We already know the answer. Her oldest songs are already 20 years old and still incredibly popular and recognizable, namely Love Story and You Belong With Me. ABBA broke through in 1974 after winning Eurovision. Gimme Gimme Gimme came out and that video is from ~1979. They broke up in 1982. ABBA had a resurgence and attained their current popularity in 1992 when ABBA Gold, their Greatest Hits album came out. That success then lead Benny and Bjorn to write the Mamma Mia musical which debuted in 1999/2001. Taylor released her first Billboard charting album in 2006. And released her first album to win Album of the Year, with songs peaking at 2 on the Billboard 100, in 2008. Even if she stopped making music there, in terms of time you could say her rerecording of Fearless in 2021 and the Eras Tour would be comparable to her “ABBA Gold” moment, coming 13 years later. So Taylor has already “stood the test of time” and remained popular for longer than ABBA existed as a group, and as long as the time period between when they broke up and when ABBA Gold came out. If someone doesn’t think she has stood the test of time, it’s probably because they’re so old they think 2008 was yesterday instead of nearly 20 years ago. Or so young they think Taylor Swift became popular 3 years ago.

As a born and raised New Yorker, born in 1998, who has gotten to watch the whole arc throughout my life. This is exactly it.

History's first trillionaire is a guy who catches rockets out of the sky with chopsticks and beams internet to every dead zone on the planet. Same guy ships cars that drive themselves, humanoid robots for the factory floor, brain chips that let paralyzed people move a cursor with pure thought, and an AI running on a supercomputer his team stood up in months instead of years. And the people crashing out about his net worth are doing it on the app he owns. The same app governments spent years trying to censor. You cannot legislate a rocket into orbit.

I am filled with optimism at the fact that the world's first trillionaire was made not by hedge funds or market manipulation, but by building the infrastructure to take America to the stars.

I’m actually fine with this framing. I don’t think a random 11 million American households could work together to build SpaceX. We’re getting a bargain.

“If Elon Musk wasn’t a trillionaire, we could all afford healthcare.” They fail to understand that Musk didn’t take his wealth from anyone. It didn’t exist before he created it.

Today is a great example of why taxing unrealized gains is insane. If Musk had to face a massive tax bill for paper gains from taking SpaceX public, he likely wouldn't have done it, and the wealth SpaceX creates would be more concentrated in his hands.

almost everyone reads this list as wealth hoarded. it’s the opposite. each name here is a rounding error on the surplus they unleashed on to the world through both the peripheral individuals (employees, investors, etc) involved & the compounding value of their creation to society in general (which allows others to also pursue greatness).

This is NOT Abundance

Teenagers are breaking into Subway conductor booths with keys you can buy on Amazon. Why? Find out in my latest for @WSJFreeEx

The U.S. government just unveiled the majestic Greco-Deco design for the new federal courthouse in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The building is at once monumental and welcoming, classical and original. The iris capitals are an inspired touch, drawing on Tennessee’s natural beauty and weaving it into the stone of a federal building. The Chattanooga courthouse is precisely the kind of building that President Trump’s Executive Order on federal architecture—“Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again”—was designed to produce. When the courthouse is completed, it will stand as the living proof that the Order represents wise and humane public policy—something all Americans, regardless of political party, can and should support. Beautiful public buildings are not a partisan matter; they belong to everyone.

The reopened reflecting pool doing pretty well with a rainbow today.

Oftentimes we see governments inappropriately outsource things that should be state functions. This repair facility has always struck me as the reverse — auto repair services are widely offered in the civilian economy and MPDC could be easily contracting this work out.

Kenny has the impossible job of trying to teach people on social media the details of the NYC housing market and implications of rent control, while Zohran gets to smile into the camera and say "I will freeze your rent" and get a zillion likes.

‘Housing belongs to the penultimate gentrifier.’ Valdez of course is a Texas transplant who moved to a gentrifying neighborhood in Queens where people like her pushed out less affluent residents. Now that she is there she wants to protect herself from the very same market forces. ‘DSA socialism’ is a very specific class politics that seeks to provide undeserved privileges and sinecures to a relatively affluent group of people. This brand of ‘Leftism’ launders political demands that would be unsympathetic if they were presented more transparently.

I was wondering why are they making a big deal about a job that will be finished in under a month then it hit me, confession through projection. If the CA dems ran this project it would take months or years. They fully expected a empty pool all summer at the peak of DC tourism. The idea it would be done on time never even entered their minds.

So much for “focusing on the cost of living crisis” (i.e. the cost of burrito taxis). Why do Democrats keep doing this? 🤦‍♂️

People are going to hate, but this looks good so far (they still need to fix the filtration system though)

I’m actually pretty pissed at how badly they’ve bungled America 250. First they tried to invite Milli Vanilli and a bunch of other absurdly washed up geriatric one hit wonders. Then when that didn’t work they decided to convert the event into a Trump rally where Trump will talk about himself for 90 minutes. This should have been a massive, raucous celebration of the country and its 250 year history. Now it will be a political rally identical to the ten million other ones we’ve already seen.

Indeed, the story here is partly Dem presidents (Biden mostly) wringing their hands and not spending on repair so they didn’t get a Fox hed like “Biden’s Woke Water Fountain Didn’t Create Jobs.”

The Columbus Circle fountain at Union Station has been dry since before the first iPhone launched. 🤯 For the first time since 2007, the fountain is flowing again. Thanks to @POTUS, we are making our Nation’s Capital safe, beautiful and worthy of the greatest nation on Earth. 🇺🇸