Fred Wszolek
@FredWszolek
Tweeting about economics, fitness, politics & puppies. Oh, and bacon.
The price of a basic subscription to Quickbooks Plus is up 65% over the last five years, and it's simply not worth it. What software are people switching to when they ditch ExpensiveBooks?
Uh, no. Not hard to explain. Global M2 money supply is soaring. So are asset prices. Duh. Heard on the Street: Few predicted the stock market’s performance for much of the year, and even fewer could coherently explain it wsj.com/finance/stocks… via @WSJ
Now that we've defunded public tv and radio we should think about taking the next step: getting rid of broadcast tv and radio altogether, and auctioning off the wavelengths for better and higher uses.
If you ever think the beaches in Charleston are crowded, quit your bitchin
🇨🇳 SHENZHEN BEACH LOOKS LIKE A HUMAN SARDINE CAN Video shows the beach absolutely packed with people like it’s a concert for the sun. Sand? What sand? It’s just towels, umbrellas and wall-to-wall humans. Hope nobody forgot sunscreen or personal space. Source: @gunsnrosesgirl3
And here I was afraid that we wouldn't hear from Hunter Biden again...
Hunter Biden says Democrats lost election for not staying ‘loyal’ to his father wapo.st/3UjSC3W
This smells like obstruction of justice.
Karen Bass is now giving cash cards to illegal immigrants "affected" by ICE. To get one, you just have to say you're too afraid to go to work. To hand out the cash she's chosen CHIRLA – the same "nonprofit" that instigated the riots after getting $34 million in public funds.
1st choice would have been to have brought my headphones to the gym 2nd choice would have been to lift in meditative silence. 37th choice was to listen to the @GoldsGym music mix, which veered from death metal to the HeeHaw Favorites Collection and back again.
If a software glitch is causing a chatbot to spew racist rhetoric and plot murders, maybe we should pump the breaks on humanoids, mkay?
Millions of white collar workers who think they have job security are going to lose their jobs to AI. That much is obvious and wrenching. The second-order effects, though, will be much, much more damaging. Most of these workers have mortgages, equity loans, car loans, student…
I hate to break it to you, but the only way to make homeownership meaningfully more affordable for young people is to make homeownership less profitable for boomers -- which will reduce the estates inherited by young people.
The power of compounding works when you invest money, but it also works against you when the government debases the currency and steals your purchasing power.
A $100,000 salary in January 2020 has the same buying power as $124,353 in April 2025, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
If there was a communications strategy behind what the DOJ and FBI are doing with the Epstein case, you couldn't detect it with an electron microscope.
How is it possible that zero information has been released to the public yet on the Butler PA assassination attempt since a day or two after it happened?
Pet peeve alert: today we celebrate Independence Day, not the fact that it is the fourth day of July. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Baby oil contracts are spiking in the futures market. I wonder what’s in the news causing that?
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I pay $30,780.00 a year for health insurance, with a max out of pocket of $18,500.00 (not including copays at the counter), for the missus and I, so you'll have to excuse me if I seem unmoved that you're losing your free healthcare, that somehow I also pay for.
This is the actual inflation rate: 45% since 2020.
BREAKING: The US M2 money supply jumped +4.5% Y/Y in May, to a record $21.94 trillion. This marks the 19th consecutive monthly increase. It has now surpassed the previous all-time high of $21.86 trillion, posted in March 2022. Furthermore, inflation-adjusted M2 money supply…
I had a vague thought that I might need a new piece of luggage. And now my online experience is a hellscape of luggage ads and even text messages. Short of telepathy this is hard to explain.