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Kim Driver @kimdriver.bsky.social · 05/02/2024

I'm not a fan of podcasts - preferring to read a transcription at my own pace. Which may be a slow read or a quick skim. But I always listen to IfG's output, which is really good and stuffed with information that I don't know and really should. Recommended. Look at the cast!

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Kim Driver @kimdriver.bsky.social · 17/01/2024

Would I need a passport to go to university?

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Kim Driver @kimdriver.bsky.social · 13/01/2024

Eggsterminate......... www.bbc.co.uk/archive/edib...

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Kim Driver @kimdriver.bsky.social · 31/12/2023

👀👀 Not presented as a thread, so look 'em up. 🪐🪐🪐

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Kim Driver @kimdriver.bsky.social · 27/12/2023

I think I can manage to create an image of a Bored Ape.....

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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 26/12/2023

Every day since 2016 the Daily Express has discovered, with accompanying outrage, that leaving the European Union meant leaving the European Union.

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Kim Driver @kimdriver.bsky.social · 23/12/2023

Don't mess with the Canadian dairy industry. 🐮🐮🐮

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George Peretz KC @georgeperetzkc.bsky.social · 22/12/2023

Pretty much my experience of being on a London jury last year.

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Kim Driver @kimdriver.bsky.social · 20/12/2023

The financial costs should surely be fairly easy to deal with if it weren't for the politics and, perhaps, concern about moral hazard? But the opportunity costs of that misallocation cannot be undone.

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Kim Driver @kimdriver.bsky.social · 18/12/2023

I know some will groan, but having all those oil reserves would be nice.

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Kim Driver @kimdriver.bsky.social · 16/12/2023

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

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Kim Driver @kimdriver.bsky.social · 16/12/2023

The trains are a bit rubbish. Camels much better.

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Kim Driver @kimdriver.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

Is there anything preventing Musk from purchasing the debt at a discount?

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Kim Driver @kimdriver.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

Would probably need to provide insurance cover too - if things get really treacherous then commercial insurance of hull and cargo probably won't be available.

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Kim Driver @kimdriver.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

That dog went to public school. Nothing else can teach you THAT stare.

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Kim Driver @kimdriver.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

Rishi's lost he's, it seems. Plus a few phones (easy come, easy go.....) Hopefully @samfr.bsky.social is more careful.

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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

My only contribution to the UK food discourse is that if you want to understand Britain you should be aware that we invented a condiment featuring a delicate, tangy, sweetly sharp blend of tomatoes, molasses, dates, apples, tamarind, allspice, vinegar and raisins and gave it the name “brown sauce”

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Kim Driver @kimdriver.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

I think FTAlphaville articles have been posted on ft.com for some time now - I don't know whether there's also a mirror FTAlphaville address or if older articles have been migrated.

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Kim Driver @kimdriver.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

That is, of course, a voluntary scheme - I assume that applicants would receive some advice on the pros and cons given their specific circumstances.

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Kim Driver @kimdriver.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

Pleased to report that @robert19pearson.bsky.social has signed up - he'll be remembered by other exiles as an ex-pro and now commentator on finance, especially banking in general and the money markets. Same username as on X. Say hallo!

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Kim Driver @kimdriver.bsky.social · 10/12/2023

That surely includes Crumpet?

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Kim Driver @kimdriver.bsky.social · 08/12/2023

The last sentence seems important. If we assume that the insurance industry has lots of capacity now (given the possibility of "quasi-defeasing" the liabilities), that possibility could dry up pretty quickly, and the exit window shut again.

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Kim Driver @kimdriver.bsky.social · 08/12/2023

If you were to buy a British swan, you might end up in trouble for receiving stolen goods. Best consult a lawyer.

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Kim Driver @kimdriver.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

I doubt that Davis could play any instrument badly. He was just too good.

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Kim Driver @kimdriver.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

Is the UK government bad at diplomacy or does it just reject it when it interferes with its other objectives? Which might, of course, be worse....

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Kim Driver @kimdriver.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

Kidnapped by the paywall....... (Congratulations.)

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Kim Driver @kimdriver.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

Approaching Macquarie for the loan suggests some pre-existing difficulties I guess.

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Kim Driver @kimdriver.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

It's the cost of restocking...

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Kim Driver @kimdriver.bsky.social · 26/11/2023

Pamela Anderson. Few men have lived to tell the tale.

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Kim Driver @kimdriver.bsky.social · 26/11/2023

Bear in mind that I lived in Japan for half my adult life.....

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Kim Driver @kimdriver.bsky.social · 26/11/2023

Adnan Khashoggi, Takeshi Kitano, Tony Yates, Margaret Thatcher and Nina Simone.

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Kim Driver @kimdriver.bsky.social · 26/11/2023

"Dahling, these pigs in blankets are utterly divine. So amusing. Did you make them yourself?". "Well ye..well no actually. I bought them from Al.., oh no, that's also wrong, silly me, what was I thinking? I had them delivered from Marks and Sparks." "Quite right and proper. Such a clever girl."

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Kim Driver @kimdriver.bsky.social · 26/11/2023

Only very posh people call sausages wrapped in bacon "pigs in blankets". Using the term indicates club membership. It's not a rational descriptor, which is the point. True "pigs in blankets" would surely be sausage rolls, and even that's a bit affected.

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Kim Driver @kimdriver.bsky.social · 26/11/2023

Yup. If Lionel Tarrassenko (who first put the "fuzzy logic" into a Sharp Microwave oh so long ago) now calls it AI, that should be good enough for the rest of us.

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Kim Driver @kimdriver.bsky.social · 25/11/2023

Cardiff does seem to feature quite a bit in Dr. Who. It's clearly a magnet for malignant forms of alien life. Best avoided?

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Kim Driver @kimdriver.bsky.social · 25/11/2023

The author surely has a legal case if the literal meaning of the original text has been altered? Shouldn't be hard to establish whether or not that's the case.

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Kim Driver @kimdriver.bsky.social · 24/11/2023

(I block anyone who invokes entropy as the analogous process by which to explain something else. That's the worst. Really does my head in.)

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Kim Driver @kimdriver.bsky.social · 24/11/2023

I confess that whenever something X is described or explained by drawing an analogy with Y, it just adds to my confusion. Surely it's simpler just to describe or explain X than to (i) describe and explain Y and then (ii) justify X's similarities with Y? That adds complexity. (But I'm not a poet.)

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Kim Driver @kimdriver.bsky.social · 21/11/2023

That's a very long way to tow a barge.

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Kim Driver @kimdriver.bsky.social · 21/11/2023

Sadly. And tax relief granted to corporates is only really effective when the headline rate is high. Japan.... Sunak isn't aiming at the electorate. He's trying to placate his right wing. Just like May's attempt at Brexit, the objective is to hold the Tory Party together. It's party management.

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Kim Driver @kimdriver.bsky.social · 21/11/2023

That leaves undone a lot of economically justified stuff that we need done, because it can only be indirectly and often only very slowly monetised. The value created is too broadly distributed, the payoff horizon too long, for a single company to be confident that it can capture it.

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Kim Driver @kimdriver.bsky.social · 21/11/2023

Will this be accompanied by more state investment? Because the private sector only invests in stuff it can quickly and directly monetise (not its fault, the system is set up that way - to make the private sector fragile and so compel it to be responsive).

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Kim Driver @kimdriver.bsky.social · 18/11/2023

I would not under any circumstances avoid Sunday's screening of "Ah, Liberty!".

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