Raised in New York City’s most liberal neighborhood. Conservative by the grace of God. Ask me for my Signal #.
Among all the lost causes.
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Immigrants depress organic population growth by competing for jobs with young men. They’re aren’t a substitute for low population growth, they’re a cause.
What’s more, they also depress innovation and investment by making labor expansion cheaper than capital.
Just say no.
Trump’s goal to grow by 3% over the next decade will be difficult, without an ample influx of immigrants to compensate for an aging American-born population.
Now that the border is secure, it’s time to increase legal immigration (H‑1Bs, H‑2Bs & EB‑5). nypost.com/2025/06/22/us-new…
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Enjoy your retirement, Chuck Scarborough. Thanks for all you’ve done over the years. And thanks for quietly being inspirationally kind.
Hope you don’t mind that I let out your secret here.
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I laughed out loud when Biden said that this was some radical thing no one had ever thought of before.
Is he capable of remembering that the thing didn’t exist before Carter summoned it out of the liberal ether?
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Powell’s decision to push for a September cut, 8 weeks prior to the election, will go down in the history of the Fed as severely damaging to Fed independence and credibility.
I’d love to hear an argument for why Powell cut rates 50 points right before an election but can’t do it now with inflation lower.
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I like that and want to think about it more. I think it applies to the best Marvel show, which was WandaVision, which was a quirky sitcom and also a gender flipped version of Stepford Wives.
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And so here’s the untold truth: Everyone loved Chuck Scarborough.
He’d ride up front with them. He knew their kids, their families, their struggles. He listened to their stories. Gave gifts and tips out at the holidays.
Every driver loved Chuck Scarborough.
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What's weird is that this isn't a recession. The economy is growing at a jaw-dropping rate, unemployment is non-existent, and asset prices are rising.
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Yes. I’m extremely skeptical of the whole story.
A single point of failure for locked doors makes no sense. What if he quit or found a new job? Or, as you said, goes on vacation or gets sick?
I think it’s just made up.
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The “raising money for our basketball team” is such an old scam that I’m surprised anyone falls for it. But I guess people must fall for it or they wouldn’t keep doing it.
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I still find this inspirational.
To be so kind and authentic that you become the favorite of everyone who works with you or for you is not easy. It’s probably not really possible for most of us. But it is something we can aim for, attempt to emulate.
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This didn’t change over the years.
A decade later, when I asked a driver for NBC who his favorite person to drive was, he said it was “Mr. Scarborough, Chuck.”
The story was always the same. He was a genuine kind, caring, and generous person.
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This is insane. Inflation was 1.4 percent when Biden took office. It didn't hit 9% until he had been president for a year-and-half.
Biden: I‘ve Had Best Run of Creating Jobs and Lowering Inflation Ever, ‘It Was 9% When I Came Into Office‘ breitbart.com/clips/2024/05/… via @BreitbartNews
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He’s like this a lot, actually. You should watch clips of him talking to normal people. He’s a very curious guy. Asks lots of questions about their lives, their experience, and offers insights from his own life.
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Then you should be happy. None of those things are Trump’s goals. None of those things are goals of conservatives, or the Heritage Foundation, or Republicans.
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@RepCarlos just tried to explain to Kaitlin Collins actual fraud @elonmusk and @doge found using Social Security numbers of obviously dead people.
It involves small business loans that were taken out with those SS numbers and were never repaid.
She replied that benefits weren’t going out to the holders of ancient SS, which was weird because @RepCarlos had explained a totally different fraud.
I’m not sure why the legacy media and many liberals suddenly insist there isn’t fraud. But good for @RepCarlos for so clearly explaining it.
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Seems like you should then get a basis step up, right? Otherwise you’ll get double taxed on the gain.
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Why was it even remotely on the agenda of the Obama administration when they changed it in 2015? We were facing a ton of really important crises and challenges but the Obama administration made it a priority to change the name of the mountain.
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So the only guy who can unlock the bathrooms was there for less than a year. Not buying it.
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First of all, are you against the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Second, this isn't about who Harvard can admit. They can grant admission to Harvard to whoever they want. It's about a public policy—who gets a visa—and I don't think we should put that solely in private institutions hands?
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The worship of “generals” and the “intelligence community” and the “disinformation” industry makes such movies unintelligible.
Even Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy would be branded as right wing disinformation today.
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Yeah. She even tried to get out of the way but orange coat was not paying any attention at all while walking side-by-side in the middle of the sidewalk.
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I have a theory that people who missed the high crime era cannot comprehend what it was like. The murder rate was 600% higher than today. Violent crime and mugging were part of everyday life.
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In Stephen Colbert’s defense, that was his whole thing. He was a one note political comic that the left loved so much they promoted him to general late night.
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The evil corp. would never want the actual nuclear apocalypse to happen because that would end sales. The present value of discounted future cash flows would fall to zero.
Ideally, you would want an ever-lasting threat to convince more buyers of shelter goods and services.
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They sold Biden as an agent of order and normalcy. Instead we got inflation, war, crime, and chaos.
Axios: "For President Biden, the barricades and broken glass on college campuses are a brutal reminder that America has not snapped back to the normalcy he promised in his 2020 campaign."
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They don’t see their politics as politics, so it is invisible to them. The director of the play you are seeing talking about “dark times” before the performance isn’t politics. Your waiter telling you his pronouns in a restaurant: not politics. Collecting money for liberal causes at the end of a show: also not politics.
It’s only political intrusion when it is conservative politics.
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I thought Trump was supposed to be “literally Hitler” or a fascist.
The historical analogies are going nuts.
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Odysseus is dead throughout the Odyssey. Elpinor, one of his sailors, is pretending to be Odysseus (which is why no one recognizes him).
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To what end do you see your mission of “to grow American influence around the world” and what substantively does that mean?
I know what it meant in WW2 and during the Cold War. What does it mean today?
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I know a lot of couples who nominally speak the same language but never understand each other.
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I would also ask who their favorite passenger was.
Every driver had the same answer.
This was fascinating because they all had different “worst” passengers and “worst” experiences.
But every single driver I asked for NBC had one favorite.
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To break stories I had to meet people, lots of people.
So I trained myself to talk to everyone. One thing I had going for me was that I really am naturally curious about people, their lives, and how they think about the world.
So even though I was shy, I wanted to talk.
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My alternate theory is that the problem is not just that “everyone else knew the game” but that two generations of prior presidents—including Trump 1.0—were content to make marks in the margins but leave the main text alone.
So the system hasn’t been tested.
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I taught myself to talk to everyone. If you were sitting next to me in a bar or a coffee shop, I would probably ask you questions. I struck up conversations on the subways. Talked to strangers in parks.
Sometimes, even when I didn’t think I could get a story out of it, I’d talk to strangers just for practice. Just to stay in shape.
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At the start, I was pretty introverted and did not really like talking to strangers. I was so shy that I did not even like talking to shop clerks to ask where something was.
I had to train myself to overcome that when I started covering Wall Street.
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Wearing masks.
When I asked why the student protesters were wearing masks, I was told it was to protect their identity. But these are professors and that’s not going to work.
They are wearing them as political totems.
NYU faculty creating a ring around the Gaza solidarity encampment to protect their students after the school threatened mass arrest. So beautiful.
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Grocery prices have not doubled but they have risen 400% faster under Biden than Trump.
So grocery inflation has more than doubled! It’s quadrupled!
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We have hotels and shelters in NYC full of the Biden migrants. There's no need to go door to door. Pull up the bus, escort people out of their taxpayer funded housing and back to the borders.
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When I started getting invited on television, I’d would interview the drivers the networks would send to talk to me. CNBC was the first network to regularly have me on so I talked to a lot of drivers for NBC.
They drove everyone, all the anchors, celebrities, executives.
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FDR, JFK, Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, Huey Long, Jesse Jackson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Adlai Stevenson, Eugene McCarthy, Al Smith, Robert La Follette, Sr.
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A Democratic convention in Chicago in the middle of a leftwing youth uprising against a Democrat president’s foreign policy.
What could go wrong?
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Some background.
I’m a journalist myself. I started out at the very edge of journalism. I worked for a blog called Dealbreaker. We had no access and no one knew who we were.
Every story we broke was built on literal shoe leather. That’s how I found out about Scarborough.
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Most of them were pretty tight lipped about the folks they drove. But this was before the age of ubiquitous cameras. People were a little more open to talking, I guess.
So sometimes I’d get a good story.
And that’s how I learned the truth about Chuck Scarborough.
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I cannot imagine my kids living the lives we did in NYC back in the day. Even if I tried to force them, they wouldn’t.
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I’d often ask who the worst person they drove was. Or what the craziest story they had about a guest or a network employee.
I wasn’t really looking for stuff I could report. Remember, I was doing this in order to practice. Learning how to get people to open up to me.
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Please. He calls Kirk a hatemonger and TPUSA a "haven for hate." Yet you think it is preposterous to call him a hatemonger?
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This is correct and it is seriously dangerous. It will make all future attempts to stave off economic disaster much more difficult.
And it is being done for stupid, partisan reasons. Completely unnecessary and not even well thought out. They're ruining policy to troll.
Precedent set: if you accept cash transfers from the federal government, the White House will name and shame you during policy disputes. Can only assume the silence from the “norms” crew means they understand — and endorse — this new reality.
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You're going to get a bunch of people defending the practice but it is absurd and they are wrong. Except in formal settings, people with PhD's in arts and letters have not traditionally used the title doctor, especially in social settings.
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Also, frankly, it’s quite weird to suddenly focus on punishing the losing side of a civil war that ended 160 years ago. All these people calling them “traitors” or saying that they don’t deserve “participation trophies.”
A strong nation can honor those it has defeated.
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A lot more people have migrated from crowded European cities to the US than vice versa, so it’s historically true. And, in fact, it’s still true that net migration is into the U.S. from Europe.
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It's amazing how little even those of us who have been playing close attention to the government for decades understood how little Democratic control we had over vital functions.
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Where’s the outrage at Burnett for not fact checking the president on the spot?
Why is he allowed to get away with spreading this kind of disinformation
Oh. Never mind. I know.
Biden tells @ErinBurnett that “inflation was 9% when I came into office!”
That is a blatant lie.
When Biden took office, inflation was 1.4%. It peaked at 9.1% in June 2022, 18 months into his term.
Then, he blamed it on “Putin’s Price Hike”.
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People want to fight about the return?
Fine. If your real return on $2 million is 5%, you can spend $100,000 and never touch the principal.
If your real return is 3%, you can spend $60,000 and never touch the principal.
So you the equivalent of quite a bit more than the median household income in the U.S.
If you earn 3% and spend $50,000 a year, you’ll have $3.5 million in the bank at age 80 to leave to your grandkids.
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The description of Trump as “praising” Xi is completely deranged. Do they think he’s not smart? Not tough?
Xi is many terrible things but dumb and weak is not among them.
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We thought we’d be legalizing Willie Nelson smoking with his buddies around a campfire. We were wrong.
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Bidenomics Isn‘t Working: Vast Majority of Americans Say Economy Is Bad And Getting Worse breitbart.com/economy/2023/0… via @BreitbartNews
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Bidenomics Broke America: Real Household Income Suffers Biggest Drop In 12 Years breitbart.com/economy/2023/0… via @BreitbartNews
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When things go to hell in a hand basket, the turnip growers will inherit the earth. The banana munchers will be begging you for your turnips.
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A very important point.
Here’s the tell: Covid masks. Why are so many of the protesters wearing masks, outdoors, this far out of the pandemic?
Answer: it signals participation in a broader left wing political movement that includes the claim that wearing masks is a required sign of respect and necessary health safety measure for the immune compromised.
What the frat boys get, but writers at the NYT either don't or pretend not to, is that these protests are also anti-America. The colonialism blah blah land back bullshit these leftists are pushing is specifically an anti-American line too. It's just the latest Communism push and it's very obvious. It could be any of their issues, they don't *extra* care about this one. Could be Occupy Wall Street or George Floyd or Climate Change or whatever. The cause of the Palestinians could not matter less to these people, the point is cultural revolution. That's why the frat boys are waving American flags and singing the Star Spangled Banner. They get it. We get it.
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I’m most bothered by the scansion error in their chant. The metrical irregularity of “Stop the Pollution! Fracking is a false solution!” makes me doubt their intellectual abilities.
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Eliminating snow days in favor of required remote learning days is a scam. It’s an untested educational innovation that allows school systems to claim they had a day of school when they really didn’t. And it deprives kids of the joy of a day off to play in the snow.
Don’t do it.
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Also, no one “received healthcare” at that moment.
Some people became eligible for a health “insurance” plan paid for by taxpayers and healthy insured people. That’s it.
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It’s a fixed number of kids that get admitted. There’s zero evidence that the foreign admits are more qualified than the American kids who get rejected.
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As @oren_cass has pointed out, none of these people or models correctly forecast how opening trade with China would work. Not one.
They missed that we’d run massive trade deficits for 20 years after China was admitted to the WTO, adding up to $4 trillion.
Which means their current estimates are NOT credible.
Every credible estimate of how Trump’s tariffs would impact incomes and the U.S. economy starts with a negative sign.
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A banana travels thousands of miles, relying on cheap labor and fuel subsidies. A turnip grows in your backyard. If anything, the banana is the illusion, and the turnip is the reality.
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Clearly, the public hasn't earned their right to see Secretly Competent Joe yet. That's reserved for Dem elites who know the economy is great.
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It’s weird how they keep doing the “[Expert in TK] here” thing that everyone else understands is weird and embarrassing.
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There’s literally no reason to believe the foreign kids in any way subsidized the American kids.
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A lot of tech people appear to have trouble with the idea of irreconcilable politics. That is, they cannot accept that people of good faith genuinely disagree about both means and ends.
And they really have trouble with the idea that the deficit isn’t “solvable” with better procedures.
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What’s interesting about this is that dialectical behavioral therapy (which is based on Hegel, at least allegedly) holds that focusing so much on the outer circles is psychologically unhealthy. Liberalism is promoting disordered thinking.
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There’s a tendency in the humanities departments (are they still called that?) to assume that people who think about money are right wing capitalist Ayn Rand figures.
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All the fiscal hawks now have to be tariff guys.
Waiting to hear from you @SteveRattner and @LHSummers. Welcome to the tariff club!
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The most bizarre responses to this have come from people who don’t believe that Christ is fully God and fully man and haven’t spent any time thinking about Christian teachings deciding that they are experts enough to know J.D. Vance is wrong.
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Any of us who have done this kind of work know that at the most basic level it can definitely be done by AI. In fact, back in the early aughts, I was devising code to automate some of this stuff with word and excel.
The question I have is how Goldman and the rest can survive if they don’t need junior analysts and associates. They going to have to rethink what they use new employees for. You can hire engineers who can design the pitchbooks but unless you think that eventually AI also does the work of senior bankers, traders, sales folk, you have to figure out how you are training the next generation.
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Mark. This is how the proponents of EQUITY illustrate its meaning.
interactioninstitute.org/ill…
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Nah. It’s actually very good even if you include that.
Certainly, you shouldn’t compare it to periods that did not involve pandemics.
Trump supporters cite his economic record as a reason to vote for him, but that's a bit puzzling. Because his economic record is only good if you leave off what happened from March 2020 to the end of his administration. trib.al/lOFwWoP
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His point is that moral evaluations of colonialism aren’t the work of economics. We can all agree it is bad. It is still useful to know which strategies had what outcomes.
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I dropped this in a different thread. Highly relevant.
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One of the stranger responses has been the complaints that the end of Chevron deference somehow enables a Trumpian "fascist" takeover of the government. In reality, it makes it harder for an administration to push through its views of ambiguous legal commands.
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