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Tyler Cowen has a mind unlike any I’ve ever encountered. In a single conversation, it’s not at all unusual for him to toggle between DeepSeek, GLP-1s, Haitian art, sacred Tibetan music, his favorite Thai spot in L.A., and LeBron James.
That ability to connect seemingly disparate things into a new mode of... See more
Bari Weissx.comAlso, lacking civil liberties and property rights, representative democracy is left with nothing to represent except the will of the mob or—as it’s called these days—“activism.”
P.J. O'Rourke • A Cry from the Far Middle: Dispatches from a Divided Land
Folks, this frame right here is probably one of the largest IQ differences you can see in American government. Scott Bessent vs Maxine Waters.
She is no match. https://t.co/xDW3Yrgm2m
Eric Daughertyx.com“The permanent bureaucracy is staffed with people who are Democrats, liberal Democrats. They do not like Republicans. They particularly don't like Donald Trump,” says @MarkHalperin about the federal government. What about the career prosecutors Trump fired because they’d worked with Jack Smith? “If you believe those prosecutions were righteous,... See more
2WAYx.comJohn Griffin, ex right-hand man to Julian Robertson and founder of the now-closed Blue Ridge Capital, taught several classes at UVa and Columbia: The Analyst’s Edge, The Investor’s Edge, Seminar in Advanced Investment Research, and Securities Analysis and Idea Generation. Unfortunately, the syllabi for these courses are not readily available.... See more
Liger Cubx.comMichael Roberson
@michaelroberson
“Constitutions
Frank Herbert • Dune Messiah
Jefferson Curl
Tim Ferriss • Ferramentas dos Titãs (Portuguese Edition)
We hired Milton Pollack, a brilliant lawyer who later became a distinguished federal judge. The suit unfolded slowly, and I fell into a ritual of having dinner with Pollack once a month during which he would update me on our progress and his methods. At that time he had a daughter in elementary school; he told me that before he asked any question
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