If you just give us a few percent more of your money, we could finally fix the worsening education, homelessness and crime caused by our own terrible policies… Please bro… just a few percent more. One last tax. I swear bro. Then I’m done.

Larry David stars in a new trailer for the limited series 'Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness.' Premiering June 26 on HBO Max.

The reason anyone gets insanely rich is almost always because of the stock market. It certainly how @elonmusk did. And the reason they get rich from the stock market, is because 150m Americans decided they wanted to own shares of stocks directly, or through their retirement plans, or through other approaches as a way of building their net worth and trying to create a better life for themselves. One Hundred Fifty Million Americans. About 60% of adults. Effectively believing that @elonmusk and many billionaires could make them wealthier and help them achieve a better life. If you want @elonmusk , and most billionaires to no longer be that rich, convince those 150m to sell their stocks, funds, ETFs whatever. Of course you would wipe out the net-worth of most of those people, and everyone else’s savings, as the markets crashed and brought down the economy and created the worst depression we have ever seen. Alternatively There are ways to improve healthcare access and eventually make it available to all. To start - If you want @elonmusk and all billionaires to improve healthcare for everyone , ask them to stop doing business with the enormous healthcare conglomerates and to work directly with transparently priced care providers. It’s the behemoth HC conglomerates that make HC so bad for so many. (Check my timeline for more detail) Removing them would push the cost of healthcare down for everyone. Their corporate decisions impact our healthcare cost and availability. Of course if they do that, not only would our HC costs go down , and the quality of care for their employees and the entire country go up But They would see their corporate cash flow increase dramatically and we would have more millionaires, billionaires and maybe even another trillionaire when that cash flow moved from the big health care conglomerates to their bottom line, so would the net worth of the 150 million American adults that own public stocks Capitalism is better than socialism because 150m Americans can influence exactly what happens in this country.

It's been a while since I could remind @benmezrich that I am a card carrying member of the #ClonesBookClub @jimrome

A full 6 points if you're the @EtownCommodore

Bill took Jimbo's seat @AMarkowitz15

Miller Lite "The Thinking Man's beer"

Enjoy your Bud Light @EtownCommodore while @BrianLDeWitt and I taste greatness!

I like the Whopper F the Big Mac @smittydidnt

“California almonds use 4x-7x more water than all data centers in North America used combined in 2025.” Golf course owners:

If you only learn one thing today, today you should learn..... The Panic Industry has traded in climate change as old and moldy. AI / Data Centers is their new trophy wife.

Jeff Bezos on America's spending and taxes: "We don't have a revenue problem in this country. We already have the most progressive tax system in the world. The Top 1% of taxpayers pay 40% of all taxes. The bottom 50% pay just 3%. We have a spending problem."

Patrick Mahomes calling up Rashee Rice today:

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If you're looking to bring anything to the next brown water night @BrianLDeWitt @RealEricPorter @JasonWill75 @EtownCommodore

The Fed expanded the money supply by nearly $9 trillion under Powell. Inflation has averaged >4% per year over the past 6 years. Powell's explanation? It was nearly all due to rolling “supply shocks" over which the Fed has no control. The truth: this inflation was made in Washington as it always is - from too much government borrowing/spending and too much government creation of money.

I've been the lone vote against runaway spending for years. It shouldn't be this hard to convince Washington to balance a checkbook. Every American does it. Washington should, too.

"No one has ever been a success betting against America since 1776 — and they're not going to be a success in the future doing it, either." – Warren Buffett

Good intentions don't balance a checkbook. We passed a budget. Then ignored it. We spend $7T and bring in $5T. Until that changes, every budget document in Washington isn't worth the ink it's printed with. @VarneyCo

The national debt crossed $39 trillion for the first time last month. That's another trillion added in five months. Interest alone is running $88 billion a month. Cut six cents out of every projected dollar for five years and the budget balances. It isn't radical. It's basic math.