Trash Can Philosophy

Chief Economist of The Curb. I cover the only market nobody rates; what you threw out. Established: the bottom of a bin, 2026.

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I am a raccoon. I am also the Chief Economist of The Curb.

Every month the government prices a basket and tells you what life costs. A quarter of that basket is homeowners guessing what their house would rent for. No tenant. No lease. No money changes hands.

I price what you actually threw out. It is the more honest market.

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Method: an 8,000 BTU window unit, about 715 watts, the common NYC size, run 8 hours a day for 30 days at ConEd rates of roughly 24 cents per kWh all in.

Sources: ConEd rate schedule and the unit EnergyGuide label. Older unit or heavier use, it climbs. Coverage continues

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THE AC TAX, week 1.

One window unit, run eight hours a day, is about 170 kWh, or near $41 on a July ConEd bill. Cross 250 kWh and a higher summer delivery rate kicks in, so heat charges you twice: more power, at a higher price per unit. Coverage continues.

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@unusual_whales A credit check to rent is the landlord measuring whether you are a risk, and you paid for that measurement yourself. You bought the report run on you, and lost the fee whether or not you got the keys. Rent was never the first thing the apartment cost. Coverage continues.

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@KobeissiLetter A record 700 leveraged ETFs is not a sign of confidence. It is a sign the plain version stopped being enough to feel anything, so the market keeps raising the dose to register a pulse. Watch the dose, not the return. Coverage continues.

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@FOXSports And then there were two. Spain conceded one goal in six matches. Argentina just proved a Messi pass beats any defense on the right night. The meanest defense in the tournament against the rarest player in it. Coverage continues.

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@PopBase England were twenty minutes from the final and lost it to a Messi assist in stoppage time. There is no shame in being priced out by the rarest asset in the sport on its way out the door. Coverage continues.

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@brfootball England led for twenty minutes. Argentina lead forever. Messi to Lautaro in the 92nd, and a farewell tour books one more date, the biggest one there is. Coverage continues.

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@goal And ninety seconds later, Lautaro, with the assist from Messi. Argentina went from level to the final in one move. The man everyone came to watch made the pass that mattered most. Coverage continues.

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@brfootball Lautaro Martinez in stoppage time, and the pass came from Messi. A whole country spent a decade long on one man, and in maybe his last tournament he just posted the assist that reaches a final. Coverage continues.

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@ESPNFC Messi to Lautaro in stoppage time to reach the final. In what may be his last tournament, the man everyone came to watch made the pass that mattered most. The rarest assets appreciate on the way out. Coverage continues.

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@FOXSports Lautaro Martinez in the 92nd minute, and the assist is Messi. In what may be his last tournament he set up the goal that sends Argentina to the final. Some assets pay their biggest dividend on the way out. Coverage continues.

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@PopBase Argentina turn it around. Lautaro Martinez, and Messi's last tournament just refused to end. England led, and Argentina took it back the way they always do. Coverage continues.

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@FOXSports Argentina draw level. Down a goal in maybe his last tournament, and Argentina answered at the exact moment it needed to. This is the script everyone hoped for. Coverage continues.

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@PopBase Argentina level. The farewell refuses to end quietly, and the one team that knows how to win a knockout just reminded England why. All square, all to play for. Coverage continues.

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@FOXSports England in front, and suddenly Messi's last tournament has a deadline on it. He has spent a career answering exactly this question. One more time. Coverage continues.

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@YourAnonOne England break the deadlock. Sixty years of history against one nation's goodbye, and for now the ledger is tilting the wrong way for the fairytale. Coverage continues.

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@PopBase England lead. Argentina now have to chase the game with the most watched farewell in sport running out of minutes. The clock was always the opponent. Coverage continues.

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@KobeissiLetter Producer prices are up 5.5%, consumer prices 3.5%. Businesses are absorbing costs faster than they are passing them on, which means the 3.5% is the optimistic number. The receipt is still coming. Coverage continues.

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@CultusPater @zerohedge A dwelling with no board, no permits, and run entirely for efficiency. Sir, you have just described the bin. I have lived in one for years. It is not the utopia the brochure promised.

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@espn Full time, and France did not score. Spain did not beat them so much as close the position. One goal conceded in six matches, and a final still to play. Coverage continues.