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David Aron Levine

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Investor. Builder. Believer. 🇺🇸

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@davealevine
David Aron Levine
3 months
Congratulations to TAIWAN on Gold Medal in Badminton! (Not “Chinese Taipei”) #OlympicGames
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6 years
I just realized the best thing about Crypto: It taught an entire generation of investors about technical analysis and risk management. Fast. cc @arjunblj @MustStopMurad
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6 years
Who would you rather have running for office? A self-made “billionaire”. or A “professional politician” funded secretly by many “billionaires” and corporate interests through SuperPacs who dictate the candidate’s policies.
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5 years
@moorehn In the midst of it now. Wish I had more wisdom to share just very hard. Communicating with siblings and keeping good notes has been helpful. Thanks for sharing the stuff below.
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4 years
When is Oprah going to interview a family from the bottom half of society facing true pain and suffering?
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3 years
I’m still blown away with how fast and easy $SOL is every time I use it. It is what DAPPs have been trying to achieve for half a decade. Good UX has finally arrived.
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6 years
What a remarkable movie. AI is such a powerful force. Alpha Go. #AI #AlphaGo
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4 years
We need a massive wave of Startups Fast to create 20 Million Jobs. We should Modernize America: Energy, Transportation, Food and Water Systems. $2T and 20 Million Jobs. If we can bail out Wall Street again, we can do this. The time is Now for Action.
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6 years
Twitter has done an amazing job with TV. Can watch #SOTU while we tweet. Bravo @jack and team.
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David Aron Levine
6 years
Thanks anti-vaxxers you brought back a disease that had been eradicated. cc @noUpside
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CNN Breaking News
6 years
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee declares an emergency over 32 confirmed cases of measles in the state
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6 years
Dear @jack and team, Create a script that looks profile picture and screen name of tweets replying to accounts greater than 20k. Then check to see if they have any Crypto reference. If picture = same & name = close & crypto, then flag as spam. cc @mdudas @naval @balajis
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2 years
Anyone who claims to care about Climate that doesn’t lead with China is a Fraud.
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China is generating more electricity from coal alone than the US from all sources combined. Quite a perspective to consider when discussing Net Zero and greener economies at a global level.
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Everytime I turn on "cable" I'm blown away that this UX still exists: hundreds of impossible to navigate "channels" with bad content.
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6 years
So blessed with a healthy baby boy home with his mom and proud big sister. Puts all other things in perspective. We are truly blessed.
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David Aron Levine
10 years
A successful guy I admire once said: "it's hard to know what was me and what was the universe."
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David Aron Levine
9 years
@zackkanter @paulg legit. Here is source and another.
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6 years
Trading crypto is like trading OTC options on angel investments along with a global audience who treat it like a video game.
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7 years
@seanhannity We should #StayInParis and compete to win. We can Make America Great Again and create millions of jobs and Clean Air and Clean Water.
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5 years
Bitcoin still dirty Coin. Not good. “They concluded that, in late 2018, the entire bitcoin network was responsible for 22-22.9 million tons of CO2 per year — similar to a large Western city or an entire developing country like Sri Lanka”.
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5 years
Why can’t we stop all the QE, bailouts and corporate handouts and just give money to all the people who are losing their jobs? Why are our priorities as a country so backwards?
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7 years
@naval A better version of Twitter with micropayments built in is a complete no brainer. Has been for years. Crypto makes this feasible.
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6 years
I wish there were signs of excess somewhere.
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CNBC
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These kids are making thousands flipping houses for first-time buyers: via @CNBCMakeIt
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David Aron Levine
6 years
@naval Maximizing the impact of your time by investing your time rather than selling it. Money is stored time and energy
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6 years
@naval This reminds me of Buffett’s 3 “i” framework. In every industry: First come the Innovators. Then the Imitators copy the Innovators and capture value. Lastly come the Idiots who copy the Imitators and destroy all the value. Yet we remember the Innovators...
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David Aron Levine
6 years
Let me help you with the math. $1k / month = $12k / year. $12k * 324 MM People = $3.9T. The U.S. Government will generate $3.6T in revenues in 2019. So basically we can cut all other programs to fund this if you want. #Math
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Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸
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We are the richest society in the history of the world - $20 trillion GDP up $5 trillion in the last 12 years alone. We can easily afford a dividend of $1k/month per adult if that’s what we want to do. Anyone who says we don’t have the money isn’t looking at the right numbers.
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David Aron Levine
5 years
Dunking on 16 year old girl Twitter is probably one of the worst Twitters yet.
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7 years
@seanhannity We should beat China and Germany in the race to innovate in energy efficiency and productivity. American companies should lead. #StayInParis
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8 years
The transition from engaging content to interaction and discussion is the key point for the next phase of social network innovation
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David Aron Levine
5 years
Twitter is modern thinking because it is collective thinking. We are connected to it and therefore each other as a sort of hive-mind processing Reality together as a collective. Not Tweeting is therefore like being cut off from the collective mind of what is happening.
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4 years
Basically @vladtenev from @RobinhoodApp and others want everyone to believe that it was a pure coincidence that they stopped allowing retail buying at the same exact time that certain hedge funds were on the brink of failure and it just happened to bail them out... How lucky!
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David Aron Levine
8 years
Perhaps Bitcoin is simply a conceptual step towards more ubiquitous distributed verification services more generally.
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David Aron Levine
2 years
It is long overdue that the younger generations - Gen X and Millennials especially - take the reigns from the Boomers in Leadership. They failed us over and over again. Permanent wars. Destroying our economy. Dividing us with partisanship. There are no excuses for inaction.
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3 years
The $SOL ecosystem is just awesome. Lightning fast and just works.
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David Aron Levine
3 years
@AdamSinger Dude please never apologize for being you. The reason we all follow you is you are yourself. Life can be painful as hell sometimes - that’s just being honest. I’m sure I speak for thousands of us when I say this bro. Just keep being you. Dark, light or whatever.
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David Aron Levine
7 years
Why Bitcoin Matters classic by @pmarca from a few years back.
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David Aron Levine
9 years
Great speech by @bhorowitz : Don't follow your passion. And the potential of the world is only just being unleashed... http://t.co/4SpwTcUVDA
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David Aron Levine
5 years
It is pretty disgusting to think about network “TV” airing the funeral of an Iranian general while they continue to ignore the hundreds of kids getting killed in Chicago every year. Where are the live feeds of the funerals of these kids getting shot way too young way too often?
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7 years
Almost 10 years since this tweet, I concede the old man surely was right and this young one was wrong.
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David Aron Levine
6 years
@Cernovich Collective consciousness is real. Twitter enhances and accelerates that because we are connected to one another in real time on a global basis. In a real way the conversations aren’t just happening on an individual level. We are participating in consciousness unfolding.
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David Aron Levine
7 years
@naval Another way of framing this: Crypto enables better business models so we can finally move beyond the idiotic advertising based businesses.
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David Aron Levine
3 years
@EricRWeinstein Depression is a big word. That borders on the absurd. For something so high, it touches the sky. So HODL, is the operative word.
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David Aron Levine
6 years
What a loss. Bogle is one of the all time greats. Did more good for people using Finance than almost anyone. #RIPBogle
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David Aron Levine
9 years
The Real Reason College Costs So Much - administrative positions grew by 60% between '93 and '09 10x faculty growth http://t.co/v6tfFDXAl2
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David Aron Levine
10 years
The "supreme law of nature", 2nd law of Thermodynamics, is in doubt. http://t.co/mQOIxhM8JM via @_sunilrawat http://t.co/GvelTeTHi4
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David Aron Levine
5 years
Request for startup: Can someone please build a basic app so doctors can coordinate their care so we don’t have to literally call them to communicate what each one says to us about our parents’ visits?
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David Aron Levine
5 years
I remember 9/11 like it was yesterday. Felt the impact of the first plane while in the shower. Saw the second plane hit out my window with a friend. Worked across the street and lived 2 blocks away. We were United then. Better. We can Never Forget. We must be United Again. 🇺🇸
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David Aron Levine
6 years
@pkedrosky First thing our Marketing prof at HBS said: “Learn Sales”. His last piece of advice: “Learn Sales”. % of people who listened the first 5 years after school: 0. % who regretted it as they spent the next 5 finally having to learn it: 100%.
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David Aron Levine
6 years
Always great to hear @peterthiel speak. Here, in depth on @RubinReport . Ended with good advice: we need to learn to “look up” and not compete with each other so much.
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David Aron Levine
6 years
Apparently if you stop tweeting you can read every book ever. cc @pmarca
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David Aron Levine
6 years
The establishment Blue Party keeps being “shocked” because they are completely out of touch. Same is coming for the establishment Red Party.
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NBC News
6 years
In a shocking upset, Rep. Joseph Crowley, who had been considered a candidate to become the next House speaker, has been defeated by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in a Democratic congressional primary in New York.
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David Aron Levine
10 years
Grandma's 90th birthday. Words of wisdom: "Keep your nose clean and keep moving." "Laugh...at yourself. You aren't that important."
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David Aron Levine
2 years
@neontaster Yeah this is basic and not new. If you let them use the algorithm the feed will include all kinds of accounts you don’t follow. Perhaps now more “mixed” than before (unsurprisingly). If you default to chronological feed then there will be no accounts you don’t follow.
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David Aron Levine
7 years
@seanhannity American exceptionalism is when we compete to win. Not back down. America should #StayInParis and create millions of jobs winning the race.
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David Aron Levine
7 years
The contrast between old people talking about the “Dow” and young people talking about Crypto couldn’t be more striking.
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David Aron Levine
10 years
“How Twitter advances our thinking.” And some thoughts on future academia.
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David Aron Levine
4 years
@garrytan A trillion seconds is 31,710 years. Think about this the next time they casually throw around $Trillions of spending by the Fed.
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David Aron Levine
2 years
As time passes the pain of losing our loved ones fades and our love for them and our memories becomes more pure. Rest in peace Mom. We love you and miss you.
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David Aron Levine
7 years
The old guys clamoring into the #Bitcoin conversation calling it a "bubble" might be the most bullish signal yet.
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David Aron Levine
8 years
Smart piece by @naval pointing to political disruption. Red and Blue are obsolete. Beyond this is liberty.
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David Aron Levine
3 years
All fun and games for the Rich who have jobs and assets. Inflation is death to the unemployed and poor. This isn’t a “joke”. This is one of the biggest wealth grabs and history by the rich and it is getting worse by the day.
@TheStalwart
Joe Weisenthal
3 years
One thing that's clear is that everything from grains to lumber to semiconductors is experiencing shortages and price inflation IMO the Fed needs to act on this fast. Gotta cut rates and do more QE to spur even more investment to expand supply.
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David Aron Levine
10 years
Places, like "Silicon Valley" and "Wall Street", don't have opinions. A few loud individuals don't a consensus make.
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David Aron Levine
6 years
Risk management is the most important aspect of investing. It is finding the right balance between humility and confidence.
@APompliano
Anthony Pompliano 🌪
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Investing is merely a game of managing risk.
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David Aron Levine
3 years
Brilliant thread by @cdixon . Seeing establishment types triggered by the coming tidal wave of innovation in Web 3 is nothing new: Legacy industries always resist change. Yet, progress is inevitable.
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cdixon.eth
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Why Web 3 matters 🧵
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@NPRKelly This shouldn’t be mind blowing. It seems obvious that our enemies want to weaken us and are succeeding: what could be better than divisions from within? What is mind blowing is how much people have fallen for it.
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David Aron Levine
6 years
The President was cleared from conspiring with the Russians, thank God... But it is still Sad that he acts like a child on the playground hurling insults and name calling. Can we please move beyond these Whiny Baby Boomers to a new Generation of Leaders?
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David Aron Levine
10 years
The level of dialogue on Twitter only gets better over time. Truly global. Mind expanding. No topic off limits. Pushes knowledge forward.
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David Aron Levine
9 years
Robots: 10% of GDP Growth. 16% of productivity growth. 2.25% of assets. #deflation via @sub8u http://t.co/0xIc4O8saL http://t.co/1Q8DiflU07
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10 years
"A new kind of network.” Thoughts on what might be better than Twitter.
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6 years
The most successful people I know: 1) Are outraged that kids are being torn from their parents with no way to reconnect them. That is all. Hell, even losers I know... All humans.
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David Aron Levine
2 years
This is pure Evil.
@BreitbartNews
Breitbart News
2 years
UNREAL: Toddlers are still required to mask up in New York City pre-K schools, as Mayor Eric Adams does not indicate when he will lift mandates.
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David Aron Levine
6 years
I wish there were signs of excess somewhere. ht @cantguardwelsh
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Bryce Roberts
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Two competing dog walking services have raised nearly three quarters of a billion dollars combined.
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David Aron Levine
2 years
There are no words for the rage and sadness felt for the loss of these little kids having fun in their last week of elementary school, their lives taken with such evil. Fuck all of us who let this happen. This is beyond politics. This is our ultimate failure as human beings.
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David Aron Levine
9 years
Ok. Here are all of the #SuperBowl commercials. Last bastion of forced real-time ad consumption falls.
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David Aron Levine
5 years
The @earndotcom product on @coinbase is really well done. Bravo @balajis and team. Here you can earn some @brave $BAT by learning how it works.
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David Aron Levine
8 years
$20T. No biggie.
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David Aron Levine
7 years
Another way of seeing this local peak in prices: the global liquidity wave is bidding up this highly liquid pool of option value.
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Naval
7 years
Skeptics demanding a current, mass-market use case for blockchains miss the point. Currently priced at a low probability of a large outcome.
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David Aron Levine
6 years
You will know politics has finally gotten real when people admit the obvious: We have to cut defense spending. We have to cut Medicare. We have to reform social security. We can’t pretend like $21T in debt is OK. This is unsustainable.
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David Aron Levine
4 years
Until someone leads with China in an answer to Climate Change, they are all lying.
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David Aron Levine
8 years
Where vision gets built.
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David Aron Levine
9 years
8 month old daughter figured out how to play Taylor Swift on the Apple Watch. #future
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David Aron Levine
5 years
@neelkashkari The overnight lending market broke. By stepping in to *buy* T-bills and provide repo capacity, the Fed “fixed” this market, which directly enables market participants (like hedge funds) to chase yield again across markets like equities. Calling a purchase a “swap” obfuscates it.
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6 years
I wish there were signs of the absolute peak behavior you could imagine somewhere.
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David Aron Levine
10 years
The concept of "watch" like "phone" is outmoded in our digital age. Every device is a multi-function computing machine in the future.
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David Aron Levine
7 years
@Ranidu Why did the team decide to so dramatically change the UX of @askwhale ? Is this an experiment ... #AskWhale
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5 years
Caring for ailing parents is the hardest thing.
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5 years
God works in mysterious ways we can’t understand. Faith is appreciating the Grace of the daily gifts we might not at first realize are the beautiful things they are. We are so very Blessed - and Loved - even we don’t at first know it.
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5 years
Caring for an ailing parent is so hard...From a long distance it is the worst. Yet seems so common. Our society is so great in many ways but this part sucks. Life is beautiful but boy can it be hard. Guess one thing 2020 has reminded us of already is to cherish each day...
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David Aron Levine
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@AriDavidPaul @MustStopMurad @MartyBent The issue here is @MustStopMurad is absolutely correct about asset inflation which we’ve experienced for a decade which was the direct result of QE. Not all “inflation” is created equally. People on fixed incomes are crushed by inflation.
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5 years
Not really. We’re great at giving money to big companies that blow up after wasting all their cash on buybacks, market participants who don’t have risk management, and banks who don’t need it. We just aren’t good at giving money to ordinary people who actually need it most.
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Joe Weisenthal
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I don’t think the economic solution to this crisis is really that hard. But giving money to people for doing nothing may literally be the thing we’re the worst at.
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5 years
@Cernovich Because he is 73
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6 years
This should be illegal and result in jail time.
@ATeachMoment
Anthony Isola
6 years
We are finding so many teachers investing in things like this in their 403b’s They are paying 6.90% in annual fees. 💰 The front end load Applies to EVERY paycheck contribution until they reach a break point then is “lowered” to 3.7% #shameful
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David Aron Levine
5 years
Sad news about Volcker. A legend who did a lot for our Country. 🇺🇸 #RIP
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David Aron Levine
9 years
OPM story is the most disproportionately important and under-followed story of the century.
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David Aron Levine
6 years
Today marks 11 years since I joined @twitter . Having sent more than 63,000 tweets, that means I’ve sent about 15 tweets every single day for 11 years. Maybe I like this thing? Thanks for following along. :-)
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David Aron Levine
6 years
@AriDavidPaul @MustStopMurad @MartyBent No. That is not correct. Inflation had absolutely occurred in healthcare, education, and rents. AND inflation has occurred in assets stretching inequality. The fact wage inflation has lagged is only part of the picture.
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David Aron Levine
11 years
This information casts serious doubt on the notion of a rigid class structure in the United States based upon income. http://t.co/G1yoF7g1Sx
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