Dan Alpert

Of course Trump is self-immolating. He has always been too moronic to sense when he is on fire. When I worked with him briefly in 2001, I was stunned by his lack of general knowledge about business, policy, human beings. He is a fool winging everything. nytimes.com/2026/10/17/opini…

The Hugging Face Hack is AI mimicking ancient attributes of certain humans' intelligence: *In order to win you need to break the rules.* AI apparently got there on its own. What does that tell you about the humans who trained AI? nytimes.com/2026/09/03/techn…

Great graphic and great column @EdwardGLuce Read: Kushner and Witkoff’s blind amateurism - ft.com/content/bc02e99c-c6e0… via @FT

I invite you to read my treatise on #AffordableHousing #Finance for @CornellLaw. Using the private capital markets to leverage public policy goals and address the #HousingCrisis. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.… #LIHTC #ABS #MultifamilyHousing #TaxCredits #Section42 @HousingOnline

When a dog wants to mark his space, he pisses all over it (piss, however, is easy to wash away)... bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

1/2 It was 🌮🌮TACO THURSDAY🌮🌮 in South Korea! Trump proved once again that (1) decoupling from China is a fantasy; (2) his tariffs are regressive revenue raising only; and (3) it makes no sense for manufacturers to reshore to US vs waiting him out. wsj.com/world/china/trump-me…

Think deeply, @Keir_Starmer, about the weakest link in your cabinet from a policy perspective. You are not delivering what you were elected to furnish the people of the UK. Why? Misguided austerity policy, the usual neoliberal idiocy. Sack @RachelReevesMP! bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

Thank you to the Republic of Portugal 🇵🇹, and the lovely Portuguese people, for a wonderful end-of-summer break. We never tire of this beautiful gem of a nation. The wine, food, sea, rivers and land all blending to perfection! No wonder so many foreigners seek to live there.

This is a Duck Market. It Walks and Sqawks like an Overpriced Pâté that looks like fecal matter and will soon turn to same. Wishing that things will be magically different this time? The S&P set four records from May 2007 before crashing that October 11th. Getting closer!

The idiot assassin was of a Mormon, Republican family. He loves "Call of Duty" and other shoot 'em up and role-playing video games . So who are you going after Elon, Katie and Laura? Want to lock up Mitt Romney? Jail Zack Hoyt?

China, India, Russia, North Korea and a cast of over two dozen of America's economic and military competitors gathered today under Xi Jinping's leadership. While, in June, Donald Trump insisted on THIS birthday party for himself: bbc.com/news/videos/c2lkl9pe…

Take a look at this and compare it to the next post. Enuf said... #Shame bbc.com/news/videos/c62n2mm6…

America should be horrified and embarrassed. These three are openly celebrating the free hand that Trump has given them to ally themselves against the West and our interests. Today they chat about how to dominate Europe. On Wednesday joined by Kim Jong-un. nytimes.com/2025/09/01/world…

Want to become head of a major non-partisan organ of the U.S. government, with mediocre academic credentials? Work for a conservative think tank and wait for a right wing administration to appoint you. Meet our head of the new Bureau of Labor Propaganda: linkedin.com/in/e-j-antoni-i…

My explanation of today's "controversial" jobs report, below, that resulted in @realDonaldTrump shooting the messenger by firing the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. We are well on our way to becoming a banana republic in a brave new world... ...pass the Soma.

As the saying goes, Olivier, "many a slip, between cup and lip." This "deal" is neither inked nor fully fleshed out. What the handshake did was to kick the can down the road past the {latest) 8/1 Trump temper tantrum date. And this is tripolar realpolitik, China outcome matters.