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“We ain’t selling hope, we give it out for free”
Stephen Miran: just exclude housing and inflation is totally fine. That’s “phantom inflation”
www.ft.com/content/7d37...
www.ft.com/content/7d37...
Fed decisions distorted by ‘phantom inflation’, says Stephen Miran
Trump ally says US central bank should lower interest rates more quickly
www.ft.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Stephen Miran: just exclude housing and inflation is totally fine. That’s “phantom inflation”
www.ft.com/content/7d37...
www.ft.com/content/7d37...
This is despicable
Rollins… plans to “have everyone reapply for their benefits, make sure that everyone that’s taking a taxpayer-funded benefit through ... food stamps, that they literally are vulnerable and they can’t survive without it.”
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Rollins… plans to “have everyone reapply for their benefits, make sure that everyone that’s taking a taxpayer-funded benefit through ... food stamps, that they literally are vulnerable and they can’t survive without it.”
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Trump administration will require SNAP participants to reapply for benefits
Food aid recipients are already required to recertify their information regularly. But the move is part of USDA chief Brooke Rollins’ effort to overhaul the program.
www.politico.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:37 PM
This is despicable
Rollins… plans to “have everyone reapply for their benefits, make sure that everyone that’s taking a taxpayer-funded benefit through ... food stamps, that they literally are vulnerable and they can’t survive without it.”
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Rollins… plans to “have everyone reapply for their benefits, make sure that everyone that’s taking a taxpayer-funded benefit through ... food stamps, that they literally are vulnerable and they can’t survive without it.”
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
“If you don’t believe in your team… why you with them?”
Terence Crawford
Terence Crawford
September 17, 2025 at 6:13 PM
“If you don’t believe in your team… why you with them?”
Terence Crawford
Terence Crawford
“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them”
Assata Shakur
Assata Shakur
March 23, 2025 at 7:09 PM
“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them”
Assata Shakur
Assata Shakur
I don’t understand how the discourse on demographic challenges only has one solution - more babies. Do we think this rock can support infinite humans? What other life form do we think should grow perpetually? Is this not the biggest ponzi thinking?
January 29, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I don’t understand how the discourse on demographic challenges only has one solution - more babies. Do we think this rock can support infinite humans? What other life form do we think should grow perpetually? Is this not the biggest ponzi thinking?
Wow Sapiens is so bad. How was this possibly viewed as an important or interesting book
January 15, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Wow Sapiens is so bad. How was this possibly viewed as an important or interesting book
“Medicare, for instance, spent $12 billion last year on administrative expenses. Can that be reduced? Maybe. But it’s just 1% of total costs, compared with 12% or more at private insurers.”
Hmm I wonder what is in that admin cost??
Hmm I wonder what is in that admin cost??
Cutting the Deficit Is Easy—It’s Just Unpopular
Bureaucrats aren’t driving the deficit. The culprit is the checks they send out that people happen to love.
www.wsj.com
December 26, 2024 at 10:11 PM
“Medicare, for instance, spent $12 billion last year on administrative expenses. Can that be reduced? Maybe. But it’s just 1% of total costs, compared with 12% or more at private insurers.”
Hmm I wonder what is in that admin cost??
Hmm I wonder what is in that admin cost??
Productive and profitable are two completely different things. “Productive” would seem to be a bit more nuanced as to what actually qualifies, but profitable is extremely straightforward
November 25, 2024 at 7:24 PM
Productive and profitable are two completely different things. “Productive” would seem to be a bit more nuanced as to what actually qualifies, but profitable is extremely straightforward