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"Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon", Milton Friedman

"It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible" Dune

[GoldStandard @Wombat652]

Hot take. Lower oil prices are a tax cuts for American workers and a revenue cut for the Kremlin. Win, win!

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@ianbremmer @OsseChi @NYCferry Thanks for all the fish

[Bitcoin Teddy @Bitcoin_Teddy]

Javier Milei: “I thought being on the left was a mental problem. The empirical evidence is so overwhelming that it never worked anywhere, and they refused to accept it.”

“But what I discovered is that being on the left is a disease of the soul. The left is built on envy, hatred, resentment, and unequal treatment under the law. They are very violent, and since they have no way or arguments to answer, they go for physical violence.”

[GoldStandard @Wombat652]

Been wondering about this...

[Judge Glock @judgeglock]

Some people are saying “this is just how VA works.” One, it’s not. Most veterans don’t get any disability payments let alone 100%. Second, if 100% can encompass both a healthy Platner and a paralyzed veteran, then clearly we need a new weighting system for the paralyzed veteran.

[GoldStandard @Wombat652]

@nypost Because they dont

[DK🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸 @1Nicdar]

This is Sanibel Island causeway in Southwest Florida.

In 2022 Hurricane Ian wiped out the only bridge linking the Island to the mainland.

13 days later, under Governor Ron DeSantis direction, temporary repairs were completed and the bridge reopened to trucks bringing supplies to the Island.

10 days later, permanent repairs were finished and the bridge was reopened to all traffic.

FEMA estimated it was going to take over a year to repair the Bridge.

DeSantis basically told them to get out of his way.

This is what happens when you have real competent leadership.

California does not have that.

[Sunny @sunnyright]

Likely Democratic Congressional nominees in 2026 include an Al Qaeda volunteer, a Nazi death squad enthusiast who abuses women, and a Hezbollah supporter.

[GoldStandard @Wombat652]

@RichardHanania Strip out a few big cities and the US homicide rate plummets

[Milton Friedman Quotes @MiltonFriedmanW]

Milton Friedman on inflation:

“Inflation is just like alcoholism. In both cases when you start drinking or when you start printing too much money, the good effects come first. The bad effects only come later.”

“That’s why in both cases there is a strong temptation to overdo it: to drink too much and to print too much money.”

“When it comes to the cure, it’s the other way around. When you stop drinking or when you stop printing money, the bad effects come first and the good effects only come later.”

“That’s why it’s so hard to persist with the cure.”

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@ResisttheMS It's ok to be a nazi if you are a Democrat

[Daniel Lacalle @dlacalle_IA]

Another policy mistake in the making: hiking into a temporary energy spike won’t fix it, just as commodities and freight are already correcting, but it will crush families and businesses still suffering the inflation created by 2020–24 central bank excess.

via Bloomberg

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@musepwt Bullshit

[Fusilli Spock @awstar11]

I have never once worked with a person with a Nazi tattoo. I spent nearly a decade in the military, have friends in the trades, and did construction in high school.
Platner grew up rich; private school, dropped out of college, parents bought his house, living off disability.

[James Lee Bright Law @JLBrightLaw]

All it took was a female abusing, Nazi tattooed, veteran hating, nepo baby fake oyster fishing, Porto potty masturbating, rape shaming dude from Maine to finally kill the MeToo movement. And surprise, surprise it was the Left that killed it in pursuit of power.

Who’d a’ guessed?

[GoldStandard @Wombat652]

Of course not...duh

[C3 @C_3C_3]

Question…

Have you ever seen a late night ballot drop go overwhelmingly Republican?

Like ever.

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@daveweigel @redsteeze @ethanagarwal It's ok to be a nazi if you are a Democrat

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@wil_da_beast630 WTF?

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@rcwhalen @ITMTrading @Frank_Giustra @DanielaCambone Buy inflation

[Daniel Lacalle @dlacalle_IA]

Persistent inflation has nothing to do with oil or war. Those impact individual prices temporarily, not aggregate prices rising every year.

If oil caused inflation, we would have had deflation in 2022-25.

Global money supply is rising at the fastest annualized pace since 2021, driven by rising public debt and deficit spending.

via Bloomberg

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@igorbobic @McCormackJohn @SenWhitehouse is a known idiot - speaking as someone who has met him and can attest

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@NickKristof dog fucking dude trying to repair his broken image