David Sandahl
@dsandahl.bsky.social
Civically-engaged. Federal Budget (OMB and SBC) background, followed by 40 years of management consulting. Now retired, focused on building a more perfect union.
The average first-time homebuyer is now 40 years old. So, the mortgage is paid off at 90?
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November 14, 2025 at 9:35 PM
The average first-time homebuyer is now 40 years old. So, the mortgage is paid off at 90?
www.realtor.com/news/trends/...
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So, the average age for a first-time home buyer is now 40 and they'd be 90 before the mortgage is paid off? What could possibly go wrong?
First-Time Homebuyers Are Now 40 on Average, a Record High share.google/26IPRAyQA01h...
First-Time Homebuyers Are Now 40 on Average, a Record High share.google/26IPRAyQA01h...
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November 14, 2025 at 8:16 PM
So, the average age for a first-time home buyer is now 40 and they'd be 90 before the mortgage is paid off? What could possibly go wrong?
First-Time Homebuyers Are Now 40 on Average, a Record High share.google/26IPRAyQA01h...
First-Time Homebuyers Are Now 40 on Average, a Record High share.google/26IPRAyQA01h...
More here: Americans-and-Billionaires-Survey-October-2025-Year-3-November-2025.pdf share.google/eQSzKt47vwDP...
November 14, 2025 at 6:16 PM
More here: Americans-and-Billionaires-Survey-October-2025-Year-3-November-2025.pdf share.google/eQSzKt47vwDP...
From @stevenrattner. Top 20% doing well, everyone else barely (if at all) keeping up. stevenrattner.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
From @stevenrattner. Top 20% doing well, everyone else barely (if at all) keeping up. stevenrattner.com
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Also Justin Pearson, running for Congress in Tennessee. Go Polar Bears.
October 29, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Also Justin Pearson, running for Congress in Tennessee. Go Polar Bears.
John Dickerson, with a distinguished journalistic history, announced he's leaving CBS at the end of the year.
Watch and see what other CBS journalists do, whether they stand up for professional standards or knuckle under to the money lords who put Weiss in charge.
Watch and see what other CBS journalists do, whether they stand up for professional standards or knuckle under to the money lords who put Weiss in charge.
October 28, 2025 at 9:31 PM
John Dickerson, with a distinguished journalistic history, announced he's leaving CBS at the end of the year.
Watch and see what other CBS journalists do, whether they stand up for professional standards or knuckle under to the money lords who put Weiss in charge.
Watch and see what other CBS journalists do, whether they stand up for professional standards or knuckle under to the money lords who put Weiss in charge.
But he will have shown a new way to win elections. Elections change things.
October 28, 2025 at 5:23 PM
But he will have shown a new way to win elections. Elections change things.
The ballroom is a safe space for the ultrawealthy, like Bezos, who can also protect their business interests by supporting Trump.
They will gather there with their own kind, unknowing and untroubled by the lives of most Americans.
They will gather there with their own kind, unknowing and untroubled by the lives of most Americans.
October 26, 2025 at 11:25 PM
The ballroom is a safe space for the ultrawealthy, like Bezos, who can also protect their business interests by supporting Trump.
They will gather there with their own kind, unknowing and untroubled by the lives of most Americans.
They will gather there with their own kind, unknowing and untroubled by the lives of most Americans.
Meanwhile, taxing the top 1% a little more could erase the budget deficit.
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What are we doing here?
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What are we doing here?
from "The Second Estate: How the Tax Code Made an American Aristocracy" by Ray D. Madoff
October 26, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Meanwhile, taxing the top 1% a little more could erase the budget deficit.
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What are we doing here?
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What are we doing here?
McCrery is the project's architect. In addition to the interior view, McCrery shows a number of exterior views of the project on their website
Some have noted that the models Trump has shown feature details that don't make sense, such as stairs that lead nowhere.
Some have noted that the models Trump has shown feature details that don't make sense, such as stairs that lead nowhere.
October 26, 2025 at 11:57 AM
McCrery is the project's architect. In addition to the interior view, McCrery shows a number of exterior views of the project on their website
Some have noted that the models Trump has shown feature details that don't make sense, such as stairs that lead nowhere.
Some have noted that the models Trump has shown feature details that don't make sense, such as stairs that lead nowhere.
Here is website for the architect, which also features those odd ballroom exterior renderings in whited out settings. Hmm.
McCrery Architects share.google/9Bh5DRkWgR0r...
McCrery Architects share.google/9Bh5DRkWgR0r...
McCrery Architects
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October 26, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Here is website for the architect, which also features those odd ballroom exterior renderings in whited out settings. Hmm.
McCrery Architects share.google/9Bh5DRkWgR0r...
McCrery Architects share.google/9Bh5DRkWgR0r...
The ballroom will also give them, like Mar-a-Lago, a safe place where they can mingle with the mega-rich. This protects their businesses from regulation/legal enforcement while filling Trump's coffers.
October 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM
The ballroom will also give them, like Mar-a-Lago, a safe place where they can mingle with the mega-rich. This protects their businesses from regulation/legal enforcement while filling Trump's coffers.
@karaswisher.bsky.social, this should be right up your alley. The ballroom is a lonely boys club for the megarich you've chronicled. A safe space for them to appreciate one another and protect their gilded way of life.
October 25, 2025 at 8:05 PM
@karaswisher.bsky.social, this should be right up your alley. The ballroom is a lonely boys club for the megarich you've chronicled. A safe space for them to appreciate one another and protect their gilded way of life.
You've been right about many things. Hard to predict the friction free way modern tech oligarchs make fortunes, largely free from competition. And their insatiable need for approval, which can only come from their own super wealthy cohort.
October 25, 2025 at 7:45 PM
You've been right about many things. Hard to predict the friction free way modern tech oligarchs make fortunes, largely free from competition. And their insatiable need for approval, which can only come from their own super wealthy cohort.