FT online started reporting that #SpaceX would open 30% up, changed online to 25% later and now 20%.

Great to get published with Dr.'s Rana, Yerushalmi and Kim "Asynchronous market efficiency in gold and silver markets: A local currency lens" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“Researchers discover AI hallucinations” makes it sound like a scientific breakthrough rather than “some actually read the report”.

Cash for #Gold /Silver! Recycling when prices are high is nothing new. Here is the Financial and Bullionist Newspaper on Oct 28 1919, as silver prices reached record highs, discussing whether "All out #silver plate is likely to disappear into the melting pot?"

Looking forward to it!

I'll be talking about the Economics of No- and Low-alcoholic drinks @pintofscienceie.bsky.social in Cork this year in the Liberty Bar on Monday, May 18th, along with research talking about Mothers & Others and AI @ucc.ie Tickets are free here - pintofscience.ie/event/cultur...

Banque de France's €11bn gold windfall discussed here, with myself quoted on what's behind it - shorturl.at/jhUFo by @lkoro.es @ucc.ie

In 1938, small investors, especially in France, hoarded #gold coins because gold bars were too expensive. High demand pushed coin prices above their gold value. Some state banks profited by selling coins at a premium and replacing them with cheaper gold bars.

Everythings fine. #Gold. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

May 1939 - more frequent references to defence spending in the Financial News newspaper. Here the growth in the importance of defence expenditure for the economy.

#silver market is roaring ATM but in August 1937 Twas not so … “Lifeless” said the Financial News. Boom will eventually turn into bust again, only question is when.

@goldcouncil.bsky.social Was the #gold market liquid in the 1930s? I've collected a small sample from each year when prices in the London Gold Market were free to vary from 1931-39. Based ona fw days from each year at this point, we can see that though it was more illiquid in 1931 by 1933 1/n

More and more breweries that only deal in non-alcoholic beer showing up such as Fierce Mild in Ireland and Lucky Saint in England @alcoholireland.ie www.irishexaminer.com/business/com...

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Still undefeated in #monopoly in 2026

Lovely to chat with Alex Demas about gold and silver's record year, "What’s Behind Gold’s Rally?" thedispatch.com/newsletter/m... @ucc.ie

The Financial News has this as a type of uncertainty barometer on its front page in the top left through the 1920s. Love that one of the market conditions was "Dull."

From the Financial News in 1925, an announcement of a St. Patrick’s day special dinner in Restaurant Belgravia in London.

Lots to talk about in the #Gold market ATM with record prices, steep sell-offs and prices holding above $4,000 so far. Some thoughts from me here in relation to this and the dissimilarities between Gold and Bitcoin. @ucc.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

The impossible has happened.

Great to see Edogbo back for Munster , very lucky to get a bonus point but Edinburgh very lucky to only get 4 yellow cards #munvedi

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

@eoinaldo.bsky.social kicks of the Irish Macrohist workshop 2025 in @ucc.ie “Explaining the retreat of the Irish Language Fronteir”, paper with @cliochris.bsky.social and Alan Fernihough

Manuscript done ✅ Off to production at Bloomsbury! The book revisits Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations at 250, rethinking prosperity through inclusive wealth & sustainability More soon… 📖✨

There’s nothing new under the sun, just a repeat of the dot comm #bubble and the south sea bubble and many many more. Dot com was “don’t value by earnings value by clicks to the website” etc.

Just tried this - ranks people you don't follow but are followed by people you do bsky-follow-finder.theo.io

Two articles in the @financialtimes.com in one day about #gold is not a positive indicator for financial markets or the economy going forward.

The tie up we didn’t want, but do deserve.

BREAKING: New BLS Leader EJ Antoni Proposes To Pause Monthly Jobs Data Reports 📝🇺🇸

Deleting apps so I can meet someone the old fashioned way (Being fostered by a 3,000 year old half-elf m, so I can get him to agree that if I can unite the two ancient kingdoms of the men of the West, I can marry his 1,000 year old daughter who is kind of my great(x150) aunt)

Great fun presenting on whether non-alcoholic beer is a substitute for beer with Dr. Nadine Waehning at the Academy of Marketing conference in @ucc.ie today.

Very important any work here done by @seanekh.bsky.social in @ucc.ie under his @researchireland.ie pathways project, with @rebstuart.bsky.social, on developing Long Run high quality data on the Irish economy. I’m always amazed that data like this didn’t already exist, great to have it now!

The fact Romania's two hookers could be Dan Sheehan and Theo Dan and yet both of them are cowards still disappoints me

Some are calling for countries to repatriate their gold to domestic vaults. But this means that if the CB wants to sell it they need to move it again to a major market like London or New York. And they cant lease it. on.ft.com/3HR4QhC Germany and Italy pressed to bring $245bn of gold home from US

Here, have 300 paywall jumps for this week's very good Weekend FT lunch: on.ft.com/4ecCmeu

@threeredkings.bsky.social Do you think there should be a campaign to adopt cowbells for Clayton McMillans first match in thomand? www.1news.co.nz/2025/06/17/m... 'Melt them at the gate': Cowbells banned for Chiefs-Crusaders final

Christine Lagarde is talking about gold in central bank reserves in @financialtimes.com (www.ft.com/content/4d5d...) and @goldcouncil.bsky.social have the 2025 Central Bank Gold Reserves survey saying that 95% of central banks see reserves rising in 2025. So why do&should Central Banks hold gold?1/n

Carney’s wink on 0:15 is priceless

India looking forward to 1000% Tariffs soon on.ft.com/3YHHlgr Apple aims to source all US iPhones from India in pivot away from China

Gold has acted a safe haven in this crisis, a crisis where US treasuries have not been able to fulfill that role for the first time in a long time. That’s what a diversified portfolio always has an allocation to the oldest investment around: #Gold

As US 10-year rates have surged at an alarming rate over the last few days, before Covid we would have expected gold to be falling FAST. But since '20 #gold has become less sensitive to US rates & a simple model trying to explain gold prices with real rates & the dollar has stopped being useful 1/2

One of the clearest, calmest and best constructed responses to the madness of tariff introduction around.

Radio show is here, www.rte.ie/radio/radio1..., with #gold discussed at about 49mins. @ucc.ie

Delighted to get interviewed by @eithnedodd.bsky.social on RTE this morning, article summarising what we chatted about here “Gold prices rise to near record high as US tariffs loom” www.rte.ie/news/ireland... @ucc.ie

Might be on Morning Ireland @news.rte.ie in the morning for a minute talking about #Gold, Trump and Tariffs

New paper with Dr. Zhen He in Shanghai and Prof. Jacco Thijssen in York Using #Gold and other Precious metals to construct risk-free and zero-beta portfolios in the US and the UK @ucc.ie www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Confederacy of Dunces www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Why has the price of gold surged to record levels in the last year? High prices for gold reflect the exceptional economic and geopolitical uncertainties the world faces in the coming years, writes @a-fergal.bsky.social @ucc.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...