BrokenBanker

I'd just like to observe that of all our current political party leaders, Badenoch would be the worst trader, and it isn't even close

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the mark of a good trader is the ability to withstand more pain than most:

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you need to keep up, my friend. we've moved on to Iran mining the Strait about 10 minutes ago:

rather hilariously, US equities have now reversed hard and are flat, while oil is reversing back up hard. but I am pretty sure that somebody White House adjacent has manipulated the market here, they just can't help themselves, the thieving little scrotes

am fairly sure somebody somewhere has got whipsawed by the first and then the second headline...

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I mean, I genuinely don't know where to start with this one:

just the most farcical excuse for a global hegemon ever. rank amateurism all round.

Christ, these people are assholes <will leave it up to the reader to decide who best fits the bill, but this one shouldn't be too hard>

I would quite like to see footage of this. just sayin'...

Hugh Dennis has never been funnier than 'Milky Milky'

am guessing this had something to do with the sudden lurch lower

*US NAVY ESCORTED AN OIL TANKER THROUGH THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ

Energy prices

Sunday night's open feels like a long way away now in the energy complex:

an absolute scorcher 👌

wow, arguably very lucky to walk away and presumably knew what he was doing too

it's just hilarious how over-confident/deluded some men are in particular. would love to see the ratio of accidents for the 22% vs. the 78%, am prepared to bet it's higher

another classic of the genre:

jokes on the people who sold out considering the returns in UK equities:

<sets date in Calendar>

would deffo watch 🦖

Ireland has the chance to do the funniest thing around Doonbeg

by increasingly few is the point, no ? certainly no-one I know views him as such, and he's not winning new support either with the electorate or with additional parts of media in general. I don't really care about the lost causes who stick with him, far more interesting is the change at the margin.

my best guess is he's going to be as malleable as he thinks he needs to be to further his agenda (ie: a true politician). that might make him more effective ultimately than even Farage, who is slowly going backwards in terms of polling at the national level for sticking with full blown racism.

that's a problem across multiple policy areas. energy is currently the most pressing for obvious reasons (along with defence), and I find myself with the same problem am articulating in another 🧵, I don't know how we get to a non-partisan well thought through policy outcome with our current system ?

that wasn't a proper coalition to my mind, it was a thinly disguised majority, but never mind. think we definitely agree than in aggregate the political class of today are not the heavyweights of the past policy wise for whatever reasons. I don't know we fix it.

you know what happened in 2008 😆 (and it wasn't just the rise of social media). it's clear that since its arrival though, some politicians are good at it (Polanski, occasionally Davey), bad at it (Labour) or hilariously awful (Badenoch). it has not improved policy making to the detriment of all.

I think we can both agree that post 2008 is when the landscape changed politically in terms of rules of engagement; and on that basis, it just isn't useful to go back to a time before that which is no longer relevant. am really only interested in how we get things to work going forward.

yep, the right wing press haven't really got their teeth into him yet, there's still too much red meat to feast on with Labour (and of course, the column inches they are obliged to write praising Reform)

in other words, they behaved like opposition parties, the same way that Reform and the Tories are currently doing, yes ? that's just the nature of our political system, and it doesn't work.

Jet2 renamed to Jet Poo as fuel costs destroy margins

UK BRC Retail Sales Monitor February

UK BRC Retail Sales Monitor for February a little soft vs. expectations, driven by non-food; and I'd put this down to the consistently wet weather during the month. March will be more 'interesting', depending on how badly consumer confidence is affected by ongoing events in the Middle East: