Josh Sack @joshsack.bsky.social · 13/04/2026That’s true enough, although I have found the experience of building for those apps to be less than ideal 010
Josh Sack @joshsack.bsky.social · 13/04/2026The julia plugins that exist for most text editors (vim, emacs, vscode, etc) seems sufficent. 110
Josh Sack @joshsack.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Jack Schlossberg’s rampant NIMBYism was a great opportunity to do what I do best: a too-long post about something I have been thinking about for far too long to be clear eyed about. open.substack.com/pub/joshsack...open.substack.comThe Estate Tax is Basically Optional. Changing that would Benefit us AllLet's fix things before a new American aristocracy is entrenched 000
Reposted by Josh SackAmerican Bridge 21st Century @ab21.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Today, we're launching Research-books.com because opposition research can’t only be the tool of the professional political consultant; everyone deserves to know the truth behind the Republican extremists seeking election in 2026. www.politico.com/news/2026/01... 051
Josh Sack @joshsack.bsky.social · 11/01/2026We need to have a real conversation about the fact that the government has been giving the richest Americans an interest free loan to behave inefficiently. open.substack.com/pub/joshsack...open.substack.comZero Interest is a (Bad) Policy ChoiceThe time to fix capital gains taxes has come 000
Josh Sack @joshsack.bsky.social · 05/12/2025The Goldbugs and crypto people were on about deflation again. So I decided to respond in their language: a too-long blog post about events that happened outside of living memory. open.substack.com/pub/joshsack...open.substack.comGeology is Bad Monetary PolicyShut up Goldbugs 031
Josh Sack @joshsack.bsky.social · 07/08/2025I put together a little note on how I would solve gerrymandering. open.substack.com/pub/joshsack...open.substack.comA Structural Solution to GerrymanderingBeyond Independent Redistricting Commissions 010
Josh Sack @joshsack.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Two episodes of Odd Lots in a day? Things really are dire. 000
Reposted by Josh SackMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Yup. If you really want to play the "Oracle of Omaha" game, Buffett has been largely sitting out the entire market, preferring cash over any equities. The exact opposite of the lie Trump himself is pushing. And Buffett has been right. 425336
Reposted by Josh SackPaul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 04/04/2025It continues! And it's bad! Yesterday was a 0.4th percentile event, and today's drop (so far) is a 1.4th percentile day! 3222
Reposted by Josh SackSimon Johnson🇺🇦 @simonrjohnson.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Did he say "the markets are going to boom" or "the markets are going to go boom" ? 011
Reposted by Josh Sackdanny @dabbs346.bsky.social · 03/04/2025No re-examining has been done, but a doubling and tripling down has been. #mesen #mepolitics 155
Josh Sack @joshsack.bsky.social · 03/04/2025These would be dope, other than the $12 black coffee and occasional risk of being poisoned 110
Reposted by Josh SackAnna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Wow who could’ve guessed that this would happen It’s almost as if USAID was a pillar of American soft power and influence in the world It’s almost as if it was entirely predictable that America’s adversaries would work to fill the void left by USAID’s destruction 920342969228
Reposted by Josh SackDan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 03/04/2025As global markets melt down, Trump is turning to … pro golf. The president is headed to a LIV Golf event hosted at one of his Florida clubs. It’s another example of Trump prioritizing his relationships with the Saudis — they own LIV — and blending his personal business and presidential office.washingtonpost.comLIV Golf, Saudi relationships pull Trump to Florida as markets rageThe president’s dinner with golfing leaders, hosted at his club, comes as the global economic order reels from Trump’s tariffs announcement. 74828274
Reposted by Josh SackJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Take a simple example: I run a trade deficit with Trader Joe's buying their meals, while they buy none of mine. My trade deficit as a share of my imports is 100%. By Trump's trade logic, this deficit is evidence they're imposing 100% tariffs on the meals I try to sell them. Obviously this is false. 1127264
Reposted by Josh SackJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 03/04/2025This chart, from Twitter user @nonagonono, is amazing. It shows Trump's "reciprocal trade barriers" are no such thing as they ARE NOT RELATED TO ACTUAL TARIFF BARRIERS. Rather, his magic number is half of the bilateral trade deficit (as a share of imports), or 10%. This is indescribably crazy. 14342115
Reposted by Josh SackAlan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 03/04/2025How it started How it's going 24010
Reposted by Josh SackJason Coupet @professajay.bsky.social · 03/04/2025You can totally see how this mf bankrupted a casino. 7955991610257
Josh Sack @joshsack.bsky.social · 03/04/2025I’m not forgetting about the people on our side who killed the TPP and pushed the last admin to keep a lot of the protectionism 100
Reposted by Josh SackBrendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 03/04/2025"The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand." 391598327
Reposted by Josh SackCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Every single Republican stooge who claimed Trump truly meant it when he said he’d expand IVF coverage — despite his track record to the contrary — owes America an apology. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...nbcnews.comCDC's IVF team gutted even as Trump calls himself the 'fertilization president'The elimination of the CDC's Assisted Reproductive Technology Surveillance team shocked experts and advocates who felt encouraged by President Donald Trump’s support of IVF. 281098281
Reposted by Josh SackDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Dead people telling the President to pursue a trade war with an uninhabited island is real George III territory 21583002791
Reposted by Josh SackElizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Trump is the most economically illiterate President of my lifetime. Which is particularly disturbing when you consider that his supporters love him because he’s, in their view, a business genius. 2344066
Reposted by Josh SackJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Monstrously destructive, incoherent, ill-informed tariffs based on fabrications, imagined wrongs, discredited theories and ignorance of decades of evidence. And the real tragedy is that they will hurt working Americans more than anyone else. 1013034905
Reposted by Josh SackMaia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 01/04/2025do any tech billionaires have a political agenda beyond "the government needs to find a bagholder for my shitcos"? 1413
Josh Sack @joshsack.bsky.social · 01/04/2025I remember when Hillary’s schedules being on the server was the worst crime in American history. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...washingtonpost.comWaltz and staff used Gmail for government communications, officials sayTrump’s national security adviser is trying to manage his way out of a crisis. But new revelations about his team’s operational security are piling up in the inbox. 000
Josh Sack @joshsack.bsky.social · 31/03/2025This Bloomberg news quiz style is quite fun. I will have to be better about my leverage and hedge moments, (as well as signing the initial weights), but it is fun. 000
Reposted by Josh SackHillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Hi, BlueSky. It's Hillary. I've joined up here to help get the word out about an important election in Wisconsin tomorrow, and other ways to defend our democracy against those who think votes can be bought. 70259824418323
Reposted by Josh SackCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 31/03/2025JPM calls it “the fastest Momentum unwind in 40 years .. erased 2 years’ worth of gains and accelerated investors’ late-cycle positioning into Defensive / Low Vol ..” 13831261113
Josh Sack @joshsack.bsky.social · 30/03/2025Making affordable housing more energy efficient is government efficiency. The one time costs reduce the long term cost of running these buildings, making them less expensive to the government over time. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...bloomberg.comAffordable Housing Developers Stalled by Blocked Federal FundsEfforts by DOGE to claw back $1 billion in loans and grants for energy-efficiency upgrades have put plans for hundreds of housing developments at risk. 000
Reposted by Josh Sackhammerhead179.bsky.social @hammerhead179.bsky.social · 29/03/2025I checked. Not working for me as of 9:30 EST. The longer this goes on, the more people are gonna freak out. 919852
Reposted by Josh Sacksouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 29/03/2025That’s the Pam Bondi-led United States Department of Justice that Judge Jackson is talking about. 472123544
Josh Sack @joshsack.bsky.social · 27/03/2025The difference between the way Brad Jacobs talks about improving efficiency on today’s Odd Lots as opposed to DOGE’s approach is quite staggering. 000
Josh Sack @joshsack.bsky.social · 27/03/2025If you were the CCP, would there be anything you didn’t like about the Trump administration so far? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...bloomberg.comTrump Says He Could Cut China Tariffs to Secure TikTok DealPresident Donald Trump said he would consider lowering tariff rates imposed on China to secure Beijing’s support for a sale of the US operations of ByteDance Ltd.’s social video platform TikTok to an ... 110
Reposted by Josh SackGuy Bundestrivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Spiegel reporting that they are way more careless 31404474
Reposted by Josh SackJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Confirming, as was obvious from context already, that this wasn’t a one-off. They are routinely using Signal to evade statutory record retention requirements. 447257317433
Josh Sack @joshsack.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Crypto is fucking worthless, and a big mistake of the Biden administration was not completely killing it. As for robinhood accounts, the stock market preformed much better under Biden than either Trump term. 130
Josh Sack @joshsack.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Maybe it’s because I’m currently reading a book on Iran Contra, but I can’t help but wonder what role the scheme played in the instability of the northern triangle countries to this day 031
Josh Sack @joshsack.bsky.social · 24/03/2025As a person who has read a lot of Minsky, this seems like it can only end well for all involved. on.ft.com/4iwrwkL Saylor’s Strategy, and the trouble with Strifeon.ft.comSaylor’s Strategy, and the trouble with StrifeAn innovative play on bitcoin maximalism, or an instrument of maximal shareholder dilution? 000
Josh Sack @joshsack.bsky.social · 24/03/2025As someone who was alive in 2016, it took me a good minute after finishing this article for my head to resemble after exploding. 000
Josh Sack @joshsack.bsky.social · 23/03/2025The NBA should make it legal to dunk your free throws again. If you can do a free throw line dunk every time you have to take a free throw, you deserve those points. 000
Josh Sack @joshsack.bsky.social · 21/03/2025This is only going to empower them. Before long, economists who conclude that the TCJA increased deficits will see their university’s federal funding cut as well. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...wsj.comExclusive | Columbia Yields to Trump in Battle Over Federal FundingColumbia’s agreement is a significant moment in the intensifying battle between Trump and elite universities. 000
Josh Sack @joshsack.bsky.social · 21/03/2025I guess that plan is gone. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...nytimes.comMusk Set to Get Access to Top-Secret U.S. Plan for Potential War With ChinaGiving Elon Musk access to some of the nation’s most closely guarded military secrets is a major expansion of his role as an adviser to President Trump and highlights his conflicts of interest. 000