Hegseth needs to be fired ASAP.

He repeatedly lied on TV about the Signal leak to duck accountability. What message does this send to the troops and civilian military contractors with top secret clearance?

You’re right. The lack of links beyond their own website is a problem. No credit to the OP.

How can I buy long puts or synthetic puts on crypto? Multi-year tenor.

Nice chart. 👍🏼

I would love to see effective tax rate by income bin with a wealth overlay. I last saw this in ProPublica’s Secret IRS files. But, the guy who delivered the info, Littlejohn, is imprisoned.

So use LLMs to summarize and rerank LLM-generated crap? Ugh. I think this is what paid search like Kagi does.

EIA reports the avg U.S. household uses 10,500 kWh in a year. You used nearly 4,000 kWh in one month.

You need to start asking questions about why usage is high. What home and away temps do you set? Any deficient seals or insulation? Fridge temp setting. Etc.

Yes, my point was the CFPB has positive financial value from a taxpayer POV. There are certainly less measurable benefits like a higher-trust banking system.

I was not implying CFPB has profit targets or “quotas”.

A few facts about the CFPB—

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CFPB reports $19.7 billion in consumer relief in 13 years—an average of $1.5 billion/year. That exceeds their annual spend.

So in aggregate, the net dollar impact to taxpayers is positive. CFPB pays for itself.

That was a lot of numbers. For more numbers, my government data sources and calculations are posted below.

Here's to quality weather alerts, honest bailout-free banks, and airplanes that stay in the air.

Surprisingly, over 60% of the 2.3 million Fed employees are *civilian* Defense employees! See below chart. In contrast, CFPB's 1,758 employee headcount looks low compared to their nationwide anti-fraud mission and the complexity of today's consumer financial products.

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