Independent thinking for complex markets and current events
This is what collapse looks like in spreadsheets. Not mistakes, not edge cases, just a machine vacuuming taxpayer money into pet projects, activists, consultants, and friends of the system while interest alone eats the country alive. There is fraud everywhere and nobody ever pays for it because the people writing the checks are never the …
– $10 billion on maintaining, leasing, and furnishing mostly empty buildings – $12 Million on a Las Vegas Pickleball Complex – $3 Million for ‘Girl-Centered Climate Action’ in Brazil – $10,851,439 on Orwellian cat experiments – $4,840,082 on Ukrainian influencers – $20 million on “Ahlan Simsim” a new Sesame Street show in Iraq – $365,000 …
81% of voters want to shrink the federal government 🤯 Considering 15% of voters *work* for government, that means roughly everybody else wants it to shrink. https://t.co/fsfieL5m9J pic.twitter.com/eQjeSxJips — Peter St Onge, Ph.D. (@profstonge) November 15, 2024 The U.S. National Institutes of Health spent $442,340 to study the behavior of male prostitutes in Vietnam. That …
It’s my favorite time of the year… Sen. Rand Paul’s annual “Festivus Report” is out – with a whopping $482 billion in taxpayer-funded waste—from $3 million for steroid-injected hamster brawls to $118,000 to see if Thanos could snap his fingers in a metal glove. Some highlights include: • $31.5 million on luxury cars with COVID …