RT @mattdpearce: executing normie class warfare in the stock market by steadily directing retirement contributions to a monolithic Vanguard…
Binyamin Appelbaum Sat 30 Jan 2021 14:19

When do I get my space laser?
Binyamin Appelbaum Fri 29 Jan 2021 21:58

RT @TheStalwart: Great writeup, as always, rom @matt_levine, but particular worth reading today, when there is just an egregious amount o m…
Binyamin Appelbaum Fri 29 Jan 2021 18:13

RT @BCAppelbaum: We don’t know exactly how many people are homeless in America. We don’t even have a particularly good guess. And we need b…
Binyamin Appelbaum Fri 29 Jan 2021 12:43

I know some Jewish Lazers but what the hell is a Jewish space laser?
Binyamin Appelbaum Fri 29 Jan 2021 03:28

"Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense. Something there is that doesn't love a wall."
Binyamin Appelbaum Thu 28 Jan 2021 20:52

The stock market may be the nearest thing we have to a textbook marketplace, and I think that's part of why people get so upset when it becomes obvious that it's not a textbook marketplace because there is no such thing and that's the lesson -- there are no textbook marketplaces.
Binyamin Appelbaum Thu 28 Jan 2021 14:57

RT @ByMikeBaker: ~140 police officers were injured in the U.S. Capitol siege, including brain injuries, smashed spinal discs and one office…
Binyamin Appelbaum Wed 27 Jan 2021 22:10

I just finished counting and trading in GameStop is 7,342nd on our list of economic problems in this country.
Binyamin Appelbaum Wed 27 Jan 2021 21:50

Wake me up when the crazy investor kids start piling into newspaper stocks.
Binyamin Appelbaum Wed 27 Jan 2021 16:04

RT @arindube: New paper by Ashenfelter and Jurajda: minimum wages mostly absorbed through output prices, little impact on store closure or…
Binyamin Appelbaum Wed 27 Jan 2021 15:59

RT @zeithistoriker: starting a hedge fund-backed counter-app called princejohn https://t.co/dsU3qhrW68
Binyamin Appelbaum Wed 27 Jan 2021 15:49

I feel like someone should invent the equity market equivalent of Bitcoin: Stock in companies that don't actually exist, solely for the purpose of speculation. Everyone finds GameStop confusing because it's a real company, but why bother with real companies?
Binyamin Appelbaum Wed 27 Jan 2021 14:59

RT @mattdpearce: Finance discourse pivoted pretty quickly from “we can’t pay workers $15 an hour, it will destroy the economy and make thin…
Binyamin Appelbaum Wed 27 Jan 2021 00:59

What a joke the baseball Hall of Fame has made of itself.
Binyamin Appelbaum Wed 27 Jan 2021 00:24

Tom Brady.
Binyamin Appelbaum Sun 24 Jan 2021 21:32

RT @mattdpearce: This feels bad but it’s still climate change.
Binyamin Appelbaum Sun 24 Jan 2021 04:31

Good title - and a good primer for those who think minimum wage laws violate some kind of natural law. https://t.co/vQOt4x1TiF
Binyamin Appelbaum Fri 22 Jan 2021 20:55

RT @portereduardo: Some states make it really hard to collect unemployment. In North Carolina, only 9% of the unemployed get benefits. In F…
Binyamin Appelbaum Fri 22 Jan 2021 18:40

RT @ebruenig: it's like the geneva conventions, which were conceived of and created by the ordinary denizens of geneva who simply cared abo…
Binyamin Appelbaum Thu 21 Jan 2021 01:13

Well that’s it. The ceremony is over and Amanda Gorman is now the president.
Binyamin Appelbaum Wed 20 Jan 2021 17:27

Biden’s emphasis on truth as the foundation of democracy is profound and important.
Binyamin Appelbaum Wed 20 Jan 2021 17:07

Here comes Kevin McCarthy, who is here despite refusing for months to acknowledge Biden's victory and voting to discard millions of legal votes.
Binyamin Appelbaum Wed 20 Jan 2021 16:17

RT @EconoFactOrg: Catch host Michael Klein as he is joined by four journalists,@greg_ip (@WSJ), @BCAppelbaum (@nytimes), @byHeatherLong (…
Binyamin Appelbaum Wed 20 Jan 2021 15:07

RT @sallyahardin: I never thought I'd feel this much joy and relief at seeing a factsheet. It's beautiful. Happy Day 1! https://t.co/8zAT2…
Binyamin Appelbaum Wed 20 Jan 2021 14:17