Danny Crawford

[Danny Crawford @DanCrawdc]

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[Road To Success @_RoadToSuccess_]

When a man starts walking alone it means..

[MΛRC VIDΛL @marcvidal]

Absolutamente increíble. Lo que hoy ha hecho Barcelona se recordará mucho tiempo. La Sagrada Familia, Gaudí y los que durante 140 años han creído en ello, lo merecían.

[Man's Wisdom @mans_wisdom_]

10 SIGNS YOU'RE MENTALLY STRONG:

1. You cut off people without warning.

[Murray Rothbard @MurraySuggests]

The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.

The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start.

Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have.

If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.

[James E. Thorne @DrJStrategy]

For the record.

In Canada, It Matters How the Economy Dies.

The Canadian economy is dead. It just didn’t die with a crash big enough to satisfy the models. No Lehman moment, no Covid‑style cliff, just two negative quarters of GDP, years of falling output per person, negative productivity, and a private sector slowly strangled by rates and regulation while the establishment insists the patient is “resting.”

On the facts, this isn’t ambiguous. Real GDP has contracted for two consecutive quarters on an annualized basis. Labour productivity has been flat or negative since 2021. Real GDP per capita is below its pre‑pandemic level. Ontario has logged its worst non‑pandemic quarterly job losses since the mid‑1970s. The only consistent growth is in government payrolls and compliance, not in private enterprise and investment. If that isn’t recessionary, the word is meaningless.

And yes Macklem threatens rate hikes through all of this insanity.

Yet Canada’s official guardians insist nothing fundamental has broken. The C.D. Howe recession‑dating committee says the downturn is not “pronounced, persistent, and pervasive” enough. The central bank warns against overreacting to “technical” weakness. Bay Street talks about “soft landings” and “resilience.” In some quarters, the answer to this slow‑motion collapse is not relief, but further rate hikes. Ignore the body on the table, we are told, the vital signs aren’t quite bad enough yet to fill out the certificate.

Their rulebook was built for heart attacks, not cancers. It excels at spotting sudden collapses in aggregate GDP and jobs. It barely registers slow organ failure: a few tenths off real GDP per capita each year, productivity edging down, ugly quarters for private‑sector employment and capex offset by public hiring. None of that triggers the old alarms until the damage is permanent.

Meanwhile, Canada has been busy throwing away the advantages that once justified its prosperity. Energy and resource projects are stalled or strangled. Business investment per worker trails peers. A country rich in capital, talent, and geography behaves as if it can live forever off inherited endowments while making it harder to build anything new. That is not “resilience.” It is delusion.
Canada’s economic establishment needs to wake up.

Two negative quarters of GDP, negative productivity, falling GDP per person, historic job losses in the core province, a suffocated private sector and calls for more tightening on top, are not signs of an economy “cooling toward trend.” They are signs of an economy that has already crossed the line from stagnation into decay.

The Canadian economy is dead in the way that matters: as an engine of rising living standards and a place where private capital is rewarded for building the future. It just didn’t die loudly enough for the old definitions. The real question now is not what we call it, but how long our institutions will keep pretending the corpse is “resilient.”

[Danny Crawford @DanCrawdc]

@SantiagoAuFund Yup 👍 at least I can spell retard.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Ford calculated it was cheaper to let people burn alive in the Pinto than to fix the exploding gas tank.

Fix the defect? $137 million.
Pay out for deaths and injuries? Only $49 million.

So they left it that way.

Aaron Siri brought this up on JRE, pointing to similar cases like Vioxx, where the company knew it was causing heart attacks and strokes but downplayed the risks to protect profits.

When corporations are allowed to run cold cost-benefit analyses on human lives, people die so shareholders can earn more. Punitive damages exist precisely to make that math no longer add up.

This isn’t ancient history. It still happens whenever profit is placed above safety.

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

On issue after issue, separatists just wave their magic wand to wish away serious problems with secession.

Myth: “Federal lands and federal building (sic) don’t add up to much”

Fact:

- Wood Buffalo National Park
- Jasper National Park
- Banff National Park
- Waterton National Park
- Elk Island National Park

Together encompass 53,860 sq KM, or 8.2% of Alberta’s land mass

- CFB Cold Lake
- CFB Suffield
- CFB Wainwright
- CFB Edmonton

Together encompass ~12,000 sq KM, or 1.9% of Alberta’s land mass

- 138 Indian Reserves encompassing 6,556 sq KM, or 1% of Alberta’s land mass

- YEG and YYC airport lands, encompassing 49 sq KM

Plus hundreds of other parcels of land, buildings, etc, much of it prime downtown property (eg armouries, RCMP facilities.)

So ~12% of Alberta’s land mass, including some of the most valuable and strategically important in the province. The total value would be in the tens of billions of dollars.

But don’t worry, the separatists say. No biggie. We’ll just keep saying “Canada sucks” and stuff, cause facts are hard.

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️Canada is a rich-country warning flare.

The country did not suddenly break.

It spent years converting future capacity into present comfort through housing, leverage, population growth, and state-managed consumption.

Now the bill is showing up.

Canada has enormous natural advantages: land, energy, minerals, water, agriculture, institutional stability, proximity to the U.S., educated labor, and strategic geography.

A country with that asset base should be one of the great productive powers of the 21st century. Instead, much of the national growth model became a loop of importing people, inflating housing, expanding household debt, taxing/redistributing around the pressure, and calling the aggregate number progress.

That model creates GDP, but it does not necessarily create prosperity.

The core sickness is per-capita stagnation hidden by headline scale. A country can grow on paper while the median person feels poorer, more crowded, more indebted, less housed, and less hopeful. That is Canada’s fracture. The macro story and the lived story diverged for too long.

Housing became the false god. It absorbed savings, distorted politics, rewarded incumbents, punished young families, and redirected capital away from productive enterprise. When a country’s main wealth engine is bidding up shelter, it eventually starts consuming its own future. Young people lose formation. Families delay. Businesses struggle. Talent leaves. Politics curdles.

The recession print is the surface crack. The deeper fracture is that Canada’s old growth engine has stopped producing legitimacy.

Tariffs and weak jobs matter, but they are accelerants. The deeper problem is strategic drift. Canada did not build enough future-facing industrial strength relative to its potential. Energy could have been a sovereign superpower. Minerals could have been a strategic weapon. AI power infrastructure could be a national moonshot. Instead, the country over-indexed toward housing, bureaucracy, compliance, redistribution, and moral-managerial politics.

The U.S. has plenty of dysfunction, but it still creates monsters: Nvidia, OpenAI, SpaceX, Palantir, Anduril, hyperscalers, shale, venture capital networks, deep markets. Canada produces capable people and then often loses them into stronger systems. That is the brutal asymmetry.

The policy path ahead probably becomes rate cuts, fiscal support, more housing intervention, immigration recalibration, and attempts to cushion households. Some of that may stabilize the surface. It will not fix the core unless Canada shifts from asset inflation toward productive power.

The real question is whether Canada chooses productivity or keeps protecting the old model.

Productivity means energy development, industrial strategy, permitting reform, housing supply, capital formation, defense/AI/minerals infrastructure, and a political culture that rewards building. The current model means more debt, more transfers, more housing distortion, more young-person despair, and more dependence on U.S. demand.

Final compression:

Canada is not poor.

Canada is misallocated.

The recession is the signal that the housing-population-debt model has reached exhaustion.

A country with immense real assets forgot to build enough real power.

[Shadow of Ezra @ShadowofEzra]

U.S.-born Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard admits Israel will have to go to war with Turkey and Egypt once they finish off Iran, Gaza, and Lebanon.

He says, “The storm is coming,” unlike anything the world has ever seen before.

“We have to be prepared for the next war, which will probably be against Turkey and Egypt.”

[Eric Nuttall @ericnuttall]

Neil Chapman, SVP of Exxon this morning at the Sanford Bernstein Strategic Decisions Conference perhaps going a little off corporate script:

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

Fellow Canadian conservatives: please reflect on this poll.

Yes, the US and is and always will be our largest trading partner.

And yes, we have to find a modus vivendi with whoever is in the White House, even a President who flippantly insults and threatens us.

But it is self-defeating to attack the Prime Minister for trying to diversify away from our imprudent dependence on an unreliable US market.

Have the humility to listen to Canadians.

Stop dismissing Trump’s attacks as a distraction, or worse yet, as somehow justified.

And heed the wise words of @stephenharper:

"Canada must adapt to new geopolitical realities. To be clear, these realities mean we must reduce our dependence on the U.S."

https://t.co/m6E64OTeSL

[Marko Kolanovic @markoinny]

Trump painted himself in a corner by trashing JCPOA ("Obama deal") only to find out that his improvisations can only get a worse deal, after: draining SPR, depleating arsenal, ruining GCC, destabilizing NATO, driving inflation higher, ruining US/boosting China global prestige.

[Alex Prompter @alex_prompter]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[SharrellAnne @SharrellAnne2]

This is probably a long shot, but if anybody happens to be in DC this weekend and plans on visiting Arlington, I would love to see a fresh photo of my husband’s grave in Section 60.

SSG Alan W. Shaw
Section 60, Grave 8451
B Co 1/12 Cav, 1st Cavalry Division
November 10, 1975 - February 9, 2007

There’s just something about knowing people still stop by, still say his name, still remember. 🇺🇸⭐🇺🇸

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

You’re a psychopath. No wonder Israel’s reputation is plunging around the world with people like you in its Govt.

[Shadow of Ezra @ShadowofEzra]

Tucker Carlson says the Republican Party is officially dead after it colluded with a foreign country to buy Thomas Massie’s seat.

He says it is immoral to support the current Republican Party because it supports the killing of children and is now against free speech.

“It’s the end of the Republican Party we had.”

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

I can't think of a more glaring and revealing political irony than a politician who called his ideology "America First" proudly *boasting* that he's far more popular in Israel than in his own country: in fact, so popular there that he could be elected Prime Minister of Israel.

[Holden Culotta @Holden_Culotta]

Dave Smith: “You have made a political martyr out of Thomas Massie.”

“A foreign government’s lobby literally unseated a congressman for not being supportive of that foreign government.”

“No matter what he does next, I think he’s at a different level to have an impact culturally.”

@ComicDaveSmith @RobbieTheFire @MassieforKY

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

AIPAC spent $9 million to take out Rep. Thomas Massie.

Trump megadonors spent another $7 million.

It was the most ever spent on a House primary race—all because he defied Trump on Gaza and Epstein.

NO, billionaire super PACs should not buy our elections. One person, one vote.