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Jul 9 9 tweets 3 min read
I've been studying how Russian, Chinese and Iranian governments buy American land and residential housing for half a decade.

I'm going to break down why the USDA is grossly unprepared for this renewed effort with their announcement today on "National Farm Security Action Plan" and why this won't work.

I'm going to share cases of property next to nuclear research facilities, sophisticated networks and strategies used, and how we can actually address this problem.

Let's begin.Image @SecRollins announced today alongside @SecDef, @AGPamBondi and @Sec_Noem a National Farm Security Action Plan

They shared the map at the bottom.

The map at the top is the actual state of affairs.

So why the difference and why are they unprepared for this task? Image
May 13, 2024 11 tweets 3 min read
I decided to look at the top 100 housing markets in the country in a multi-dimensional space using hundreds of housing stats from @ParclLabs data.

The machines found some very interesting patterns.

Let's dig in. Image Why did I do this? Because housing is substantially more complex than can be interpreted in excel or a line graph.

So what did I do? I aggregated 100's of indicators about housing markets and put the machines to work.