(2) Las Vegas Strip revenue has been a pretty good leading/coincident indicator of the US Consumer. Note the slowdowns in 2000 and 2007, before the last two recessions.
This is the chart that has launched a thousand takes.
The conclusion seems obvious: Everything the govt touches goes to infinity in price. Everything pure capitalism touches goes to zero.
But there's another way of looking at this graph that dramatically changes the story.
Brando owned a private island in French Polynesia and he invented a snack he called "Real-life mound bars" He would crack a coconut then stir in sun melted chocolate before devouring
It's time to talk about shutting down the Department of Homeland Security. It was always a mistake, a costly artifact of the hysteric post-9/11 authoritarianism that left us no more safe, but much less free.
Its plan to become the Speech Police is the final straw.
Shut it down.
When Daniel Hale did just that, you threw him in prison. Reality Winner did it. Guess what? Prison. Chelsea Manning did it—still prison.
The answer isn't for the government to stop talking like this—the answer is to stop ruling in a way that makes it the blackest kind of lie.
Third: We classify marijuana at the same level as heroin – and more serious than fentanyl. It makes no sense. I’m asking @SecBecerra and the Attorney General to initiate the process of reviewing how marijuana is scheduled under federal law.
So sad that kids today spend so much time online. When we were kids we were always outside throwing rocks at one another, smoking, lighting small fires, stealing car hood ornaments, shoplifting, trying drugs... one time I drank gasoline.