never get less than 12 hours sleep; never play cards with a guy who has the same first name as a city; & never go near a woman with a tattoo of a dagger on her
President Joe Biden's speech about democracy was necessary, says @fdwilkinson, but it probably won't move the people who most need to hear it https://t.co/wf4ZVxE8UC via @opinion
getting the italian waiter to pour me a small sip of the regional mineral water, swirling it around the glass, raising it to the light to examine the colour, taking a deep sniff and complimenting him on the magnesium level before allowing him to pour the rest of the glass
@markets Paradox of Thrift: If everyone tries to save money at the same time, everyone ends up poorer.
Paradox of greed: If every firm tries to raise prices at the same time, executives and shareholders end up poorer due to the Fed's inflation fight.
THE PARADOX OF GREED
In today's @Markets newsletter, I wrote about something that's bothered me about the "greedflation" discussion and what happens when everyone tries raising prices and expanding margins at the same time.
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The fortune behind the single biggest right-wing donor this election comes from a strange source: the cardboard boxes and paper bags strewn about your home.
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@RexChapman Understanding the perspective of a GOP politician in this environment is easy.
What we need to figure out is what causes 10s of millions of GOP voters to create an incentive system where GOP politicians are encouraged to adopt and propagate things which they know to be untrue.
Appeasement kills more people than standing up to dictators. The lesson of history, including the past 8 years in Ukraine, is that if you really want peace, not to just say the word, you have to fight for it. If you want peace quickly, help Ukraine win this war quickly.
Cases like Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health in which “the court ignored or cherry-picked salient text and history” suggest “ideology, not an ‘originalist’ interpretation of law, dictated the results”, writes @espinsegall in a guest essay https://t.co/zH12QZZjv5
Valtteri Bottas on a potential American future: "IndyCar is quite interesting...it seems like a pretty cool series, the tracks are nice, the racing seems really real and probably, from my understanding, a little less politics than in F1." FULL SND EPISODE: https://t.co/FwjS5cirbA
If you see something that gives you big feelings online, some advice: 1. Do some research 2. Consider the publication 3. Run a reverse image search 4. Practice emotional skepticism https://t.co/8caqbwO8R4