The first ten on today’s playlist:

My family thinks I am dating under “my league.”

I’ve been on the other side of this. I was dating a really beautiful and gregarious girl from a decently well-off family. And at the time I was an army hard charger with no college education and was definitely more than a little rough around the edges. Her family absolutely despised me because they saw their daughter as way out of my league. By then, though, I was already doing a lot of stock trading and what the family did not know is that I was already pretty loaded for someone only 21 — and very ambitious.

It was this woman that I wrote about earlier.

It turned out that she was terrible and abusive. After me, she ended up with someone she deserved from what I heard, someone who treated her terribly (which is what she seemed to deeply want). Her career also fizzled and she became an obese barely-employed alcoholic completely dependent on her husband.

Meanwhile I continued to get more awesome every day. Love it.

Beneath the Skin of CPI Inflation, December: Not in the Mood to Just Go Away.

So, in other words, don’t believe the “transitory” lies and victory declarations. Inflation is picking up again. Not conspiracy — just data.

Core CPI, month-to-month, accelerated to 0.31% in December from October, the second month in a row of acceleration and fastest increase since September. Annualized, this increase amounts to 3.8%.

But these two commenters said it best, I think:

The narrative that the econs want you to believe is (as usual) the direct opposite of reality. Again, not conspiracy. The data is just right there for anyone to see.