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Claude YouTube = Money Machine 💸 No skills. No camera. No excuses. 12 prompts that do all the work 👇

In case people are curious about the @ricardo_hausman Velasco column, here it is dropbox.com/scl/fi/9tl8dkhqz…

the year is 2043, men have gotten too much therapy and are now Masters of Deceit, using their supernatural mental health to get insane head

I don’t like using this sort of thing as self-promotion, but my current circumstances demand it. I think this is strong evidence that I am stupidly good at my job, a job that my university has decided will be eliminated. If you hire me I will be stupidly good on your behalf.

Robert Lighthizer argues in Foreign Affairs that trade deficits have hurt the US economy and that a new trading system is needed to tax countries that run persistent trade surpluses. His essay is filled with weak assumptions and reasoning errors. [1/x] foreignaffairs.com/united-st…

Everyone's talking about inflation, but almost no one is talking about the force that could quietly deflate it for the next decade or more. It's housing. Home prices are up just 1% year-over-year. Asking rents (the ones you see posted on sites like Redfin) have been essentially flat since 2022. The shelter index is still elevated at 3%, but it has come way down from its 8% peak in 2022, and I expect it to keep falling. Here's why this matters long-term, not just right now: We are finally building the right kind of housing in the right places. Multi-family construction is now 4x what it was in the 2010s. Single-family construction, by contrast, is actually 20% below where it was in the 2000s. We're building less of the inefficient, sprawling housing and more of the dense, efficient kind. I argue that this is the direct result of zoning reform spreading across the country. Minneapolis led the way in 2018, followed by Florida, Montana, California, Arizona, parts of Texas, and more. Local leaders have finally realized: the way to make housing affordable is to allow more of it to get built. The economist Ed Glaeser estimated that inefficient land use is holding back the U.S. economy by 9%. But we're starting to fix that. When more people can live close to the jobs, schools, and businesses they need, they're more productive: less time in cars, more time contributing to the local economy. Thirty three percent of renters now live in multi-family buildings. That's a record high going back to 2011. Even California, hamstrung by Prop 13, is moving in the right direction. Change there will be slow: tax policy keeps longtime homeowners in place, but as that housing stock turns over, dense redevelopment will follow. For a sprawling city like Los Angeles, the long-term implications are enormous. None of this means we're out of the woods right now. The war in Iran is pushing energy prices up, and short-term inflation shocks matter because they shape expectations. The Fed can't ignore what's happening today, even if the long-run trajectory looks more promising. But the housing story is one I don't think gets enough attention. New video breaking this all down, featuring analysis of Redfin data, is linked below. Would love to hear your thoughts. And please subscribe, like and share.

MAGA claims they want "law and order," but they’re lining up to put THIS man on the bench. The receipts are disgusting. Hugo Holland didn't just hide evidence to win death row cases—he literally compared a Black 16-year-old to a dog in open court. This is the "frontrunner" for Judge? It’s a total scam. They don't want justice; they want a rubber stamp for their own power, no matter how corrupt the record is. I’m done with the sanitized excuses. Look at the record. This man has no business in a robe. How the hell do you justify a record like this? Explain it to me. I’ll wait. #DemsUnited

Many people flock to St. Charles Street in New Orleans to witness the Mardi Gras parades, but on the backstreets a vibrant secret society showcases its culture with feathers and dazzling beaded suits. cbsn.ws/3PUp4eE

A couple of days ago, Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) posted about how she uses LLMs in her journalism: research, transcription, fact-checking, sharpening questions, compressing ancillary tasks, etc. The reaction from some quarters included calls for her dismissal, accusations of fraud, and moral outrage galore. This is a good reminder of why Karl Marx is useful: “It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.” People’s moral positions on LLMs track their position in the relations of production with remarkable precision. A senior journalist who can use LLMs to become more productive is harder to replace. But a junior journalist or an adjunct professor whose work is now much easier to replace has every incentive to find moral arguments against LLMs or to exaggerate their flaws. Narratives follow economics, not the other way around. The calls for McArdle’s removal aren’t about journalistic integrity; they’re about defending a labor market position that’s becoming hard to justify. And framing that defense as a moral stance is just shifting the argument into a territory where the author feels more comfortable: moral judgments. Oldest trick in the book. Bourdieu would call it a field strategy: when you cannot win on competence, you redefine the game so that the relevant capital is moral authority rather than productivity. The people loudest about the ethics of LLMs are, not coincidentally, the people with the most to lose from them.

BREAKING: I asked Claude to upgrade my LinkedIn profile. It didn’t just “upgrade” it. It turned it into a recruiter magnet. Here are the exact 7 prompts I used:

80 AI tools to complete months of work in minutes 1. Research - ChatGPT - Copilot - Gemini - Abacus - Perplexity 2. Image - Fotor - Dalle 3 - Stability AI - Midjourney - Microsoft Designer 3. CopyWriting - Rytr - Copy AI - Writesonic - Adcreative AI 4. Writing - Jasper - HIX AI - Jenny AI - Textblaze - Quillbot 5. Website - 10Web - Durable - Framer - Style AI 6. Video - Klap - Opus - Eightify - InVideo - HeyGen - Runway - ImgCreator AI - Morphstudio .xyz 7. Meeting - Tldv - Otter - Noty AI - Fireflies 8. SEO - VidIQ - Seona AI - BlogSEO - Keywrds ai 9. Chatbot - Droxy - Chatbase - Mutual info - Chatsimple 10. Presentation - Decktopus - Slides AI - Gamma AI - Designs AI - Beautiful AI 11. Automation - Make - Zapier - Xembly - Bardeen 12. Prompts - FlowGPT - Alicent AI - PromptBox - Promptbase - Snack Prompt 13. UI/UX - Figma - Uizard - UiMagic - Photoshop 14. Design - Canva - Flair AI - Designify - Clipdrop - Autodraw - Magician design 15. Logo Generator - Looka - Designs AI - Brandmark - Stockimg AI - Namecheap 16. Audio - Lovo ai - Eleven labs - Songburst AI - Adobe Podcast 17. Productivity - Merlin - Tinywow - Notion AI - Adobe Sensei - Personal AI 18. Social media management - Tapilo - Typefully - Hypefury - TweetHunter Must follow @Onil_Coder for more

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🚨🚨 New working paper 🚨🚨 "Minimum Wages and Vertical Restraints in Franchising" with @SwayamsiddhaSa5, @sergiotpinto, and Blake Eliason /1

I want to share a bit more about my vision for the Economic Research team at Anthropic in the coming years. This is a forward-looking vision. Some pieces we’ve yet to develop. Aspects of this work will surely change. Consider joining the effort. 1/6 docs.google.com/document/d/1…

Ahem. searchlightinstitute.org/res… We could launch a public-private consortium tomorrow. We could make state tax exemptions contingent on hyperscaler transmission investments. We could pass a law requiring large loads pay a fee that goes toward tx (at state or federal levels).

Nobody understands the bond between a boy and the volume-scoring, shot-chucking guard he watched when he was younger

Policies like “ban the box” aim to give people with crriminal records a fair chance in hiring. Economist @jenniferdoleac of @Arnold_Ventures explains why the research suggests employers may substitute other signals when information is restricted by such policies.