Telegram Archive - week 38, 2025
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I’ve sent a note to Lex Fridman on LinkedIn. I didn’t realize, but I was 2nd away from him.
I’ve haven’t heard Jimmy Kimmel until today, and I report that he is just as brave as Bill Maher in his use of free speech. He (Jimmy) recommended the book “Lucky Loser” which documents Trump’s financial failings, which I bought today. It’s by the same people who wrote New Times article in 2018 showin that Trump inherited 400 million from his father, not 1 million as he claimed.
There’s much to learn from Fred C. Trump (the father) and Donald Trump’s tax avoidance schemes. The main mechanism was to find ways to change valuation of an asset (a building) at will.
Curious, my friend found this book in local library in Vancouver. I didn’t realize that this book is so popular to make it even to local libraries here. It was published last year.