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jbcarrington.bsky.social
Cautious A.I. advocate, Black swan event investor, fintech entrepreneur, performer of risk-based threat scanning, French Press coffee fan, cooking/wine enthusiast, & fantasy football devotee.
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An absolutely fascinating article on how professional gamblers spend upwards of $10 billion annually to take advantage of state lotteries when they believe their odds of winning are high. www.wsj.com/us-news/texa...

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@goldietaylor.bsky.social, A reason to travel to Nebraska? www.wsj.com/sports/golf/...

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Wow.

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Frisco and Vail, CO should be monumentally embarrassed by their lack of affordable housing described in this article. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/r...

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How to calculate tariffs on various Chinese produced goods. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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This is extraordinary. Apple says it would take 14+ years for the U.S. to replicate the know-how, labor skills & component supply chain robustness needed to produce 200+ million iPhones sold each year worldwide. What is Trump doing with the tariffs? www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Wow.

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Here is an up to date list of Big Law collaborators along with how much in free legal services they have pledged to Trump's causes. Paul Weiss 40M Cadwalader 100M Milbank 100M Skadden Arps 100M Willkie Farr 100M A&O Shearman 125M Kirkland & Ellis 125M Latham & Watkins 125M Simpson Thacher 125M

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Maya Angelou books have been removed while Hitler's Mein Kampf and other white supremacy books remain at the Naval Academy, per Def Sec Hegseth. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...

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Why the global bond market shows Trump that they are the boss and Trump answers to them. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Governments are afraid of ideas that people have so that's why they seek to crush those who promote those ideas.

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Algorithms will be humanity's downfall.

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"The average effective tariff rate the U.S. government charges on imports went up overall, after accounting for which countries trade with the U.S and how much — because Trump also pushed the rate on imports from China to 145%." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Israel is clearly not telling the truth about killing 14 Gazan first responders and then burying them in a mass grave. In other parts of the world, these actions would be considered crime concealment. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

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Wow, just wow.

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This is an excellent chart showing how Trump's stated focus on manufacturing jobs is a mirage.

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Short sellers got squeezed which accounted for the historic gains on April 9, 2025. A record 30 billion shares were traded. However, the danger remains for investors given the continuing uncertainty over Trump's tariff "policy". www.cnbc.com/2025/04/10/h...

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Expect that Trump will invoke the Insurrection Act and declare martial law by June 30, 2025. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

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A 7-day retreat - Back to the Body - for women to learn how to orgasm. Up to $15,000 for 7 days of sessions. This is the kind of unique entrepreneurial ventures that makes America great. nypost.com/2025/04/09/l...

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We were reminded today that bond investors control the financial markets. "In the past 3 days, the rate on the 30-year Treasury jumped the most since 1982" because of selling. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Massive "waste, fraud, and abuse".

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"The fundamental truth of Donald Trump is that he apparently cannot conceive of any relationship between individuals, peoples or states as anything other than a status game, a competition for dominance." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...

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This headline is astonishing.

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"Tests showed that many of the North Koreans had scurvy, an illness caused by the lack of vitamin C." Wow. www.wsj.com/world/north-...

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@antifaoperative.bsky.social, This woman young boy abuser is truly sick. nypost.com/2025/04/08/u...

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"Acting IRS commissioner Melanie Krause — the tax agency’s third leader since Trump’s inauguration" - has resigned. Losing 3 agency leaders in 3 months is “unprecedented,” one of the people said. “I don’t think we’ve seen anything like this at IRS.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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