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US Financial Commentator, Financial Times. Opinions mine, unfortunately. The pursuit of pleasure is hard work.

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ARMSTRONG: “.. It is, of course, utterly unclear whether the president’s comments have anything to do with a change in balance of the war on the ground.”

@robarmstrong.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/4629...

10.03.2026 12:03 👍 242 🔁 52 💬 10 📌 4
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The thing that everyone expected to happen has happened [FREE TO READ] Trump wants the war to be over

as.ft.com/r/08358903-1... The thing that everyone expected to happen has happened
@robarmstrong.bsky.social

10.03.2026 08:22 👍 15 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0

I only do words

09.03.2026 22:30 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You can say it, but I'm not going to say it.

09.03.2026 22:27 👍 24 🔁 1 💬 8 📌 1

I'm also very handsome, people say it all the time

07.03.2026 21:49 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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The case against stablecoins Is there anything really new about them?

POD O'CLOCK
God knows there's enough to worry about, but please find space in your head to also worry about stablecoins.

@robarmstrong.bsky.social and I chatted to brainbox @bhgreeley.bsky.social to explain why

www.ft.com/content/f9c8...

06.03.2026 09:34 👍 59 🔁 10 💬 5 📌 4

As George Orwell once said, ‘Kristi Noem makey uppy stuff’

05.03.2026 21:48 👍 38 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0

[Exit Murderer.]

05.03.2026 18:25 👍 5469 🔁 1276 💬 46 📌 45

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr_y...

05.03.2026 15:33 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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"The day the UBS Global Investment Returns Yearbook appears is something like Christmas Day for sad markets nerds." - @robarmstrong.bsky.social here on some of its findings this year. One ignore geopolitics

05.03.2026 07:29 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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When buying clothes, can you beat the market? [FREE TO READ] There are more than just financial considerations to take into account when buying vintage, quality basics and luxury items

The efficent markets hypotheisis applies to clothes:
as.ft.com/r/4a16efa4-b...

04.03.2026 15:20 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Energy prices up, markets down

We done a pod innit

Me + @robarmstrong.bsky.social + FT oil nerd @jamiesmythft.bsky.social on The Obvious featuring:

-oil 📈
-Gas 🚀
-anyone fancy piloting a ship through the Strait of Hormuz? Anyone? 🚢
-markets 🤮
-sausage rolls 🥧
-2026 is going *just great* 👍🏻

open.spotify.com/episode/3h5w...

03.03.2026 22:20 👍 82 🔁 19 💬 3 📌 2
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Chart of the Week: Nvidia’s sales rocket while its shares flatline Is there a limit to how big a company can get?

Chart of the Week: Nvidia’s sales rocket while its shares flatline—There is no sign that data centre spending, and therefore sales of Nvidia’s GPU chips, is slowing down any time soon. But the longer-term future… www.ft.com/content/45c1... @robarmstrong.bsky.social @financialtimes.com

03.03.2026 01:44 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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here's the gist:

02.03.2026 17:18 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

What excellent advice, Dom! Evergreen.

02.03.2026 17:15 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

futures market says this whole thing is wrapped up lunchtime tonorrow

02.03.2026 02:24 👍 81 🔁 6 💬 5 📌 2

I miss Todd Snider

01.03.2026 19:03 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0
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What the actual tariff?

👂🏻 POD TIME 👂🏻
me, @robarmstrong.bsky.social & special guest @alanbeattie.bsky.social on what is going on with tariffs after the big 👎🏻 from the Supreme Court, featuring

-new tariffs? How? 🤷🏻‍♀️
-refunds FTW 💰
-the friends you lose along the way 😢
-HALO = new TACO 😇

open.spotify.com/episode/2BLa...

27.02.2026 09:09 👍 39 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 2

I just wonder if all that capex spend buys them something commodizsable, ie, they are just building huge compute utilities. It's a moat, but low ROIC?

26.02.2026 16:35 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Harsh, but fair

26.02.2026 12:46 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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A viral research note on AI gets its economics wrong Too much of a good thing

A viral research note on AI gets its economics wrong
economist.com/finance-and-...

26.02.2026 04:16 👍 23 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0

Gavin you did a better job with this than I did -- are you, by any chance, AI? It would make me feel better if you were

26.02.2026 04:25 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Just shows how certain he was

25.02.2026 15:50 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A vintage black-and-white photo of a young boy in a tweed suit and white shirt, standing in front of a blurred botanical backdrop.

A vintage black-and-white photo of a young boy in a tweed suit and white shirt, standing in front of a blurred botanical backdrop.

25 February 1932 | A French Jew, Henri Dresner, was born.

He arrived at #Auschwitz on 9 August 1942 in a transport of 1,069 Jews deported from Pithiviers and Beaune-la-Rolande. He was among 794 people murdered in a gas chamber after selection.

25.02.2026 15:00 👍 434 🔁 136 💬 17 📌 11
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The report that rattled Wall Street

👂🏻 POD TIME 👂🏻
me and @robarmstrong.bsky.social on

-AI doom or AI boom?
-Scaredy-cat flip-flop stocks

Plus:
-subterfuge!
-Seals!
-Shrinkflation!

open.spotify.com/episode/2DLP...

25.02.2026 10:46 👍 36 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 2
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- @robarmstrong.bsky.social put it well this morning in a note on Citrini www.ft.com/content/8a09...

24.02.2026 14:22 👍 20 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0

alas

20.02.2026 16:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

UPDATE: fake me has been suspended, nice job @bsky.app

20.02.2026 00:11 👍 21 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Gawd

19.02.2026 16:25 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

LOL

19.02.2026 16:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0