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Andrew Ross 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @andrewross.net · 03/10/2026

He’s such a friend of Labor, the AFL-CIO gives him a score of… [squints] …0%

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Andrew Ross 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @andrewross.net · 26/09/2026

I try not to judge: it could happen to me one day.

XKCD cartoon #386. The protagonist A is sitting at a desk typing on a computer. Their partner B (off stage left): Are you coming to bed?
A: I can’t this is important.
B: What?
A: Someone is wrong on the internet.

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Andrew Ross 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @andrewross.net · 23/09/2026

90 minutes out. This 🧵 has all the hallmarks of @musicologyduck.bsky.social ‘s infamous coach trip.

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Andrew Ross 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @andrewross.net · 16/09/2026

No, mostly just inventory being depleted plus a drop in demand from China, which softened the blow but those buffers are disappearing. Below is the current quote for RBOB Gasoline. This level implies a price at the pump of ~$4.50 in ~6weeks from now.

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Andrew Ross 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @andrewross.net · 15/09/2026

Here’s the NYMEX chart for Ultra Low Sulphur Diesel (ULSD) futures. It seems the price spiked around [squints] the end of Feb 2026. Can your dad remember any important crude oil-related events that might have happened around that time?

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Andrew Ross 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @andrewross.net · 07/09/2026

This statement from the Kent Police and Crime Commissioner, Matthew Scott, seems… inadequate.

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Andrew Ross 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @andrewross.net · 06/08/2026

I’m not sure if this perp… err.. excuse me… “defendant”… is Robin Hood or The Highwayman.

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Andrew Ross 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @andrewross.net · 30/07/2026

Pretty ballsy to have been wrong in Acts I, II, & III and still expect people to take you seriously in the dénouement.

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Andrew Ross 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @andrewross.net · 22/07/2026

“sustained” is the operative word. In some cases, incremental change built over decades can be undone in months (viz. VRA). In other cases, we have a hard deadline but we failed to start when we needed to and now radical change is necessary (viz. climate change)

A chart showing how early action on reducing emissions would have involved a smoother transition to meet our target of limiting global warming to 1.5°C and showing that delay has made more radical measures necessary if we are still to hit that target. Unfortunately, this chart is 7 years old, we still have not taken sufficient action and we have as a result already blown through the 1.5°C target.

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Andrew Ross 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @andrewross.net · 19/07/2026

This is a huge gap that no one seems to be digging into. Robert Lawrence Kuhn came up with a map of 200+ definitions of consciousness and the bros are out here trying to give data centers rights without even saying what definition they’re using. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Andrew Ross 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @andrewross.net · 17/07/2026

I believe it’s a reference to a metaphor Goodhart used to describe the practical effects of LCR. bfi.uchicago.edu/news/the-par...

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Andrew Ross 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @andrewross.net · 15/07/2026

Looks like, after a reader made a comment about this language, they updated the article.

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Andrew Ross 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @andrewross.net · 13/07/2026

WTF is he putting in here? Fountain or golden Trump statue?

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Andrew Ross 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @andrewross.net · 09/07/2026

Just because you asked so politely. Will there be a U.S. book signing tour?

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Andrew Ross 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @andrewross.net · 20/06/2026

The article’s been corrected but there’s no explanation of how it happened. The fake quote is from an insta parody account (below). So the whole thing smells like an AI-generated article that backfired. www.instagram.com/p/DZu8trmR89Y/

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Andrew Ross 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @andrewross.net · 19/06/2026

Let’s go to the videotape to see who was “begging” to have their photo taken with Trump.

The G7 leaders greet each other in advance of a group photo. They are all talking amongst themselves, except Trump who stands in the foreground, looking like a discarded sofa on a busy New York City sidewalk.

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Andrew Ross 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @andrewross.net · 18/06/2026

Couldn’t even manage to do “losing a war he started” properly.

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Andrew Ross 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @andrewross.net · 16/06/2026

It’s a very complicated deal. There are soooo many documents, they’d all have to be scanned and Gmail has an attachment limit.

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Andrew Ross 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @andrewross.net · 08/06/2026

He just wants to make it about him. He hates that the Knicks are taking the limelight. He hates the footage of Mamdani. He needs it to be about him.

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Andrew Ross 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @andrewross.net · 07/06/2026

I’m counting down the days for the 2028 election and the new AG…

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Andrew Ross 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @andrewross.net · 05/06/2026

Post Roman Republic collapse would seem to be more appropriate.

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Andrew Ross 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @andrewross.net · 27/05/2026

Maybe it costs extra to send the spaces across the pond?

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Andrew Ross 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @andrewross.net · 07/05/2026

Morgan Stanley had a good write up about this back in March, featuring this MC Escher style flow diagram. Money quote: “For certain transaction structures, the sophistication has outpaced current accounting standards.” Source: www.ft.com/content/c26d...

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Andrew Ross 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @andrewross.net · 28/04/2026

Tbh, I already knew we were through the looking glass when I learned Florida Man® is out there calling *other* people “idiots”.

When I write, as I often do, about the fund managers who are unnerved about all this, I get grumpy emails from men in Florida with Hotmail addresses telling me I’m an idiot. I hope the act of correspondence makes them feel better. But it is a fact that investors are jumpy about this dynamic and unsure how to navigate a safe route through it.

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Andrew Ross 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @andrewross.net · 25/04/2026

“You see, viewers? I am *not* the most insufferable wanker on television.”

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Andrew Ross 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @andrewross.net · 24/04/2026

Fun fact: Donald’s net approval is down -633.33%

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Andrew Ross 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @andrewross.net · 21/04/2026

I mean I suppose he could be referring to his own brain death… which presumably occurred some time before late 2025.

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Andrew Ross 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @andrewross.net · 14/04/2026

I keep a couple of ounces of Brent Crude in my pocket at all times.

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Andrew Ross 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @andrewross.net · 13/04/2026

Has anyone asked Trump if Hungary is still a “Great Ally” that he’s “excited” to “use the full Economic Might of the United States” to invest in? Or was it just Orbán who was the ally?

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Andrew Ross 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @andrewross.net · 09/04/2026

I’m no expert on ceasefires but this circular logic would seem to be problematic. Credit: @financialtimes.com

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Andrew Ross 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @andrewross.net · 05/04/2026

One of the reasons I subscribe to the @financialtimes.com is because they know that polishing turds helps absolutely no one. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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Andrew Ross 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @andrewross.net · 05/04/2026

I think I learned everything I need to know about how this went from the initial freeze frame.

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Andrew Ross 🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @andrewross.net · 02/04/2026

Reminds me of my favorite comment on the hell site.

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