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Immigrants in general have more kids. Japan isolated and when their stock market peaked in the 80s it took 40 years to hit new high. This might be coming elsewhere.
— Martin (@ctblizzard) May 4, 2025

I spent 6 years at Enron right out of college, including through the bankruptcy, but I didn’t really grasp what happened until I studied GE. It’s basically the same story.

GE was an industrial company that transformed into a conglomerate under a hard-charging, visionary CEO.…
— John Arnold (@JohnArnoldFndtn) May 4, 2025

My latest @nytopinion makes a point that is obvious to economists but that many non-economists find surprising and unintuitive: raising the budget deficit--which the Congress is working on doing by $7T--would also raise the trade deficit. pic.twitter.com/JvlA4o3YgI
— Jason Furman (@jasonfurman) May 3, 2025

Knowledge is by far the most valuable resource of humanity, but also the most difficult to manage. pic.twitter.com/mojRAUC7l0
— Aravind Srinivas (@AravSrinivas) May 4, 2025

germany’s domestic intelligence agency officially designates far right afd party as an extremist group “due to the extremist nature of the entire party, which disregards human dignity.”

opening the second largest party in germany’s parliament up to more govt surveillance &… pic.twitter.com/R08bn35tsk
— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) May 2, 2025

Donald Trump's Approval Rating Collapses With Rural Americans Donald Trump's support among one of his most loyal constituencies — rural Americans — is showing signs of significant erosion. ........ The 2024 election saw Trump win 63 percent of rural voters, up from 60 percent in 2020 ........ just 46 percent of rural voters now approve of Trump's job performance, while 45 percent disapprove. In February, 59 percent approved and 37 percent disapproved.
Donald Trump quits Ukraine peace talks as ultimatum issued to Putin and Zelensky

I don't think Elon belongs with the other two. I think he has a genuine desire to make things better, but is impulsive and sometimes has bad judgement. Whereas the other two would happily tell any lie, or betray any friend, if it served their purposes.
— Paul Graham (@paulg) May 4, 2025

So let more Africans in. Then there is no collapse.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) May 4, 2025

“I would rather have a partner like Charlie than $100 billion.” - Warren Buffett pic.twitter.com/rggbPMEdt4
— Neetu Khandelwal (@T_Investor_) May 3, 2025

Buffett while holding up his Coca-Cola can:

"For 94 years, I’ve been able to drink what I want, do what I want & I’ve defied all the predictions of what should’ve happened to me..Charlie & I...never really exercised all that much. We weren’t carefully preserving ourselves" pic.twitter.com/wZGdQutlTK
— The Transcript (@TheTranscript_) May 3, 2025

Jeff Bezos literally dropped the most underrated winning principle pic.twitter.com/X56tiQBKtT
— Aadit Sheth (@aaditsh) May 3, 2025

Singapore is winning. 🇸🇬 pic.twitter.com/2WS2oi7Kjb
— Balaji (@balajis) May 4, 2025

Starbase, Texas

Is now a real city!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 4, 2025

Don’t want to brag, but if couch surfing was a sport, I’d win https://t.co/pn4vDZnglx
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 4, 2025

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