Jonathan Passey

[Chris Gaun @cgaunerd]

I want to one day be rich enough for my kids to join DSA

[John Cochrane @JohnHCochrane]

You go to war with the army you have. You "steer" AI with the regulatory state you have. You don’t get to invoke a wise, a-political, benevolent technocratic aristocracy that, like communism, just hasn’t been done right yet.

https://t.co/TEvabNJw2l

[Luis Garicano 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @lugaricano]

This point is crucial. Demsetz called it the "Nirvana falacy," the idea that "oh, we have a market failure, lets introduce a perfect state which solves all failures" - so humans on one side of the ledger are compared to angels on the other. Unsurprisingly, angels win.

[Josh Barro @jbarro]

adding "owning a $5 million second home" to the list of things people will tell a reporter you might do even if you're not rich

[Jonathan Passey @jonathanpassey]

@feeonline I love this quote, but in addition to trashing all the barriers to entry, lets also trash the favoritism of subsidies, preferential tax treatment, and bailouts/guarantees.

[Jonathan Passey @jonathanpassey]

@TheArgumentMag @PhilWMagness The best way to improve human welfare across time is to maximize economic growth, constrained by strong individual rights. (Credit: Stubborn Attachments by @tylercowen)

[reason @reason]

America’s elevator shortage is making housing more expensive, buildings less accessible, and cities less dynamic—all because of bad regulations and union protectionism.

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

Via: https://t.co/akG1A6qeMM

[Jonathan Passey @jonathanpassey]

Wild

[Phil Magness @PhilWMagness]

JD Vance wants to end the US dollar's position as a global reserve currency, because he thinks it allows Americans to consume too much and do so too cheaply.

Keep that in mind the next time you order a $20 burrito on door dash.

[reason @reason]

Since March, America has been running an accidental experiment and glimpsing what the country might look like without one of its dumbest statutes.

The results are in, and they embarrass a century's worth of U.S. lawmakers and defenders.
https://t.co/CAXT6jAS1K

[Billy Binion @billybinion]

How is this not a bigger story? A Phoenix man who's lived in the U.S. since he was 4—when his family fled persecution in Egypt—was deported without warning to Equatorial Guinea. He's been imprisoned in a hotel there since April. What are we doing.

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

My favorite capture of the night: The moment the moon's shadow split the sunset in half, leaving a diamond ring in the sky and a breathtaking view. I call it "Shadows on the Balearic Sea".

I'll have prints available for this one linked in my bio for a few days only.

[Chris Freiman @cafreiman]

A reminder that skeptics of the accuracy of prediction markets should be their most active users—after all, they should expect to make a lot of money exploiting their alleged inaccuracy.

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

The partially eclipsed sun melts into the Mediterranean Sea.

I can’t get over this experience.

I captured thousands of photos- I’ll be sharing my favorite later tonight.

[Billy Binion @billybinion]

This stuff really is repugnant. The president of the United States suing a think tank for publishing a report that offended him is called "authoritarianism." I know people are desensitized, but anyone who claims to care about free speech should find this detestable.

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

Republicans love helping rich people do financial crimes

[Jonathan Passey @jonathanpassey]

@bscholl I think everyone who is subject to the government's laws and its taxes should have a right to vote.

[Washington Post Opinions @PostOpinions]

"This is cherry-picking data to support a preferred outcome: fewer childhood vaccines," the Editorial Board writes.

"Americans may pay the ultimate price."
https://t.co/fu8G94ZV0P

[Eric Boehm @EricBoehm87]

He's out cold lol

[Jonathan Passey @jonathanpassey]

@lifeatstagezero thats how i felt when went out and saw the full stack before flight 6. I kept trying to tell people or share pictures but nothing quite communicates the magnitude. can't wait to go out again and see the changes.