It's great they have a non culture wars question on the moon landings in there as a control for insanity rather than political posturing Id love to see the Democratic Party numbers for these same questions

He needs to remember that he's applying to be the Fed Chair, not Treasury Secretary

Ah yes that massive DoD increase in production after the New Year's holiday

he says as East 17 comes onto his Christmas playlist

nothing like Christmas playlists to make you realise that most Christmas songs are worthy only of playing in shopping centres

US is going into recession and Treasury vol is at cyclical lows

This is basically the only way the war will end

At some point it'll revert to being called MicroStrategy

Lunch is an omelette wrapped in last night's nan bread. Delicious

It's cheaper to curry favour nowadays

use case for crypto: degens can trade when centralised CME is down

OBR should be scrapped. Its seeming independence now means it is used as a weapon and its numbers are bent for political purposes. Would prefer to have govt forecasts which will be mostly the same but not have the purported importance

European countries with weak growth outlooks [spidermen.gif]

Governments and electorates like to spend money and the pandemic was a massive excuse to do so. Of course the economic response worked

Can't wait for the cryptocurrency ISA

Top in the stock market has to coincide with Labour forcing pensioners into a stocks and shares ISA

This won't end well for Texas

Quality fiscal policy in the UK

This definitely won't happen

Watching Riot Women on BBC. Nice premise. Good caste. But they just spoil everything by making everything so awful. Always the case in TV drama. It can't be fun. Even if someone is doing well, someone else has to have an incomparably bad time

So we can ignore it then

Trump looks so happy with his new buddy

FFS these people

Looks like they upped his medication today

yes this is far more extreme

more limited use of leverage

It's all fun on twitter where maga are eating each other

He was telling people to buy at the weekend ... More bagholders needed

Rachel Reeves guiding the UK govt finances

Hahahahaha ... Can't wait for the next update

Ok this is just gambling

When will they remove this?

New plan for NEOM with lower oil prices

I think CPI has to be released or you'll be in default on TIPS

It's going to rain for the next six months isn't it? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Something about a spatchcocked chicken that looks a bit like the Millennium Falcon

Signal/noise in the Canadian employment data is very low

A moment of silence for payrolls Fridays

I have no idea how much power the mayor of NYC has or doesn't have but I'd imagine most of his base would be happy if he just trolls Trump for his entire term

Egypt is always the one that gets me. Why do we call it Egypt?

I love the smell of onions and mustard in the morning

Reeves has finally decided to take the plunge and ended a decade of UK fiscal sticking plasters Of course she could still not do it but ...

was he shot by a hunting mate?

We're living in a world where NASA feels it has to do this

Tolkien was a massive conservative who wanted us to all live like Hobbits in a green and pleasant land

Trump asleep while Powell calls an end to the rate cut cycle

Cease and desist incoming from Tolkien estate