Peter Quinn

[Peter Quinn @petergquinn]

@elonmusk Agreed. But, what do you have to say about the republican tax/spending bill?

Adding $3 trillion to the credit card?

Lose a lot of credibility when you speak to cost cutting on one hand and your partners are profligately spending on the other.

[Peter Quinn @petergquinn]

@JunkScience This cold spell was driven by a mass of cold air from the North Pole. It’s not indicative of average global temperature, much less average global temperature over a long time period.

https://t.co/wWBqmWlZaC

[Peter Quinn @petergquinn]

@rowancheung Did it put together this tweet thread is the question 🤔

[Peter Quinn @petergquinn]

@pmarca I would think this has a lot to do with the introduction of income taxes as well, looking at the timing of those drop offs?

[Peter Quinn @petergquinn]

@PeterDClack How about you map that versus the types of life earth supported during those periods?

Mammals have only lived within the last 100 million years.

This is not a game that’s smart for us to play!

[Peter Quinn @petergquinn]

@elonmusk Wow. Who actually wants to live there?

[Peter Quinn @petergquinn]

@pmarca Correlation versus causation. What’s more likely, ayahuasca is pushing founders to quit, or, founders already struggling/thinking of quitting are taking ayahuasca?

[Peter Quinn @petergquinn]

@ashleevance Literally saw the same chart 10 mins ago that had it at a 120 iq 🤷‍♂️

[Peter Quinn @petergquinn]

@jcmcclellan86 @FiveHeadClub @RBReich @CommunityNotes People should get and deserve FACTS to base their opinions on. Robert Reich consistently distorts the truth.

It’s not good when Trump does it, it’s not good when Biden does it, it’s DEFINITELY not good when supposed academics do it.

It feeds the nastiness we have in the world

[Peter Quinn @petergquinn]

@mcuban There are two words the Biden admin has used i take major issue with.

1) Invest: investing involves risk of capital. The gov is transferring funds. They are not investors.

2) lower prices: as stated above, only innovation can lower prices long term.

[Peter Quinn @petergquinn]

@mcuban Not a Trump supporter but Mark, the gov can not lower prices of anything, you know that!

Only innovation can long term lower prices.

They can maybe remove some regs, or, they can subsidize prices.

Outside of that, they do not have the tools to lower prices.

[Peter Quinn @petergquinn]

@mcuban @FoxNews @NEWSMAX @CNBC @CNN @dailywire @marklevinshow @DavidSacks @Jason Mark, you’re an investor in many businesses. Do you really think long term the gov can “bring down” the cost of anything?

The gov can “subsidize” costs, but only innovation can bring down costs.

Btw not a trumper, but, let’s be honest abt that question.

[Peter Quinn @petergquinn]

@RBReich Yeah you’ve pretty much clearly outlined here, it’s a lot of money, but barely makes a dent in our $35 trillion debt pile - even if we taxed 100%!

The issue is clearly spending. It’s hard to look at gov spending versus gdp, and tax receipts, and make any other conclusion.

[Peter Quinn @petergquinn]

@NewProgressUSA You realize most jobs you’re paid to actually just be there to help people.

A toll booth operator or cashier may not be busy all day, but, when a customer comes in you need someone there.

Not sure what this persons job is in the example?

[Peter Quinn @petergquinn]

@JaneGeorgeTN pro price cap people generally have a very simplistic view of how the economy functions, “stop make the prices rise”.

Profit margins for grocers are essentially at a 30 year average - the issue is downstream (obviously)

[Peter Quinn @petergquinn]

@JaneGeorgeTN People aren’t defending the fat cats. They’re just pointing out that a price cap is terrible economic policy and the grocery supply chain is way more complicated than you’d think. There’s logistics, storage, raw goods, suppliers etc before it even gets to the shelves

[Peter Quinn @petergquinn]

@jeffreytucker Price controls simply don’t work. They limit new supply coming on (rising prices are a signal for new competitors to enter the market), so it long term destabilizes the economy.

That’s why you often see empty shelf’s in countries dumb enough to try them.

[Peter Quinn @petergquinn]

@jeffreytucker Maybe they actually have some integrity, as a) price controls are about the most universally agreed upon bad economic idea by economists and b) there is little evidence grocery stores are price gouging.

[Peter Quinn @petergquinn]

@RBReich Oh wow you didn’t adjust for inflation, big surprise!