q

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@SabinehazanMD @LetsTalkSht Paxlovid was only trialed on unvaccinated so don’t understand why it’s even given to vaccinated?

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@ParikPatelCFA You have the BEST sense of humor on the interwebs 😜

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Incredible

[John Collison @collision]

As you become an adult, you realize that things around you weren't just always there; people made them happen. But only recently have I started to internalize how much tenacity *everything* requires. That hotel, that park, that railway. The world is a museum of passion projects.

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@DrMcFillin_PsyD Yes. A must follow is @ellenvoramd who wrote the book The Anatomy of Anxiety and is one of the few psychiatrists that understands the connection between nutrition & mental health 👍

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@ThatEricAlper Almost Famous

[Kareem Abdul-Jabbar @kaj33]

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@ParikPatelCFA Here’s a thought #bansuits