WishIWasNamedConan

My quarantine moustache is now four years old

Powell: "We wanted to send a strong signal that we were going to support the labor market if it continued to weaken."

“The economy is strong, and it’s stronger than we thought it was going to be in September.”

I think framing Bluesky vs Twitter as left vs right or fun vs horrifying misses the fact that newspapers are getting far more engagement and conversion on Bluesky than Twitter.

Live news: China’s 10-year bond yields drop below 2% for first time since 2002

In spite of signs of a moderate manufacturing recovery, "Chinese sovereign bond yields fell below 2 per cent during early trading on Monday, their lowest level in more than two decades."

www.ft.com/content/bd6a...

>HTS is now at the outskirts of Hama

John Paulson having lunch there too?

Trump’s Plans Risk Inflating Bullish Stock Market Into a Bubble The new Trump administration is coming in hot, with mass deportations of undocumented immigrants and threats of triggering a global trade war among its immediate priorities. Fighting continues in Euro...

Trade wars, deportations, inflation: Investors seem largely unperturbed by risks of a new Trump era.

Threads getting demolished by Bluesky as the successor social network is the most egregious blown lead since Skype

Fixed-up Notre Dame looks amazeballs. It now has a Sephora and an Apple Store👍

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Starting to think through the scenario in which

1. Tariffs are only applied to CAN/MEX imports, including oil (heaviest pain for CAN)

2. Alberta crude production curtailments are the most effective immediate counter to US tariff effects/USGC substitution on WCS differentials.

Globalization, Trade and the Populist Response Podcast Episode · The Economic History Podcast · 31/10/2024 · 45m

1/4
Kevin H. O'Rourke is one of my favorite economic historians, especially on the history of trade. In the second half of this very interesting podcast he discusses the history of globalization and anti-globalization movements.

@kevinhorourke.bsky.social
podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/g...

I lacked the world experience to understand what emotion Led Zeppelin albums conveyed when I first heard them, but in retrospect it was COCAINE.

Core PCE inflation in October was a miss to the high side for the second straight month

1-month: +0.27% (3.3% annualized)
3-month: +2.8% annualized
6-month: +2.3%
12-month: +2.8%

>massed cruise missile strikes on Russia
>Russian SOF getting shwacked in Syria
>Ruble collapsing

Ohh been thinking to watch this for a while now.

Female content creators on YouTube received significantly more negative feedback for comparable content.

But the removal of public display of dislikes eliminated this gender gap and persistently increased female creator productivity and consumer demand.

sites.google.com/view/maritaf...

Hard to see how the EU would benefit from a big US-China trade war. Chinese exporters would seek to replace lost US market and flood the world with goods at dumping prices, undermining EU companies at home and abroad - worsening EU trade balance & compounding the "China shock" for industry.

Hong Kong in late November to late January is full of blue skies and great sunsets.

Nice

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**TRUMP PLANS TO SEEK MONEY FROM CONGRESS TO REPLENISH STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVE -SOURCES

Step 1: recapitalize DOE’s Petroleum Account

Step 2: cancel remaining Congressionally mandated SPR sales

Step 3: figure out where a Trump admin actually stands on SPR policy framework

Oh yeah
open.spotify.com/track/0rLMNS...

We’ve talked enough about escalation management. It’s time we discussed uncontrolled escalatory dominance