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lorewrites.bsky.social
Retired. Cats, nature, writing. After a career in a Federal Reserve Bank, I wrote a story of a ghost stuck there. In 2017, I wrote a thesis about the opportunity of AI to find efficiency in regulation (which isn’t what that advisory committee is doing.
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Worth a watch!

Just now picking up my daughter’s Claudia’s Corgi, Gracie, from her spaying procedure from Friendship Animal Hospital in northwest DC. It turns out they are doing something amazing for people victimized by the insane government purges 👉

Eying Ukraine’s trillions in critical minerals. For more insight, visit this morning’s Chartbook Top Link. Sign up here: tinyurl.com/4yrdfrj5

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

Some people are fighting for us. One of them is Elizabeth Warren.

"I've long wondered where my tax dollars are going but haven’t bothered to do the five minutes of research it would take to learn that all that information is already meticulously documented and tracked in numerous publicly available reports and websites."

Wonder if the 🐳 was sending a message after hearing about new administration pretending climate isn’t changing…

I am going to hope for a little while that Trump’s tweet was merely envy that Powell’s name was in the news and not the start of his and his bosses’ attacks on the Fed. He is a debtor at (whatever replaced his heart), lacking any sense of how inflation hurts the 90%.

It’s no secret that Chair Powell and I disagree on a lot, but today we agreed: without the CFPB, there is no federal regulator making sure giants banks don't cheat you.

Explains Elon’s interest in closing the CFPB.

🚨🚨🚨🚨 What DOGE & POTUS don't understand about the operations of U.S. Treasury markets is just about everything. Their mix of ignorance, arrogance, & power threatens to explode America's economy immediately and for years ahead. Bessent & Hassett better set this straight.

JD Vance - If you believe any of the multiple federal courts that have ruled against you so far are exceeding their statutory or Constitutional authority, your recourse is to appeal. You don’t get to rage-quit the Republic just because you are losing. That’s tyranny.

🚨 BREAKING: Illinois Governor JB Pritzker says he’s going to rename Lake Michigan to “Lake Illinois.” EPIC TRUMP TROLL!!! 🤣

I asked ChatGPT about the harm of a single rogue racist developer working on an AI that helps writers to write stories… 1/9

I don’t understand why the Republicans are so worried about birth rates when they will put us (including cats, cows, chickens and all birds 😿) all at risk with their lack of transparency and lies.