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Gregor Stuart Hunter @gregorhunter.bsky.social · 1h

Ridiculous. You could accomplish the same boost to GDP by simply adding more cheat codes to the M25

Gregor Stuart Hunter @gregorhunter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Not technically a preamble per se but the Ugandan constitution has a prose description of the country's border as one might walk around it attached as an appendix

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Gregor Stuart Hunter @gregorhunter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

For this to be true you would have to completely dismiss the regular occurrence of speculative bubbles within the Chinese stock property and commodity markets

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Gregor Stuart Hunter @gregorhunter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

TIL literally all of you are Quebecois

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Gregor Stuart Hunter @gregorhunter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

<ul> stands for "u love bULlet points doncha hahaha"

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

the typical 2000s/early 2010s rap album: first, suffers from problem of existing at all. best songs have already been recorded as mixtapes or done as cameos on other people’s albums. other content held up by copyright disputes because record label is predatory (or literally gang affiliated)

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Roel Maalderink @roelmaalderink.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hoe vinden Meta-medewerkers hun eigen Meta-bril? (Samen met @bitsoffreedom.eurosky.social)

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Gregor Stuart Hunter @gregorhunter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Scott Bessent: “I am the house now” Several generations of hedge fund traders who grew up reading Edward Thorp’s 1962 classic ‘Beat the Dealer’: “OK”

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Dom White @domw.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'm not sure who needs to know this, but the Fed now splits out hedge funds as an institutional class in the Flow of Funds report. So we can now see just how important they've been as buyers of US Treasurys and the answer is ... meh.

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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

WH Sr. Adviser Hassett: If the Fed hikes, Trump will have an opinion, I'm sure.

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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

WH Sr. Adviser Hassett: Trump is very serious about the $5,000 proposal.

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Gregor Stuart Hunter @gregorhunter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

What’s more, I have reason to believe he had not even read them.

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Gregor Stuart Hunter @gregorhunter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

“Ah, the last guy really liked that branding, but it was hard to attract assets under management, focus groups kept saying they liked the old name better. Might be your chance to put your stamp on the company, show freshen things up, while also preserving the firm’s tradition, no?”

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Gregor Stuart Hunter @gregorhunter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Can you imagine how much money McKinsey or whoever it was have made off Deutsche over the years suggesting they change the name back and forth whenever there’s a new CEO

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Gregor Stuart Hunter @gregorhunter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Today I learned it’s "Deutsche Gesellschaft für Wertpapiersparen mbH" (German Association for Security Saving) which was later shortened to DWS, "Die Wertpapier Spezialisten" (The Security Specialists).

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Gregor Stuart Hunter @gregorhunter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

1) People who worry about using a service that logs your movements, can easily determine your home address and other locations you frequent, has a dashboard of every user’s travel history that is widely accessible to staff and a history of extremely poor internal controls 2) 🤷 3) 🤷

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Gregor Stuart Hunter @gregorhunter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I’m sorry what is this gibberish Baseball is NOT on the Bank for International Settlements’ list of permitted sporting analogies for central bankers

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

“There’s a new Mr. Beast book.” You bolt awake in your workshop in Mainz. It’s 1450. You’re Johannes Gutenberg, and you’ve changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Your printing press must burn.

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Gregor Stuart Hunter @gregorhunter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Still intrigued by Duke With Benefits

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Gregor Stuart Hunter @gregorhunter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Very disappointed to learn that the Fated To My Forbidden Alpha microdrama has nothing to do with hedge funds.

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Gregor Stuart Hunter @gregorhunter.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Shy Shein CEO Sky Xu showed up, said nothing, then shuffled off

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The world's most notorious custard-pie thrower is dead. What an obituary. He got Bernard-Henri Lévy seven times.

Known to his army of fans as L’Entarteur or Georges le Gloupier, Godin launched his career as a serial deflator of egos in 1969, when he planted a tarte à la crème on the face of the French novelist Marguerite Duras (“She has a kind of intelligence and cleverness that serves only her own vanity,” he complained), and he went on to “pie” a cast list of celebrities for sins ranging from pomposity to “choosing to function in the service of the capitalist status quo”.

The same could not be said of Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of France’s “new philosophers,” whose provocative views on sex, frequent appearances on television and penchant for white silk shirts unbuttoned practically to the navel, had made him a cult figure – and one of Godin’s most satisfying victims.

Levy once declared: “I am the most gifted writer of my generation,” and often boasted of his reasonableness and tolerance, but he was forced to endure footage being repeatedly shown on French television of himself, covered in cream, during a visit to the Belgian city of Liège, trying to strangle Godin and shouting: “Get up, or I’ll kick your head in.”

Noël Godin was born on September 13 1945 and came to pie-throwing after a rebellious youth in which he scandalised the priests in the confessional by speaking of his “horrible sexual life”, and was thrown out of Liège University after emptying a pot of glue over the head of a law lecturer who had helped write the constitution for the Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar.

He found work at Friends of Film, an obscure magazine published by the Belgian Catholic League. It had a tiny readership, which was just as well, as Godin made up most of his articles. In one he claimed that Louis Armstrong had once been a cannibal and had invested in a film called The Vegetables of Good Will in which Claudia Cardinale played a giant endive.

In another he conjured up a fictional blind Thai filmmaker named Vivian Pei, describing her film, The Lotus Flower Will Never Again Grow on the Edge of Your Island, in such convincing terms that an Asian film specialist travelled to Thailand in an effort to track her down.

“We’re very careful not to hurt people,’’ he explained. “Well, they are hurt, but always in their amour-propre.”

In 1995 Godin published an autobiography, Cream and Punishment. His other targets over the years included the New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard (who charmed his assailant by hailing the attack as a homage to silent film), the French politician Nicolas Sarkozy, the choreographer Maurice Béjart and the Ryanair chairman Michael O’Leary. He tended not to pick Belgian victims, he explained, because few would notice if he did.

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SIEPR @siepr.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Not long ago, Erika McEntarfer (@erikamcentarfer.bsky.social) was asked on our Econ To Go podcast if we can still trust gov't data. Here's what she told host @nealemahoney.bsky.social ⤵️. She had more fascinating insights to share. Check out the full episode: tinyurl.com/3vj98ydh

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Gregor Stuart Hunter @gregorhunter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Can’t believe this is how I found out

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Ed Conway @edconway.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

✍️ Want to understand the bonkers nature of the modern economy? Take a ride with me on the 30,000 mile journey the cod in a fish finger takes between being caught off the coast of Scotland and consumed in a British home 🤯 Promise I'm not making this up👇 edconway.substack.com/p/the-30000-...

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The 30,000-mile fish finger

There’s a good chance the cod on your child’s plate has been around the world and back. Not that you’d learn any of that from the label...

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Gregor Stuart Hunter @gregorhunter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Hen party steepeners. Regatta turbos. Soirée straddles. Swingers' strangles. The broken fly biennale. The Cocaine Iron Condor. Callable bull-bear contracts, structured as Bermuda options with a French exit. Accumulator-decumulator baby shower. Collateralised loan obligations, ft Pitbull. Send help

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Gregor Stuart Hunter @gregorhunter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It's also a difficult question to answer because, like many on Bluesky, I would respond in the affirmative to "finance people!" as well as "party people!" but could not respond positively to both. 😔

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Gregor Stuart Hunter @gregorhunter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

So let me get this straight: 1. Nvidia buys Hugging Face 2. Hugging Face has more money to defend itself against cyberattacks from OpenAI 3. OpenAI has to buy more chips from Nvidia to launch better cyberattacks on Hugging Face Is that the trade? I can’t tell if I’m joking anymore

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Gregor Stuart Hunter @gregorhunter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Ironically, I learned this from studying Chinese, where the distinctions are so much more apparent and obvious.

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Gregor Stuart Hunter @gregorhunter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

So Scots would fail the first test I posted above, but arguably might pass the second test.

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Gregor Stuart Hunter @gregorhunter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Yep. Scots is a good example (I am Scottish). Scots Gaelic is clearly distinct from English and mutually unintelligible. But while Scots is not very distinct from English, it is unintelligible to many native English speakers and has many grammatical differences.

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Gregor Stuart Hunter @gregorhunter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

In case it were not clear from the above, I also know nothing about linguistics

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Gregor Stuart Hunter @gregorhunter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I know nothing about Teochew. But there are two versions of the language vs dialect test: Crass version: Does it have an army and a navy? Pretentious version: Does it have a distinct phonology (sound system), syntax (grammar) and lexicon (vocabulary)?

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Gregor Stuart Hunter @gregorhunter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The same benefits would apply to U.S. trade with economies using the silver standard, like Qing dynasty China, or future crypto-based societies from the 23rd Century.

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Gregor Stuart Hunter @gregorhunter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It is a shame for workers in the Rust Belt that the U.S. does not transact with any countries from the 19th Century still on the gold standard because it would be experiencing substantial benefits to its terms of trade

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