Sam Sutton

POLITICO Decoded. Former Morning Money, proud NJ bureau alum. Bay Area native. RTs and Likes ≠ endorsements. email: [email protected]/signal: samjsutton.18

[Sam Sutton @samjsutton]

Exciting times: I'm moving over to author Decoded, @POLITICO's new daily briefing on tech and the economy, launching Oct. 5. I'm thrilled to be on an amazing team covering how tech's rapid evolution is impacting our society and our politics. Subscribe --> https://t.co/xeMvA8GobT

[Calder McHugh @calder_mchugh]

NEWS: I obtained a recording of Peter Thiel's latest Nashville Antichrist lectures. In his third talk delivered on Oct. 12, he breaks with the Trump admin on the U.S. war with Iran. “I think we should not have done it,” he said. “There were a lot of mistakes that were made.”

https://t.co/5p3pMX0waq

[Calder McHugh @calder_mchugh]

NEW in Decoded today: What Trump's crypto policy means for the original true believers of the tech, with @samjsutton. Feat. @valkenburgh and @btschiller, who wrote a whole play about the subject: https://t.co/aaTK66lIax

[Sam Sutton @samjsutton]

@valkenburgh he ain't willy loman

[Rya Jetha @ryajetha]

What a lede from @TheEconomist

[Sam Sutton @samjsutton]

Today in Decoded: @calder_mchugh and I unpack what the Trumpification and corporatization of crypto has meant for the technology's true believers. It was fascinating to hear @valkenburgh's thoughts on how movement evolves in an AI-driven future. https://t.co/KE8a17iOeA

[POLITICO @politico]

Elon Musk is in Democrats’ oversight crosshairs https://t.co/uqeGgYnDnM

[Zach Warmbrodt @Zachary]

Investment Company Institute CEO Eric Pan is stepping down https://t.co/w49Q6gjPYI

[POLITICO @politico]

Voters are fed up, but there is no quick fix to the affordability crisis.
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[Sam Sutton @samjsutton]

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[Victoria Guida @vtg2]

#ff @Marcia_Brown9 who is super talented

[Dylon Jones @tdylon_jones]

Affordability is the #1 issue in politics.

In a new special issue of @POLITICOMag, we report on 26 ideas — from the smart to the silly — for fixing it:

https://t.co/K5rGjb9K5t

[Sam Sutton @samjsutton]

@calder_mchugh An icon

[Sam Sutton @samjsutton]

Everyone knows the President thinks the affordability crisis is a hoax. What this essay presupposes is… what if it is?

https://t.co/dtxhxEb2rt

[POLITICO @politico]

“I’m old. I’ve paid my home off,” said Ray Warner, a 72-year-old Akron resident. “Why would I pay property tax?”

Across the country, homeowners are asking the same question and revolting against property taxes at a scale not seen in a half century.
https://t.co/AmzUaO47Sp

[POLITICO @politico]

When the cost of eggs spiked in 2022, economists said bird flu alone was to blame. Anyone who suspected corporate price-fixing was dismissed as a crank.

Inside the alleged egg cartel the experts said couldn’t exist.
https://t.co/F1MVGAIIdY

[Sam Sutton @samjsutton]

(It’s not. But it’s also not a crisis in the traditional sense of the word.)

[Sam Sutton @samjsutton]

“Economists are taught to watch what people do, not what they say,” @econjared, a longtime economic adviser to Biden, told me. “I learned that that lesson that economists are taught is not correct. When people tell me they’re hurting, I tend to believe them.”

[Sam Sutton @samjsutton]

POLITICO Magazine’s affordability issue is out. There are 25 stories and essays from across the newsroom about how we can fix it. I’m number 26, and this is why we can’t:

https://t.co/dtxhxEb2rt

[Victoria Guida @vtg2]

“I watched my friends talk about [crypto] in a way that they thought they had struck gold, or struck oil or something like that. And in my mind, I’m looking at these guys like, ‘You barely understand regular money.’”

[Conor Sen @conorsen]

So it’s interesting because these are very smart people who have built a very powerful technology but they’re also oblivious about the economy and policymaking, so it makes you wonder how their blind spots will impact their predictions about the future.

[Sam Sutton @samjsutton]

POLITICO Magazine’s affordability issue is out. There are 25 stories and essays from across the newsroom about how we can fix it. I’m number 26, and this is why we can’t:

https://t.co/dtxhxEb2rt

[POLITICO @politico]

Anthropic quietly pitches its own AI safety bill to lawmakers https://t.co/Dh71euX8y7