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Eric Adams is the Brooklyn Borough president. He’s also running for mayor. You probably remember the last time he came on my podcast (check out the episode here). He talked about why he became a police officer… and how being physically beaten by the police inspired him to make change. Now, he’s back on to […]

It was exactly midnight, so (as Mercedes told me to do) I smashed the coconut in the middle of the West Side Highway. Things are going to get better, I thought, when I saw the coconut all over the highway. It was March 2002. My second baby was born the night before. On 9/11, I […]

The lockdown is ending. And the stock market is going up.  First, the lockdown is ending. Not because governments are opening up. But because people are.  Elon Musk said, “Screw you!” to California and he opened up his factory and nobody stopped him. This is what government should look like. Power for the people except, […]

Listen. We only have one more chance to get the economy working again.  The last stimulus package and the one being proposed right now both seem to have decent intentions but both are missing the target. And they are missing it for stupid, partisan reasons.  Here is the issue: This quarter, the economy will spend […]

I’m so sick of all the epidemiologists on Twitter. One of them, my friend Robert, called me and said, “You know, if the viral shedding is below [blah] then you can’t get it. But depending on the generation of mutation in your region you might have a higher Ro.” I said, “Rob, you’re a JANITOR. […]

Here’s the thing:  The U.S. economy is going to spend about $2–3 TRILLION less this quarter than it normally does. That’s the largest downturn in history. In the history of any country ever.  The U.S. has passed about $2.7 trillion in stimulus spending so far. If you want to know how they got that number, […]

I love this:  Right now it’s 3:40 p.m. as I write this and the headline on Yahoo! Finance is:  “Markets fall as concerns over virus fallout mounts.”  That’s the top headline.  But here’s the thing: The markets are UP.  They just need a stupid headline and that’s the point. That’s the point of what has […]