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Sovereign Debt “veteran” (retd.) apparently

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Paul McNamara @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social · Nov 12

Big flow of new followers. Lmk if we were mutuals in the other place, decent starter pack from @tobyn.bsky.social here bsky.app/starter-pack...

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 5h

All very amusing, but especially this:

"The most popular was an “Australian-style points-based immigration system,” with a net 46 percent support. The least popular was “Britain’s current immigration policy,” with -39 percent support."

www.politico.eu/article/labo...

Brits are pining for the pre-Brexit migration system

The idea was that leaving the bloc would give the U.K. back “control” of its borders and create a fairer system. But the widespread perception is it didn’t turn out that way.

www.politico.eu

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Paul McNamara @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social · 3h

„Bins” is my responsibility because it’s quite difficult to fuck up.

Paul McNamara @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social · 3h

I mean, easy there, Gordon Gecko, you’re living in a shared flat.

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Paul McNamara @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social · 7h

Ben needs to die on a spike.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 8h

You be the judge: should my housemates bring the bins in?

Mohammed alleges that his flatmate Ben isn’t doing his bit when it comes to the garbage. You decide who is talking rubbish

www.theguardian.com

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Paul McNamara @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social · 23h

Also this

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Mark Healey @healeyparera.bsky.social · 6d

Hard to cover everything in one article, but you'd think a piece premised on how the bailout will succeed only with a Milei victory in the midterms would at least note the, uh, recent internal developments that make that surpassingly unlikely (Espert, polling, veto overrides, general immiseration).

Travis Waldron @traviswaldron.bsky.social · 6d

For Bessent’s $20 billion bet on Argentina to pay off, a lot of things have to go right.

The problem is that in Argentina -- a nation with a track record of squandering other people’s money and defaulting on its own debts -- those things have tended to go wrong.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Bessent’s Big Gamble on Argentina Has a Narrow Road to Pay Off

For Scott Bessent’s $20 billion bet on Argentina to pay off, a lot of things have to go right – things that in the past, in Argentina, have tended to go wrong.

www.bloomberg.com

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

Israel sent back Greta Thunberg’s luggage scrawled with “Whore Greta”, an Israeli flag, and a penis.

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Paul McNamara @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah that’s going to leave a mark

Paul McNamara @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social · 1d

Really has to be nominal not real to be „brutal”, no?

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Paul McNamara @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social · 1d

Man is on fire today bsky.app/profile/fint...

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 1d

BESSENT ON SURGE IN GOLD PRICE: MORE BUYERS THAN SELLERS

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Paul McNamara @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social · 1d

Chuck Prince, hold Scott’s beer

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 1d

US Treasury Secretary Bessent: We are just seeing the beginning of an AI boom.

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Paul McNamara @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social · 1d

Wayne Bridge for Chelsea. Ans if you extend it to Germany, Kuntz clearly referred to the fans at the Lane.

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Paul McNamara @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social · 1d

Ah yes, Argentines famously not liable to national pride or an inflated sense of their country’s importance.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump on Milei: "If he loses, we will not be generous with Argentina."

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Paul McNamara @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social · 1d

Not sure I’d bet that way

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d

"a test"? you mean...a violation?

AP: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire

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Paul McNamara @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social · 2d

Strong endorse

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

‘The best cop show’: Blue Lights just gets better with every single episode

This rivetingly tense Bafta-winning drama crackles with raw energy. Its third series is its finest yet – and is rapidly becoming one of the greatest TV series in existence

www.theguardian.com

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Paul McNamara @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social · 2d

*not a Nobel

Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 3d

Thing by me on today's Econ nobel in @alphaville.ft.com : www.ft.com/content/b8aa...

Idealist and/or materialist theories of economic growth

[FREE TO READ] Nobel committee: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

www.ft.com

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Luke Kawa @ljkawa.bsky.social · 2d

GOLD AND SILVER ARE THE NEW MEME STOCKS

Most commonly mentioned, and most positively mentioned, tickers on r/WallStreetBets over the past 12 hours are $GLD and $SLV, per SwaggyStocks

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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · Jun 2

The Telegraph is now having to publish so many corrections to articles where it attempts to find *any angle whatsoever* to attack net-zero polices that it makes sense to start tracking them here.

These are the ones published since Labour won the election.

"We are happy to correct the record."

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Paul McNamara @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social · 2d

I spent a decent chunk of my working life dunking on goldbugs, but ngl, not sure why you wouldn’t have 5-10% in disaster insurance these days

Robin Brooks @robin-j-brooks.bsky.social · 2d

Gold went up on Friday because of market anxiety over tariffs. That anxiety went away over the weekend, but gold is up anyway today. There's something increasingly otherworldly about the rise in gold prices, which are now up 23% since Powell's Jackson Hole speech on Aug. 22...

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 2d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 3d

Barbara Plett Usher describes the condition of the Palestinians released from Israeli prisons - thin, emaciated, pale, unable to walk by themselves.

Israel routinely tortures and sexually abuses Palestinians they hold. They also withhold medical treatment.

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 3d

Grid scale batteries are changing our electricity system. Excellent new visual story on batteries in FT today shows just how far this technology has evolved.

Fasten your seatbelts, this is just the beginning.

ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

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Paul McNamara @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social · 3d

Well this bloke not gets £500 for a gig, suggesting that akshully they do www.lastminutemusicians.com/members/emin...

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Paul McNamara @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social · 3d

Well QED. Nobody has to call say the Champions League the Nobel Champions League to get people to care about it.