Jeffrey Durrant

[Jeffrey Durrant @jeffrey_durrant]

https://t.co/0tMCJsDI6l #FRED

[Jeffrey Durrant @jeffrey_durrant]

@BskiMike22802 @BernieSanders Mike is the new Mark Twain. "The brain is an amazing organ. It starts working in the womb and does not stop until you get elected to Congress."

[Jeffrey Durrant @jeffrey_durrant]

@biofuelslaw What is the feedstock?

[Jeffrey Durrant @jeffrey_durrant]

The Nvidia Trap: Why the Tech Giant’s Runway Is Running Out
via @Barchart
https://t.co/brSuV24vHz

[Jeffrey Durrant @jeffrey_durrant]

Dynamic! #kevinwarsh #fedchair

[Jeffrey Durrant @jeffrey_durrant]

@BskiMike22802 @RepShriThanedar #404. New memes!?

[E.J. Antoni, Ph.D. @RealEJAntoni]

Get Kevin Warsh in at the Fed so he can end the ridiculous interest-on-reserve policy and stop the Fed from paying Wall Street over $300 million PER DAY in interest for doing absolutely nothing:

[david friedberg @friedberg]

why not just raise income tax rates?

because your real intent is not to just “provide healthcare”.

you’re masking that you are proposing the creation of, for the first time in the 250 years of this American republic, an organized government seizure of private property from citizens.

you’re calling it a “wealth tax” or a “billionaires tax” or “millionaires tax” or whatever nom du jour polls well. but at the end of the day, it’s the seizure of private property from citizens by the government. citizens that earned money, paid their fair taxes on those earnings (53% if they live in California) and are now being told they need to hand over after-tax assets because the government has failed to provide promised services with the revenue it’s collected, and are now re-casting their own failure to be a socio-economic inequity that must be justly resolved... a slippery slope that has never gone anywhere good (see economic effects in USSR, Cuba, Venezuela, France and Norway wealth tax etc.)

the American founders fled tyranny in Europe and this amazing nation was populated by immigrants (myself and your parents) from around the world not just looking for a “better life” but for a place where they could have freedom from tyrannical governments that can take what they want from private citizens. a great nation borne of property rights, the rule of law, and endowed freedoms to believe, speak, or act. these principles led to the greatest run of innovations, successes, and widespread increase in prosperity, for all citizens, ever seen.

the citizens, the individuals, not the institutions, delivered this progress. those who invented, who toiled, who bled, who sacrificed, who took risk and persevered, who led, and who changed the world, are not charlatans, kleptocrats, or oligarchs. they’re what made us all better off. prosperity is a measure of america’s success, not its failure.

it is your principle that is so offensive, as evidenced by the broad disdain for your flippant flirtation with the darkest of human fantasy - socialism. you and other neo-socialists have led so many of us to reflect on America’s history and what it is becoming. that now leads so many to consider, so unnecessarily, leaving their homes for a place where everyone stands up to shout down the principle you suggest. because if your ideas are now considered moderate, it’s clear this titanic is sinking.

that a “simple tax” of taking assets that have been earned, through toil and tribulation, rightly taxed, and preserved, should now be unjustly seized, is your solution to a problem of obvious government mismanagement and outright fraud, tells us that your true motivation lies not in giving people healthcare but in cutting down success and deleting the system of prosperity and opportunity for all.

i don’t care, and neither should anyone else, what the sum total market value of a private citizens private assets might be. it is none of my business and should be none of yours. because, again, once you open that pandora’s box, we might as well study Lord of the Flies … there is literally nothing stopping 51% of citizens demanding that their government go out and seize 100% of the private property of the 49%.

want to give healthcare to people in need? do your job and fix healthcare. make it affordable. want to be lazy about it? then do your job lazily and raise income taxes.

want to take private property from private citizens who have paid their fair share of taxes and legally earned their property, then honestly declare that it is envy, not inequity, that you strive to resolve…

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Valero is taking a $1 billion dollar loss just to get out of California by April 2026

The company will not comply with Gavin Newsom mandates and instead is willing to lose a billion dollars to leave

“When a company takes a billion dollar loss just to leave, you know something is seriously broken.”

“Valero just wrote off $1.1 billion. That is the cost they are taking to walk away from California rather than keep operating their Benicia refinery past April 2026.

— This facility processes 145,000 barrels of oil per day, representing 8.6% of California's entire gasoline production. 400 workers have lost their jobs.

200 contractors are The city of Benicia loses 17% of its entire budget, and California drivers, they are about to get hammered with the worst gas prices in American history.

University of California Davis economists calculate a 40 cents per gallon increase the moment Phillips 66 closes their Los Angeles refinery this December. Then another 81 cents when Valero shuts down four months later in April. That totals a $1.21 per gallon increase by August 2026, your 15 gallon fill-up jumps from $70 to at least $95.

The Stanford Energy Institute came up with even worse projections. They are showing potential spikes to $8 per gallon during supply disruptions.

UC Berkeley's Severin Borenstein, who has been tracking California energy markets for decades, warns these closures could create severe gasoline shortages with unprecedented price increases.

Here's the timeline that's about to wreck California's fuel supply: (shown)“

[Jeffrey Durrant @jeffrey_durrant]

The term Healthcare is misused often. This is a drug company. Obamacare ACA is insurance not Healthcare.

[Hebbia @hebbia]

Eli Lilly ($LLY) becomes the FIRST healthcare company to cross $1 TRILLION in market cap.

Weight-loss drugs are now >25% of total revenue and growing >100% y/y.

[Jeffrey Durrant @jeffrey_durrant]

@zerohedge Google 4th quarter is going to be good. They are cranking advertisements on YouTube and regular search.

[Jeffrey Durrant @jeffrey_durrant]

@realtoriabrooke Reminds me of an old movie plot. 🤔

[Jeffrey Durrant @jeffrey_durrant]

@qcapital2020 Fractional banking creation. Macroeconomics 101. 🤥🤥🤥⚠️

[Jeffrey Durrant @jeffrey_durrant]

@nlanard I'm happy for all of them to be back in their own country.

[Austin Abbott @AustinAbbott]

Round 1: Bijan Robinson (ADP: 3rd)

➖365 Touches, 1,887 Yards
➖15 TD’s (RB3 overall)

Bijan was just 1 of 3 RB’s to put up 20+ PPG (20.1) last season, he was also 1 of 3 RB’s with 60+ Receptions..

If Bijan is gone I would target:

➖Saquon Barkley
➖Malik Nabers
➖Nico Collins

[Jeffrey Durrant @jeffrey_durrant]

@FeserEdward Hobbesian state of nature.

[Jeffrey Durrant @jeffrey_durrant]

@3ExpressoShots @NickTimiraos Share the model! #CBO

[Jeffrey Durrant @jeffrey_durrant]

@TruthNinja316 Malarkey maybe, but plenty of Shenanigans. Actually, a lot of both.

[Jeffrey Durrant @jeffrey_durrant]

About 1/2 the no tax on Tips proposed reduces employment taxes for Businesses that pay SST and MCARE on tips

[Jeffrey Durrant @jeffrey_durrant]

No apologies.https://t.co/35yJiHrMsc