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Everyone wants to know why housing became unaffordable so quickly. Low rates and migration played a role, but there’s another factor we barely discuss: the government dumped nearly $800 billion into PPP, and only 23–34% meaningfully reached workers.
People think AI only works if it solves enterprise-level problems. AI replaces menial tasks, and speeds up the workflow when a human in the loop is required.
BREAKING: Microsoft, $MSFT, is offering buyouts to 60,000 workers as part of the company’s efforts to cut costs amid AI adoption, per Bloomberg.
Personnel on select teams in the US, Canada, India, and the UK at a vice president level and below will be eligible.
This reflects ~27% of Microsoft's total workforce.
I think the majority of Paxton voters are boomers, and millennials are split. Gen Z will be the decider.
Texas early voting is getting interesting.
Collin and Denton are two huge Republican-leaning suburban counties. Trump won Collin by about 11 points and Denton by about 13 in 2024.
But the composition of the 2026 early vote looks VERY different so far.
Important caveat:
These are NOT Democratic and Republican votes.
Texas doesn’t register voters by party.
This is based on whether voters previously participated in a Democratic or Republican primary. It’s a proxy for partisan history, not who they voted for this year.
Someone tell this nitwit that’s how insurance works.
Voted to give our local schools more money.
Voted yes on Amendment 3.
Voted yes on Amendment 6.
Voted no on everything else.
Early voting was PACKED
Amendment 6 would put explicit language into the Missouri Constitution saying ballot summaries must be clear, unbiased, fair, accurate and easy to understand, and that Missouri courts cannot be prevented by the legislature from adjudicating and rewriting all or part of a ballot summary.
Just a public service announcement to let you know that the only time a billionaire funded an amendment in Missouri was for right-to-work.
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