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@TFTC21Just eat real food. x.com/wallstreetapes…
@TFTC21Sen. Elizabeth Warren calling for a national data center moratorium until communities can verify "the full costs are going to be absorbed by the data center and not pushed off on the folks who live there."
@TFTC21US and China M2 rose $7.9 trillion from a year earlier to a record $76.4 trillion in August. Both are at all-time highs: China at $53.1 trillion, the US at $23.3 trillion.
@TFTC21US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: "Kimi thinks she is Claude. Kimi will tell you she is Claude sometime. Kimi sent back some PLA weapons plans to Anthropic."
@TFTC21The President of the United States is promising $5,000 checks to every adult citizen if his party wins the midterms. 245 million adults. $1.2 trillion. They say tariffs will pay for it. Tariff revenue is ~$200 billion a year. You do the math.
@TFTC21New ad from Block pitching bitcoin as everyday money. "The government prints more money every day, and the more money they print, the less the money is worth every day."
@TFTC21President Trump just endorsed BPI's Data Center Dividend proposal, 20 days after it was published. Counties that host data centers send a fixed share of property tax revenue directly to local households. No new taxes. BPI estimates the average rural family could receive up to $8,900 a year. Trump: "The data centers are making an absolute fortune. But now, the people are going to benefit directly." x.com/SamLyman33/sta…
@TFTC21Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman at PubKey NYC. "New York State right now is number 50 in economic outlook... it is a national embarrassment."
@TFTC21SEC Chairman Selig on Commissioner Peirce's departure. "America would not be the crypto capital of the world today if not for the clear-eyed and thoughtful perspective on regulatory oversight that she brought to bear day in and day out for years." x.com/ChairmanSelig/…
@TFTC21Bitcoin Magazine shows bitcoin has flipped gold in yearly performance, now up 66% against gold since March.
@TFTC21BPI's panel with @DavidBeckworth and @SamLyman33 on how dollar stablecoins and tokenized Treasuries could preserve dollar dominance.
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