Reposted by baani 🦕AizuYabanjin @aizuyabanjin.bsky.social · 20hHaving already blossomed once about a month ago, my osmanthus has inexplicably chosen to delight us once again with its heady scent and clusters of golden flowers. I’m trying not to conclude that it’s its death knell. 0142
Reposted by baani 🦕Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 04/10/20261/2 FT: "German government debt has emerged as the pre-eminent haven in the global bond rout, as concerns about an overheating US economy and fiscal worries elsewhere in Europe leave investors with few other places to turn." www.ft.com/content/9302...ft.comInvestors seek refuge from bond rout in haven German debtBund yields have fallen this week even as US, French and other governments’ bonds have sold off sharply over inflation fears 1174
Reposted by baani 🦕The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Silk kimono panel. A bold vintage silk shibori (tie-dye) in black with red ume blossoms an white stems. 1950-1980, Japan. Yorke Antique Textiles 0368
Reposted by baani 🦕StockAnalysis.com @stockanalysis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026LAUNCHED TODAY: Fund Holdings Overlap. Compare two or more ETFs or mutual funds such as $VOO and $QQQ to see exactly how much they have in common. Try it out here: stockanalysis.com/tools/fund-h... 112
Reposted by baani 🦕The Cottage Garden @simonecannon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The bright scarlet #berries of the Firethorn pyracantha coccinea 'Red Column' add colour and texture to a cottage #garden in #autumn and provide much needed food for birds through the winter. Its tight vertical growth pattern makes it ideal for smaller gardens or patios #MacroMonday #Gardening 012128
baani 🦕 @baani.bsky.social · 17/09/2026quite good www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlWX...youtube.comSequoia Legend Michael Moritz: Steve Jobs, Being an Outsider, and Investing in the Age of AIYouTube video by Invest Like The Best 000
Reposted by baani 🦕Dave Waters @alluvialcapital.bsky.social · 10/09/2026To make money in value investing, you have to buy value. I see so many people complaining after they bought something optically cheap, not taking into account things like: 1. The biggest open-ended off-balance sheet liability there is: bad management. Sufficiently bad management can sink any idea. 3123
Reposted by baani 🦕R @ersquare.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Do you know what can also fold in your pocket? $2,000. 051
Reposted by baani 🦕Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Stefan Eich: "It is never the case that money ceases to be political but merely that it is removed from democratic politics." I just finished Eich's book, not necessarily an easy read, but an important book on why money should not be left to economists and central bankers. 0319
baani 🦕 @baani.bsky.social · 07/09/2026globalenergymonitor.orgglobalenergymonitor.orgHome | Global Energy Monitor 100
baani 🦕 @baani.bsky.social · 06/09/2026OpenStax - free college-level textbooks openstax.org/subjectsopenstax.orgOpenStax | Free Textbooks Online with No CatchOpenStax offers free college textbooks for all types of students, making education accessible & affordable for everyone. Browse our list of available subjects! 000
baani 🦕 @baani.bsky.social · 05/09/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MJ6...youtube.comGary Oldman on Nil by Mouth (1997) | Writing, Directing, Addiction, and FamilyYouTube video by FILM DISCUSSION 000
baani 🦕 @baani.bsky.social · 03/09/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu2-...youtube.comHow Proust Can Change Your Life (with Ralph Fiennes) | Full FilmYouTube video by Arts Biography Channel 000
Reposted by baani 🦕Powderbum75 @powderbum75.bsky.social · 30/08/2026And that’s that. The music stops and the drums go silent and you look around and then forward to whatever is next that is worth looking forward to. 1131
Reposted by baani 🦕Powderbum75 @powderbum75.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Those little practice sessions here and there before things begin. And the more raucous ones when it stops. Those are nice. After lunch and before drinks. 0152
Reposted by baani 🦕Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 28/08/20268/10 This is something labor unions everywhere should be more worried and more vociferous about. Wage growth is sluggish not because businesses are evil but because our system punishes manufacturers in countries that allow wage growth to keep pace with productivity growth. 1173
Reposted by baani 🦕Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 28/08/2026In my most recent piece for Foreign Affairs, I argue that we actually know quite a lot about how large trade imbalances eventually get resolved – and that the adjustment is almost always painful. The key question, then, is how it will be distributed. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...foreignaffairs.comA Great Rebalancing Is ComingWho will bear the costs of a global trade adjustment? 0258
Reposted by baani 🦕Armand Sarlangue @armandsarlangue.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Hi everyone, I’m back in France since a week, starting to process the huge load of images I brought from this season in Greenland. Honestly it’s been incredible, we found many beautiful arches icebergs, even tho this one was probably my fav. It was looking like a giant castle 😳! Drone footage 511848288
Reposted by baani 🦕Aeon Magazine @aeon.co · 26/08/2026Meticulously researched and epic in scope, this documentary by John D Boswell surveys geoengineering projects – some quite speculative, others already underway, but all of them at least theoretically possible buff.ly/WWAi3TDaeon.coBuilding a prosperous future demands bold ideas. These are some of the boldest | Aeon VideosFrom artificial trees to epic solar shields – a filmmaker crafts a bold vision of humanity’s future on an engineered Earth 042
Reposted by baani 🦕The Cottage Garden @simonecannon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Tiny snails inside a pale yellow Ice Plant, Lagos, Portugal. Originally introduced from South Africa for ornamental purposes and to stabilize coastal sand dunes and road slopes, it quickly took over and is now considered invasive #MacroMonday #Wildflower #Flower #BloomScrolling #Beach #Coastal 2799
baani 🦕 @baani.bsky.social · 20/08/2026www.reddit.com/r/quant/comm...reddit.comFrom the quant community on RedditExplore this post and more from the quant community 000
baani 🦕 @baani.bsky.social · 19/08/2026www.fixedandfloating.com/p/e4-chemica... good follow, talks about areas not often covered by other podcasts etc. 000
Reposted by baani 🦕R @ersquare.bsky.social · 19/08/2026There’s nothing like a central bank being market-dependent at a time when the Treasury is also intervening in the markets 😂 074
Reposted by baani 🦕Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 06/08/20261/4 A friend just sent me this substack piece by Kieran Velasquez, "On the German Mittelstand", calling it "a very interesting history of the Mittelstand and a lovely evocation of its culture". I agree, and it is well worth reading. kieranvelasquez.substack.com/p/on-the-ger...kieranvelasquez.substack.comOn the German MittelstandWhat I learned from factories across Germany 1163
Reposted by baani 🦕Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social · 05/08/2026John Hersey and the horrors of Hiroshima | @iainmacgregor1.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/portraits/jo...engelsbergideas.comJohn Hersey and the horrors of HiroshimaThe American journalist's account of the Hiroshima bombing and its aftermath, told through the eyes of Japanese survivors, forced the world to reckon with the terrifying power of nuclear weapons. 073
baani 🦕 @baani.bsky.social · 05/08/2026www.fixedandfloating.com/p/significan...fixedandfloating.comSignificant Risk Transfer Has Quietly Become a $1 Trillion Hedged Market — And It Is Reshaping Bank Capital, Not Bank OriginationE12 – Frank Benhamou (Cheyne Capital) breaks down the SRT market — capital relief mechanics, tranching structures, and and what SRT means for credit origination in the bigger picture. 100
baani 🦕 @baani.bsky.social · 02/08/2026good blog to follow esp for tracking various asset classes, sectors, countries bsky.app/profile/nove... 000
baani 🦕 @baani.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Important FYI for non-US persons invested in US situs assets www.stashaway.sg/r/dividend-w...stashaway.sgDividend Withholding Tax and Estate Tax on US Equities: A Singapore Investor's Guide [2026]Holding US equities like VOO, QQQ, or SPY? Singapore investors face 30% US dividend withholding tax and estate tax above USD 60,000. Learn how to reduce your exposure. 100
baani 🦕 @baani.bsky.social · 01/08/2026hbr.org/webinar/2016...hbr.orgMatchmakers: The New Economics of Multisided PlatformsFeaturing economist and author David S. Evans. 100
Reposted by baani 🦕Psyche Magazine @psyche.co · 31/07/2026The Korean concept of jeong describes a slowly accumulating affection, like the way you might feel toward a cashier at your local shop or an acquaintance at the gym. This Note to Self asks you to appreciate these daily interactions, as they might have a greater impact than you knowbuff.lyIn praise of the not-quite-friends who make us smile | Psyche Notes to SelfLearning about the Korean concept of ‘jeong’ helped me understand the importance of my not-quite-friends at the gym 011
Reposted by baani 🦕The Cottage Garden @simonecannon.bsky.social · 27/07/2026An extreme close-up of a Pineapple Lily (Eucomis bicolor), featuring pale green, star-shaped flowers with striking pink-purple edges and stem, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh #MacroMonday #BloomScrolling #Garden #Flowers #MondayMotivation #PinkMon #ECK 341762218
Reposted by baani 🦕Aeon Magazine @aeon.co · 24/07/2026Written by the neuroscientist Stephani Sunderland, this in-depth profile of the pioneering pain scientist Allan Basbaum charts a lifetime of tireless work finding the origins of chronic pain – and his quest to stop it in its tracksbuff.lyA researcher’s 50-year hunt for the source of chronic pain | Aeon EssaysAllan Basbaum has spent 50 years searching the nervous system for the places where pain begins – and where it can be stopped 093
Reposted by baani 🦕Powderbum75 @powderbum75.bsky.social · 24/07/2026In truth I am not exactly sure what that even means. But this I know: none of the foreign-born residents in Japan who champion such increasingly strict guidelines could conceive of him or herself missing the cutoff. They are always part of the in-group. Until they are not. 3202
baani 🦕 @baani.bsky.social · 23/07/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WEG...youtube.comThe BBC Correspondent shot down in Riyadh | Frank GardnerYouTube video by Crisis What Crisis? with Andy Coulson 100
Reposted by baani 🦕Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 23/07/20263/6 It's more "normal" for countries with excessively low consumption shares to adjust much more quickly and brutally, but while "slow" Japanese-style adjustments are often economically much more costly over the longer term, socially and politically they are much less costly. 1132
baani 🦕 @baani.bsky.social · 17/07/2026przekroj.org/en/art-stori...przekroj.orgAnd Now, I Will Disappear! - Artykuły i Analizy – PrzekrójWhen he was 59 years old, the great Italian journalist and writer Tiziano Terzani was diagnosed with cancer. Rather than heralding the end, it sparked a new chapter in his life. 000
baani 🦕 @baani.bsky.social · 14/07/2026been listening to this. quite fun. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...bbc.co.ukBBC Radio 4 - Limelight - Episode guideAll episodes of Limelight 110
Reposted by baani 🦕FOHF @fohf.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Full video here for those that need more loveliness this morning vm.tiktok.com/ZNRoUn4F1/vm.tiktok.comTikTok - Make Your Day 031
Reposted by baani 🦕Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Robot-assisted surgery is already routine practice. But the dream of a machine operating alone underestimates the practical judgement, learned over decades, that makes a surgeon a surgeon. Surgery and the limits of the robotic ideal | Aurélien Guéroult engelsbergideas.com/essays/surge...engelsbergideas.comSurgery and the limits of the robotic idealRobot-assisted surgery is already routine practice. But the dream of a machine operating alone underestimates the practical judgement, learned over decades, that makes a surgeon a surgeon. 002
Reposted by baani 🦕Japan Morning Commute @joefowler.bsky.social · 10/07/2026ICYMI I wrote an article about Kanazawa in @japanbeertimes.bsky.social so please read it and then visit Kanazawa! www.japanbeertimes.com/2026/07/kana...japanbeertimes.comKanazawa – The Japan Beer Times 094
Reposted by baani 🦕Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 04/07/20261/4 As someone who has long been interested, and at time even obsessed, with pre-WW1 French political, cultural and economic history, I have read a great deal about the Dreyfus Affair and have been as bewildered as anyone else about the passions it unleashed. drb.ie/article/rere...drb.ieRereadings 2: Dreyfus Returns - Dublin Review of Books %Rereadings 2: Dreyfus Returns - % Dublin Review of Books 1153
baani 🦕 @baani.bsky.social · 20/06/2026silbadeepdives.substack.com/p/jean-marie...silbadeepdives.substack.comJean-Marie EveillardEverything Is in the Books 000
