Please, please TFP, could you put some kind of “bookmark” in your programming? Whenever I read an article and have to stop for a moment, when I try to go back to finish it, TFP opens it exactly where I left off. I appreciate that. Could you please do that also for comments? When I start reading comments and stop for a second or two for RL issues, it takes me forever to figure out where I left off. I have to scroll and scroll and reread..and even when I’m interested I sometimes just say. “Forget it.”
Please add an optional bookmark for comments. Pretty please.
Drolly humorous to assign Will Rahn and Sam Tanenhaus to write about Conservatism. It would have been much less pretentious to just have them write about Orange Man Bad.
Be cool if Bar commissioned a story headlined "Why I left the Trump cult and joined the Democratic Party" to counter the many variations of "Why I dumped the Democrats for the GOP" stories like today's.
The online Left passes an incredible number of absurd fabrications around as though they're plausible, and one of them is a hundred variations on "I voted for Trump and I regret it", but over here in the land of "things have to actually be true before we believe them", we can't find a single real person with that story.
We are in multiple bubbles: a real estate bubble, a stock market bubble, and probably a crypto bubble.
I would maintain that a crash of any of these bubbles (is that a mixed metaphor?) would be a buying opportunity, as the author pointed out with reference to Amazon in 2001.
They would be buying opportunities only if their crash(es) didn't take down the general economy. Those sectors are so huge right now that crashing them might spark another Depression.
There are so many checks and balances in place that most likely a crash in any particular sector would be followed by a pretty quick recovery. There are a lot of people with a lot of money in the U.S., e.g. the Boomer generation, and they will just snap up any stocks and properties that look like bargains. This isn't their first rodeo.
Have read both Cowen's and Ferguson's AI stories. Very good. Thank you TFP. Wondering if Cowen's "Historically, in the normal course of events, all of the gains in the S&P 500 come from less than four percent of the available stocks." is accurate. I've not come across that.
Tariff checks = shitty idea
The United Nations ...approved a resolution to deploy an “international stabilization force” to disarm Hamas = broken clock
I agree re: the tariff checks. It's pandering. Let the economic decisions made by the Trump admin play out as it has only been 10 months. Good grief, he is cleaning up Biden's economic mess. Personally, I have noted that gas prices are down (at least in the states where I buy gas. Likely not the case in California but that is due to their insane environmental regulations), I note that grocery prices remain static. Some items are up, some are down. Housing affordability is not a problem this administration created.
Pandering is the name of the game for Dems — kickbacks for greenie donors, SNAP for 42 million in the richest country in the world. Why not use our shortlived power to buy some votes? The Dems have 20 million new voters and we’ve exported 250,000 x 4 years — do the math.
Tariff checks are effectively vote buying scheme in advance of the 2026 elections. The Republicans are trying not to lose the Congress. Of course, the Democrats will try to delay the vote until after the elections.
"Niall Ferguson issued a warning: The AI boom, he wrote, “is a house of cards.”" Before I accept that, I would like to recommend that Mr. Ferguson read Professor Carlota Perezʻs book Technological Revolutions. The Dot Com bubble led to where we are now, and while much of the AI "bubble" is likely to burst, it can very well lead us to a much more productive economy. BUT, just like people had to learn how to use computers, people have to learn how to use AI.
Since the housing crunches are primarily in places where the jobs are, then you have to credit Democrats for providing all those jobs. You don't get high housing prices without high numbers of jobs.
So Ukraine is signing 10-year deals to buy weapons from European countries. At least that gives the Europeans incentive to see that there is still a Ukraine in 10 years.
Surprised with a UN resolution not condemning Israel, for once in the past 30 years, BUT there hasn’t been one example of a multi-national UN force able to keep the peace, ie control/eliminate Arab terrorists. This idea sounds like the sham of Dems giving Iran billions for peaceful nuclear development. We’ve been down this road before? The murderers of the massacre need to be killed or brought to justice, like Nuremberg.
The UN Security Council measure should have been the lead story today. To get anti-Zionist/antisemitic UN to agree to disarm Hamas is one of the greatest triumphs of Trumps' 2nd administration.
Re: David Richardson, former head of FEMA -- I googled "David Richardson Guadalupe floods" -- and got not ONE outlet that was conservative or right-leaning. WAPO, MSNBC, Politico, The Guardian, Daily Beast, Mother Jones... the list goes on, with no conservative outlet in sight.
Then I googled "Were there ANY right-leaning newspapers' or outlets' reporting done on Guadalupe floods?" Answer: "Yes, there were. They sought to defend the Trump administration." BUT THEY DID NOT SAY WHO THEY WERE! I finally got ONE by asking point-blank "Did FOX report on the Guadalupe floods?"
Remember "Gemini", Google's 1st AI rollout, where Nazis were black and Founding Fathers BIPOC? Yeah, it's still them...
I actually will miss the body positivity thing, it'll be sad when everyone looks the same.
Please, please TFP, could you put some kind of “bookmark” in your programming? Whenever I read an article and have to stop for a moment, when I try to go back to finish it, TFP opens it exactly where I left off. I appreciate that. Could you please do that also for comments? When I start reading comments and stop for a second or two for RL issues, it takes me forever to figure out where I left off. I have to scroll and scroll and reread..and even when I’m interested I sometimes just say. “Forget it.”
Please add an optional bookmark for comments. Pretty please.
Drolly humorous to assign Will Rahn and Sam Tanenhaus to write about Conservatism. It would have been much less pretentious to just have them write about Orange Man Bad.
Be cool if Bar commissioned a story headlined "Why I left the Trump cult and joined the Democratic Party" to counter the many variations of "Why I dumped the Democrats for the GOP" stories like today's.
The online Left passes an incredible number of absurd fabrications around as though they're plausible, and one of them is a hundred variations on "I voted for Trump and I regret it", but over here in the land of "things have to actually be true before we believe them", we can't find a single real person with that story.
Ha! Ha!
So true
There needs to be at least a veneer of plausibility.
We are in multiple bubbles: a real estate bubble, a stock market bubble, and probably a crypto bubble.
I would maintain that a crash of any of these bubbles (is that a mixed metaphor?) would be a buying opportunity, as the author pointed out with reference to Amazon in 2001.
They would be buying opportunities only if their crash(es) didn't take down the general economy. Those sectors are so huge right now that crashing them might spark another Depression.
There are so many checks and balances in place that most likely a crash in any particular sector would be followed by a pretty quick recovery. There are a lot of people with a lot of money in the U.S., e.g. the Boomer generation, and they will just snap up any stocks and properties that look like bargains. This isn't their first rodeo.
Have read both Cowen's and Ferguson's AI stories. Very good. Thank you TFP. Wondering if Cowen's "Historically, in the normal course of events, all of the gains in the S&P 500 come from less than four percent of the available stocks." is accurate. I've not come across that.
Tariff checks = shitty idea
The United Nations ...approved a resolution to deploy an “international stabilization force” to disarm Hamas = broken clock
I agree re: the tariff checks. It's pandering. Let the economic decisions made by the Trump admin play out as it has only been 10 months. Good grief, he is cleaning up Biden's economic mess. Personally, I have noted that gas prices are down (at least in the states where I buy gas. Likely not the case in California but that is due to their insane environmental regulations), I note that grocery prices remain static. Some items are up, some are down. Housing affordability is not a problem this administration created.
Pandering is the name of the game for Dems — kickbacks for greenie donors, SNAP for 42 million in the richest country in the world. Why not use our shortlived power to buy some votes? The Dems have 20 million new voters and we’ve exported 250,000 x 4 years — do the math.
Tariff checks are effectively vote buying scheme in advance of the 2026 elections. The Republicans are trying not to lose the Congress. Of course, the Democrats will try to delay the vote until after the elections.
Exactly. Absolve college debt anyone?
"Niall Ferguson issued a warning: The AI boom, he wrote, “is a house of cards.”" Before I accept that, I would like to recommend that Mr. Ferguson read Professor Carlota Perezʻs book Technological Revolutions. The Dot Com bubble led to where we are now, and while much of the AI "bubble" is likely to burst, it can very well lead us to a much more productive economy. BUT, just like people had to learn how to use computers, people have to learn how to use AI.
Fareed Zakaria has a point: affordability is a problem mostly in places governed by Democrats:
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/11/17/fareed_zakaria_if_america_has_an_affordability_crisis_it_tends_to_be_in_places_democrats_govern.html
Since the housing crunches are primarily in places where the jobs are, then you have to credit Democrats for providing all those jobs. You don't get high housing prices without high numbers of jobs.
So Ukraine is signing 10-year deals to buy weapons from European countries. At least that gives the Europeans incentive to see that there is still a Ukraine in 10 years.
Surprised with a UN resolution not condemning Israel, for once in the past 30 years, BUT there hasn’t been one example of a multi-national UN force able to keep the peace, ie control/eliminate Arab terrorists. This idea sounds like the sham of Dems giving Iran billions for peaceful nuclear development. We’ve been down this road before? The murderers of the massacre need to be killed or brought to justice, like Nuremberg.
The UN Security Council measure should have been the lead story today. To get anti-Zionist/antisemitic UN to agree to disarm Hamas is one of the greatest triumphs of Trumps' 2nd administration.
" to agree to disarm Hamas"
Don't count your chickens before they hatch.
Who is today's front page editor, "Rick Brooks"? Have we already been introduced? I don't recall...
Robert P. George, Board of Heritage... "The public intellectual" -- LOL! I guess most of us are private. You can get arrested for that, ya know...
Re: David Richardson, former head of FEMA -- I googled "David Richardson Guadalupe floods" -- and got not ONE outlet that was conservative or right-leaning. WAPO, MSNBC, Politico, The Guardian, Daily Beast, Mother Jones... the list goes on, with no conservative outlet in sight.
Then I googled "Were there ANY right-leaning newspapers' or outlets' reporting done on Guadalupe floods?" Answer: "Yes, there were. They sought to defend the Trump administration." BUT THEY DID NOT SAY WHO THEY WERE! I finally got ONE by asking point-blank "Did FOX report on the Guadalupe floods?"
Remember "Gemini", Google's 1st AI rollout, where Nazis were black and Founding Fathers BIPOC? Yeah, it's still them...
"rocked the internet." Calm down Suzy or we'll have to get you a job at the NY Post.
Actually, not a bad gig. Douglas Murray has a column there...
Point is, the paper is famous for its hyperbole.
At least the hyperbole is in plain sight, unlike, say, NYT. Plus the
Post is fun to read.
Its 1983 headline -- "Headless Body in Topless Bar" -- is a classic.
"the state of the right—from the Groypers to MTG". Yep, that does seem to be the wide spectrum TFP sees of the GOP, doesn't it...