Winners
Trump - His media entity gets a public listing and boom, walks into a few billions as the stock gets the meme treatment.
ISIS - Good God! Is that ISIS’s music?!?! ISIS remerges to attack Isr- nope, no not the current jihad theatre of war, but Russia.
Meme coin holders - Boom goes the meme coins. Good luck.
SBF - Prison for the next decade. Will be funny to see him serve time while those he scammed are made whole by one big AI bet he made.
Losers
Israel - It is increasingly isolated. America abstained from a UN vote. Trump said they have to wrap it up soon. Red Sea is still closed. Rough times.
Ukrainians - Aid is stalled but they need men and expanding mobilization is right there waiting to be started.
First time home buyers - Stat was released that in 2023, 44% of single family homes were bought by investors.
Links
Looks like a budget advertisement for spending on hypersonic missiles in the WSJ.
Procedural lies even trip up President Biden, but it will not matter.
The Worthy House reviews McMeekin’s book on the run up to WW1.
Everyone with sense seems to be running from the old model of schooling.
Portland, Oregon takes another L. Office vacancies a stubbornly high.
A wonderful essay on the tricky way inflation grows and poisons a society.
The media will dox left wingers, when they insult Israel.
So the man who coined deaths of despair says maybe we should slow down this whole immigration thing.
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Happy Easter