@elonmusk @Starlink Elon—GA pilots adore Starlink. It’s our safety net for weather, comms, everything. Then bam—overnight 400% price hike, speed caps killing us. We scrape by on fuel and hangars already. This isn’t helping connect America’s skies… it’s pricing us out.

Stablecoins are all the rage. Time for you to understand what they are. wthisaneconomy.com/post/stab…

Wondering if there is arbitrage happening between the gold and bitcoin ETF's.. wthisaneconomy.com/post/arbi…

What's Up With Gold? My thoughts on the recent price surge. wthisaneconomy.com/post/what…

Because 11 is better than 10 wthisaneconomy.com/post/the-…

As an active aircraft owner & operator, I felt it was important to respond to the recent lack of paychecks for our Air Traffic Control professionals. wthisaneconomy.com/post/econ…

Change is a coming (to higher education) wthisaneconomy.com/post/the-…

The upside is that China manufactures the solar panels, batteries, e bikes, etc. that the rest of the world uses to reduce emissions. The downside is that as long as China's emissions continue to grow (almost 1/3 of the world's total), the amount of emissions released into the atmosphere will continue to increase. Really does not matter how many battery powered cars are mandated in California or whatever.

Happy Bitcoin White Paper Day! bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf Bitcoin is 17 years old today.

Dividing federal government expenditures and revenue by GDP offers some insights. wthisaneconomy.com/post/econ…

This is also super interesting:

A lot of people have asked me if I will get involved in the NYC mayor race by supporting a candidate that can defeat Zohran Mamdani. TBH, I’m torn and undecided. Like every other city run by democrats, NYC is a broken kleptocracy. Taxes are astronomical and services are pathetic to nonexistent. Anarchy and socialism are the next logical steps in this story arc. It's what the people of NYC have been asking for for years and it looks like it's what they are about to get. Trying to fight against this tide seems like throwing good money after bad. It appears things will have to get worse in NYC before they get better. The Zoomers and Millennials need a refresher on the outcome of Marxism and socialism. They are too young to remember the crack and crime epidemic and murder sprees of the late 80's and early 90's. The squeegee men, graffiti, mugging, lawlessness, chaos, and pandemonium. Streets that were too unsafe to walk alone at night or even during the day. Getting mugged on the way to and from school was not just a rite of passage, it was an inevitability. The Wall Streeters, financiers, and hedge funders have been too busy working on their fishponds and climbing the rungs of polite society to remember to protect the system that allowed them to achieve their success in the first place and allowed New York City to once become the greatest city in the world. Not ruffling feathers was more important than questioning the ideological insanity being taught in the private schools and universities that they sent their kids to. All that mattered was fitting in and getting invited to the right dinner parties. Now their kids are indoctrinated NPCs, always protesting and supporting the current thing. Like their parents, they too want to fit in. To do so, they unironically exchange bromides and platitudes on the benefits of socialism over rosé brunches in the West Village. Because their friends hate America and capitalism, they do too. It never dawns on them that their lifestyle and studio apartment that their parents subsidize are all made possible because of capitalism. This delusional thinking was ingrained in them at an early age by institutions that were captured by insane ideology and left unchecked by their grossly negligent parents. Instead of providing their children with immunity from stupid and provably bad ideas that have only led to misery and death throughout history, these parents shrugged it off as kids will be kids. Now these kids are adults who can vote, but are totally unequipped to do so. In many ways it’s not their fault. From their parents, they learned some combination of magical thinking, preference falsification, and an inability to stand up for anything greater than themselves. As a result, they never learned how to think critically or independently. They never learned the value of Western civilization so they don't understand why, or know how, to fight for it. Sometimes the only way to learn something is to learn it the hard way. Sometimes the only way to learn the value of what you have is to lose it. If that’s the case, Marxism and socialism might just be what the doctor ordered.

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Tariffs!, Tariffs!, Tariffs! Plus Trade Deficits and perhaps most important, understanding the implications of the dollar being a reserve currency. They are all related. wthisaneconomy.com/post/trad…

There has been a lot of discussion on tariffs lately. My 2 cents. wthisaneconomy.com/post/an-i…

The government funding for basic science research and other critical components of our economy will dry up if our government cannot control wasteful spending. wthisaneconomy.com/post/the-…

I would rather we learn from Argentina’s mistake instead of repeating it. Economic Decay by Millions of Cuts link.medium.com/OoExv2k6YOb @DOGE

C-2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-Atlas over the Aspen Airport. @FlyAspenAirport

Why after the recent Fed action are interest rates not falling? wthisaneconomy.com/post/will…