Joel Suss
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Data journalist, Financial Times | Visiting Fellow, London School of Economics
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin
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The guy who put a 19 year old named Big Balls in charge of gutting key government services: “experience matters when lives are at stake”
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Dhruv Mehrotra
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Made a chart…in case you needed one to show you that the president posts entirely too much. Data scraped from truth social.
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Jacque Schrag
12 days ago
Very interesting to see all of them laid out. I made a version from this data when he went on his posting spree at the beginning of the month. I concur - he posts too much.
#dataviz
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Alison Killing
15 days ago
In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites. He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
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ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps
Heng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.
https://www.wsj.com/world/china/ice-holding-chinese-man-who-documented-uyghur-camps-a4702045?st=w7ZTZ9&reflink=article_copyURL_share
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Janine Gibson
15 days ago
Good morning and welcome to your FT Weekend highlight giftlink thread. We start with this fantastic essay by Tim Wu, one of the big brains of web 1.0, cautioning that Silicon valley may be winning the AI battle to lose the bigger economic war to China
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Could America win the AI race but lose the war?
[FREE TO READ] The US has gone all-in on artificial intelligence. But the idea of an end-of-times battle with China over tomorrow’s key technology is part delusion, part lobbying tool for Silicon Vall...
https://as.ft.com/r/83deb81e-322a-4cef-8974-06fab4e5f52e
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ICE says it is pursuing “the worst of the worst,” but its own data shows that two-thirds of those arrested have no criminal convictions Scary in-depth report here on the ICE surveillance constellation
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ProPublica
20 days ago
NEW: The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found that Trump once did the very thing he claimed could be a crime.
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Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing he called “deceitful and potentially criminal.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-mortgage-fraud-florida-principal-residences?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky
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Jon Worth
21 days ago
So what's the outcome? 2️⃣5️⃣ of the 27 Commissioners have posted in the last week 2️⃣4️⃣ of the 27 generally post every week (Albuquerque has never been on X, Ribera is sporadic, McGrath has somehow stopped) 0️⃣ have stopped as a result of what Twitter has become since the Musk takeover
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Tony Tassell
24 days ago
I think if i won the under-14 title for the British Women’s Chess Association (BWCA) Girls Championship, you would probably hear me say quite a bit i was the champion. The Telegraph's own chess correspondent points out here why Reeves's is quite right to do so
www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
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derek guy
about 1 month ago
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait. My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
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We won a prize last night for best essay! Based on our work using the FT's archive to develop an economic sentiment index (what we have called the 'macro mood') Essay will be live shortly, amalgamation of a few articles. Some details here:
on.ft.com/4n2TVBq
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Dorian Lynskey
about 1 month ago
"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975 “It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
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Robert Smith
about 2 months ago
The BBC will fuck things up from time to time. Lots of major news organisations do; just look at The Times having to memoryhole several fake news stories in a matter of weeks. No one is calling for the abolition of The Times, however.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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UK newspaper editor calls Bill de Blasio fake interview blunder ‘humiliating’
A Times associate editor reportedly addressed situation in an email to staff, saying: ‘We should have been on our guard’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/31/the-times-bill-de-blasio-fake-interview?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Adam Bienkov
about 2 months ago
How ever since Labour came to power, the British media has started to notice a whole series of problems they spent the previous 14 years completely ignoring
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-great-...
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The 'Great Noticing' Era
Ever since Labour came to power, the British media has started to notice a whole series of problems they spent the previous 14 years completely ignoring
https://www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-great-noticing-era
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Social Media Lab
about 2 months ago
When deception’s more profitable than honesty, users lose. Internal documents suggest that Meta earns $3.5B(!) every 6 mo. from scam ads, revealing a deeper systemic problem: the economic incentive to tolerate “higher legal risk” content still outweighs any penalty.
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Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-is-earning-fortune-deluge-fraudulent-ads-documents-show-2025-11-06/
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Summing up Trump authoritarianism in one figure
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about 2 months ago
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📢 I interviewed Thomas Piketty for the Financial Times 📢 We covered a lot of ground including populism (a term he despises), fiscal debt and the long-term trend of economic equality The full interview 👉
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Thomas Piketty: ‘The left has been a victim of its own success’
The economist on populism, fiscal debt and the long-term trend of economic equality
https://on.ft.com/4nFLyLk
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Tony Tassell
about 2 months ago
Thomas Piketty in the FT! - fascinating Q&A exchange here with
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www.ft.com/content/860f...
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Thomas Piketty: ‘The left has been a victim of its own success’
The economist on populism, fiscal debt and the long-term trend of economic equality
https://www.ft.com/content/860fb655-09cd-414f-ad99-997a2fa62226
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Also remarkable: the polarisation of young UK voters. Top two parties supported now Reform and Greens
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Young Britons’ attitudes hardening on crime and welfare
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Remarkable and surprising data on hardening attitudes towards welfare recipients in UK, especially among younger cohorts. Why now?
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Brendan Nyhan
2 months ago
1. Binance founder pardon after enriching Trump family 2. DT Jr. enmeshed in firms getting DOD contracts 3. Trump trying to extract $230 million for himself from DOJ
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Why is WaPo now regularly publishing absolute nonsense from Telegraph columnists?!
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | London’s sad decline is a warning to New Yorkers
In three terms as mayor, Sadiq Khan has crushed the economic life out of Britain’s capital.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/10/27/london-decline-mamdani-sadiq-khan-new-york/
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I wrote about the economic costs of US political polarisation in the
@financialtimes.com
In short: they are high, due to myriad channels
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Polarisation paralyses the US economy
[FREE TO READ] Political divergence on Capitol Hill is trickling down to corporate America
https://on.ft.com/47pDYhL
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"Populism is often triggered by bad economies, but then makes what is already bad still worse." Martin Wolf on why escaping the populist trap is so difficult
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The hard task of exiting the populist trap
Javier Milei’s plight in Argentina demonstrates how difficult it can be to rescue economies
https://on.ft.com/4qn3Svn
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Michael Derby
2 months ago
Checking in on Trump’s mission to save Argentina’s foundering libertarian political experiment with American taxpayer cash.
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Fantastic detailed reporting here on Trump inc “the heart of Trump’s newfound wealth is a rapidly growing cryptocurrency empire built by the president and his family.”
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How the Trump companies made $1bn from crypto
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How the Trump companies made $1bn from crypto
The president and his family have built a rapidly growing digital assets empire which has been fuelled by the administration’s industry-friendly policies
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Really interesting post by Tej Parikh on the declining effectiveness of monetary policy (e.g. due to more and longer fixed loan terms) Not clear though what central banks can do about it. Financial conditions targeting? What alternative to blunt interest rate tool?
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Confronting the limits of monetary policy
[FREE TO READ] The ability of interest rates to guide prices and the economy is diminishing
https://on.ft.com/4h34Hp6
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Stephen Bush
3 months ago
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Great detailed reporting here on how Netanyahu finally succumbed to pressure from a US president eg. Trump to Netanyahu (when he said Hamas delaying): “Why are you so fucking negative?”
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How Trump cornered Netanyahu into signing up for peace
Israel’s prime minister has encountered the first US president he cannot easily outmanoeuvre
https://www.ft.com/content/6a62d210-bb8b-49f2-a796-48bb7db0d75d
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📢New piece from me on US inflation today in the
@financialtimes.com
📢 It's not just (still modest) tariff-related effects boosting core goods and headline above target, core services excluding housing remain elevated
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Katie Martin
3 months ago
Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment
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Soumaya Keynes
3 months ago
Eeee the cover for the UK edition of How to Win a Trade War is out! Pre-order your copy here...
www.amazon.co.uk/How-Win-Trad...
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Social media use appears to have peaked everywhere but North America
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Have we passed peak social media?
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Melissa Ryan
3 months ago
I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through.
people.com/ice-agents-o...
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ICE Agents Rappel from Helicopter in Overnight Chicago Raid, Dragging Kids from Beds to U-Hauls
Overnight on Tuesday, Sept. 30, federal agents from different agencies raided an apartment building on the South Side of Chicago, pulling men, women and children — some of them allegedly naked — from ...
https://people.com/ice-agents-overnight-chicago-raid-11823082
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FT Weekend
3 months ago
Why yesterday’s terrorist attack felt inevitable
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Why yesterday’s terrorist attack felt inevitable
From foiled terror plots to antisemitic hate crime, Jews are awake to the threats we face
https://on.ft.com/3KRfer6
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Financial Times
3 months ago
Opinion: It would be a hugely welcome development to discover that we have not merely reached social media saturation point, but that the experience has been degraded to such an extent that it has shocked people out of their stupor.
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LSE Inequalities
3 months ago
In our latest blog, Javier Terrero Dávila (
@oecdsocial.bsky.social
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#LSEInequalitiesBlog
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Who climbs the income ladder? New evidence from tax records
Using surveys to track short-term social mobility – how much people move up or down the income ladder – has limitations. How can using administrative data help?
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities/2025/09/30/who-climbs-the-income-ladder/
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US electricity prices have risen significantly due to data centre needs “electricity now costs as much as 267% more for a single month than it did five years ago in areas located near significant data center activity.”
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring
Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-ai-data-centers-electricity-prices/?ai=eyJpc1N1YnNjcmliZWQiOnRydWUsImFydGljbGVSZWFkIjpmYWxzZSwiYXJ0aWNsZUNvdW50IjowLCJ3YWxsSGVpZ2h0IjoxfQ==
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Great reporting here on the political pressure affecting prosecutions of white-collar crime in the US Featuring also great use of LLMs for structuring data 👇👇
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The Fed's decision to cut rates last week have been criticised with inflation above target A dovish turn also risks making a frothy US market frothier, raising financial stability risk My latest in the
@financialtimes.com
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3 months ago
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Very interesting on Apollo’s clever (and possibly dangerous) arbitraging of capital regulation rules by
@leeharris.ft.com
on.ft.com/46CguXE
The niche debt tool at the heart of Apollo’s private credit machine
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The niche debt tool at the heart of Apollo’s private credit machine
How Apollo’s in-house insurer has raised capital to fund the group’s lending, without turning to policyholders
https://on.ft.com/46CguXE
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Big gap in income gains for 65+ versus working age populations in UK and France, with the increased cost of pensions for governments sending fiscal debts to unsustainable levels and crowding out other spending priorities
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US CPI data is out: inflation continues rising, but the Fed will most likely cut next week due to labour market concerns The tension between price stability and maximum employment will not ease quickly More on the challenge facing the Fed, with lots of charts Free-to-read:
on.ft.com/41K2yIn
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Sarah O'Connor
4 months ago
Very cool sentiment analysis using FT articles by
@joelsuss.ft.com
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www.ft.com/content/9a99...
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Partly because both Trump and Manelson were close friends with Epstein?
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Peter Mandelson predicts fresh revelations about friendship with Jeffrey Epstein
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After my article on the rise in negative news yesterday, nice to see a good news story!: "the delivery of one of the largest UK infrastructure projects roughly on time and close to budget"
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‘Super sewer’ chief bows out to the sweet smell of success
London’s £5bn Thames Tideway project has been completed without drama using a pioneering financial model
https://on.ft.com/41OFYOS
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It was only a matter of time I guess? The question is whether plunging share prices of these crypto hoarders will force crypto fire sales and push down crypto prices, potentially setting off further selling
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It was only a matter of time I guess? Question is whether the plunging shares of these crypto hoarders will force crypto fire sales and push down crypto prices
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Robin Wigglesworth
4 months ago
Sentiment analysis on four decades worth of FT newspaper articles. 🥳 Rreally cool stuff from
@joelsuss.ft.com
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FT Alphaville
4 months ago
We read the news today. Oh boy.
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Bad news: there’s more of it about
More than 40 years of FT coverage, charted
https://on.ft.com/4n2TVBq
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