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Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Joined April 2009
Goood Morning. Want to ask me a question? -Business, startups, leadership life, etc. you can reach me on Minnect - I respond to 💯 of the questions that are asked. PS - Fed up with LinkedIn? I am. Endless in my messages and people don’t respond. Minnect solves that. You CAN reach people you want to reach. Check it out @theminnectapp app.minnect.com/expert/Thoma…
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Anyone paying ayttemtion?
If you don’t think this could happen here, you’ve not been paying attention.
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It’s practically a natural law in MLB: “When the air turns cold and the muscles get tighter, the baseball playoffs turn toward clutch pitching.” - Biz Doc
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There are leaders "on the field" and their are leaders of "the business" who drive the business AND the field. @ZBrownCEO is the Andrew Friedman of F1. Mega.
I just read through McLaren Racing's entire 48-page financial report, and the details are wild. • $780 million in 2025 revenue • Headcount increased to 1,246 • Average employee salary of $138,000 • Zak Brown personally earned $108 million READ MORE: huddleup.substack.com/p/how-…
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Thank God: Per @Rasmussen_Poll national telephone and online survey results released today in their weekly email... Hasan Piker: Of likely U.S. Voters 64% view Piker unfavorably and only 17% of have a favorable impression 38% Unfavorable 26% Very Unfavorable (64% Unfavorable + Very Unfavorable) 46% “not sure,” likely indicating they don’t recognize Piker’s name.
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Simple truth.
U & Bernie have never created a job, a product, or a company yet somehow you sit on hundreds of millions of your own money while overseeing massive govt waste & fraud telling us to trust the government. Socialism & govt dependency has never worked. No thanks.
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OK, someone said it, and that someone is an insider who would know 👇
🚨 There it is… In a rare moment of honesty, The Atlantic’s David Brooks admitted something that should be a crime—and proves exactly why President Trump banned certain media outlets. “Starting in 2015, we in the Main Stream Media learned that if you bash Donald Trump, the clicks go up, the ratings go up— it became the business model. And we get to go to sometimes off the record dinners between journalists, columnists, and politicians. And I would say over the last two years, when you were at a dinner with Democrat politicians, there was distance between the journalists and democrats. They’re politicians, it’s our job to keep some distance. In my view, in many of the places I’ve been to, there’s no distance anymore. And that is the problem for the media. We have to establish some distance from the Democratic Party. These are people we cover, these are not people we root for. We’re not supposed to be spin doctors for them…” rumble.com/v7ga4ba-the-atlan…
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This is BS and I have an angle from inside the sports broadcast world. The scuttlebutt is this: ALLEGEDLY… - The Blazers went through a search process and legitimately hired Bell for his basketball knowledge and his fast thinking and insightful commentary. - But moments after hiring him, the woke broadcast staff and other DEI pawns in club management freaked out about hiring a “white guy who will be on the mic for 25 years” - They needed a way out. They knew about the comment made when he was 15!! because of the due diligence before he was hired. - They used it by leaking it to the media. But they didn’t leak it to an investigative reporter with a reputable newspaper. No, they leaked it to a media insider. - The story took off and they had the excuse they needed to fire him (translation: pull back the offer). This is sooo disgusting.
Trail Blazers fire broadcaster - on same day hiring was announced - after racist, mismisogynistic posts emerge trib.al/OshW7El
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This is only part of my opinion. I was just getting warmed up!! Please listen to the whole thing. I have personally and very successfully dissuaded parents and high school students from considering Cornell (avoid the documented horrors of their obviously unchecked fraternity system) for a veterinary major and instead going to U of Florida @uf @UFVetMed
Tom Says Cornell Is a Horrible Place and That Fraternities Need to Go "Cornell, in my opinion, is a horrible place. I think colleges like Cornell need to think, is it time to shut down the fraternity system and create alternative housing for kids to bring non fake inclusion?" "The whole fraternity system is rife with hazing that we read about every year, where colleges largely turn a blind eye to it. Rice got rid of fraternities because they thought they excluded people. They bring natural inclusion, not fake DEI inclusion, where no freshman is left out."
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Take the time to read this. It’s a very important distinction that’s being made here and I have been on this page for a long time!! Bravo @DrJStrategy
Logan’s Inflation Error: Burning Down the House to Roast the Pig Dallas Fed President ignores its own Trimmed Mean PCE measure at 1.92% in her speech. Ignore the Data, ignore the theory, Demand Rate hikes. This is the Fed. Lorie Logan’s speech is a clear example of a senior Fed official unable, or unwilling, to distinguish between higher output generated by investment and expanding supply and higher output driven by excess consumption. That distinction is the entire issue. New factory capacity, inventories, logistics networks, energy infrastructure, and domestic production add to supply and relieve inflation over time. Consumption that persistently outruns available output can create excess demand and sustained price pressure. They are not the same thing. Yet Logan treats stronger activity as evidence that monetary policy is insufficiently restrictive. Her claim rests in part on the observation that “The Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey found output accelerated sharply in September.” That is the reveal. An increase in supply is not inflationary. More manufacturing output means more goods, greater capacity, fuller inventories, and fewer shortages, the very process through which an economy relieves price pressure. Logan instead treats stronger production as evidence that demand is overheating. Her assertion that “without any policy restriction, inflation will likely continue its above-target trend” simply assumes the point at issue. Inflation can remain above target while tariffs, higher energy costs, and other negative supply shocks pass through the economy. That does not establish excess demand. Nor does it demonstrate that rate hikes will improve the real adjustment. This is classic Keynesian demand-management dogma, observe healthy output and spending, presume excessive demand, and prescribe tighter money. But rate hikes cannot create energy, undo a tariff, rebuild a supply chain, or expand productive capacity. They cannot speed the adjustment to a tariff shock or a negative energy shock. They can only suppress demand, and, worse, raise the cost of the capital investment, inventories, logistics, factories, and energy infrastructure needed to adapt to those shocks. Higher rates risk delaying the supply response while weakening the economy that is generating it. Logan wants to burn down the house to roast the pig, use broad demand destruction to attack inflation that may largely reflect supply-side disruptions already working their way through the system. Growth alongside easing inflation is not proof of overheating. It may be evidence that supply is recovering. Her error is to see that recovery, call it inflationary, and then threaten to choke it off. Opening remarks for moderated conversation at Voices of the Eleventh District dallasfed.org/news/speeches/… via @DallasFed
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When it’s time to pull me from the game of business, I want one of my daughters to do it. But I intend to beat Charlie Munger‘s record and make it to 100 at my desk because I soooo love this game.
Justin Verlander says goodbye to baseball as his daughter came out to the mound to give him a hug
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Pure logical capitalism (job creation, economic expansion, increasing tax receipts at sensible rates) versus Bernie’s populous screams, which are increasingly less effective. Bernie‘s real frustration is not having Marxist control.
Bernie, you don’t get it. They don’t work for you. You don’t own them. They risked everything to work for themselves. If you or Newsom choose to punish them, they’ll simply leave because they CAN.
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If Byron Donalds had debated in the Republican primary, he would have the moral authority to call this out. He didn’t and therefore doesn’t and he’s losing traction to Jolly, a former Republican and decidedly moderate Democrat who sounds somewhat sensible. Byron and his stack of money from lobbyists outside of Florida (who don’t care about Florida) is in a war.
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Tell me again, why a rate cut was the wrong decision? Mortgage demand was in a “slow and low” recovery of some sort after the big fall in 2023… it was nothing to cheer about, but there was some progress. Now the last two weeks have seen it face plant exactly as I said it would. Consumer housing is screwed. By the end of the year, we should see it breach 1995 levels. Why? What the hell is going to cause it to tick up?
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Please, let this happen!
🔴 Christian Horner s'offre officiellement à la Scuderia Ferrari ! - « J'ai toujours été un simple employé, j'ai passé 21 ans assis au bord de la piste et je n'ai pas besoin de recommencer. À ce stade de ma vie, il n'y a qu'une seule écurie pour laquelle j'accepterais de ne pas détenir de participation au capital ». - « Ferrari est la marque la plus importante de la Formule 1. C’est le rêve. Et on peut dire que c’est le géant endormi de la F1. J’ai l’impression d’avoir encore une danse à danser. Et Toto a besoin qu’on lui ébouriffe ses putains de cheveux ». (formulapassion.it/f1/f1-news…)
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Yep, we did it. 😂
Stay mad we saving businesses
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DeSantis mic drop: 75% of Florida in state college students graduate with $0 debt. UofF is ranked #7 public college in America. Truth. Results.
Florida has the lowest in-state tuition in the nation (by a wide margin): roughly $6300 per year. Florida’s Bright Futures scholarship program makes tuition either completely free or 75% off depending on the scholarship level attained. The result: 75% of in-state students have ZERO debt upon graduation.
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This rate hike is going to be the start of actions that caused a recession. *** Save this post and then drag me with it later*** We do not have inflation in the traditional way that drives inflation. This is supply shock / spike and I think this fed is misreading it because there’s so much political pressure to call it inflation and to push it being Trumps fault. Facts: 1. We have closed refineries in United States, which had created a shortage of refinery capacity, which increased 321 crack spread. No rate hike will rebuild refinery capacity. That would’ve happened this year without the war.. 2. The price of a barrel of oil is responsible for 60% of the increase in the price per gallon of gas. Crack spread is the other 40%. 3. Both of the above cause supply shock or spikes. 4. The jobs report did not show a ton of manufacturing jobs, it showed anticipated seasonal increases in education and hospitality. The numbers below the surface show layoffs at major tech companies, and industry sectors. Not massive but very real numbers. So how the hell can you tell me (if those four facts are correct) we need a rate hike? Sometimes the policy members live deep in a bubble, and they almost need to prove that they’re not beholden to the president as King (the enemies words NOT mine). If Warsh is doing that, even a little bit of it, then he’s making two mistakes: - mis weighing real facts - proving his independence Buckle up. If unchecked, this will cause a recession.
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@grok am I usually correct on Fed rate decisions?
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There are Dems everywhere in Silicon Valley and also leading these companies… if they turn it over to the Dems, it’s a form of appeasement so they can take their trillion dollar companies public. The specific game here is to: 1. get the IPO done and get liquidity to their billions of dollars of investors, 2. with government indemnity like a vaccine company and, 3. cooperation from what they believe is going to be a Democratic FTC and SEC and 4. Regulatory capture on the so-called Guard rails that will “protect the public.”
🚨 WATCH: @PatrickBetDavid SAYS HE CAN’T TRUST THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY TO REGULATE A.I. 🚨 “THEY NEED THE NEXT MASSIVE CRISIS” 🤔
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