Filmmaker: The Bigger Bubble, The Fall of 2008, My Dad The Honor Flight Director, The Housing Bubble, Rocksteppy
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@nottjmiller will make you laugh, while finding ways to challenge you intellectually and philosophically! I really enjoyed this conversation and look forward to seeing where his career goes next.
@nottjmiller talks bitcoin, atheism vs. absurdism, and grandma camp on Let Us Disagree with @jimmorrisonfilm!
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The latest print of the Casey’s Pizza Inflation Index (CPI) is in.
2020: $2.50
2021: $2.69
2022: $2.99
2023: $3.29
2024: $3.29
2025: $3.39
2026: $3.49
YoY: +2.9%
Since inception: +39.6% (+5.7% annualized)
Purchasing power of $100 in slices: 40 (in 2020) → 28
Independent gas station pizza research you can trust.
Hard to imagine an actor that has made me feel more emotion over a lifetime than Patrick Stewart.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to:
Johns Hopkins Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Fund
alzresearch.org/giving/
Alzheimer’s Foundation of America Caregiver Resources
alzfdn.org/donate/
Photo Credit: Tommy Garcia
I think I can do all of these other than maintain friendships. I'm still not sure why people think working 50 hours a week is a lot. That's nothing.
DAD TO DAD:
You cannot work 50 hours a week, hit the gym every morning, build wealth, keep the house in order, be an amazing husband, show up fully for your kids, maintain friendships, pursue hobbies, eat perfectly, read every night, and still have unlimited energy left for yourself.
Something will eventually give.
And too many fathers are walking around feeling like failures because they cannot do everything at once.
Social media tells you to be a provider, a present father, a devoted husband, a successful entrepreneur, an athlete, and a man who never complains about being tired.
But you're human. Not a machine.
Your kids don't need a father who has mastered every aspect of life. They need a father who loves them, listens to them, makes time for them, and keeps showing up.
Your family needs your presence more than your perfection.
Build your career. Take care of your health. Chase your dreams. But stop measuring your worth against an impossible standard.
You don't have to excel at everything to be a great dad. Sometimes, doing enough is more than enough.
Jimmy Morrison retweeted
One of the hardest things I’ve seen in education is trying to re-engage a teenager who has spent years consuming video games, social media, and YouTube slop for hours a day.
At some point, we’re all creatures of habit. A child who becomes completely habituated to dopamine hits through passivity has a much harder time becoming an active learner and thinker.
This is why there is urgency in creating environments where kids become active learners, thinkers, engaged in conversation and positive relationships, with limited digital distractions, as early as possible.
We’ve had transformative conversions from non-thinker to thinker.
But when the light in your child’s eyes begins to go out, don’t wait until they’re on technology 14 hours a day, bored at school, and it becomes hard to recover.
Jimmy Morrison retweeted
I’ve had a lot of people asking me about the botched execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee, as well as the upcoming execution by firing squad that’s supposed to be livestreamed. Having spent nearly 20 years on death row, my thoughts and feelings about these things are so vast that I sometimes struggle to find a place to begin. I became close friends with a man who had committed murder. He was like a brother to me. I once watched him break down crying, trembling as he told me he wished he was as evil as the world believed him to be, because then he wouldn’t have to care about what he’d done. Fifteen years later, he was still having nightmares about it. I know in my soul that he would never hurt another person again. But I’ve also watched a man being stabbed to death in prison. I cried for days afterward, and something inside me was changed forever. I learned that some people are capable of extraordinary transformation, while others remain capable of terrible violence even behind prison walls. There are no simple answers here. No slogans or political arguments that can adequately address the complexity of human beings, guilt, punishment, and suffering.
But there is one thing I want to say about the upcoming execution by firing squad. Don’t watch it. Whatever you believe about the death penalty, even if you think the person being executed deserves to die, don’t watch it. You cannot witness a human being being killed and simply walk away unchanged. What you see becomes part of you. It follows you into places you never expected it to reach. There are things I witnessed in prison that I would give anything to forget, things that still cast a shadow over my life decades later. There’s a difference between understanding that terrible things happen in the world and deliberately making yourself a spectator to them. I don’t have all the answers about justice, punishment, or forgiveness. But I do know that killing another human being should never become so ordinary that we turn it into something to watch from the comfort of our living rooms.
TheBiggerBubble.com
US 10 year highest since 2007
US 30 year highest since 2004
Japan 10 year highest since 1996
UK 10 year highest since 2007
Germany 10 year highest since 2009
Tomorrow is important for markets that depend on dictators at the Fed!
I recorded podcasts with Doug Casey and Marc Faber months before the latest war started. Can't wait to share them this month, as they are incredibly important and couldn't hold up better.
"The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war..
Jimmy Morrison retweeted
We tell young people in our society that end of the rainbow is retirement at 65.
We ought to tell them that "there is going to be this short but beautiful golden window from roughly age 3 to roughly age 12 where your kids are not only easy (comparatively to bottles & diapers), but are going to be these beautiful little creatures and it will pain your heart to be away from them for too long. So, prepare in your 20's, financially and career wise, to build that flexibility into that chapter of your life".
You don't get another shot at living the "golden window". And, for me, leaning hard into that golden window has made everything else in my life feel fairly insignificant in comparison. I have made plenty of mistakes as a father, but what I won't have is the regret of having been distracted and absent from these formative years. In some cases, that has required financial sacrifices (declining a particular career opportunity that would have required relocation), but I personally have zero regrets.
I also hear from some ambitious & successful people with a 4 year old that say "I've lost my ambition, I am so immersed in fatherhood". At least for me, and a number of my friends, it comes back. You can't keep an ambitious person down and if you have the fire, hanging at a playground on too many Tuesday afternoons is going to feel like torture after too long.
My three boys are approaching 13, 11 & 9, and it's much different than 7, 5 & 3. This summer, for example, they slept until 11am and I hard an unencumbered 6am-12pm to work (being on PT helps), then got another great window 7-11pm, but was able to be present in the heart of the day, then weeks when they were at basketball camp, etc. It gets easier, your time frees up again (there's a sadness to that too), but I'm back to working as intensely as I did pre-kids just because my day to day presence requires fewer hours than it did before (also, my wife is just superbly wonderful). And that is the beautiful gift of entrepreneurship (or at least my sort of business), the ability to deliver still a high level of output but work that around your life rather than the opposite.
TLDR, grind before, and grind after. Prepare for the golden window.
See @BobMurphyEcon and others that predicted the crash in TheBubbleFilms.com!
The 1st deep fake of Murray: LetUsDisagree.com/Rothbard
Clarence Thomas cited Murray Rothbard’s The Progressive Era in his concurrence in the Monsanto decision today:
“Those regulations often enable a ‘profitable alliance’ between corporations and government, as the corporations look ‘for government to cartelize their industry after private efforts for cartels and monopoly ha[ve] failed.’”
Making documentaries is like dumping out a bunch of puzzles into a pile and then trying to put them together into one piece of art.
@elonmusk describes entrepreneurship as chewing glass while staring into the abyss. That's a good version. For me, building schools, it has often felt like being punched in the gut every day.
I literally made a documentary about this.
TheBubbleFilms.com
14:58 into The Housing Bubble doc, there is a shot of a realtor selling this house. Anyone know why we included that house?
15 years ago, they said it was impossible. 5 years ago, they said it was impossible. Last year, they said it was impossible. I spent the last 15 years making documentaries showing it was inevitable.
The European Central Bank (their version of the Federal Reserve) just admitted...