@samjsutton

POLITICO Decoded. Former Morning Money, proud NJ bureau alum. Bay Area native. RTs and Likes ≠ endorsements. email: [email protected]/signal: samjsutton.18

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Democrats are united in opposing Trump's tariffs. Their plan? Well, that might not get settled until 2028 politico.com/news/2026/10/23…

Democrats face crack-up on Trump’s tariffs

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Like every other econ reporter, I've spent much of the past couple years trying to understand what A.I. will mean for the economy and for workers. But it's been frustratingly hard to reach any firm conclusions, because so much is uncertain -- how the technology will evolve, how quickly it will be adopted, how policymakers will respond.
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Morning Money today: Banks vs. crypto? Not at the ballot box w/ @AidenReiter politico.com/newsletters/mor…

Banks vs. crypto? Not at the ballot box

Banks and cryptocurrency companies have spent much of the last year feuding over financial policy in Washington. But when it comes to electing the lawmakers who write their rules, the two industries...

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Democrats gear up for offensive against Trump’s Treasury politi.co/3VZvKuX

Democrats gear up for offensive against Trump’s Treasury

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New: I got a tip a little while ago about a shadowy Pentagon entity called "TSO" with a lot of money and a desire for offensive hacking tools. Turns out TSO is a new DoD agency. And it does a lot more than hacking. w/@JackDetsch and @paulmcleary politico.com/news/2026/10/22…

The Pentagon is quietly building an elite new tech sabotage agency

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Who's paying for all these data centers? Err, you are: as.ft.com/r/7616bde5-1faf-4c…

Who’s paying for the AI build-out? Probably you

Every big pool of capital, in every corner of the developed world, is funding data centres

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NEWS: I obtained a recording of Peter Thiel's latest Nashville Antichrist lectures. In his third talk delivered on Oct. 12, he breaks with the Trump admin on the U.S. war with Iran. “I think we should not have done it,” he said. “There were a lot of mistakes that were made.” politico.com/news/2026/10/21…

Peter Thiel breaks with Trump over Iran war: ‘We should not have done it’

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NEW in Decoded today: What Trump's crypto policy means for the original true believers of the tech, with @samjsutton. Feat. @valkenburgh and @btschiller, who wrote a whole play about the subject: politico.com/newsletters/dec…

Death of a cypherpunk

With Donald Trump’s own crypto interests looming over the industry and Democrats poised for a return to power, crypto’s founding rebels are confronting an uncomfortable reality.

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What a lede from @TheEconomist
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Elon Musk is in Democrats’ oversight crosshairs politi.co/4zAlIim

Democrats have a message for Elon Musk: Watch out

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Investment Company Institute CEO Eric Pan is stepping down subscriber.politicopro.com/a…

POLITICO Pro: Mutual fund trade group boss resigns

Eric Pan, CEO of the Investment Company Institute, is stepping down after allegations that he created a ‘toxic’ workplace.

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Voters are fed up, but there is no quick fix to the affordability crisis. politico.com/news/magazine/2…

Why We Can’t Solve the Affordability Crisis

Voters are fed up, but there is no quick fix.

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Affordability is the #1 issue in politics. In a new special issue of @POLITICOMag, we report on 26 ideas — from the smart to the silly — for fixing it: politico.com/news/magazine/2…

26 Ideas for Solving the Affordability Crisis

Some smart. Some practical. Some far-fetched or utterly implausible. All on the table.

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“I’m old. I’ve paid my home off,” said Ray Warner, a 72-year-old Akron resident. “Why would I pay property tax?” Across the country, homeowners are asking the same question and revolting against property taxes at a scale not seen in a half century. politico.com/news/magazine/2…

Do You Really Own Your Home? A Tax Revolt Says No.

The argument that property taxes make Americans renters in their own houses has fueled the biggest anti-tax uprising in half a century, and local governments are scrambling.

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When the cost of eggs spiked in 2022, economists said bird flu alone was to blame. Anyone who suspected corporate price-fixing was dismissed as a crank. Inside the alleged egg cartel the experts said couldn’t exist. politico.com/news/magazine/2…

Maybe There Was an Egg Cartel After All

For years, economists dismissed collusion as crankery and blamed bird flu for high prices. Then the feds found evidence that could prove the cranks right, and almost nobody noticed.

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Victoria Guida@vtg2Oct 18
“I watched my friends talk about [crypto] in a way that they thought they had struck gold, or struck oil or something like that. And in my mind, I’m looking at these guys like, ‘You barely understand regular money.’”
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If $10,000 can’t buy you a house, why not gamble it? That might not seem like a sound financial decision, but it’s an increasingly familiar mindset for many young men who are watching prices march higher & feeling like they can’t keep up My latest column politico.com/news/magazine/2…

‘You Barely Understand Regular Money’: Why Young Men Keep Gambling

Politics isn't ready for the rise of easy-access gambling platforms.

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So it’s interesting because these are very smart people who have built a very powerful technology but they’re also oblivious about the economy and policymaking, so it makes you wonder how their blind spots will impact their predictions about the future.
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Surveyed Anthropic staff's answers imply 17.1% GDP growth in 2030
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Anthropic quietly pitches its own AI safety bill to lawmakers politi.co/4zxDFhl

Anthropic quietly pitches its own AI safety bill to lawmakers

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In today’s Decoded: I traveled to Dublin, Ireland this week to witness a stunning role reversal in transatlantic tech relations. The bloc once (in)famous for regulating now wants to build - just as the U.S. AI giants begin calling for tougher rules. politico.com/newsletters/dec…

Europe’s AI identity crisis

Officials in Europe are now insisting no new rules are needed as they rush to catch up with America’s tech sector.

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NEW: AI spend stutters in the latest Ramp AI Index. Per employee spend rose in Sept for the top 1% of business spenders but remains below highs in July. The top 1% of firms spent $9,568 per employee per month, down 3.1% from its July high of $9,873. The median firm spent $16
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