Showing posts with label The Financial Times. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Financial Times. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 3, 2025

TACO Trump strikes again

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 Trump always chickens out, aka paper tiger, etc. (June 2) Trump administration pauses Social Security benefit cuts over defaulted student l...
Sunday, May 11, 2025

Whatever else may be said about Rene Girard, he grasped the big problem even if he miscast it as capitalist, namely Chinamerica

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   “Everyone now knows that the looming conflict between the US and China, for example, has nothing to do with a ‘clash of civilisations’, ...
Wednesday, April 16, 2025

At around noon on 14 April, 2025, America ceased to have a law-abiding government

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 On Monday Trump chose to ignore a 9-0 Supreme Court ruling to repatriate an illegally deported man. More.
Tuesday, March 25, 2025

I guess we'll just have to have a Fourth Reich, then, armed to the teeth with nukes: Millennials Pete Hegseth and J. D. Vance think the Europeans are freeloaders

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  In the chats, the user identified as Vice President JD Vance expresses concerns about the strikes but ultimately agrees to go along with...
Monday, March 24, 2025

Stupid Republicans who work for the IRS in Ogden, Utah voted for their own firings

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  Republican politicians face mounting anger over Doge cuts ... In a county Donald Trump won by more than 20 percentage points last November...
Thursday, March 13, 2025

Republican Senator Mike Crapo is full of Orwellian crap, says extending the Trump tax cuts which increased deficits by $1.7 trillion won't keep increasing deficits

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   If you're not changing the tax code, you're simply extending current policy—you are not increasing the deficit. The bottom line h...
Tuesday, March 4, 2025

Trump's grifting, shape-shifting billionaire crypto czar David Sacks calls Zelenskyy a grifter lol

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   David Sacks, a Jewish South-African, is another one of Trump's end-run-around-the-rules appointees like Elon Musk. Like Musk he is on...
Sunday, January 26, 2025

The Trump administration is no different than the Bush 43 administration: You're either with us or against us

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The oh so precious little commie Alex Soros fears the Trump bullies when it's the GOP Senate which Trump still can't completely inti...
Sunday, July 21, 2024

Oren Cass: In JD Vance libertarian economics and neoconservative foreign policy are being excised from Republican conservatism

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 But there is no Trumpism, only Trump. Yikes. Methinks JD Vance will be a very unhappy VP, seeking to rest a spell on his one-legged stool a...
Wednesday, May 22, 2024

Nigel Farage: the most farcical general election launch in history

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    Rishi Sunak calls July 4 UK general election Prime minister gambles by triggering vote when polls suggest heavy defeat
Thursday, February 29, 2024

We have the Napoleon wannabe in Paris, Emmanuel Macron, threatening to send in NATO troops, to thank for Putin's explicit threat to use nuclear weapons

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  Vladimir Putin warns of wider conflict over Ukraine   Russian president makes most explicit threat to use nuclear weapons since full-scale...
Sunday, November 26, 2023

The Financial Times lol: Liberal democracy good, conservative democracy bad

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 Is The Financial Times' coverage worth a pound sterling?  
Thursday, June 29, 2023

Bank of America paper losses on bond portfolio exceed $100 billion at end of 1Q, amounting to 20% of all such unrealized losses for all US banks

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  Bank of America Nurses $100B Paper Loss After Big Bet in Bond Market
Saturday, September 10, 2022

The English flatter themselves with this delusion

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Americans, Long Besotted by Royalty, Mourn Britain's Queen    
Thursday, February 24, 2022

And just like that we have a Russian invasion of Ukraine from every direction

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 Vladimir Putin obviously cares less about the money he can make off oil exports than he does about reincorporating Ukraine into Russia.
Saturday, February 19, 2022

The Financial Times says Trudeau has gone too far invoking the Emergencies Act against the peaceful protest of the Canada Freedom Convoy, calls restrictions on truckers' cross border travel "government over-reach"

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  Here : Canadian leader Justin Trudeau’s invocation of the Emergencies Act this week in response to the occupation was a step too far, howe...
Saturday, July 31, 2021

LOL, CNBC a week ago said vaccinations in India, home of the Delta variant, helped to bring about the decline in cases

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Public health experts told the Financial Times in late May that regional lockdowns, reduced social interaction and an increasing number of...
Monday, August 27, 2018

Martin Wolf for The Financial Times likes business historian Adam Tooze's important new book CRASHED: HOW A DECADE OF FINANCIAL CRISES CHANGED THE WORLD

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See Martin Wolf,  What really went wrong in the 2008 financial crisis? Tooze has been making the rounds at places like Bloomberg  (and...
Friday, August 19, 2016

How the mighty are fallen: The Financial Times calls National Review "establishment GOP"

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Here : "Publications such as the National Review have long been part of the establishment GOP while drawing on outsider status as...
Sunday, July 19, 2015

EuroGroup deal forced on Greece "akin to dragging a collapsed marathon runner back to the race"

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From Giles Wilkes' review of Yanis Varoufakis' The Global Minotaur ,  here .