Alan Howard

Alan Howard

@alan-howard.bsky.social

Bibliophile and traveler

193 Followers 34 Following 1,315 Posts Joined Dec 2024
8 hours ago

My girlfriend lives in Canada

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9 hours ago

Just disgusting…..and yet here we are.

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10 hours ago

Grift all the way down and disqualifying disrespectful all at the same time.

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1 day ago

Can anyone explain how this is not a quid-pro-quo bribe?

Especially since US law demanded the transfer of TikTok’s US operations as the one way to avoid a ban.

Big donors to the president got the company as the govt forced the sale, and he gets $10 billion.

If not a bribe, why so bribe-shaped?

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Yes, we’ve been sounding the alarm about this. newsguy.substack.com/p/betting-an...

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The market is an idiot

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19 hours ago

Fiddling with the data undermines its integrity.

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😬

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Raging at Media, Pete Hegseth Just Said the Quiet Part Out Loud He wants “patriotic” coverage of the Iran War. He doesn’t understand: in a democracy, coverage that asks difficult questions of the government is itself “patriotic.”

Pete Hegseth wants to live in a world in which the US military can drop bombs on scores of children and face no serious media scrutiny for it. His vile claim that he can't wait for David Ellison to run CNN shows he pines for oligarchic control of media.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2077...

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two weeks before us marine expeditionary force—some 2,500 marines—now being deployed to iran arrives in the mideast.

this war (and global economic disruption) isn’t over soon.

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Change in Data Sources Led to Lower Inflation Reading

Ad hoc opaque decisions by BEA/BLS are termites eating at confidence in US data…

“We are moving to more of a vague, uncertain, cloudy data quality environment that is going to make market participants less confident” said @courtneyshupert.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/b...

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And lies. Don’t forget the lies

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The panic is setting in.

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Ukraine scores legal victory in its campaign to make Russia's Gazprom pay Ukraine's state-owned oil and gas giant Naftogaz won a case against Russia's Gazprom in a Swiss court, paving the way for the Russian company to pay more than $1.4 billion in debt.

Ukraine's state-owned oil and gas giant Naftogaz won a case against Russia's Gazprom in a Swiss court, paving the way for the Russian company to pay more than $1.4 billion in debt.

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Oil Prices Rise Despite Trump’s Decision to Lift Russia Sanctions

Main victor in the Iran war: Vladimir Putin.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/b...

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2 days ago

What do we even do with this.

The global economy hangs in the balance and these people are criminally inept

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2 days ago

Your regular reminder that GOP members of Congress are completely okay with what he’s doing…

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As Bugs Bunny said, “whadda maroon”

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JFC

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2 days ago

All of that may be true, and yet he misses the point entirely even though it is his job. He does understand that oil is traded as a commodity on the global market and it is those prices that determine the price at the gas pump doesn’t he? We can have bathtubs full of oil or gasoline - price up.

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What would he know about it. The closest he gets is Call of Duty.

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NEW: US Treasury issued a general license for the delivery and sale of Russian oil loaded on vessels as of March 12.

Moscow continues to be the single largest beneficiary of the Iran War.

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Five vessels attacked amid reports of Iranian drone boats, sea mines Two oil tankers hit by explosive-laden boats in Iraqi waters amid reports Iran may be using unmanned surface vessels.

Two oil tankers hit by explosive-laden boats in Iraqi waters amid reports Iran may be using unmanned surface vessels.

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Russia earns additional 6 billion euros in fossil fuel revenue as oil prices soar amid US-Iran war, analysis finds Russia has earned an additional 6 billion euros ($6.9 billion) in two weeks of fighting between the U.S. and Iran, a March 12 analysis by the Center for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) found.

⚡️Russia earns additional 6 billion euros in fossil fuel revenue as oil prices soar amid US-Iran war, analysis finds.

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Trump says Democrats must cheat to win. What do his supporters think? NPR spent several days traveling across a pair of swing districts in Pennsylvania to find out. The answers show how much has changed since the 2020 election.

NPR spent several days traveling across a pair of swing districts in Pennsylvania to find out. The answers show how much has changed since the 2020 election. n.pr/3P4vAir

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Shell declares force majeure on LNG contracts from Qatar Qatar announced a production halt at a facility last week and declared force majeure on LNG shipments.

Qatar announced a production halt at a facility last week and declared force majeure on LNG shipments.

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Ridiculous!

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HUGE.

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Scary.

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WSJ: “.. Maersk has 10 ships trapped in the Persian Gulf and would need at least a week to 10 days to resume normal operations in the event of a cease-fire ..

“.. Brokers say there are more than 100 boxships trapped in the Gulf ..”

www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

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