I was wrong with my number yesterday. Got the final number and the wire is complete. Wanted to be accurate.

Do I expect all of it to be used wisely. Of course not.

But I'm still proud to be able to give back to our country.

I've said it for years. After military…

Trump Media doing the smart thing to do when you have no assets but are gifted a multi-billion-dollar stock value anyway — sell the stock for an actual asset: Cash.

markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/tr…

Average annual working hours per worker, via Allison Schrager allisonschrager.substack.com/p/the-solution…

US per capita CO2 emissions now at 1913 levels. In 1913 only 1% of Americans had indoor plumbing and electricity 😮

Second time I’ve heard a professor say this. That at this point the ChatGPT essays are so mediocre, easiest thing to do is to just grade them as normal.

I know much of academia is up in arms about students using AI. But I just gave a student a 44/100 on an essay that was clearly written by ChatGPT as the essay wasn't what I was looking for, the use of AI notwithstanding.

A headline from 24 years ago.

I pay what I owe.

Tomorrow I will wire transfer to the IRS

$288,000,000.00

This country has done so much for me, I’m proud to pay my taxes every single year.

Tag a former president that you know doesn’t

Have you outgrown your systems or beliefs? Is it time that you upgraded? Or, on a personal level, as Jerry Colonna, executive coach to some of the biggest tech stars in Silicon Valley, would ask: “How are you complicit in creating the conditions you say you don’t want?”

America is projected to run a budget deficit of more than 7% of GDP this year—a level unheard of outside recession and wartime. And it is not the only spendthrift country. Two factors explain the splurge econ.st/4arFIaL 👇

I wish someone would ask me to write about the Golden Bachelor divorce instead of stupid stuff like spirit and life and resilience and getting older. wapo.st/3VPKUR9

NEW: my column this week is about the coming vibe shift, from Boomers vs Millennials to huge wealth inequality *between* Millennials.

Current discourse centres on how the average Millennial is worse-off than the average Boomer was, but the richest millennials are loaded 💸🚀

AMERICA HAS AN ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS CRISIS

Tracy Alloway and I talked to Chris Hatch / NNN Income about the ongoing scarcity of switchgears and transformers, and how you have virtually complete buildings going empty because they can't get one critical missing part.

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Shares of insurance company Globe Life lost more than half their value Thursday after a short seller alleged a range of financial misconduct on.wsj.com/4awLpEr

Hard to convey how much attention OJ Simpson commanded but here are some numbers:

95 million people watched the chase.
150 million watched the verdict.

We’re never going to focus like that again - because of things like this app.

Morgan Stanley is betting on AI to free up advisors' time to 'be more human.' Nearly 100% of advisor teams use it, and here's how. trib.al/OgTATYr

NEW: Axios’s plan to survive the rise of A.I. — doubling down on events and building $1,000/yr membership subscriptions around star reporters like Sara Fischer and Dan Primack

nytimes.com/2024/04/11/bus…

Inflation was 3.5% in the past year --> highest since September.

Here are key items really driving inflation now
Car insurance +22% in past year
Car repair +12%
Baby formula +10%
Veterinarian +10%
Rent +5.9%
Electricity +5%
Restaurants +4.2%
(Gas up 1.3% in past year)

This would have been unthinkable before Caitlin Clark arrived at Iowa and changed everything. This isn’t just a sports story. This is an American cultural story. It’s about Title IX and what happens when a nation gives girls and women a chance to play sports too.