Matt Eastwood

There are currently 2 home buyers for every 3 home sellers in the USA!

Closing out the week with a quick video good night from IDC's Boston HQ. Hope everyone enjoys a great Presidents’ Day weekend — rest up and recharge and talk soon.

MAGA are just a bunch of angry hacks that have immense amounts of confidence in total incompetence!

Notice the pattern.

Venezuela sidelined.
Nigeria pressured.
Greenland ogled.
Canada undermined.

Not “energy dominance” — energy gatekeeping. Throttle supply, pick winners, keep prices friendly for a select few (Russia, Saudi, etc).

OPEC behavior, minus the minutes.

Breaking: The war on Christmas has concluded for another year. Christmas survived. Again. Awaiting confirmation on whether Trump brokered the peace.

The automobile defined the last century. Data, compute, and autonomy will define the next.

I’m not one who gets mesmerized by celebrities, but I wish I’d had the chance to meet Rob Reiner. His work mattered.

January 2029, sadly!

Waking up to the tragic news being reported about Rob and his wife Michelle is heartbreaking. Beyond the loss of two remarkable lives, it’s a sobering reminder that mental health is real, complex, and deserving of far more attention and resources.

Grateful for the art. Gutted by the moment. 2/2

Spent part of the weekend rewatching This Is Spinal Tap — a reminder of how fearless and original Rob Reiner was. His work (Stand by Me, The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally…, A Few Good Men) shaped generations of film. 1/2

This is the time of year we’re regularly reminded that Boston is the OG Windy City.

RIP Frank Gehry — a visionary who turned steel, glass, and imagination into pure art. The Guggenheim Bilbao, the Stata Center, and so many others will keep inspiring us for generations. What an extraordinary legacy.

I wish I’d lived in an era when the future looked this cool — when technology felt like optimism instead of exhaustion.

Boston is closer to Europe than it is to California. In fact, Boston is closer to Reykjavík, Dublin, and even parts of mainland Europe than it is to much of California.

Caught my first snowflake of the season… right in the face. Zero stars. Would not recommend.

The way we continue to erode the economic foundation of the working and middle class, you’d think today’s corporate elite are betting that AI agents and robots will soon take over not just our jobs — but our role as consumers and debt holders too.

If U.S. healthcare spending matched peer nations (≈12% of GDP vs. 17.6%), we’d spend $1.5 T less a year — about the size of Australia’s economy.

We pay the most, cover the fewest, and live shorter lives. That’s not freedom — that’s inefficiency.

Candy CPI up 9.8% year-over-year. This #Halloween, I’m implementing “micro-treats” to teach fiscal discipline. One M&M per trick-or-treater — inflation’s real, kids.

The Northeast Corridor is America’s nervous system — moving people, power, and ideas. You can literally see the pulse.

Remember when Nvidia was just the company that made your graphics card run Half-Life smoother? Now they are the half-life of the entire AI economy—$5 trillion later.

Only 4 of the 25 largest cities in the Americas are in the U.S. The rest? Latin America dominates this map.

A reminder that while the U.S. leads economically, LA leads demographically.
- U.S. metros sprawl across multiple cities
- LA megacities are hyper-centralized
- Population ≠ prosperity

New York City in 30 seconds!

Wow — gambling in sports involves players and coaches? Next you’ll tell me Wall Street trades on insider info.

Outages have a funny way of revealing cloud dependencies. By day’s end, we’ll all know who AWS’s customers are.

Good news — Shohei Ohtani’s slump is almost over. Bad news — so is the World Series.

Fun fact: Living presidents can’t appear on U.S. coins. So Trump’s commemorative silver dollar might have to feature his old friend Jeffrey Epstein instead.

Healthcare used to be a benefit. Somewhere along the way it became a privilege.

In 2026, Obamacare premiums will rise 18%. For a 55-year-old Arkansas couple making $85K, premiums will jump from $7k this year $30k next year.

How can the wealthiest country on the planet be okay with that?

Filled up my tank today — the only transaction all week that didn’t come with a follow-up survey. Way to go, ExxonMobil 👏

This game of pretending only one side commits political violence is reckless. The U.S. is a well-armed tinderbox, and most of us don’t have 24/7 security teams. Stop normalizing violence. Stop excusing it. We’re all at risk when this becomes partisan theater.

My afternoon in central MA!