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Raymond Frenken

@frenken.bsky.social

Dutch financial journalist & strategic communicator. EU markets, policy & geopolitics. Ex-CNBC, Bbg. Filmed EU defence missions globally. Clear writing, complex issues, big picture. Human companion to 🐾 Skye, possibly the smartest living being in Limburg.

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18.09.2025 14:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œWe need to get our priorities right,” says long distance swimmer Lewis Pugh at the Morningstar Sustainable Investment Summit in Amsterdam.

He swam across the North Pole, the length of the English Channel, and across a glacier lake at Mount Everest.

18.09.2025 14:26 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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I recently returned to Arkansas after thirty years. From Helena to the Ozarks, this journey was less about politics and more about memory, family, and how America looks and feels when you come back after a lifetime away.

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15.09.2025 07:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Wat vindt NRC | Het kabinet-Schoof maakte zich schuldig aan spektakelpolitiek, en had al veel eerder moeten vallen Kabinetsval

Het kabinet-Schoof maakte zich schuldig aan spektakelpolitiek, en had al veel eerder moeten vallen www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

03.06.2025 12:34 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The late Margot FriedlΓ€nder and the hope for a better future – DW – 05/09/2025 In 2023, DW spoke with one of the then oldest living Holocaust survivors, Margot FriedlΓ€nder, who moved back to Germany in 2010 and regained her German citizenship. FriedlΓ€nder died on May 9, 2025.

The late Margot FriedlΓ€nder and the hope for a better future amp.dw.com/en/the-late-...

09.05.2025 22:50 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Prevost is new pope, an American cardinal committed to the reforms Pope Francis began Augustinian Cardinal Robert Prevost was the least American among the American cardinals, having spent most of his ministry in Peru and Rome. The cardinals clearly wanted someone committed to Pope Fran...

Prevost is new pope, an American cardinal committed to the reforms Pope Francis began β€”
Delighted to see this #HabemusPapam www.ncronline.org/opinion/prev...

08.05.2025 19:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sad to learn of the passings of Paul Hofheinz, a true transatlanticist, inspirational and one of the nicest guys in Brussels, co-founder @thelisboncouncil.bsky.social , and of Richard Vines, who elegantly edited my markets copy when I was at Bloomberg. Both were too young to leave this life.

29.04.2025 23:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Column | Nederland maakt zich zo klein dat het er niet meer toe doet In Europa: Caroline de Gruyter

Wow. Het echte verhaal van de stemming over eurobonds van deze week. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

15.03.2025 21:18 β€” πŸ‘ 59    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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The ninetysomethings who revolutionized how we think about strength training One simple exercise proved older adults can build and retain muscle – and caused a paradigm shift in science

www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...

13.03.2025 16:19 β€” πŸ‘ 53    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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In the gardens of one of the castles on the Isle of Skye, I found this old, mossy set of steps.
#pictureoftheday #isleofskye

13.03.2025 16:58 β€” πŸ‘ 877    πŸ” 73    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 1
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@jay.bsky.team visual notes from her keynote today at @sxsw!

Community! Open source! Creativity! Connection!

Graphic recording by @heatherwillems.bsky.social of #twolinestudios

#sxsw #sxsw2025 #graphicrecording

10.03.2025 23:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2718    πŸ” 256    πŸ’¬ 42    πŸ“Œ 20
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WSJ publisher Almar Latour on preserving press freedom and the promise of AI The Dow Jones CEO discusses the future of the news business and what it will take to help it thrive.

Dow Jones CEO Almar Latour on AI, press freedom, and the future of news.

Hij begon ooit als stagiair bij het Limburgs Dagblad.

@theverge.com www.theverge.com/decoder-podc...

11.03.2025 23:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A lot can happen in five months. πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

11.03.2025 18:49 β€” πŸ‘ 18298    πŸ” 5456    πŸ’¬ 299    πŸ“Œ 256

HE'S LITERALLY READING A SALES PITCH

11.03.2025 20:13 β€” πŸ‘ 9939    πŸ” 2590    πŸ’¬ 767    πŸ“Œ 689
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Onderzoek: Russisch netwerk injecteert westerse AI-tools met desinformatie De meest gebruikte en bekendste westerse chatbots verspreiden onbedoeld Russische propaganda door systematisch valse beweringen van een pro-Kremlin-netwerk te herhalen. Dit blijkt uit een analyse van ...

Onderzoek: Russisch netwerk injecteert westerse AI-tools met desinformatie. Meer daarover bij De Morgen.
www.demorgen.be/snelnieuws/o...

07.03.2025 14:02 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1

Putin was counting on Trump. He was Russia’s only hope. And Trump is now delivering for Putin.

06.03.2025 02:55 β€” πŸ‘ 3722    πŸ” 1118    πŸ’¬ 148    πŸ“Œ 31

Waarom in vredesnaam Orban en Fico weer de boel laten chanteren? Richt een nieuwe defensie-organisatie op zonder deze Poetin-lovers. Er is geen tijd voor gesteggel, er is geen ruimte voor slappe compromissen. Vol gas op defensie, en laat Hongarije en Slowakije over 20 jaar maar onder de voet lopen.

06.03.2025 10:34 β€” πŸ‘ 354    πŸ” 77    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 7
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Marcel Dirsus on the rise and fall of tyrants "The tyrant usually tries to destroy as many institutions as possible because they’re constraints on his power."

β€œWe are witnessing a frontal assault on America’s institutions and if it succeeds, the US will be in serious trouble. When it comes to courts and the military, everyone needs to pay attention. If judges and soldiers are neutralized or captured, democracy dies.”

03.03.2025 19:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2135    πŸ” 724    πŸ’¬ 84    πŸ“Œ 28
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They Crashed the Economy in 2008. Now They’re Back and Bigger Than Ever. Wall Street expects to sell more than $335 billion in asset-backed debt this year. Remember that conference in β€˜The Big Short’? It just drew a record 10,000.

"Wall Street is once again creating and selling securities backed by everythingβ€”the more creative the better...Data-center bonds are backed by lease payments from companies that rent out computing capacity."

www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

02.03.2025 20:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1060    πŸ” 443    πŸ’¬ 81    πŸ“Œ 229
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Great news for money launderers!

03.03.2025 11:04 β€” πŸ‘ 16699    πŸ” 5345    πŸ’¬ 870    πŸ“Œ 509
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Inside Soviet recruitment: Kazakhstan’s former security chief claims Trump was a KGB asset Former Chairman of Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee (KNB) Alnur Mussayev claims that the Soviet KGB recruited Donald Trump before the collapse of the USSR, assigning him the alias Krasnov. He ...

Zou dit dan toch waar zijn?
kz.kursiv.media/en/2025-02-2...

28.02.2025 19:05 β€” πŸ‘ 182    πŸ” 82    πŸ’¬ 35    πŸ“Œ 4
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NAVO-baas Rutte: Zelensky moet relatie met Trump herstellen Volgens Rutte is dankbaarheid op zijn plaats voor wat Amerika tot nu toe heeft betekend voor Europa.

Rutte denkt dat de wereld op Nederland lijkt, maar weet ook dat hij als sg NAVO per saldo lakei is van VS. Daarom kiest Rutte nu de facto partij tegen OekraΓ―ne, het land dat hij ondanks MH17 tot 2022 niet wilde leren kennen. Bah.
nos.nl/collectie/13...

01.03.2025 18:58 β€” πŸ‘ 378    πŸ” 99    πŸ’¬ 55    πŸ“Œ 9

I think it's best to avoid all travel to the USA for a while.

02.03.2025 11:50 β€” πŸ‘ 125    πŸ” 52    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 2
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Bansky.

02.03.2025 20:49 β€” πŸ‘ 773    πŸ” 174    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 9
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Chris Murphy: "It is absolutely shameful what's happening right now. The White House has become an arm of the Kremlin."

02.03.2025 18:15 β€” πŸ‘ 24092    πŸ” 5553    πŸ’¬ 524    πŸ“Œ 242
Elon Musk Cold Open - SNL
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live Elon Musk Cold Open - SNL

The SNL Cold Open was based on the Trump tantrum with Zelensky, with Mike Myers doing a brutal take on Elon Musk www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUpO...

02.03.2025 08:43 β€” πŸ‘ 503    πŸ” 138    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 24
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Zelensky flooded with messages of support from world leaders after Trump berates him β€˜We stand with Ukraine. Always. Because it is right, not easy,’ posted Estonia’s prime minister

"Zelensky inundated with messages of support from World Leaders after Trump berates him in Oval Office meeting" πŸ™

...Meanwhile, Trump HAS NOT BEEN inundated with messages of support from World Leaders 😜

01.03.2025 08:51 β€” πŸ‘ 218    πŸ” 66    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 6
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Zelenskyy has a net +22 approval rating and would very likely to be elected to a second term, a Survation poll finds www.survation.com/is-zelenskyy...

01.03.2025 08:48 β€” πŸ‘ 229    πŸ” 50    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1
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β€˜Free world needs a new leader’: Europe defends Zelenskyy after Trump attack France, Germany and Poland all make prompt declarations of support as Europe fears Trump’s alignment with Putin.

β€˜Free world needs a new leader’: Europe defends Zelenskyy after Trump attack

www.politico.eu/article/volo...

01.03.2025 09:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1127    πŸ” 230    πŸ’¬ 45    πŸ“Œ 12

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