Brett Chang

Built @readthepeak. Toronto sports fan.

[David Schwartz @DavidSchwartz70]

Zohran Mamdani is being heckled right now at a press conference in Brooklyn, NY, by someone whose words I can't hear, but watch how he's dealing with it.

Mamdani has the unique skill of knowing how to handle and walk into every room and engage with people, no matter how toxic they are or how their feelings are against him. And many times, make them feel heard.

Elected officials, nonprofit and religious leaders, advocates, and activists on both sides of the political spectrum who met with him told me that.

Don't take my word for it, President Trump is pretty public about it.

That's why he's currently the mayor of New York City.

If you don't like his politics or you're like me, who opposed his candidacy and is still troubled by some of his actions and statements, then don't take this post the wrong way; read into it how you should be better to communicate your message.

Yes, putting ego aside for any public figure is not easy.

[Brett Chang @bchang]

@SeanSilcoff Thank you for the shoutout!

[Matt Bruenig @MattBruenig]

It's so funny to look at these figures. Huang would have to pay a one-time $7 billion sum on $155 billion fortune. "Who cares" is absolutely the appropriate reaction. It means nothing to him. David Sacks types look like the biggest babies in the world.

[Anthony DiMieri @anthonydimieri]

Big things coming

[Arash Azizi آرش عزیزی @arash_tehran]

You could chose your leftism to be identified with A) Build tons of cool fast trains and airports and affordable homes or B) Use a lot of weird words no one understands and ABOLISH COPS and 'eating bananas is actually colonialism.'

One of the above works

[bryan metzger @metzgov]

Saikat Chakrabarti — AOC's fmr chief — isn't like other progressives: He's extremely wealthy.

He's worth at least $167 million per his financial dsiclosure. He may be wealthier than Nancy Pelosi, who he's running to unseat in SF.

I asked him about that. Here's what he told me:

[Mike Stephens @mikeystephens81]

did it work

[Big Cat @BarstoolBigCat]

Dan Campbell isn’t quitting. Love this

[Brett Chang @bchang]

@BradMBradford No @ChrisSpoke??

[Max Fisher @Max_Fisher]

This dropped hearing aid prices by 90%+. Countless people who couldn’t afford hearing aids can hear now. Biden has done a ton of stuff like this. Don’t listen to the doomposters who tell you it doesn’t matter who’s in office. It does.

[Brett Chang @bchang]

@andrewaperez We love to see a progressive cop in charge of a brutal colonial regime 🫡

[Christopher Adlam @cadlam]

Not really a milestone, but a staggering statistic:

@Bruce_Power, the most productive thermal power plant on earth, has now produced, as of the end of 2023, 1,564.6TWh of electricity.

It was the first plant to hit 1PWh, ahead of Gravelines in France, and once uprated to over 7,000MW, will be even more productive, not to mention the potential addition of up to 4,800MW of capacity at Bruce C, pushing it over 11,000MW nameplate, making it the largest thermal plant ever constructed.

[Ali Asaria @aliasaria]

A few days ago at a @betakit conference I spoke on the on the 🇨🇦 government's proposed changes to the capital gains inclusion rate.

Afterwards, a # of people approached me asking for more clarification on my views. Here we go...

[Brett Chang @bchang]

Always great to hear @DSkilleter on Free Lunch!

[Dan Skilleter @DSkilleter]

I was happy to go on the @readthepeak's podcast, Free Lunch, to talk about my new report 'Billionaire Blindspot'

https://t.co/svBnSTf2Nk

[Brett Chang @bchang]

@danielbreezcpa @taylorscollon Still life changing! You’re seriously out of touch if you think a million dollars isn’t life changing for the average Canadian.

[Brett Chang @bchang]

@danielbreezcpa @taylorscollon I sold my business and made over a million dollars and it changed my life!

[Brett Chang @bchang]

@Nickkadysh Better think through the succession planning to ensure the family can either pay the tax upon transfer or sell the home and enjoy the proceeds. These are rich people problems.

[Brett Chang @bchang]

damn good thing they'll have all the proceeds from that **second home** to fall back on

[David Baskin @DavidBaskinBWM]

It turns out 10% of CDN families own 2nd homes. That's over 1 million families. When you die, that non-principal residence is "deemed" to have been sold at fair market value and you get taxed on the gain. So the new cap gains rate probably affects >10% of families. See link

[Brett Chang @bchang]

@ShannonBDouglas @taylorscollon and you're just some internet weirdo who believes the trans-agenda is ruining canada - you're 1. a bigot and 2. will never have to worry about ever getting close to the $250k cap gains threshold 👋👋👋

[Brett Chang @bchang]

@ShannonBDouglas @taylorscollon yeah and it rocked but you asked for my credentials and that's it

so don't tell me i don't know anything about capital gains taxes