Public school segregation is now as severe as or more severe than in the late 1960s

The true cost of one MTA ride is ~ $10.47. You pay $3.00 at the turnstile. Businesses & taxpayers cover the other $7.47 through payroll, sales & real estate taxes. So your trip is ~30% fare, 70% subsidy today

5 boro bike ride

Gasoline is the new Bitcoin

New solar is now cheaper than natural gas ($38–78/MWh vs $48–107/MWh). The US can generate >5,750 GW of solar on just 44M federal acres—enough to power the country many times over. More solar = lower, more stable energy prices. ☀️📉

NYC: $12.6B two-year deficit, $2B rainy day fund (untapped but debated). Recession would spike safety net costs & borrowing, force deep service cuts. Credit outlook negative. Weak footing, no margin for error, and Hormuz is still shut. Not great

2026 Iran War "Mission Accomplished" Checklist: ❌ Secure Strait of Hormuz ❌ Stop Iran's Nuclear Program ❌ Bring Down the Regime ❌ Keep Gas Prices Stable ❌ Avoid "Forever War" ✅ Trigger Global Energy Crisis 🚢🔥

Build data centers like Dumbo Brooklyn warehouses, designed today to become housing tomorrow. Require pre‑funded conversion, windows, livable floors, energy back to grid. No dead boxes. Just future neighborhoods. That’s how blue states say yes to AI.

If you literally can’t board the MTA bus or subway in rush hour, price is too low. Raise fares to $4 (~with fare fares low-income relief), offer a annual subscription at discounted prices, enforce payment, and use revenue to automate & boost frequency. Packed means under-priced

Estimate the likelihood of an accidental escalation between China and Taiwan by 2030. Gemini 70% Claude 25-40% ChatGPT 15-30% Perplexity 15% Deepseek “Sorry, that’s beyond my current scope. Let’s talk about something else.”

What are the Odds that China invades Taiwan by the year 2029: Gemini 20-25% Claude 10-15% Perplexity 20-35% ChatGPT 15-35% Deepseek 10%

Tax cuts → deficit-financed → short-term demand boost → asset price inflation → older owners gain wealth via appreciation → younger people face higher prices for homes, cars, education → future debt service + slower growth + higher future taxes land on those same young Americans

when Spirit leaves a market, average fares jumped 23% due to the loss of ultra-low-cost competition. And that was before the huge price spikes we see today. Iran war #inflation

How much longer will the US military be in the Gulf region for our not-a-war war that’s raising gasoline prices ?

You can buy hard to remove no-parking stickers- and use them on illegally parked cars in your neighborhood. Easy and cheap way to nudge people a bit. 20 cents each and takes a razor blade to remove amzn.to/49ajgnP

Kinda amazing how we pay $6 a gallon of gasoline just so we don’t talk about the Epstein files

Zoning limits housing → prices rise High prices push people outward → sprawl increases Sprawl requires cars → household costs rise Higher costs reduce savings and mobility Lower mobility reduces productivity growth Slower growth + high costs = persistent inflation pressure

The #IranWar shut the Strait of Hormuz, halting 20% of global oil flow and doubling jet fuel prices to over $4/gallon. This fuel spike destroys razor-thin margins of budget carriers, forcing Spirit Airlines into a potential liquidation after costs doubled their projected restructuring budget

NYC’s housing trap: Hard to build → rents soar → demand for affordable subsidies → we build a few, not enough → costs & taxes rise → living costs climb → more demand for affordable. People block market-rate housing, thinking it steals from affordable- but that scarcity fuels the cycle. 🔁

NYC Department of Sanitation has more class than Wall Street brokers- not a single Patagonia vest in sight

The federal debt: Jan 2017 📉: $19.9Trillion May 2026 📈: ~$39.0T A ~96% increase in just over 9 years. Our national debt has nearly doubled

If we had 50 mph in a dedicated bus lane, a 20-minute NYC trip gets you ~16.7 miles from Midtown. That means towns like: · New Rochelle, NY (16 mi) · Mount Vernon, NY (15 mi) · South Orange, NJ (16 mi) · Maplewood, NJ (16 mi) · East Orange, NJ (~15 mi)

Faster bus lanes that go further + upzone near them = more market-rate housing → lower rents. No tax hikes, no subsidies needed. That’s supply-side economics for blue states. Affordable housing mandates just slow abundance down 🚌

NIMBYS tell us tall buildings ruin a city's character. Then you get up here and realize, what actually ruins cities is not building enough for everyone

NYC needs more views like this

NYC needs more billionaires , more corporations and more skyscrapers

In New York State, the top 1% of earners bring in about 41% of all income-tax revenue. In New York City, there’s a second income tax, and about 40% of that also comes from the top 1%. A very small group is paying for NY services www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

If we Ban “luxury” housing in NYC… then what? Do rents fall and those people vanish, or does everyone just bid up rents in the old apartments?

Free to park your Toyota Prius in Brooklyn But taking the bus or subway? That’ll be $3 Makes perfect sense

NYC spends over a billion dollars a year on roads that are falling apart, can’t toll them without permission from DC, and the original construction destroyed thousands of homes, land that today would be worth billions more than the entire NYC highway system. Worth rethinking?

If everyone in America switched from cars to mass transit (at NYC prices), we’d save about $2.3 trillion a year BUT

If everyone in NYC who takes transit, walks, or bikes to work stopped, bought a car & drove alone instead we’d see: 🚗 +2.8M cars on the road daily 🅿️ Need parking for all = pave 71% of Manhattan 💰 Cost to buy those new cars = ~$140 billion

Building new wind power is usually cheaper than building new natural gas power. Wind power costs about $26–$56 per unit of electricity. New natural gas plants cost about $45–$74. Wind wins on price because the energy itself is free, while gas plants must keep buying fuel

Skyscrapers make parks better

NYC subway labor costs per rider are wildly higher than: NYC: ~$5 Paris: ~$1.5 Tokyo: ~$0.5 Same trains. Same job. Totally different cost. Why? More workers per train. Way more overtime. Way lower productivity

NYC today

College is important www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/...

Single-family zoning → housing shortage → high prices & rents → young people can’t buy homes → frustration → lost faith in government → some start considering socialism

This used to be a parking lot. Now? 76 homes. $17M penthouses. Millions in annual income & property taxes funding NYC schools, shelters, transit, & sanitation. And home to celebrities. But sure, tell us how “luxury housing” is the problem

Washington square park, the seaport, the subway

Back at NY Dosas in Washington Square Park 🌮 This vegan Indian food cart is LEGENDARY. Thiru makes crispy potato-filled dosas with coconut chutney & lentil soup (sambar) Bring cash or Venmo, and expect a line! The Pondicherry dosa & samosas are 🔥

New York City has nearly $100 billion in unfunded retiree health care liabilities, like $10,800 of debt for every New York taxpayer, the third-highest per capita debt in the nation, and more than 10 X the national average for cities nordot.app/140743962475...

I’m getting worried the NYC comptroller is not doing their job www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/n...

What if NYC had backed insurance for rent-stabilized buildings before Hurricane Sandy hit? Using $19B in damages as a guide, the city could’ve been on the hook for ~$1B+ in claims, plus billions more in unpaid repairs & tenant displacement

The post office at 350 Canal St in Tribeca needs an 80-90 story market-rate residential tower on top of it. As a federal entity, the USPS isn't subject to NYC zoning laws, there's no legal cap on how tall those homes can be

Our NYC tap water comes from protected forests over 100 miles upstate! More than 90% of our water is collected in Catskill/Delaware reservoirs, filtered naturally by over 1 million acres of forests and soil. It’s one of the largest unfiltered systems in the U.S.

Just add trees