Antonio Gates would probably be the best of all time in this category

I mean, if you pay property taxes that fund the school, you want your kid to get into the school you’re funding, not some stranger’s kid

Seriously, this is why I quit playing golf

After Bretton Woods the currency lost value because there was a greater supply of it than the sum of the assets under claim (which is also why we went off Bretton Woods)

Has to be a different Corey Hart

The one kind of explicit value proposition backing currencies is you have to pay taxes in them and the US gov’t accepts them in payment for services

justaguy100 was a work of art

I mean, come on they’re an 8 seed. They know their place

He desperately needed the money—no one else was offering any terms at all.

How about just not having a draft and use a cap w/ no individual salary maxes?

While we’re here, so is religion

Garrett Cole is pitching better

It’s also harder to catch a pop up with a catcher’s mitt than a 1B glove

Just to add one more point, the 7% return is the real return net of inflation. The opportunity cost of not investing (while still saving) is holding cash, which will also be a victim of inflation, so you should compare the nominal return of investing (~9%) to the nominal return of cash (0%)

That btw, is the same Brady Anderson who hit 50 home runs in 1996

Pretty weak argument that that immigration is less than or equal to as federal an issue as local police

Most people when they measure their own livelihoods against a vague cause for a bunch of strangers to briefly enjoy choose their livelihoods.

Read any interview with Royce back when he was playing with the Rockets.

That’s true—they are assets, but you expect them to be assets when they’re paid like that

Matt Levine on Bloomberg is a business writing savant