The Brussels Times and De Tijd examine the finances of the Brussels Region. The report raises questions about the true size of the debt.

Quite possibly the nerdiest Lunch with the FT we've ever run, featuring the inelastic markets hypothesis, 'econophysics', the Black-Scholes model's weaknesses and several drive-by shootings of economists. www.ft.com/content/6f54...

📝 A smarter, more integrated financial toolbox is needed to move the EU's Global Gateway "from start-up to scale-up." But how can this be achieved? Read the paper 👉 bit.ly/4nbk3Kk

Revealed: ‘Corporate capture’ of UN aviation body by industry

Thoughts on Trump ordering flags to half-mast for Charlie Kirk but wouldn't even call the Governor of Minnesota after Democratic elected officials were killed in by a Trump supporter. Democratic lives do not matter to Trump

Voters have given Japan’s government a pasting in elections for the upper house, after a campaign that focused on immigration and living costs. www.ft.com/content/f733...

The 709 Crackdown led to the unjust prosecution & persecution some of China’s most diligent human rights lawyers & legal activists. But it was just the start of a decade-long assault on human rights & the rule of law that shows no signs of abating today. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Yippee, my broker is the first Belgian broker to offer crypto… Fees are fees and demand is demand I guess. They’re on a roll after pushing risky bonds with sleazy sales-mails for highly indebted private companies. Never trust sell-side. Write that down! ✍️

Stable coins are big, but not beautiful... ... they're just not money and come with a host of other dangers Volatility is one ft.com/content/86af...

The L.A. protesters have really gone too far this time… 🌼

I don't understand how anyone can look at Mike Johnson and not think "that guy might be the devil." Like in a movie it would be the big reveal hahaha he was the devil all the time and the audience would be booing at how obvious it all was. Of course Mike Johnson is the devil. Look at him!

👀 www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Tesla drivers in France sue over Elon Musk’s political antics https://www.ft.com/content/ef4a97f1-8196-4abe-93b1-73f90fdefa42

When billion-dollar AIs break down over puzzles a child can do, it's time to rethink the hype | Gary Marcus

Terry Moran has been recognized with many awards including the George Foster Peabody Award, the Emmy Award, the Merriman Smith Award from the White House Correspondents' Association (2x's) & the Thurgood Marshall Journalism Award. Stephen Miller has been recognized as the Spawn of Satan. Fuck ABC.

what's "the brussels effect"? (wrong answers only)

Los Angeles FC crowd chants, "Fuck ICE."

says something about the world we live in when both the richest person in the world and the most powerful person in the world are both absolute fucking morons

Darren Beattie - the State Dept official who dismantled the US government's main center for fighting Russian and Chinese propaganda around the world - turns out to have personal ties to the Russian elite. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

FT SCOOP: Elon Musk’s xAI is launching a $300mn share sale that values the group at $113bn - validating the pricetag struck when xAI bought X in March It comes as the world’s richest man returns from Doge to his business empire and the AI race on.ft.com/4dGFY85

Hot take: chicken fried steak is a better beef wellington

It would have been easy for Musk to take his plane to a country like Uganda to see the work U.S.A.I.D. has done providing medicine to people with H.I.V. Instead, he drew on the counsel of internet trolls and staffed DOGE with lackeys who were similarly ignorant. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

The US president said the billionaire, who helped bankroll his presidential campaign last year, was 'going to be back and forth' between his businesses and Washington. https://on.ft.com/4jvA3nI

"What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination: indiscriminate, unrestrained, brutal, and criminal killing of civilians,” [former Prime Minister Olmert] said." www.huffpost.com/entry/israel...

“Without widespread theft, my industry can’t survive” is an argument against your industry surviving, and is not an argument for allowing widespread theft

Union Saint-Gilloise crowned champions of Belgium (photos)

Some quotes are too good to cut on.ft.com/4jkssZ0

After years of democratic decay under Orban — judicial independence dismantled, the press muzzled, minorities attacked, dissent criminalised — the EU is finally acting. On 27 May, the General Affairs Council may trigger Article 7 TEU, a historic move to suspend Hungary’s voting rights. 1/3

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Do you know what terrifies the British government more than anything? Courage, conviction & integrity in the face of injustice. That's everything these lads embody & it's why we stand with them unequivocally regardless what the Gov says. #IStandWithKneecap #FreePalestine🇵🇸

🚨Last chance to join the class action in Lithuania for unlawfully detained asylum seekers🚨 If you were detained in Lithuania for at least 6 months between July 2021-July 2022 after crossing from Belarus to seek asylum and want to seek justice, contact [email protected]

Bank analyst here - this seems cute but it isn't. Wall Street banks only do this when they're very stressed about domestic revenue

Reuters confirm that the photo of alleged white genocide in South Africa showed humanitarian workers lifting body bags in the Congolese city of Goma. www.reuters.com/world/africa...

Trump’s deals make the campaign finance scandals of the last century — recall the Clinton-era scandal in which top donors were treated to overnight stays in the Lincoln Bedroom of the White House — look quaint www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

I don’t mean to sound Woke or partisan but this upset me a bit

📣 Negotiations over the next EU-long term budget (MFF) will impact the bloc's ability to pay for (and therefore do) external action, and is a key opportunity to improve EU development financing. What needs to change? Read the full document 👉 bit.ly/456WV9o

Russia disappeared her. Russia tortured her. Russia then returned her mutilated body to #Ukraine. My Daily Brief: www.hrw.org/the-day-in-h...

Simples. Making money out of thin air. www.ft.com/content/f579...

A dive here into how much money is being made on Trump-related crypto ventures - the latest example is a group traders who earned $99.6mn by buying Melania ’s token in the minutes before it was made public @eadehemingway.bsky.social @olihawkins.com @chriscook.news and Paul Caruana Galizia

This is annoying me to no end because it basically states that only the rich are allowed to get away with crime. Its a pump and dump, rug pull, fraud, theft, carried out with then support of the wife of the President of the United States.

A group of traders bought $2.5mn of $MELANIA meme coin in the minutes before it was made public, and sold up for $100mn >> by @olihawkins.com @eadehemingway.bsky.social me and Paul Caruana Galizia on.ft.com/4m3IU2t

When Trump announced that American children will have to make do with fewer toys at Christmas, unflattering comparisons were drawn to noted figures from history. “It sounded like Marie Antoinette saying ‘let them eat cake’,” said Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster. www.ft.com/content/1094...

White House lashes out at ‘hostile and political act by Amazon’ https://www.ft.com/content/a06e80e7-97d0-4f29-9153-1e4219a88713

This was bound to happen sooner rather than later. Surely it spells the end of the money-making-machine-at-scale promise of stablecoin issuers? Also shows that it will be hard for central banks with digital currencies in the making to sustain zero interest payments. www.cnbc.com/2025/04/23/p...

You may have heard of outsider art but have you heard of outsider regrouting. Any tips on regrouting a bathtub sincerely appreciates.

Trump’s approval at 100 days lower than any president in at least seven decades! www.cnn.com/2025/04/27/p...

Viktor Orbán’s government is being accused of handing more than €1bn in unlawful subsidies to pro-government media, adding to concerns that state support is being used to bolster the Hungarian leader’s grip on power. on.ft.com/3GHFnGL

Oh no not a very strong letter asking eight very strong questions

‘I didn’t eat or sleep’: a Meta moderator on his breakdown after seeing beheadings and child abuse