Gotta say, it’s hard to imagine a more fitting coda to my time on Twitter than being the lead quote in this article nytimes.com/2022/12/21/sty…

Thank you President Donald J. Trump. It's an honor for me to visit 🇺🇸, to address the 🇺🇸 people and Congress, to meet with the leader of the country that helps us stand. And win! This visit showed our countries stand together on the side of good, democracy and justice. Creating the future together!

Some of us are more excited for Christmas than others

Remember if your flight gets cancelled most airports have a secret fleet of backup planes with lots of seats but they’re only available if you’re mean enough to low-level employees.

10 failed concepts of 2022: DeFi Meme stocks Zero-Covid Russian military MMT Transitory Defund SPACs Herd immunity ESG

"My sins here are *embellishing* my resume." To “embellish” is to adorn, decorate, enhance, gild, beautify, and festoon, and, on occasion, it means to “exaggerate.” This Santos did not do. He just made shit up out of whole cloth. open.substack.com/pub/morningsho…

You should just get a car with no toxic historical baggage, like a Ford or a Volkswagen latimes.com/opinion/story/…

Houses are the least “affordable” since 1982 when 30-year mortgage rates were over 14% calculatedrisk.substack.com/p/inflation-ad…

The internet has made the media landscape much more competitive and empowered customers to get what they want — the big problem of media is that the consumers of media have bad taste and don’t care about the truth!

Especially true of Twitter users

1/8. A point which is often lost in discussions of inflation and central bank policy. Inflation is fundamentally the outcome of the distributional conflict, between firms, workers, and taxpayers. It stops only when the various players are forced to accept the outcome.

This kinda went under the radar in the year-end crush, but congrats to the Save Standard Time folks who successfully defeated Marco Rubio time. Can’t imagine him getting another sneak attack through the Senate like he did this year & I don’t see how it makes a comeback anytime soon.

Happy New Year! 🥳