Patrick O'Neil

This semester was bluebooks, one handwritten sheet, and group poster presentations instead of papers.

Skeptical of these takes, Seattle and Tacoma data are still normal. I do think this is coming but I don't like a non context vid like this.

I'm right by the Port of Tacoma, it will be interesting to watch the truck traffic.

Eek

Just gets worse

Attacking Amazon is also not helpful. You keep the buy in of big business.

Don't be worried about this--it's only economics that will bring Trump down

this is for a pair of shoes that two weeks ago were $18. It's...stunning.

temu is breaking down our breakdown.

Temu today. Look at the tariff.

Lumps of coal for Christmas will bring back mining jobs just as Trump promised. Winning!

In the end of this person came back to me and said they actually looked up who Cassandra was and they realized they had used the term as an insult but in the end realized they had described me accurately.

Oh
My
Lord

My university colleague called me a Cassandra when I said his study abroad program the following year would be cancelled.

This will be like those apocryphal stories about the oligarchs in the 1990s and there mistresses bathing in perfume. Putin's cronies will roll around on a bed full of swedish snacks

Horrifyingly fascinating that it appears to be the United States that's obsessed with kowtowing and the Chinese who appear to be the more rational actor less concerned with displays of fealty

This feels like kremlinology and probably about as accurate

I want this to be on all their swag

China unlikely to blink first as Trump’s trade war enters uncharted new territory Since Trump’s first trade war with China in 2018, Beijing has ramped up trade with other countries, making it less dependent on the US

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

strangely no one seems to be concerned about this.

Sorry to hear that.

One move might be to ease in slowly or stick to shorter-term bonds for now until things stabilize.

Money should be going into bonds. But it isn't. Which means yields have to go up, which raises rates across the board. And a general question of whether US debt is losing its credibility.

HAHAHAHA!

Should the dollar index be rising ?

You'll be eating him by July

Vance before Vance. Craven.

Ideally you grab your valuables when exiting a burning building

Yep.

Shouldn't there be a death ray hidden on a remote island? Don't let us die in the dark