@robarmstrong.bsky.social
US Financial Commentator, Financial Times. Opinions mine, unfortunately. The pursuit of pleasure is hard work.
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20.02.2026 16:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0UPDATE: fake me has been suspended, nice job @bsky.app
20.02.2026 00:11 — 👍 20 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Gawd
19.02.2026 16:25 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0LOL
19.02.2026 16:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0good call
19.02.2026 16:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I have no idea
19.02.2026 16:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0thanks tony!
19.02.2026 01:01 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0ok did that
19.02.2026 01:01 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0what do I do?
19.02.2026 00:58 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 5 📌 0There is a fake me on this platform
(robarrmstrong.bsky.social)
All it seems to do is retweet me
If this is the start of a horror movie someone please let me know
I welcome this new regime of disciplining economists who do demostrably terrible work
18.02.2026 17:23 — 👍 18 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0"The Apostle" was a great movie
16.02.2026 19:04 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Whatever you may have read in the LAMESTREAM media, inflation DID NOT cool in January. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
14.02.2026 14:46 — 👍 28 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0
Unhedged chart of the week: the very vertical Beveridge curve -- can it last? @hakyungkim.bsky.social
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Chart from Scott Chronert's team at Citi!
13.02.2026 21:46 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Agreed
13.02.2026 12:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The biggest story in stock markets in the past 15 or 20 yrs has been “software eating the world...It strikes me as possible that the biggest market story in the next 15 or 20 yrs will be “software eating itself” - @robarmstrong.bsky.social here on the big market sell off www.ft.com/content/d5fb...
13.02.2026 07:06 — 👍 28 🔁 8 💬 4 📌 0You like the looks of that lower chart???
12.02.2026 18:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
‘What is driving the improvement in cyclical-sector employment? Construction added 30,000 jobs in January and has been in positive territory in three of the past four months.’ www.ft.com/content/22c4... by @robarmstrong.bsky.social
12.02.2026 15:52 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0point is just that govt + hc jobs are not cyclical, not that they the are not productive
11.02.2026 16:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Bitcoin trading right around 66666 today and still you nitwits won't take the hint
11.02.2026 16:43 — 👍 45 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0
If you look at private employment only, and exclude health care, you can see how un-dynamic the job market has been since mid-2024. But you can also see a clear upward trend since October.
11.02.2026 16:05 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1Yes, delinquencies are up (though not transitions to delinquency have stabilized). Poor/young people with debt are under strain as the economy slows. But the is not the K-shaped economy thesis (which is simply wrong).
11.02.2026 14:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Good recent report from Barclays yesterday taking apart the very wrong K-Shaped economy narrative. US consumption HAS NOT become more unequal or skewed toward the rich lately. Everyone please stop talking about this.
10.02.2026 22:08 — 👍 15 🔁 6 💬 5 📌 0Thanks human John!
10.02.2026 19:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0possibly not
10.02.2026 15:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0They don't seem to
10.02.2026 15:48 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Is there something I can do to get rid of them?
10.02.2026 15:48 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 4 📌 0At least half of my followers here are obvious bots. Am I especially attractive to these things, or is that normal on this platform?
10.02.2026 15:46 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 7 📌 0
Memory investors have forgotten the last cycle www.ft.com/content/4f4c... by @robarmstrong.bsky.social
10.02.2026 14:49 — 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 2
