Dom White

Yeah, I know what you mean. It’s not quite indifference - the dollar is weaker, gold has gone bananas - but everyone is still being crowded into the same names because the economy just isn’t weak enough.

Ha! If only that was true.

Yeah, he’s absolutely right for the time being. And might continue to be for some time. Just strikes me as being one of those Chuck Prince type phrases.

Oh yeah, it’s totally depressing. It’s actually quite shocking how far down the path to authoritarianism they’ve gone in 9 months.

So … educated and respectful?

There must be some other definition of elite that doesn’t include the wealthy or powerful.

“Unlike most of my predecessors I have a very healthy scepticism of elite institutions and elite opinion, whereas I think they didn’t,” Bessent said.

Sorry, remind me how many billionaires there are in the administration?

Hey Siri, what’s the definition of tempting fate?

It’s a reference to some tiktok that features a basketball player who is 6ft 7in and a song with “6, 7” in the lyrics. Which is to say that basically has no meaning

I genuinely love the 6 7 thing. It’s brilliantly childish, no more depth to it than being silly for the sake of it.

This is fantastic and important in equal measure.

So you’re saying it’s your moral duty to buy it?

Do you _want_ to try big chunks of salami?

I think you should buy the 1963 jazz bass.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk

I’ve just realised that the use of “salami slicing” is pretty inappropriate when it comes to fiscal policy because no one really wants to eat big chunks of salami.

I’ll say it again: the need for a higher tax take is screamingly obvious. The sooner the Chancellor can draw a line under which taxes will rise, the better. Just get it done.

Reeves considers breaking manifesto pledge with income tax rise to fill £30bn gap Exclusive: Treasury discussions include possibly adding 1p to basic rate or raising higher or additional tax rates

Wait, maybe that salami will be cut into decent sized portions?

www.theguardian.com/money/2025/o...

Rachel Reeves targets tax partnerships in crackdown on wealthy Britons UK chancellor fleshes out Budget plan to target professionals with ‘broadest shoulders’ including lawyers, doctors and accountants

Nice salami you have there. Would be a shame if someone were to SLICE IT!

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Yeah, sounds a lot like Ishin is making it clear that they’re not just there to make up the numbers. Would still be quite amusing….

First we had Liz Truss lasting 49 days. Then Sébastien Lecornu smashed her record with 26 days. But Sanae Takaichi might make those guys look like amateurs.

Bet you didn’t know the first A in MAGA stood for Argentina.

What was it Einstein said about the definition of madness?

No, that's only really going to start coming through from next year.

The whole "Germany's economy is in awful shape" thing seems to have missed that domestic demand is growing pretty strongly, thanks very much.

Ahhh, Katie is doing technical analysis so the good times must be back.

No. Just think that since so much of the compute capacity is owned by the tech companies you need to ask what’s more likely: prices fall and everyone has cheap access to it, or they use the capacity themselves to provide a cheap service and force more advertising on us.

New google search

It’s an unimaginative take but I’m inclined to think we’ll all get cheap/free AI access funded by advertising.