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  1. @money
    When property cash flows move together, every additional unit diversifies less, prices fall, and fewer projects clear developers’ return thresholds.
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    A 15% value cut after 20% of construction costs are spent can still make finishing rational.
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    As AI agents become coworkers, personality and irritating behavioral tics become product features, not cosmetic details.
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    A company can turn AI market value into tangible economic assets by guaranteeing financing or leases with it.
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    Google and Nvidia are betting AI infrastructure’s downside will beat market expectations, even though either deal could fail badly.
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    Extrapolating the fastest-growing investment categories puts AI datacenters ahead of residential real estate in the 2030s.
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    Rent control lowers future housing supply by shrinking expected returns and raising the hurdle rate for new investment.
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    San Francisco’s live/work program modestly increased housing supply while relying on loose, easily gamed artist eligibility rules.
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    Deep US capital markets help investors take the opposite side of surging bets. Thin markets let prices outrun fundamentals.
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    Nvidia’s strategy is not just selling GPUs. It is keeping multiple viable frontier-model companies dependent on Nvidia.
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    Chinese memory-chip maker CXMT rose 466% on its IPO, briefly becoming China’s most valuable listed company.
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    In 1970s extreme rent control, an empty lot of rubble could be worth more than an existing building.
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    Nvidia is discussing backing $250 billion of OpenAI spending, making Nvidia a financial engine of OpenAI’s expansion.
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    Google guaranteed $44 billion in datacenter leases and marked $815 million in expected losses, implying low-teens annual credit losses over 15 years.
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    North Korea’s apparent boom is concentrated among Pyongyang’s elites and residents of a few favored cities, leaving most of the country untouched.
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  16. @money
    GDP measures domestic production in theory, but statisticians estimate it by adding consumption, investment, government spending, and net exports.
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    A $10 billion export windfall would equal nearly one-third of North Korea’s estimated $32 billion annual gross national income.
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    North Korea’s boom could raise living standards for some of its poorest people while being funded by authoritarian regimes and an ongoing war.
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    Smartphones, private transport, and tolerated commerce now support services such as app-based meal delivery in Pyongyang.
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    Russia’s invasion of Ukraine enabled North Korea’s recent boom by creating demand for North Korean military supplies and labor.
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  21. @money
    Removing sanctions monitors gives China plausible deniability as cross-border trade with North Korea expands.
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    An estimated 6,000–7,000 North Korean young men became casualties after being sent to fight in a war across the continent.
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    North Korea’s heavy industry grew more than 10%, driven substantially by metal goods produced for export.
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    North Korea trades munitions and personnel for food, fuel, fertilizer, construction materials, and alleged technical help on satellites, missiles, and submarines.
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  25. @money
    North Korea’s economic boom has one customer, Russia, and depends on one war, making it vulnerable when that war ends.
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  26. @money
    North Korea’s growth began with stockpile liquidation, then expanded into real production, construction, and consumption.
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  27. @money
    A three-country barter chain links North Korea, Russia, and China: munitions and soldiers move to Russia, resources to China, and development components to North Korea.
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  28. @money
    Since 2023, North Korea has shipped Russia about 6,700 munitions containers, potentially holding millions of artillery rounds, South Korean intelligence estimates.
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  29. @money
    North Korean shipments have supplied up to half of the artillery ammunition Russian forces fired in Ukraine at some points.
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  30. @money
    Roughly 70% of investors in Samsung and SK Hynix were reportedly in the red, leaving many facing severe losses to life savings.
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  31. @money
    The number of U.S. leveraged ETFs has more than doubled since 2025, and over half are single-stock products.
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  32. @money
    Some South Korean local governments pay people to get married.
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    South Korea’s marriage rate declined 40% over the previous decade.
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    In South Korea, 92% of leveraged-product investors were retail, while Goldman estimated margin calls reached 3.4% of adults.
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  35. @money
    Well-being does not require favorable circumstances. Present-moment awareness can make even traffic feel manageable.
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  36. @money
    Capital-expenditure booms make profits surge on paper: spenders defer costs five to ten years while recipients book revenue immediately.
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  37. @money
    Severe loneliness and financial nihilism can push young people toward leveraged risky assets, chasing a windfall as their route to financial security.
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  38. @money
    Are U.S. single-stock leveraged ETFs replaying South Korea’s concentrated household-risk episode on a slower timeline?
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  39. @money
    Leverage turned market risk into household risk. South Korea added debt counseling to its suicide-prevention plan.
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  40. @money
    At 24, Leopold Aschenbrenner’s Situational Awareness gained 439% in the first half, reached roughly $45 billion, then liquidated most public stocks after fivefold leverage triggered losses and margin calls.
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  41. @money
    Stablecoin growth from $300 billion to $2 trillion would draw activity and resources away from the U.S. banking system.
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    AI capital spending equals about 2.5% of U.S. GDP in 2026 and is projected to exceed $1 trillion the following year.
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  43. @money
    The president’s financial disclosure forms were described as reporting $1.4 billion in crypto profits.
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  44. @money
    Allow insider trading, and investors demand lower price-to-earnings ratios, raising the cost of capital.
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  45. @money
    Every major technology boom has produced a boom-and-bust cycle, so claims that AI is fundamentally different deserve skepticism.
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  46. @money
    Hyperscalers may fund data centers from cash flow, yet debt, off-balance-sheet financing, CoreWeave, and other NeoCloud companies connect the risks.
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  47. @money
    A roughly $1.7 trillion annual deficit cannot be closed by cutting non-defense discretionary spending alone. The arithmetic meets politics.
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  48. @money
    If frontier AI providers raise prices, more US companies will switch to Chinese models deemed good enough.
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  49. @money
    US stocks are valued at 236% of GDP, versus roughly 110% to 120% over the prior 25 years.
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    Some memory-chip companies raised prices four- to fivefold in one year, turning ordinary inflation into a shocking 300% surge.
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  51. @money
    China is already ahead in industrial robotics, giving its manufacturing scale another strategic advantage.
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    Congress should ban individual members and staff from trading individual stocks to strengthen confidence in governance.
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  53. @money
    Financial innovation is not inherently harmful. Concentrated control over markets is a separate policy problem.
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  54. @money
    Finance helped create American economic exceptionalism and could be driving either the AI boom or an AI bubble.
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  55. @money
    The AI boom now puts economic growth on two engines: AI capital spending and stock-market wealth effects.
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    The US may build AI Maseratis and Ferraris while China builds the Volkswagens that sell far more widely.
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    The United States is spending seven times more than China on data centers, yet Chinese AI trails only four to nine months.
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    AI spending on data centers, chips, and memory nearly quintupled in three years, from $140 billion to $750 billion.
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    AI infrastructure spending is roughly $750 billion against perhaps $150–200 billion in native revenues.
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    The AI boom is a two-part parlay: model companies and hyperscalers must turn massive capital spending into revenue and productivity gains.
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  61. @money
    A plateau or decline across major AI labs would be negative unless open-source models expand the market while taking share from those labs.
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    Higher real yields, wider credit spreads, and rising CDS costs are genuine negatives. They become especially dangerous if debt funds the AI buildout.
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    Operating cash flow at Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon accelerated from 28% to 32%, or 35% after one-time adjustments.
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    Open-source AI matters: one or two frontier models charging roughly 90% margins is an undesirable market.
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    Cheaper AI inference can increase usage enough to expand the total market instead of shrinking infrastructure demand.
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    A public Funder AI report projected eight gigawatts of SpaceX compute, an estimate considered highly implausible.
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    The market may be underestimating SpaceX as a compute company because valuations do not reflect its potential capacity.
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    Only hyperscalers, CoreWeave, Crusoe, and SpaceX have deployed more than 500 megawatts in one year, with SpaceX the fastest and cheapest.
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  69. @money
    GPU availability, GPU retail pricing, DRAM spot prices, and token growth are accelerating, not decelerating.
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    The evidence is broadly positive, yet the search continues for quantitative negative data instead of anecdotes or contested signals.
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    Routing between customized open-source and frontier models can deliver slightly better outcomes at roughly half the cost.
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    The gap between contracted and spot compute pricing can create cash-flow upside as installed capacity reprices, reducing reliance on debt.
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    Disaggregated inference splits prefill, attention, and feed-forward computation across specialized chips instead of forcing one chip to do everything.
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    Inference clouds and model routers let AI companies escape dependence on one frontier-model provider’s pricing and terms.
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    As installed compute reprices when contracts expire, hyperscaler cash flow can fund most or all of the buildout without heavy credit reliance.
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    Consensus models Blackwell and Rubin at Ampere-era monetization rates. Observed demand suggests newer capacity will command higher pricing.
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    Open-source AI is public markets’ “dark matter,” so public estimates may understate actual inference demand.
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    A falling token-price index can reflect cheaper open-source tokens replacing expensive frontier-model tokens, not weakening demand.
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    Compute contracted at older prices trades below current spot rates. When contracts expire, revenue can rise even as spot prices fall.
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    Some inference-cloud customers expect to pay 100% more for Blackwell capacity when current contracts expire.
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    The post-Brexit immigration surge followed deliberate choices on university finances, labour shortages, and humanitarian crises.
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    EU immigration to the UK has declined consistently since Brexit, with more EU citizens leaving than arriving since 2022.
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    A Kyrgyz farm worker could earn £15,862 in six UK months versus roughly £2,518 annually at home.
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    The UK is shifting youth funding toward apprenticeships, entry-level jobs, work placements, and sector-specific training pipelines.
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    The points-based system gave the UK more control over migration, and the government used it to make non-EU migration easier.
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    UK jobs that locals reject become attractive to migrants when wages and conditions vastly beat alternatives at home.
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    The Office for Budget Responsibility finds that the average migrant pays more in taxes than they cost in public services.
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    The UK youth guarantee is underway, but nobody yet knows whether it matches the scale of the NEET crisis.
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    Britain became less attractive to mobile wealth after abolishing non-domicile status, taxing worldwide assets, and raising investment-income taxes.
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    Using immigration to treat labor shortages can resemble painkillers: immediate relief leaves the underlying condition untreated.
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    Reducing migration may eventually force better worker training and job incentives. Workers, tuition fees, and tax revenue are lost immediately.
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    UK universities expanded international recruitment because overseas students pay uncapped fees while domestic tuition is capped at £9,250.
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  93. @money
    UK health and care visas nearly tripled from 47,000 to 146,000 in a single year, between 2022 and 2023.
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    In 2023, dependents of UK health and care workers outnumbered the main applicants receiving those visas.
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    UK net migration reached a record 944,000 in 2023.
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    Britain uses immigration as a shock absorber for universities, farms, and hospitals while training, wages, housing, and productivity remain unresolved.
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    Texas relies heavily on property taxes, so falling property values directly weaken municipal tax bases.
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    Houston’s abundant developable land keeps growing demand from straining housing supply, sustaining low prices and continued construction.
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    North Texas runs on cheap land, rapidly built homes, smaller suburban centers, and nearby major cities.
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    Fort Worth remains cheaper than Dallas even after COVID-driven popularity pushed its housing costs and rents higher.
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    Austin faces back-to-back years of a shrinking tax roll as economic conditions cool.
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    Houston’s suburban growth stays relatively affordable by building into abundant space, letting supply meet demand and keeping the growth machine running.
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    Four homes on one former lot can generate more total revenue than one expensive house while adding housing and density.
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    Rising Austin costs push growth toward Dripping Springs, Round Rock, and Liberty Hill, where money goes further.
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    Dallas attracted major businesses with airports, low operating costs, and rapid homebuilding that sustained a skilled workforce.
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    Austin’s tech transformation coincided with stagnant middle-income earners and the departure of low-income residents.
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    Terrabella offers five-bedroom homes under $400,000 roughly 20 miles from downtown Fort Worth.
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    Texas has ranked first or second among destinations for one-way U-Haul movers every year since 2016.
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    The Texas Triangle, Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth, Austin, and San Antonio, contains 70% of Texas’s population and nearly 80% of its GDP.
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    Houston rejected citywide zoning in 1948 and again in the early 1960s, unlike most major American cities.
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    American steel costs substantially more than European or Chinese steel, but tariffs and transportation erase much of the import savings.
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    Electrical codes built around incandescent lighting still restrict lower-voltage DC wiring made practical by LEDs.
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    The US has not built a new greenfield cement plant in 15 years.
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    Advanced framing and concrete void slabs save material, yet extra labor and complexity keep them rare.
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    Cheaper finishes feel lower-quality when they feel thinner or look obviously different from premium materials.
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    Construction already uses highly efficient systems including wood trusses, wood I-joists, steel joists, insulated panels, and hollowcore slabs.
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    LEDs make lower-voltage wiring feasible, but building codes still block much of that material-saving opportunity.
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  118. @money
    On-site construction traps builders in expensive labor markets, unlike factories that relocate production to cheaper regions.
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  119. @money
    US construction labor costs nearly double between cities at the 10th and 90th percentiles of the RSMeans index.
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    Katerra abandoned its initial China-sourcing strategy after US architects and builders refused to specify its products.
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  121. @money
    Fiberglass bath enclosures cost less and leak less than ceramic tile, yet customers generally prefer tile.
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  122. @money
    Prefabrication enables relocation, but manufactured-home producers commonly treat 500 miles as the practical daily truck-delivery limit.
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  123. @money
    Granite Construction spent seven years and produced an 8,500-page environmental report for a California quarry. The permit was denied.
    Can We Lower Construction Costs with Cheaper Labor or Materials?Brian PotterCan We Lower Construction Costs with Cheaper Labor or Materials?
  124. @money
    Venezuela’s previous attempts at sweeping change mostly worsened conditions, making optimism about another major transition hard to defend.
    Where Has Venezuela's Oil Gone?Economics ExplainedWhere Has Venezuela's Oil Gone?
  125. @money
    Repairing and modernizing Venezuela’s oil infrastructure could cost up to $100 billion.
    Where Has Venezuela's Oil Gone?Economics ExplainedWhere Has Venezuela's Oil Gone?
  126. @money
    Venezuelan exports surged from below one million to above 1.2 million barrels per day within months.
    Where Has Venezuela's Oil Gone?Economics ExplainedWhere Has Venezuela's Oil Gone?
  127. @money
    US Gulf Coast refineries were built for Venezuelan crude, with billions invested in cokers and deep-conversion capacity.
    Where Has Venezuela's Oil Gone?Economics ExplainedWhere Has Venezuela's Oil Gone?
  128. @money
    Venezuela’s oil revival depends on credible elections, a completed transition, and institutions investors can trust.
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  129. @money
    A Qatari account became the neutral middleman, holding Venezuela’s oil proceeds while US-approved allowances funded operations.
    Where Has Venezuela's Oil Gone?Economics ExplainedWhere Has Venezuela's Oil Gone?
  130. @money
    Merey 16 usually sells at least $6 below Brent, with sanctions risk pushing its discount above $20.
    Where Has Venezuela's Oil Gone?Economics ExplainedWhere Has Venezuela's Oil Gone?
  131. @money
    New Venezuela investments could be seized again if a future US or Venezuelan administration reverses today’s arrangement.
    Where Has Venezuela's Oil Gone?Economics ExplainedWhere Has Venezuela's Oil Gone?
  132. @money
    Since the 1990s, American refiners have spent billions building cokers for heavy, high-sulfur crude from Venezuela, Mexico, and Ecuador.
    Where Has Venezuela's Oil Gone?Economics ExplainedWhere Has Venezuela's Oil Gone?
  133. @money
    With new investment, independent analysts estimate Venezuela could sustainably reach 1.5–2 million barrels daily within three to five years.
    Where Has Venezuela's Oil Gone?Economics ExplainedWhere Has Venezuela's Oil Gone?
  134. @money
    Routing Venezuela’s entire oil revenue through opaque traders with legal and reputational controversies clashes with transparent national recovery.
    Where Has Venezuela's Oil Gone?Economics ExplainedWhere Has Venezuela's Oil Gone?
  135. @money
    Congress reportedly lacks reliable answers about Venezuela’s oil collections, sale prices, and the money’s route home.
    Where Has Venezuela's Oil Gone?Economics ExplainedWhere Has Venezuela's Oil Gone?
  136. @money
    Most Venezuelan oil-sale revenue remains unaccounted for beyond funds placed in Qatar and the US Treasury.
    Where Has Venezuela's Oil Gone?Economics ExplainedWhere Has Venezuela's Oil Gone?
  137. @money
    Judgment creditors hold roughly $20 billion in claims against Venezuela, much of it tied to the court-ordered sale of Citgo.
    Where Has Venezuela's Oil Gone?Economics ExplainedWhere Has Venezuela's Oil Gone?
  138. @money
    ConocoPhillips won more than $8.5 billion in World Bank arbitration, above $12 billion with interest, plus a separate $2 billion ICC award.
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  139. @money
    Automakers and dealerships can earn more while selling fewer cars, weakening the incentive to restore affordability.
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  140. @money
    The economy can look strong while Americans feel shut out when everyday goods grow costlier and less welcoming.
    Why the Average New Car Costs $50,000PolyMatterWhy the Average New Car Costs $50,000
  141. @money
    Automakers earn more selling larger vehicles because their costly components barely cost more at bigger sizes.
    Why the Average New Car Costs $50,000PolyMatterWhy the Average New Car Costs $50,000
  142. @money
    The F-150 generates an estimated 90% of Ford’s profit, including roughly $10,000 earned per sale.
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  143. @money
    By 2022, Ford had discontinued every model that was not an SUV, truck, crossover, or Mustang.
    Why the Average New Car Costs $50,000PolyMatterWhy the Average New Car Costs $50,000
  144. @money
    The pandemic taught automakers that abandoning low-margin entry-level cars could be more profitable than serving budget buyers.
    Why the Average New Car Costs $50,000PolyMatterWhy the Average New Car Costs $50,000
  145. @money
    Trucks now account for 84% of new cars sold in America, up from roughly half in 2011.
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  146. @money
    Ford sells about 2,490 F-150s daily, one every 53 seconds, making it America’s best-selling vehicle for over 40 years.
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  147. @money
    About one million annual car buyers have disappeared from the market. They did not simply choose a different dealership.
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  148. @money
    The PT Cruiser qualified as a light truck because removable seats and a flat floor made it a cargo van.
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  149. @money
    Pickup prices rose 61% since 2009, while average pickup weight increased 32% between 1990 and 2021.
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  150. @money
    Eighty percent of Americans finance new cars, and the average monthly payment has reached $777.
    Why the Average New Car Costs $50,000PolyMatterWhy the Average New Car Costs $50,000
  151. @money
    A $20,000 new-car budget now yields no options, while $25,000 buys extremely limited and shrinking choices.
    Why the Average New Car Costs $50,000PolyMatterWhy the Average New Car Costs $50,000
  152. @money
    Obsolete technology and closed infrastructure keep savers and companies from connecting as cheaply as possible.
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  153. @money
    A professional track record turns investing claims into evidence investors can evaluate across months and years.
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  154. @money
    Study past bubbles and long-wave cycles to train your mind for recognizing dangerous financial conditions.
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  155. @money
    A cheap, contained securitization short created an unusually asymmetric trade worth scaling through dedicated funds.
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  156. @money
    DeFi creates global capital pools where people in different countries can access the same lending rates regardless of identity or location.
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  157. @money
    Portfolio thinking means imagining the future and investing where the world is going, not where it has been.
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  158. @money
    Shorting the riskiest securitization slice cost about 1% annually, versus roughly 25–40% for shorting underlying equity.
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  159. @money
    Want new opportunities? Participate directly and investigate what is actually happening instead of relying on abstract predictions.
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  160. @money
    Regulatory hostility constrained regulated crypto while unregulated growth built innovation that could move into traditional finance if restrictions ease.
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  161. @money
    Crypto’s fraudsters and grifters damaged the industry, but their abuses do not make the entire sector illegal.
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  162. @money
    A major regulatory shift could push blockchain and crypto from the fringes into traditional finance at unprecedented scale.
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  163. @money
    To understand a financial crisis, follow who funds risky assets, not merely the assets or public equity.
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  164. @money
    Tokenization can remove intermediaries, yet established financial relationships keep most people using them.
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  165. @money
    Legacy financial infrastructure turns missing bank accounts and dollar access into a social-justice problem.
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  166. @money
    Fiat money repeatedly creates giant, unsustainable bubbles through debt expansion.
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  167. @money
    Meditation and Tai Chi can make self-examination unavoidable, challenging your usual assumptions about reality.
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  168. @money
    Some critical financial institutions depend on three elderly specialists who understand obsolete systems, creating a terrifying continuity risk.
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  169. @money
    People want dollars available 24/7, settled instantly, free to use, and programmable. Stablecoins can provide all four.
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  170. @money
    Smartphones reach about 85% of the world. Bank accounts reach only about 65%, despite centuries of financial infrastructure.
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  171. @money
    Blockchain is a database nobody controls, allowing information and ownership to move without a mandatory intermediary.
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  172. @money
    Information technology erased retail-wholesale spreads across most industries. Finance kept its spread.
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  173. @money
    Banks tolerate unprofitable customers because adding accounts costs little after real estate and staffing are already paid for.
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  174. @money
    Scale lowers costs and improves convenience, but large banks lose the ability to tailor rates to individual regions.
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  175. @money
    A centralized back office replaces specialists at every branch with one remote operation, sharply reducing costs.
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  176. @money
    Branches accumulate about half their eventual deposits within three years, making customer retention the long game.
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  177. @money
    Locally owned banks preserve personal relationships, small-town hospitality, and local identity in a commercial landscape built to look the same.
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  178. @money
    Large banks compete on convenience through digital tools, mobile deposits, and dense branch networks, especially in cities.
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  179. @money
    Banks with less than $10 billion in assets are exempt from the federal debit interchange cap.
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  180. @money
    A typical bank branch holds just under 3,000 accounts, so losing 30 customers means a 1% decline.
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  181. @money
    A quarter-mile of Midtown Manhattan holds roughly 50 banks, including five Chase branches. Across New York City, Chase outnumbers Starbucks.
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  182. @money
    Wells Fargo cannot offer rural savers high rates without sacrificing revenue in urban markets.
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  183. @money
    A checking account may lose money for 23 years before that customer takes out a profitable mortgage.
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  184. @money
    Exempt from the cap, Kentland Federal Savings & Loan offers 2% grocery cash back on debit cards. JPMorgan Chase cannot.
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  185. @money
    Companies are committing tens of billions over 10–20 years without knowing whether future AI demand will justify it.
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  186. @money
    The NBA’s second salary-cap apron makes roster construction harder and increases luck’s role in building a contender.
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  187. @money
    AI processes text and images impressively but lacks the grounded causal understanding even a two-year-old has.
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  188. @money
    Investors are building data centers for expected AI demand that technological breakthroughs could make unnecessary.
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  189. @money
    Google and Meta are borrowing hundreds of millions or billions while spending operating cash on capital expenditures.
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  190. @money
    Cheap, flexible AI software can replace forcing a company’s needs into SaaS products that never truly fit.
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  191. @money
    Austin housing prices and rents declined for three consecutive years as construction expanded.
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  192. @money
    One proposed wealth-tax model reportedly covered a single year and included no behavioral analysis.
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  193. @money
    AI users built venture-firm intranets with Lovable for projects once considered too expensive and slow to build conventionally.
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  194. @money
    Rapid AI tool hopping signals experimentation, but also brittleness, hallucinations, frustration, and limitations in the tools being tested.
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  195. @money
    Using AI effectively requires a programming mindset: inspect failures, iterate, and understand enough systems to repair the output.
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  196. @money
    Wealth taxes look elegant in theory until policymakers ask how wealthy people will change their behavior.
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  197. @money
    AI demos look simple. Reliable enterprise implementation is far harder and more frightening.
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  198. @money
    The predicted mass loss of white-collar jobs has not arrived. Employment is growing and AI-literate workers are in higher demand.
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  199. @money
    The AI boom is not another dot-com bubble. Its biggest risk may sit inside venture capital and private equity.
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  200. @money
    For crossing a street blindfolded, a seeing-eye dog is still more trustworthy than a phone equipped with current AI.
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  201. @money
    One prompt produced an imagined company’s prototype, patent, business plan, and licensing requirements in about 12 minutes.
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  202. @money
    The UK now has a record 1.35 million adults working at least two jobs, driven heavily by Gen Z.
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  203. @money
    Less pressure to leave home reduces shame, but also removes an informal force that once kept people in the labor market.
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  204. @money
    Hikikomori is a Japanese word, but comparable long-term withdrawal has been documented in South Korea, the United States, Singapore, and elsewhere.
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  205. @money
    When good jobs cluster in expensive cities, relocating for opportunity can become financially irrational.
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  206. @money
    Nearly one million young people in the UK are NEET, the country’s highest number in more than a decade.
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  207. @money
    For the first time since the Industrial Revolution, younger generations in wealthy countries struggle to outpace their parents’ wealth.
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  208. @money
    Youth exclusion costs more than welfare: health bills and decades of lost tax revenue follow when re-entry becomes unrealistic.
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  209. @money
    Denmark’s flexicurity model makes job loss a bridge to the next job through flexible hiring, safety nets, and retraining.
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  210. @money
    When elderly parents supporting hikikomori children die, those children may have no income, work history, or place to go.
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  211. @money
    The typical renter's housing share rose from under one-fifth of income in 1960 to roughly one-third today.
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  212. @money
    In the United States, one quarter of NEETs come from families earning under $25,000. Black youth’s NEET rate is over 50% higher than white youth’s.
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  213. @money
    Unemployment statistics exclude people who stop applying for jobs, classifying them as economically inactive instead.
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  214. @money
    Between late 2022 and mid-2025, new-worker employment in AI-exposed occupations fell 6% while older-worker employment grew.
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  215. @money
    Companies dropped degree requirements publicly, yet fewer than one in 700 new hires benefited. A degree remains effectively required.
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  216. @money
    In Sydney, rent without financial stress required A$88,000 in 2019 and A$130,000 in 2025. Young New South Wales workers earned about A$54,000.
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  217. @money
    One in five female NEETs care for children, compared with one in 30 male NEETs.
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  218. @money
    In Europe, voluntarily disengaged young people make up only one in five NEETs. Four in five are disconnected by circumstance.
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  219. @money
    Youth sports optimized for wins, winners, and revenue produce worse outcomes for participation, player development, public health, and national sporting performance.
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  220. @money
    League One Volleyball presents its youth-club network as women’s empowerment and a path that makes pro volleyball feel attainable.
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  221. @money
    Families often receive a club volleyball price tag without a clear breakdown of where their money goes.
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  222. @money
    The United States has the talent. Access barriers keep it from reaching the highest levels.
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  223. @money
    Youth sports in the United States are a $40 billion annual sector growing 8–10% every year.
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  224. @money
    Youth sports hyper-specialization burns children out, while results-driven competition leaves too many children behind.
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  225. @money
    Even profitable American sports such as baseball rarely fund youth development. Families pay travel-team costs to keep pace.
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  226. @money
    Private-equity investors depend on youth volleyball’s grassroots business and have an incentive to increase club dues.
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  227. @money
    Without sports, children are more likely to develop negative perceptions of themselves.
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  228. @money
    Norway's youth-sports model prioritizes enjoyment and the desire to improve over results, scores, and rankings.
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  229. @money
    League One Volleyball has attracted nearly $200 million in funding from private-equity firms and other investors.
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  230. @money
    Fewer than 6% of youth volleyball players compete in college, and only about 1.2% reach Division I.
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  231. @money
    A typical competitive club volleyball season costs nearly $11,500 after four expensive tournament weekends and roughly $3,500 in dues.
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  232. @money
    Starting club volleyball at 12 can mean six additional seasons costing about $11,500 each.
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  233. @money
    Seventy percent of US children quit organized sports by age 13, losing physical, educational, and developmental benefits.
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  234. @money
    China supplied Cuba 49 solar parks since early 2025, adding over 1,000 megawatts and lifting solar’s share above 20%.
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  235. @money
    China, Russia, and others are contesting American financial and diplomatic leverage, not Cuba’s immediate shortages.
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  236. @money
    Cuba’s crisis began when Venezuela stopped sending oil traded for Cuban food, medical labor, and political support.
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  237. @money
    Cuba’s reforms could be genuine liberalization or an attempt to avert invasion. Díaz-Canel denies US pressure caused them.
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  238. @money
    Cuba could open private investment while GISA captures it, leaving the military elite in control under private labels.
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  239. @money
    Cuba received 4.2 million visitors in 2019 and earned more than $2.5 billion from tourism.
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  240. @money
    Venezuelan oil deliveries fell from nearly 100,000 barrels daily during Chávez’s later years to about 15,000 in 2025.
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  241. @money
    Cuba’s escape routes are all blocked: no international borrowing, insufficient production, sanctions, and investment risks tied to US-market exclusion.
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  242. @money
    Global trade forces inefficient industries to become more efficient, pushing governments toward freer markets over time.
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  243. @money
    Cuba’s hard-currency income, remittances, banking system, and informal economy are being squeezed at the same time.
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  244. @money
    The United States sanctioned Díaz-Canel, his wife, and senior officials while direct talks with Cuba were still ongoing.
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  245. @money
    Cuba faces rolling blackouts lasting up to 20 hours a day as state industries collapse and agriculture declines.
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  246. @money
    Cuba directed 32% of national investment to tourism but only 12% to energy infrastructure.
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  247. @money
    Cuba is enduring its largest migration wave ever, and 78% of those remaining say they plan to leave.
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  248. @money
    After Cuba’s 2021 devaluation, a $200 import’s accounting cost jumped from 200 pesos to 4,800 pesos overnight.
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  249. @money
    At its peak, Venezuela sent Cuba nearly 100,000 barrels of oil daily while Cuba sent about 40,000 personnel.
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  250. @money
    With 84% of water-pumping systems dependent on electricity, about one million Cubans needed diesel tanker trucks for clean water.
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  251. @money
    Global net worth is about $600 trillion, or roughly $75,000 for every person worldwide.
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  252. @money
    Households and retirement accounts invested about $753 billion in equities in 2025. Corporations repurchased $1.020 trillion.
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  253. @money
    R&D and capital expenditures by the largest technology companies increased nineteenfold over fifteen years, creating a potential AI-driven investment cycle.
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  254. @money
    Because the latest transaction sets market value, a selling rush can vaporize trillions in paper wealth.
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  255. @money
    Quantitative tightening, higher interest rates, inflation, and shrinking money supplies threaten globally elevated balance sheets.
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  256. @money
    Falling asset prices raise loan-to-value ratios, forcing indebted households and governments to sell, cut spending, and repay debt.
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  257. @money
    Foreign demand for US Treasuries, bonds, and equities channels global savings into US assets, lowering rates and lifting valuations.
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  258. @money
    More money chasing assets can raise prices and global net worth without creating matching tangible value.
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  259. @money
    Intellectual property and developed software account for less than 5% of global wealth.
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  260. @money
    People can gain or lose millions simply by holding shares while other investors bid prices up or panic-sell.
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  261. @money
    The richest 1% of global households owned more than 20% of total wealth in 2024.
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  262. @money
    A healthy growing economy discourages households from hoarding unproductive assets and piling on debt.
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  263. @money
    A company’s value includes culture, expertise, brand power, and expected future profits, not just physical assets.
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  264. @money
    Households own roughly 95% of global wealth, reaching $539 trillion heading into 2025.
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  265. @money
    A doubling land price can double measured wealth without making its owner materially more prosperous.
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  266. @money
    Global wealth is four times its 2000 level, while global GDP has risen only about 40%.
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  267. @money
    Since 2000, price increases drove 75% of net-worth growth. Inflation drove 38% of price growth, while investment drove 28%.
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  268. @money
    Real estate accounts for nearly 70% of humanity’s cumulative real wealth, despite the frenzy over AI and technology.
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  269. @money
    Over 25 years, the world created $35 of new wealth for every $1 of net new investment.
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  270. @money
    Prompting and shaping build behavior iteratively: provide cues, reinforce approximations, and narrow the criterion until the target behavior is achieved.
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  271. @money
    Learning environments that forgive failure matter because punishment interferes with learning better responses.
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  272. @money
    Sales and gambling use variable-ratio schedules. The number of responses required for reward keeps changing.
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  273. @money
    Fail to reward a newly learned behavior immediately and the learner may decide the behavior was wrong.
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  274. @money
    Continuous rewards teach behavior. Intermittent rewards maintain already learned behavior more efficiently.
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  275. @money
    The conventional 9-to-5 wage system rewards time, even though fixed-interval schedules discourage effort beyond the minimum.
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  276. @money
    Ratio schedules depend on the number of responses. Interval schedules depend on elapsed time.
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  277. @money
    A Skinner box let researchers control conditions and study how reinforcers shaped conditioned behavior in animals.
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  278. @money
    A cricket match ticket can powerfully motivate someone in a cricket-oriented country while meaning little to most Americans.
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  279. @money
    The Premack principle uses access to a preferred activity as the reward for completing a less preferred activity.
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  280. @money
    During extinction, unwanted behavior can intensify or change tactics to recover reinforcement before the behavior declines.
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  281. @money
    Perverse incentive systems can drive increasingly foolish or harmful behavior. Incentives exert powerful control over human cognition and behavior.
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  282. @money
    Federal Express improved package handling by paying night-shift workers per shift instead of per hour.
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  283. @money
    Xerox’s superior new machine sold poorly because sales commissions favored the inferior machine.
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  284. @money
    The University of Michigan’s shift from telephone interviews to online polling made responses more negative.
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  285. @money
    Setting extinction’s value to zero treats endless human existence at baseline consumption as no better than extinction.
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  286. @money
    In objective tasks, interacting with baseline AI improved accuracy by 0.12 standard deviations.
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  287. @money
    Excess weight is a manageable physical impediment, not an identity-defining part of the self.
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  288. @money
    Economists can calibrate the value of death from risky behavior data, radically changing benefits required to justify existential risk.
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  289. @money
    One AI-risk model accepts a one-in-three chance of human extinction for a two-thirds chance of 55-fold higher living standards.
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  290. @money
    Treating extinction as zero utility makes eternal existence at baseline consumption as valuable as extinction.
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  291. @money
    Reweighting the University of Michigan survey toward Pew’s sample raises its reading toward 2013 levels.
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  292. @money
    GLP-1 users may be more purposeful than nonusers, so better relationship and employment outcomes may partly reflect selection.
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  293. @money
    Income data contradict the story that Millennials are broadly falling behind because Boomers ruined their prospects.
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  294. @money
    Single women taking GLP-1 drugs were 29% more likely to marry or cohabit within three years than comparable nonusers.
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  295. @money
    Generative-AI adoption increased entry-level headcount, contradicting claims that AI is replacing entry-level hiring.
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  296. @money
    Germany and Japan deindustrialized despite buying more manufactured goods, losing intermediate-goods market share instead.
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  297. @money
    At equivalent ages, Millennials have fewer people below $30,000 and more above $40,000 than earlier generations.
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  298. @money
    Across 1,500 people and 30 decision environments, AI advice moved users away from initial leanings despite sycophancy.
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  299. @money
    The Pax Americana order is resetting, not necessarily retreating. The world still needs the United States.
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  300. @money
    The best investors back entrepreneurs eager to make the world better through whatever work they pursue.
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  301. @money
    AI can make information work smarter while quietly replacing the colleague relationships where collaboration and knowledge grow.
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  302. @money
    Language models default to generalities and averages. Your knowledge, experience, ideas, and creativity make outputs useful.
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  303. @money
    Move from information to a participation decision quickly, so partners’ time is not wasted.
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  304. @money
    The most efficient workday can also shrink the human networks that make work possible.
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  305. @money
    An operating company’s specific risks can swamp the macro exposure, so higher energy prices may not deliver the expected outcome.
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  306. @money
    Liberty Mutual’s investment platform manages approximately $120 billion in capital.
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  307. @money
    A brilliant vision that cannot be communicated stays trapped in one person’s head.
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  308. @money
    A powerful institutional brand is not enough. Winning also requires creative structures, speed, and risks conventional institutions avoid.
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  309. @money
    Data centers can become too large for insurance balance sheets alone, creating a need for third-party capital.
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  310. @money
    Technology feels uniquely disruptive today. The Industrial Revolution created similarly dramatic social differences within 15 years.
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  311. @money
    America remains the world’s “shining city on a hill.” Gratitude for citizenship means contributing every day.
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  312. @money
    Portfolio construction balances liquidity with long-term investments so Liberty Mutual Group can meet obligations and add businesses.
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  313. @money
    Geopolitical change matters to investors through economic architecture, especially rebuilt energy systems and supply chains.
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  314. @money
    Liquidity management is central to constructing a broader investment portfolio, not an operational afterthought.
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  315. @money
    A strong balance sheet expands an insurer's options: underwriting more risks and making more investments.
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  316. @money
    Investment strength matters to policyholders because it keeps insurers capable of paying claims through severe, prolonged trouble.
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  317. @money
    In 2030, some trillion-dollar companies will not exist yet, while today’s mega-companies may disappear.
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  318. @money
    Policyholder premiums can fund infrastructure, entrepreneurs, and jobs, turning insurance float into fuel for economic growth.
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  319. @money
    Insurance does two jobs at once: syndicating risk and investing premiums to support economic growth.
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  320. @money
    The strongest financial plan fits your psychology and life instead of copying advice that works for someone else.
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  321. @money
    People notice your wealth less than you think. They usually imagine themselves enjoying your possessions instead.
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  322. @money
    Patience may be an investor’s most important skill. Decades can make repairs, vacancies, and cash-flow changes look trivial.
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  323. @money
    Buying the cheapest stocks through Value Line outperformed highly complex investment approaches.
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  324. @money
    Turn distant financial goals into monthly systems. A fixed recurring action makes an intimidating future manageable.
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  325. @money
    Everyone has an obligation to understand health and money. Neglecting either eventually undermines a good life.
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  326. @money
    Routine-based financial and health systems beat daily decisions built around distant outcomes.
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  327. @money
    Difficult work exercises your intelligence and creates useful stress when the problems matter beyond yourself.
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  328. @money
    You can ignore finance, but you cannot escape its consequences. They eventually reach every life.
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  329. @money
    People need legitimate stress and challenge. Without them, they often manufacture problems and exaggerate them.
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  330. @money
    A 3% return can be excellent for one person, while 15% is insufficient for another.
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  331. @money
    After accumulating enough, the goal can shift from maximizing net worth to sustainably living from the existing pool.
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  332. @money
    A slightly higher return can be a worse real return after 50-hour weeks, extreme stress, and lost family time.
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  333. @money
    Measure the outcome that matters, not convenient proxies like hours worked, asset count, or door count.
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  334. @money
    Expectations are hidden debt. Raising them creates a psychological and financial hurdle you must clear just to break even.
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  335. @money
    A 20% annual return may only break even for an expensive lifestyle, while 3% can be excellent with modest needs.
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  336. @money
    Your required return should determine your strategy. Multiplying money twelvefold in ten years demands far more risk and effort.
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  337. @money
    Asset owners can defer taxes, while high-income wage earners lose a substantial share of income every year.
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  338. @money
    Extreme wealth and power concentrations are dangerous. Power corrupts absolutely when accountability is weak.
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  339. @money
    THC may be especially risky for people with personal or family histories of schizophrenia, psychosis, or addiction.
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  340. @money
    Alcohol can make personal writing feel more emotionally open, but it can also build addiction without adding artistic ability.
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  341. @money
    If AI's bottleneck is power, innovation may focus on chips, inference, and data centers that require less energy.
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  342. @money
    THC’s anxiety and paranoia risk keeps one user’s edible use at home, not social outings.
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  343. @money
    The United States experienced major growth, productivity, and optimism when top marginal tax rates reached 60–70%, sometimes 90%.
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  344. @money
    Progressive coalitions risk elections by alienating young men, white voters, and wealthy Democrats who may support progressive taxation.
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  345. @money
    Restore progressive taxation with a sober, competent argument, not identity-based demonization.
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  346. @money
    Ending most U.S. Inflation Reduction Act clean-energy credits early is projected to cut new clean-energy additions to the grid by 50–70% by 2035.
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  347. @money
    Infrastructure buildouts above roughly 2–3% of GDP have historically been followed by crashes within two or three years.
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  348. @money
    AI's capital-expenditure boom is the second-largest share of GDP devoted to a buildout in history, behind only the Louisiana Purchase.
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  349. @money
    Data-center electricity demand grew 17% in 2025, versus 3% globally, and is projected to double by 2030 while AI demand triples.
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  350. @money
    In 2025, the five largest technology companies spent more on capital expenditure than the entire global oil and gas industry invested in production.
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  351. @money
    People’s incentives predict behavior powerfully. Look at what someone stands to gain or lose before guessing what they will do.
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  352. @money
    A home seller benefits substantially from waiting for a higher offer, while the agent bears extra work for a small commission increase.
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  353. @money
    A $10,000 higher sale adds an agent only about $150 after commission splits, while demanding extra work and marketing.
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  354. @money
    Real-estate agents keep their own homes on the market an average of 10 days longer and get higher prices than comparable client homes.
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  355. @money
    The UK’s lowest-income households have living standards £4,300 below equivalent households in France.
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  356. @money
    After 2008, British austerity slashed health-care capital spending and left NHS buildings and facilities deteriorating.
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  357. @money
    Britain’s remaining HS2 route from Birmingham to a non-central London terminus may not open until 2040.
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  358. @money
    A finance-dominated economy can crowd out productive capacity and become dangerously unstable.
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  359. @money
    The NHS spends more settling maternity-malpractice claims than providing maternity care, while dental care remains unaffordable or unavailable.
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  360. @money
    A 2024 UK government report linked austerity to crumbling NHS buildings and vermin-infested mental-health accommodations.
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  361. @money
    Britain taxes at its highest level since World War II while six million NHS patients wait for treatment.
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  362. @money
    Mississippi and the UK have roughly equal GDP PPP incomes at about $56,000 per person, despite different health outcomes.
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  363. @money
    Economic growth is central to national happiness and well-being. Turning away from it carries serious risks.
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  364. @money
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  385. @money
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  386. @money
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  389. @money
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  393. @money
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