Tired: Bitcoin reserve Wired: USD reserve

Enjoy importing cheap de minimis products from abroad this Christmas, because it might be the last one that will be custom free!

The secret to early retirement; dine out rarely, fly economy and be a Google employee making $390,000/year married to a fellow Google employee 17 years older than you who likely makes twice as much as you.

Dimon practicing some risk management here is a big tell.

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A time-honoured tradition @mayfaircynic.bsky.social

Like, if there’s anything we’ve learned about the attention economy is that it’s all a scam and the participants are just soulless ghouls looking to stay on the public eye, no matter what.

Wait, are we discussing Tether reserves again? What year is it? 2021?

When 2,200 good guys with guns are not enough to stop a bad guy with a gun, send 500 more.

Trump, builder of the (Chinese) nation. Chuān Jiànguó (川建国) strikes again.

“It’s only a tax rise if it’s from the risé region of France, otherwise it’s just sparkling fiscal drag”

The year is 2060, UK pensioners take £50,270 per year out of their pot at the basic tax rate, the threshold of which has been frozen since the early 2020s and has halved in real terms.

Bond markets spooked as the Chancellor appears to disappear behind raised hands; gilts stage rally as she reveals she was actually there the whole time

“Today is my first day at the OBR PR team, luckily there won’t be much to say in the morning before the Budget is announced…”

Bad luck to all those traders who popped out early to grab a sandwich from Pret before getting back to their desk for the budget at 12:30...

French media must not be covering the US much…

We wanted to understand how regular Americans feel about the Trump administration. So we talked to three Russia-funded content farmers at a tea house in Islamabad.

meanwhile - from @banxtoons.bsky.social

Le Carré never dreamt anything quite this baroque: American diplomats coaching their Russian counterparts on how to manipulate a president who is already a Russian asset.

Can't get more central asian dictator than intervening to have films you like made

The Republicans are standing up to the power of Big Emergency Brake www.wsj.com/business/aut...

God help us

Today is the rapture for UK taxpayers and budget watchers.

Properly moving xkcd xkcd.com/3172/

A story in 3 acts:

“Give me a long enough [time horizon] and a [compounding GDP growth rate] on which to place it, and I shall move the world [out of poverty]”, to paraphrase Archimedes.

Got 18 days old news crossed with new ones in the search tab, sorry! 🙏🏻

Suckling off the growing tits of Old Lady of Threadneedle Street? The right man for the job!

There’s a reason why Forbes doesn’t include Putin and Bin Salman in its rankings and it should apply to Trump too.

To fail in one audacious takeover of a mining rival may be regarded as a misfortune. To fail a second time in 18 months looks like you’re not very good at dealmaking. www.reuters.com/commentary/b...

sadly you can't take it as accurate as I've just tried it on accounts where I'm 100% where they are run from, because they're mine and it's wildly inaccurate. At best the code is making poor assumptions, at worst, it's deliberately chaotic disinformation.

Literally the reason Twitter sucks now is all these foreigners logged on willing to do racism for pennies on the dollar and undercut our home-grown American racists. We need to erect serious trade barriers to protect the integrity of our domestic racism industry and preserve racist jobs.

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COP30? Now we’re starting to reach numbers closer to high temperatures.

Mount Everest is named after a Welsh surveyor? Life is funny sometimes…

Rewarding Twitter posters for rage bait always meant that it could make propaganda operations profitable and an actual export and source of foreign currency for foreign countries.

“Fool me once into believing a peace plan, shame on you. Fool me twice…”

2/2 "The phrase," Caixin notes, "immediately sparked heated online debate and various interpretations. This wording is unusual, which raises the question: Is a “large-scale return” already happening, or are there warning signs?"

Cool. Nothing in the comments references in any way what this is referring to. We have recreated the original Twitter experience.

Before drawing quick conclusions about this headline, I suggest maybe you read the article? He’s under fire for organising the political event where he gave the speech at his own initiative, and most of the criticism is coming from the far left & far right… www.france24.com/en/france/20...

“The United States continues to have the highest rate of maternal deaths of any high-income nation, despite a decline since the COVID-19 pandemic.[...] Most of these deaths — over 80 percent — are likely preventable.” www.commonwealthfund.org/publications...

Trump doing a “How do you do, fellow kids?” / “I’m a little bit of a socialist myself” with Mamdani is incredible content.

Men will take foreign language classes and plan a coup rather than go to therapy.

Which is the best Christmas market in London this year ? <ducks>

Yes, the Central bank of Crypto has de-pegged, but with low FX reserves they had no other choice. It should boost exports and tourism.

People like to compare Japan’s Prime Minister to Margaret Thatcher, but this approach is more reminiscent of Liz Truss. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...