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It's a dollar-weighted average, which means that ninnies like Andreesen and Thiel get thousands more votes than anyone else.
Counterpoint: this disgusting shit *is* American society. You people elected Trump twice and the Republican party polls well over 40%.
His sons look like Uday and Qusay too
On this occasion I dont think even DJT knew in advance what noises were going to come out of his mouth
Nonetheless
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I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be joining Bluesky as interim CEO. I deeply believe in what this team has built and the open social web they're fighting for. More here: toni.org/2026/03/09/c...
*7 Nation Army Cadence*
🎶I'm supposed to be working🎶
Tying to understand this move at the front end of the curve and checking Jean -Claude Trichet hasn’t been added to the MPC without me noticing.
Does FIFA do a prize for economics
Time to dust off maybe one of the best pieces of business writing of all time, by @tracyalloway.bsky.social: That Time I Tried to Buy an Actual Barrel of Crude Oil
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bsky.app/profile/simo...
I like to look back on feted FP experts takes and smile as they still get fawned on for their insights at Aspen
You have to admit, the US war in Iran slamming shut the IPO window for all the tech bro Trump sycophants would be pretty funny
Financial market participants dragging themselves to the office:
Top oil supply shocks:
1. Hormuz Closure (NOW): -20 million b/d
2. Iranian Revolution (1978): -5.5 million b/d
3. Yom Kippur War (1973): -4.5 million b/d
4. Iraq-Kuwait War (1990): -4.3 million b/d
5. Iran-Iraq War (1980): -4.0 million b/d
6. Russia-Ukraine War (2022): -2.0 million b/d
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someone at the pentagon frantically typing “Claude, open the strait of Hormuz for me, quickest possible strategy, make no mistakes.”
Things look grim in the markets right now, but at least the U.S. economy wasn’t already being propped up by a massive speculative AI bubble that is highly sensitive to rising energy costs.
I keep hearing people say that Trump is gonna TACO and that is bullish... I think if Trump TACOs you'll see the market puke even more bc it'll realise that Trump isn't in charge here... it's Bibi and the IRGC, and they don't care about your p&l...
WTI now +20%. are we having fun yet 🤪
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I think they wrote a pretty famous book about how the early 20th century was a golden age for American farmers
Responding to high oil prices by shorting futures instead of opening the SPR is exactly the sort of galaxy brain macro dipshittery only Scott Bessent would think of, I’m looking forward to them getting a hundred billion dollar margin call and sending crude to $500
Population of Israel is 10m
Population of Iran is 92m
Pretty confident he's not thinking about Israeli boots
All the best and most successful special forces operations are widely trailed in the press in advance.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
PSA: The Wine Society's Ukrainian chardonnay is pretty gluggable