Welcome to the Office. Now Take Off Your Shoes.

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/business/welcome-to-the-office-now-take-off-your-shoes.html

Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/technology/david-sacks-white-house-profits.html

San Jose Considers Arresting Homeless People Who Refuse Housing

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/us/san-jose-homeless-arrest.html

New paper from #Yale and the #FederalReserve blames the 2023 banking crisis on (you guessed it) #crypto and Nerd Reich #VCs.

> "A clearer commonality between the six banks [that failed], the paper argues, is their exposure to risky depositor bases that other banks shied away from: #crypto firms and [tech] venture capitalists."

* American Banker: https://www.americanbanker.com/news/new-paper-hangs-march-2023-failures-on-business-model-risks
* Paper: https://www.chicagofed.org/publications/working-papers/2025/2025-04

#SiliconValleyCalif #SVB #SBNY #SignatureBank #FirstRepublic #a16z #Broligarchs #NerdReich #uspol #banking #finreg #Silvergate

Silicon Valley Tech Workers Quietly Protest Their Bosses’ Embrace of Trump

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/technology/tampons-silicon-valley-workers-protest.html

Religious Leaders Experiment with A.I. in Sermons

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/technology/ai-religious-leaders.html