Dennis Fahey

Russia cheers triple-digit oil soon. #econsky

Jesus. Not my leader. Will write in or vote for a non-Zionist Republican like Massie if the opportunity presents itself. No more dead Americans for Israel. #econsky #gaza

Trump's gift to (among others) the oil industry... #EconSky
econbrowser.com/archives/202...

Dear #EconSky :

Is there anyone going to the Southern Economic Association Meetings in November and who would be interested in helping me to organize a panel in international trade and/or regional econ?

I'd like to see the results disaggregated by industry type.

Bad Case of Loving You ("No pill's gonna cure my ills...")
I Want a New Drug ~ Huey Lewis

Ohhh snap, Margie 3Toes-Greene is over that bitch.

That about sums it up. 😬

They forgot killing protesters on the streets of the United States while disappearing legal immigrants and children.
But, this is the chaos that they need to keep advancing Project 2025. It's the plan.

Investors seek shelter from AI rout in asset-heavy stocks Energy and utilities emerge as big winners from fears that artificial intelligence will upend software industry

"The thing that has been working best for the last 15 years is now the most vulnerable"

funny old time on stock markets: asset-heavy businesses are SO BACK
www.ft.com/content/86b5...

How a bet on Everton engulfed a football investor and its financial backers The fallout from 777 Partners’ buying spree has spread from the Premier League to insurance policyholders

the kind of thing it might be nice to avoid
www.ft.com/content/d0b2...

How insurance became the lifeblood of private credit Private capital’s insurance playbook has spread everywhere, raising concerns among those who pioneered the trade

Important stuff from @leeharris.ft.com on how the US life insurance industry loaded up on private credit
www.ft.com/content/b6be...

I'm just gonna say it: there is nothing glorious or honorable about dying in a war, especially a war of choice by a pedophile. And whenever people wax poetic about sacrifice, I think about the scene in The Last Jedi (because nerd) when Rose saves Finn from sacrificing himself. The only thing him

At least 22 people dead after pro-Iran protests in Pakistan and Iraq US government buildings in Karachi and Baghdad targeted by crowds after killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

At least 22 people dead after pro-Iran protests in Pakistan and Iraq

US government buildings in Karachi and Baghdad targeted by crowds after killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei | the Guardian

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

In countries where students spent a lot of time using devices for leisure during the school day, test scores plummeted between 2012 and 2022. In countries where they spent less time, test scores merely slid. Thus there was a significantly larger decline in scores in the countries where students spent more time using devices for fun during school hours (see Figure 1). 505 500 495 performance mean 490 485 480 475 470 465 460 455 d • Science, less device use • Math, less device use Reading, less device use Science, more device use Reading, more device use Math, more device use 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 Figure 1: Scores on standardized tests of math, reading, and science for 15- and 16-year-olds in 36 countries, by low or high use of electronic devices for leisure during the school day. Note: Controlled for GDP per capita. Source: Twenge (2025) using data from PISA.

The global decline in test scores since ~2012 is highly correlated with smartphone penetration

www.generationtechblog.com/p/phones-at-...

this local election i posted about here is happening in 48 hours.

this one is less interesting for what the outcome will be (it's a Trump +50 district) than the fascinating rhetoric of the campaign (see below), but i'm still very interested in seeing how it ends up.

He’s insane.

US and Israel launch joint attack on Iran as Trump urges regime change US president calls on Iranian people to ‘take over your government’, as explosions heard across central Tehran

The attack on Iran came hours after Trump said he was “not happy” about the latest negotiations with Iran over its nuclear programme.

He set this up and he was going to do it for weeks. Iran was negotiating in ernest. The US was not. Criminal murder because he is not happy with his TV ratings.

US and Israel launch joint attack on Iran as Trump urges regime change US president calls on Iranian people to ‘take over your government’, as explosions heard across central Tehran

"Trump and the Israeli military described their attacks as a pre-emptive strike against Iranian threats"[of peaceful negotiation and treaty]
What is said and what actually happened.
This is a heinous act calculated for Trump's personal gratification and TV ratings.
Senseless sensationalist murder.

Bombing Iran isn't foreign policy it's a media ratings spectacle.
Trump FP is pure self agrandizing stupidity, corruption and criminal terror:
Extrajudicial Caribbean snuff
No support for Ukraine
Rip off Venezuela
Tariff roulette
Stiff NATO allies
Bootlick Putin
Genocide for $$$ in Palestine.

War for no purpose other than media ops and self agrandizment.
Iran poses no threat to the US, they were willingly negotiating about enrichment. The government is unloved and would fall in the near future.
This is a criminal act against Iran and the American people.

Trump declared Iran's nuclear program “obliterated” by the strike in June 25.
Now he says Iran posed an imminent nuclear threat.
Lying us into war is GOP normal but claiming we solved the WMD threat then that we must intervene because of a WMD threat happens only on the Trump Reality Network (TRN)

Sadly, I don’t have enough people to fill a Civil Rights pack tonight. This is very depressing. I will create one tomorrow if enough people show interest!

On Oct.9, 2012, during the election campaign, Donald Trump tweeted: “Now that Obama's poll numbers are in tailspin – watch for him to launch a strike in Libya or Iran. He is desperate”.
After Obama won reelection, Trump said Obama would attack Iran to "save face" or "show how tough he is."
Right

US and Israel launch new wave of attacks on Iran amid threat of escalation Trump threatens Tehran with force ‘never seen before’ if it pursues retaliation after Khamenei’s death

Trump tweeted prophetically:“This is not only justice for the people of Iran, but for all great Americans, and those people from many countries throughout the world
that have been killed or mutilated by [Trump] and his gang of bloodthirsty thugs,”

Outcry grows over ‘clown car’ cabinet but no sign Trump ready for shakeup www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Is this the price children in Iran have to pay to hide the rape of children in America?
Unconscionable, unnecessary, criminal, horrific, sick.
Trump and his #MAGAMOB along with Netanyahu are sick criminal mass murderers. These are crimes against all humanity.
They will face justice.

the context

(cf our supply piece yesterday

UK government debt sales set to fall for first time in four years
www.ft.com/content/d082...)

Starmer rocked by historic Green by-election victory Labour finishes third in Gorton and Denton seat as vote crumbles in traditional stronghold

£ markets a bit ho-hum on this, given other good news for gilts, perhaps needing evidence of a renewed anti-Starmer plot

“We expect [Starmer] to remain prime minister until May, when his leadership will be more thoroughly scrutinised," one rates person said to me earlier
www.ft.com/content/aa7a...

interesting that new Green MP Hannah Spencer talks almost entirely about public services, cost of living, NHS, the grind of making ends meet....

and hardly ever mentions ecological/environmental issues....

this is the pivot that scares Labour the most