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Secret Banker

@secretbanker.bsky.social
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Unvarnished views on what's really happening in the World from an economic viewpoint. Might be controversial. Show me evidence and I may change my mind.

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Secret Banker @secretbanker.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Regarding tarriffs. There seems to be confusion so let me put it clearly. 1) Having a trade deficit with a country is, in of itself, meaningless. 2) Tarrifs are paid by domestic consumers. Not foreign governments. 3) Tarriffs should be used to protect embryonic industries or economies only.
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Secret Banker @secretbanker.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
I feel my time as an economist has come. We have had the internet telling vaccinologists how vaccines work. Fire departments how to stop fires and now endless lectures on how tarriffs work. If we rely in the MAGA pool of knowledge, we end up broke, burned and err....dead...
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Secret Banker @secretbanker.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I know it's unpopular in light of current events but the Russians lost huge numbers of people in World War Two including in the effort to liberate Auschwitz. I think it was wrong not to invite them to the ceremony. Frankly it would also have been good to make them listen to what the victims said.
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Secret Banker @secretbanker.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Atlee...1945 GE Campaign. Has anything changed ?
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Secret Banker @secretbanker.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
What are the feasible options the US has regarding Panama ? Is it not a sovereign state ? He wouldn't invade would he?
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Secret Banker @secretbanker.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
To all those now vulnerable in the US, be that immigrants, transgender people, the disabled (following removal of DEI), women whose reproductive freedoms are under assault. Stay strong and determined. The darkness will eventually pass.
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Secret Banker @secretbanker.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Never misses ..
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Secret Banker @secretbanker.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Can someone with actual knowledge explain to me if it's actually true the Californian government is culpable for negligence in terms of how these fires have been able to spread or is it actually just tragic circumstances (and climate change)?
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Secret Banker @secretbanker.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Can't touch this
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Secret Banker @secretbanker.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
I hadn't seen that Reform are starting to lose a number of people... ...didn't imagine it would happen so quick...
theguardian.com
Pressure on Nigel Farage as Reform UK councillors resign over his leadership
Exclusive: Departures will add to scrutiny of party leader after Elon Musk said he was ‘not up to the job’
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Secret Banker @secretbanker.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Even weaker....starter still has parliamentary privilege so can just stand up on TV in the House of Commons and say what he wants... ...I don't like to insult people, but she has me on the brink...
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Secret Banker @secretbanker.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Another day begins in the truely surreal Orwellian fantasy that is social media. UK financial markets look orderly enough here...I still feel people are struggling to comprehend a difference between 'econony crashing' and 'market repricing in an orderly way'...
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Secret Banker @secretbanker.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Just switching mobile phones as I hadn't looked for a while and mine had become incredibly uncompetitive...new deal offers same stuff for less than half the price? Anyone found a similar experience?
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Secret Banker @secretbanker.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Enjoyed this one so sharing it here.... ...I remember that loo roll. Ugh...
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Secret Banker @secretbanker.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Much written on gilt yields rising. It's occurring in tandem with other rates markets but the UK is in a tricky spot as a small open economy with a mildly inflationary UK gov budget. Things can change quickly though and conditions are orderly. Not a panic at the moment.
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Secret Banker @secretbanker.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
I'm sure this meant a great deal to her and it's very much deserved.
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Secret Banker @secretbanker.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
I was frantically checking my calendar to make sure it wasn't April 1st...
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Secret Banker @secretbanker.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Just a follow up on the last post. This is the data on child sex offenders in 2022. Sadly I haven't found it for other years but this gives a flavour of just how dominant the "White British" group is. Easy to blame Muslims and whip up hysteria but morally and factually bankrupt to do so.
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Secret Banker @secretbanker.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Reposting as this is such an important point. We have to get over this "it's all foreigners/Muslims/others thing"
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Secret Banker @secretbanker.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Musk still banging on about having a public enquiry. I actually think he's really overstepping now. On a serious note, can anyone knowledgeable expalin simply why the Jay enquiry findings were not immediately implemented (or process begun) and why it'll take this government so long?
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Secret Banker @secretbanker.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
I've tried to maintain an account in X (albeit) with different content....but I'm really struggling to cope with the viciousness of the right...what's the verdict do we keep them or walk completely ?
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Secret Banker @secretbanker.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
This has me suddenly feeling right wing but I have no sympathy for the WASPI cause. The government publicised and published every pension change. Anyone considering retirement was mad not checking entitlement. Horribly cynical of Labour to support then ditch, but compensation shouldn't be paid.
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Secret Banker @secretbanker.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
How about a new political rule in which the opposition if they wish to oppose a policy must propose an alternative, and if relevant what it would be funded by.Then we can vote on the better of two alternatives.
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Secret Banker @secretbanker.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Fascinating and seminal debate in Parliament today. Very torn how I would vote myself my "inner JSM" pleads for a yes but my hardened market trader sees exploitation of the vulnerable and ultimately I would vote against. Parliament needs more free votes and more time discussing matters of ethics.
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Secret Banker @secretbanker.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
The case for London declaring an autonomous Republic grows every day. Huge financial surplus and consistently politically adrift from the wider UK...the rest of the country needs to be cautious about constantly demanding Londoners adjust to their viewpoints...
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Secret Banker @secretbanker.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Seen some wild proposals relating to what DOGE might do in the US. Simply put saving money by mass sackings of public officials is unlikely to reignite the US economy.
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Secret Banker @secretbanker.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I've been on this platform for 72 hours now and I have yet to be followed by a bikini clad model with a Russian sounding name who never posts. Am I losing my touch?
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Secret Banker @secretbanker.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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Secret Banker @secretbanker.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
UK GDP up by 0.1 Q/Q is grim reading for a Chancellor betting on 1.5 percent annual growth (or more). It is early days though and this quarter was impacted by her own pessimism...pressure on long dated gilts to remain though. She needs some god news soon!
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Secret Banker @secretbanker.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Well this is a breath of fresh air. Like all good bankers I lurk in the shadows more than in clear skies...views are my own but will put evidence in support when possible!
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