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Why is this happening? First of all, the far left is spinning a narrative about an oppressively racist country. And it doesn't resonate with many Latinos because these are people who came to America seeking

Good read from the WSJ on the evolving story of Evergrande's slow collapse. We all thought this story was over a few months ago, but it isn't. The default exists in tranches. You have domestic vs international

Another typical day in a typical neighborhood in San Francisco. This one is striking by the sheer routine of it all. Multiple bystanders witness and shrug. The statistics show that crime is up, while people

A great little primer from the WSJ on inflation, its causes, its cure, and how it is a hidden tax on the poor. For those young people who don't know, Milton Friedman was an emminent economist. He provided

During his primary campaign, Bernie Sanders waxed poetic about how the government needs to intervene in labor markets to boost worker wages. He also made a similar point about the government's need to

If you think it can't happen here in the USA, you may be in for an ugly surprise. The best bull case for BTC is alive and well. Turkey is an extreme example because the country is run by a leader with

When Dems get their clocks cleaned in the 2022 midterm, they will cry. And they will blame gerrymandering, they will blame "white backlash", they may ever blame Russian interference. But this

This article from Nate Silver's 538 is very interesting, and bucks the MSM narrative about gerrymandering - one that concludes gerrymandering radically and unambiguously favors Republicans. What is clear

See news link below - a group of useless academics are claiming that the farmers market is racism. And that food is racism. The idea that society is the product of white men - or that our way of thinking

Masks are harmless of course. So are anti-covid no bail policies to keep jails properly socially distanced. Put the two together and you have a perfect combination of incentives for people to smash and

Falcon 9 helped pull NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, spacecraft across the sky and into orbit. NASA intends for the spacecraft to redirect the 530 feet-in-diameter asteroid moon Dimorphos

The drama unfolding with self-described Marxist and San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin keeps getting more interesting. Approx 1/3 of prosecuters in his office have now either quit, or been purged using strong

Another compelling use-case for crypto here. What happened to this journalist is wild. He deposited his paycheck at BofA, shortly thereafter his money mysteriously disappeared. Without any notification

I love this so much I don't know how to contain myself. $1.8B of PRIVATE MONEY flows into a fusion startup. This is how solutions are made. The public sector is almost incapable of achieving good results

From vaccination lotteries to now $4,000 fines for not getting vaccinated, I do not understand what the world governments are trying to do. My concern is that compliance just emboldens these non-sensical

Looking at SF, it's like rubber-necking on the highway at a terrible wreck. The entire downtown is boarded up in response to the crime wave (which progressives insist is not really happening). The crime

A few weeks ago BTC maxmilist and PayPal Cofounder Peter Theil said something very profound about the price of BTC: "What is a $60,000 signaling about how people feel about inflation, MMT, and the

Attached is the global daily cases, with the first year of the pandemic corrected for ascertainment bias. The ascertainment bias starts at 10x and linearly approaches 1x by Jan 1, 2021. All of 2021 uses

I'd love to hear your thoughts on this folks. Is EOS dead? Or put more specifically, are people developing DAPs on the EOS network? Forgive my noobishness on this topic, as the I'm not very informed on

This article should be required reading in every highschool civics class (do they even still have that in school??). Amazing quote from the king of machine politics Willie Brown: “In the world of civic