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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 12h
‘Hammack says she hears from lower-income households that are no longer just trading down at the grocery store but choosing which bills to pay. Most of her colleagues last month saw inflation returning to target in 2029. “To me, that’s far too long,” she said.’ www.wsj.com/finance/inve...
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When Companies Stop Driving a Hard Bargain, This Fed Official Starts Worrying
Beth Hammack says businesses’ pricing power and a sturdy economy show interest rates aren’t yet high enough to tame inflation.
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lindabrooke6.bsky.social @lindabrooke6.bsky.social · 11h
Does Trump understand that Putin shows how weak he (Trump) is? Or does he tell everybody who would listen: Vlad did Not get the Memo on time?
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Gregory Daco @gregdaco.bsky.social · 12h
Barry Eichengreen sees 2 different scenarios 1️⃣ Favorable: gradual erosion of US$ along w/ creation of a diverse global multipolar monetary ecosystem 2️⃣ Worrisome: sudden collapse of US$ before other systems are mature & robust: global liquidity shortage @nabe-econ.bsky.social @jc-econ.bsky.social
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lindabrooke6.bsky.social @lindabrooke6.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
„Call it a “verification tax,” “botsitting” or “rework” — it’s the often arduous task of checking that A.I. output is accurate, safe and usable, and it is putting a very human bottleneck on A.I. automation.“
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 10/10/2026
‘In survey after survey, executives and their employees report unimpressive gains from A.I. tools. In a poll of nearly 6,000 senior business executives, about 90 percent said the technology had no impact on either employment or productivity.’ www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/b...
nytimes.com
What’s Dragging Down A.I. Efficiency? The ‘Verification Tax.’
As artificial intelligence automates office tasks, it is also creating a new type of human work.
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 10/10/2026
‘The grid wasn’t designed to accommodate the large loads of data centers. Connecting one to the system can require hundreds of millions worth of new infrastructure. Traditionally, the cost of upgrades has been recovered from all users, adding to everyone’s bills.’ www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
How Data Centers Are Pushing Up US Power Costs
Data centers have become a defining political issue in the run-up to the US midterm elections. The giant, windowless warehouses have drawn fierce backlash across the country as people worry about how ...
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 10/10/2026
‘As more well-paying roles disappear, even a relatively small increase in unemployment would have an outsize impact on government finances, with revenue falling just as spending on services such as unemployment benefits, retraining and policing rises.‘ www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
bloomberg.com
The AI Doomsday Scenario Nobody Talks About
Governments built around taxing workers may struggle to survive a world where fewer people have jobs.
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 10/10/2026
‘The amount of new debt that tech companies raised to help fund costly artificial intelligence developments fell sharply last month as investors reassessed the industry’s risks following months of rampant borrowing.‘ www.ft.com/content/9c13...
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lindabrooke6.bsky.social @lindabrooke6.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Cars are excluded, right?
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lindabrooke6.bsky.social @lindabrooke6.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Surprised it took so long. 🤪
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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
www.ft.com/content/7fd4...
ft.com
US warns Kyiv that strikes on Russia jeopardise intelligence-sharing
Donald Trump’s administration delivered threat after Volodymyr Zelenskyy criticised diesel deal with Moscow
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lindabrooke6.bsky.social @lindabrooke6.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
And to European allies who have screwed their economies.
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lindabrooke6.bsky.social @lindabrooke6.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
On what basis will any US administration going forward demand moral standards from other countries? Any country?
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 09/10/2026
“The bond market is no longer waiting for the Fed to tighten financial conditions. High term premia, inflation uncertainty and government borrowing needs can keep longer-dated yields restrictive even when the expected path of short rates becomes less aggressive.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Ivan the K ™ @ivanthek.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Kernen needs to go.
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Mohamed A. El-Erian @elerianm.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Posted earlier: FYI, on the growing risks of repeated US interventions to sway market pricing: www.ft.com/content/eec1... @financialtimes.com #economy #markets
ft.com
Repeated US Treasury interventions risk an erosion of credibility
A key policy tool to stabilise stress in markets could turn into a source of moral hazard and deeper volatility
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lindabrooke6.bsky.social @lindabrooke6.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This approach only makes sense if OpenAI decided not to go public in the nearish future, right? This was an opportunity to show committment to transparency.
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Stacey Vanek Smith @svaneksmith.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Oil and electricity prices are surging. That is hammering businesses around the world and our budgets. One of the biggest economic issues facing the global economy and all of us #gas #oil #datacenter #ai
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Bob Elliott @bobeunlimited.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Companies that are doing well just before an IPO don't: - Refuse to disclose their actual revenue - "Leak" overstated numbers to the press - Repeatedly push back the listing date - Raise huge "bridge" financing rounds - Claim existential risk to get gov monopoly protection
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 09/10/2026
“A TRIUMPH” www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/...
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Watch A Fabulous Debt, These Are The Plunderers: Must-Read Books - Bloomberg
Bloomberg's Scarlet Fu and Tom Keene discuss their must-read book on this week's edition of "Bloomberg Money." They discuss 'A Fabulous Debt' by Robin Wigglesworth and 'These Are The Plunderers' Gretc...
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lindabrooke6.bsky.social @lindabrooke6.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
sounds bullish
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 08/10/2026
‘Money managers need to pay attention to the financial consequences of these gargantuan projects falling behind schedule, or never coming online at all. That could mean a hit to developers and would-be tenants, of course, but also to semiconductor shipments.‘ www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
bloomberg.com
The AI Giants Are Facing a Severe Case of Financial Indigestion
Amid heated discussion of the astonishing (and also rather worrying) capabilities of artificial intelligence, investors are realizing that the underlying computing and energy infrastructure relied upo...
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lindabrooke6.bsky.social @lindabrooke6.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Back on? I thought refinieries have been operating above 100% capacity?
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lindabrooke6.bsky.social @lindabrooke6.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
LOW T MALE!!!!!!!!!!
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The Verge @theverge.com · 07/10/2026
Happening now: a conversation between Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and Sriram Krishnan, former senior policy adviser for AI at the White House. www.theverge.com/news/1006303...
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It's pretty fun to watch two of the now most powerful people in the world shoot the shit about the good ol' days of computing from 15 feet away. It's also a bit strange given that power and everything they're trying to sell the world right now! 

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Nadella is now reminiscing about the late '80s and having a PC with a modem and a terminal, local MS-DOS, and early Windows. "I had Usenet, all of that stuff." I wonder what newsgroups Nadella was in back then.Jensen Huang and Satya Nadella on stage
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David Wessel @davidmwessel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
IMF: Globally, hedge funds now hold about $13 trillion in assets, more than three times their 2013 level. www.imf.org/en/publicati...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“.. Dalio said the US relies on foreign capital for about a third of its debt, and that Japan and China have already been paring their holdings.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Rob @robertferry.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Potentially transformational tech for green hydrogen production that may be cheaper than methane reforming and far less than electrolysis. Apparently, the metal organic framework that does the catalytic work is also rather easy to make.
sciencedaily.com
Scientists just found a new way to make hydrogen from water
A new light-activated material can efficiently produce hydrogen from water without requiring an additional expensive metal catalyst. Researchers say its unusual sulfur-based chemistry could point towa...
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Emma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Decided not to include Donald Trump's thoughts on the French school protests in my reporting, for roughly the same reason that I didn't include a quote from the guy in my neighbourhood who stands on his balcony every afternoon shouting abuse at passers-by . . . Anyway, here's the latest 👇
thelocal.fr
LATEST: French high schools to remain closed as 250,000 join protests
More than 250,000 demonstrators took to the street in France on Tuesday, as unions and teachers joined protests by high school students. Meanwhile the Prime Minister announced that high schools (lycée...
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 06/10/2026
What students are voicing during high school blockades: 'I am worried about my future and for all students in France'
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What students are voicing during high school blockades: 'I am worried about my future and for all students in France'
From the Paris suburbs to Marseille, as well as Toulouse and Lyon, high schoolers interviewed by Le Monde during the blockades described their study conditions, their concerns and their need to be heard.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 06/10/2026
Demonstrations swept across France on Tuesday as union activists rallied in solidarity with high school students who have spent two weeks blockading their schools over understaffing, overcrowded classrooms and dilapidated buildings. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/w...
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lindabrooke6.bsky.social @lindabrooke6.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Also: it's hard to wean the Chair's deputies off Fed signaling.
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lindabrooke6.bsky.social @lindabrooke6.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I do not think America will recover from this.
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Robin Brooks @robin-j-brooks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The rise in US yields is one of those Occam's razor things. Of course it's true that growth is much stronger than many thought it would be and the AI thing is real. But the elephant in the room is the 7.5% of GDP deficit. My live stream on this from Sunday: robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/how-the-us...
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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Below-average-paying industries account for 50,000 of the 46,000 total private sector jobs added in September. In other words, above-average-paying industries shed about 4,000 jobs. And this has been the state of affairs for years now" www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 05/10/2026
’The AI boom is clearly visible in investment data and in equity valuations, but it is not yet visible in the productivity statistics, which means the productivity payoff from AI remains a forecast rather than an observation.’ www.apollo.com/wealth/insig...
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 05/10/2026
‘In this case, smart money is perceived as selling to retail investors buying into late-stage hype. This type of SMI action has often preceded a stock market top.’ paulsenperspectives.substack.com/p/random-tho... by @jimwpaulsen.bsky.social
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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The State Department says it is “aware of reports of a fatal case of suspected pneumonic plague” in Russia and “monitoring the situation closely” along with the CDC + other agencies.
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lindabrooke6.bsky.social @lindabrooke6.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The overall style. It is distinctly US American. Ads in the old world are much sleeker.
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Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT @mikezaccardi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
From Carl Quintanilla BTIG: “$SOX continues to track extremely close to the boom/bust cycle of the 2000 peak. It’s quite striking.. This would imply we are about at the peak of this counter-trend rally and embarking on a slower, drawn-out decline over the next several months.”
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lindabrooke6.bsky.social @lindabrooke6.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
And millions think he is brilliant. That is what actually scares me. They either excuse this shit or ignore it. In either case they point to his successes.
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jtickel STAND WITH UKRAINE @tickedoff.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
when incompetence impedes cruelty www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
theatlantic.com
Is There Anything Kash Patel Won’t Do for Trump Before the Midterms?
“The president wants indictments. He wants people in handcuffs.”
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lindabrooke6.bsky.social @lindabrooke6.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Dunno this looks like from the 90s like many US ads. Genuinely surprised as Europe is Not exactly known to be avant guard.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Given today’s risks, frontier labs need to run like nuclear-power plants or busy airports, with layers of redundancy and careful, time-consuming planning, so that the occasional and inevitable human error does not open a door to disaster. Right now, AI companies don’t know how—but other people do.”
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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"‘Ball and chain’: Trump's tariffs still a drag on global trade cooperation" www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
politico.com
‘Ball and chain’: Trump's tariffs still a drag on global trade cooperation
The U.S. tried to rally countries behind its trade priorities. They rebelled.
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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Taking the unprecedented non-stop large-scale corruption to the grotesque next level — not just enriching the Trumps and their cronies at the expense of American suckers/investors, but driving hugely consequential foreign policy. Vote them out. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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gjabberbox.bsky.social @gjabberbox.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Far-right ideologues and grifters are using American foreign policy to advance an antidemocratic agenda—and enrich themselves,” @anneapplebaum reports. “They are the vanguard of a movement that aims to reshape not just America but the world.” www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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MAGA Is Making the World Safe for Corruption
Far-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction.
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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Aggressive bets like these often pan out for big companies: Even if the I.R.S. balks, companies can settle disputes and still wind up ahead." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
nytimes.com
How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes (Gift Article)
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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MJ @bstnboy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
92% is lardass' favorite number!! www.theatlantic.com/national-sec... JpLtJ1ySQA6Y8_ZSLTy0LviN2iW_IgQjaE&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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There’s a 92 Percent Chance Trump Is Making It Up
When riffing, the president exhibits an unusual tell.
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Tania Lombrozo @tanialombrozo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A short adapted excerpt from WHY WE ASK WHY was published in The Atlantic this morning! So excited to share this in advance of the book's publication on Oct 6! 😊 📕 www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...
theatlantic.com
AI Could Worsen a Common Cognitive Trap
Almost everyone knows less than they think.
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