Five Minute Macro @fiveminutemacro.bsky.social · 11hI'm a fervent supporter of the Euro project, but we've been quaking at the prospect of a Le Pen presidency almost as long as I've been in the mkts. I've become radicalised by the 'we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas, but with any luck we can keep on dodging bullets' school of Euro thought 190
Five Minute Macro @fiveminutemacro.bsky.social · 14hFOGaSS - next gen can't even acronym right, smdh. 220
Five Minute Macro @fiveminutemacro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Incredible things happening in Portuguese media. 030
Five Minute Macro @fiveminutemacro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Ireland; you can see the bailout and the ramp-up of MNC tax shenanigans. 020
Five Minute Macro @fiveminutemacro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Or it selects for people who'd sell their family members for a few extra quid. Or Mike Platt's poker room piranhas etc. 030
Five Minute Macro @fiveminutemacro.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is why I can't make any money trading the front end - if the algos don't get you, the Chinese honeypot spy rings will. www.cnbc.com/2026/09/30/j...cnbc.comInside Man: How Chinese spies used lies, love and betrayal to target the Federal ReserveA CNBC investigation shows how former Fed advisor John Rogers became entangled with a man U.S. officials identify as a Chinese intelligence operative. 081
Five Minute Macro @fiveminutemacro.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Brazil, India, Russia, China...I blame Jim O'Neill. 030
Five Minute Macro @fiveminutemacro.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Valid point. I imagine the hope is that they can wall off the US market by leaning on the government and extract abnormal rents that way. 030
Five Minute Macro @fiveminutemacro.bsky.social · 23/09/2026If everyone slows down development, the frontier labs can monetise their existing businesses without incinerating money in a model arms race. 180
Five Minute Macro @fiveminutemacro.bsky.social · 15/09/2026via www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...newyorker.comJared Kushner’s Dollar DiplomacyJared Kushner represents the kind of Washington figure for whom public office serves as a means to extraordinary wealth. 13811
Five Minute Macro @fiveminutemacro.bsky.social · 15/09/2026You know things are really, really bad when the Saudis balk. 49929
Five Minute Macro @fiveminutemacro.bsky.social · 11/09/2026U2 downloads, clearly spiked with the introduction of the iPhone, and now surging due to aging Gen X nostaliga. 160
Five Minute Macro @fiveminutemacro.bsky.social · 10/09/2026The discourse that truly makes my teeth itch is when people earnestly engage with 'Anthropic researchers estimate a 10% chance that AI will lead to human extinction' or similar nonsense. How exactly do you think they arrived at that conclusion?! I'll tell you: big sloppy fan chart cross x-axis. 151
Five Minute Macro @fiveminutemacro.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Don't need to reach down to the Neuer Markt when Wirecard perpetrated the sophisticated fraud of (checks notes) simply writing down any old numbers in a spreadsheet. And they would have gotten away with it too if it wasn't for those pesky kids. 040
Five Minute Macro @fiveminutemacro.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Gave myself a get out of jail card with my 'Doubt it' 😀 But seriously, I just found it worth noting that EVERYBODY is saying this sort of thing can't work when governments are putting their thumbs on the scales all the time, and succeeding plenty. 000
Five Minute Macro @fiveminutemacro.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Is Bessent likely to get his way on bond yields. Doubt it. But the belief that governments can never get their way strongarming markets seems surprisingly consensus given its clear lack of empirical support. That one time in 1992 that people lazily trot out hardly trumps hundreds of counterexamples. 150
Five Minute Macro @fiveminutemacro.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Lutnick is giving Canada the same treatment he used to give his employees at Cantors. Deeply psychotic individual; think Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast. 2143
Five Minute Macro @fiveminutemacro.bsky.social · 24/08/2026The FT gave Scotty Bessent an outlet for some dreadful sophomoric rambling. I read it so you don't have to. 2100
Five Minute Macro @fiveminutemacro.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Bessent trying to control bond yields, exchange rates and oil prices.static.klipy.comBalthazar Marmotte Plays Frog Bog Arcade GameALT: Balthazar Marmotte Plays Frog Bog Arcade Game 1234
Five Minute Macro @fiveminutemacro.bsky.social · 20/08/2026We'll always have Paris... www.maptap.gg August 20 95🏅 100🎯 81🌟 61😑 100🎯 Final score: 840maptap.gg🎯MapTap Daily Geography GamePlay MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers. 020
Five Minute Macro @fiveminutemacro.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Bessent wants to run Treasury like a trader. That this is a terrible idea is immediately evident to anyone who's ever met any traders. 3263
Five Minute Macro @fiveminutemacro.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Since it's a slow day, a bit of fun I saw on xxxx: most NSEW places you have been. N: Ivalo 🇫🇮 S: Hermanus 🇿🇦 E: Yasawa Islands 🇫🇯 W: Tofino 🇨🇦 100
Five Minute Macro @fiveminutemacro.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Via Reddit, a modern history of the Argentine football league. Now imagine investing in this country #macrotourist 070
Five Minute Macro @fiveminutemacro.bsky.social · 04/08/2026I don't think the yen story is complicated. Japan don't want the yen to slip slide away, but they don't want it to cascade thirty big figures either on a biblical stop hunt, so perhaps 'ineffectual' intervention is the desired outcome here? 160
Five Minute Macro @fiveminutemacro.bsky.social · 31/07/2026The most diabolical part of this whole lurid story. 181
Five Minute Macro @fiveminutemacro.bsky.social · 30/07/2026I am not going to elaborate, but never give your money to kids who look like minor European royalty. 6211
Five Minute Macro @fiveminutemacro.bsky.social · 21/07/2026This or about a dozen strong alternatives. Elmore Leonard is criminally underfilmed. 030
Five Minute Macro @fiveminutemacro.bsky.social · 21/07/2026As someone who cares neither about the Citi pecking order nor about your man's Youtube activism, it's other way round for me. Does who appeared in what position on a list at Citi have any bearing whatsoever on inequality campaigning? Maybe if the inequality in question is one's end of year bonus.... 251
Five Minute Macro @fiveminutemacro.bsky.social · 21/07/2026I continue to not understand why anyone cares about auditing this guy's fairly fantastical claims. After a while, it just seems a bit weird. www.ft.com/content/5c48...ft.comGary Stevenson may have been Citi’s most profitable trader… in developed market foreign exchangeMy testy exchange outside a London pub with a self-proclaimed currency trading legend 111
Five Minute Macro @fiveminutemacro.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Mystified how anyone buys this crap. If you want to convince yourself to buy the equity because of totally made up scifi scenarios, fine, it's a moonshot, you do you, but the bonds?! www.ft.com/content/3a02...ft.comSpaceX bond yields rocket towards junkWon’t someone think of the bondholders? 2140
Five Minute Macro @fiveminutemacro.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Well... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footbal...en.wikipedia.orgFootball War - Wikipedia 130
Five Minute Macro @fiveminutemacro.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Went for a sea swim first thing this morning, and I regret to inform you all the insufferable dickheads were right. (no Dryrobe, thanks for asking...) 050
Five Minute Macro @fiveminutemacro.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Actually, turns out I misremembered the details... 100
Five Minute Macro @fiveminutemacro.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Ancient Order of Frothblowers ftw www.maptap.gg July 6 99🎯 95🏅 96🔥 100🎯 100🎯 Final score: 986maptap.gg🎯MapTap Daily Geography GamePlay MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers. 120
