Michael Chen-Xu

A bottle of Slop Sauce and a bottle of Kool-Aid, very poorly photoshopped onto the counter of a stock photo kitchen.

The haters and losers hope everyone has a great weekend.

17.05.2025 07:08 — 👍 483    🔁 45    💬 8    📌 11

Imagine being a voter in the continent right now. You are being asked to prepare for higher taxes or less state welfare, and probably both, to fund a generational rearmament as the US withdraws its shield. At the same time, your leaders keep trying to hook Trump with a state visit or with personal charm. This is a dog’s breakfast of a signal. Either we are living through a lasting rupture of the Atlantic bond, in which case Europe must start protecting itself, whatever the sacrifice, or this is a tiff so transient that it might be overcome with inducements and sweet talk.

I've done a U-Turn. Think this argument is persuasive on why Donald Trump should not have a state visit.

23.04.2025 14:08 — 👍 268    🔁 62    💬 11    📌 0

Trump’s expulsions are jaw-droppingly cruel. But they’re part of an American tradition | Steven Hahn Since colonial times, self-designated ‘communities’ have used expulsions to address supposed threats. It helps to explain how easy it has been for Trump to win support

Trump’s expulsions are jaw-droppingly cruel. But they’re part of an American tradition | Steven Hahn

16.04.2025 11:15 — 👍 135    🔁 48    💬 11    📌 5

There are only two options here: either Trump is the worst negotiator on earth who tanked the US economy or he played everyone in a pump and dump scheme while tanking the US economy. Now he has given himself 90 days to manipulate the markets again.

09.04.2025 18:31 — 👍 29    🔁 10    💬 4    📌 0

Have you said thank you once?

03.04.2025 19:17 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A photo of Donald Trump holding the reciprocal tariff numbers. Headline text reads: ‘Reciprocal tariffs: You won’t believe how they came up with the numbers’.

Americans were told reciprocal tariffs would be simple. But where did those numbers come from? Read FT Alphaville’s take on the method to the Trump administration’s madness: www.ft.com/content/e025...

03.04.2025 10:10 — 👍 259    🔁 74    💬 34    📌 22

Just some slides from today’s BoA fund manager survey Interposed with photos of Donald Trump playing golf

No one has more fun in financial journalism than us at @alphaville.ft.com. No one. on.ft.com/4iNNMXi

18.03.2025 13:20 — 👍 21    🔁 4    💬 3    📌 4

Very useful explainer.

24.02.2025 19:59 — 👍 198    🔁 46    💬 4    📌 0

If only there had been some kind of warning

- on.ft.com/40Zncmv

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A dramatic sky over Coldham’s Common, Cambridge

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