Reposted by شمعون / ܫܡܥܘܢ / שמעוןsick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 26/09/2026GTX mentioned 😮💨🥳 210313
Reposted by شمعون / ܫܡܥܘܢ / שמעוןMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"If wishes were horses, then beggars would ride. If turnips were swords, I'd have one at my side. If "ifs" and "ands" were pots and pans, There'd be no work for tinkers' hands." —Scottish Proverb, 1628 3593684758
Reposted by شمعون / ܫܡܥܘܢ / שמעוןBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Mamdani is a charismatic guy but I promise you anyone can replicate this. 1) Unapologetically use the government to help ordinary people; and 2) Tell them about it 332869435
Reposted by شمعون / ܫܡܥܘܢ / שמעוןTom Sgouros @tsgouros.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I think most of the people who say stuff like, "That would never happen in the efficient private sector," are people who have never spent much time in the efficient private sector. 3295
Reposted by شمعون / ܫܡܥܘܢ / שמעוןAlex Turnbull @alexbhturnbull.bsky.social · 05/08/2026So how long will it take the DC blob complex to accept: - US lost with Iran - Iran still sucks - The only way to pay them less is to use less oil and LNG from them AND - Build diversion pipelines etc ?? This is hard because green left hates all pipelines, and blob takes a lot of oil money. 2193
Reposted by شمعون / ܫܡܥܘܢ / שמעוןSteve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 15/07/2026“Even if the AI companies themselves are not…profitable, AI-related investment spending is probably an important factor in raising aggregate profits… the California gold rush generated plenty of profits for somebody, even if the vast majority of prospectors…went broke.” @jwmason.bsky.socialjwmason.substack.comProfits, Payouts and Equity Pricespart one of two, probably 2239
Reposted by شمعون / ܫܡܥܘܢ / שמעוןJW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 15/07/2026If you’re thinking about a market in which wealth owners and their representatives allocate capital between corporations, then you are thinking of the bond market. Not the stock market. www.ft.com/content/47a6... 2348
Reposted by شمعون / ܫܡܥܘܢ / שמעוןJW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Turning risky debt into safe assets by putting it in a pot and then selling off different tranches of it. Now where have I heard that story before? www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news... 49316
Reposted by شمعون / ܫܡܥܘܢ / שמעוןChris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 10/06/2026New substack: bond markets aren't a huge constraint on intelligent leftist economic policy; other things are: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/what-bond-...chrisdillow.substack.comWhat bond market constraint?Yes, bond markets are a constraint upon a leftist government - but maybe not the biggest one. 02011
Reposted by شمعون / ܫܡܥܘܢ / שמעוןDavid Sligar @davidsligar.bsky.social · 22/06/2026nassim taleb has a nice quote “Virtue is when the income you wish to show the tax agency exceeds what you wish to show your neighbor." 3124
Reposted by شمعون / ܫܡܥܘܢ / שמעוןAndrew Gelston @agelston.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Only lord buckethead can save England 051
Reposted by شمعون / ܫܡܥܘܢ / שמעוןSaul Rosenberg @saul-rosenberg.bsky.social · 03/07/2026the ACIJ is doing excellent worktheguardian.comAFP assessing allegation of Gaza war crimes committed by Australian citizen serving in IDFExclusive: Claims against Israel Defense Forces battalion include deliberate targeting and destruction of residential buildings in 2023 and 2024 without military justification 021
Reposted by شمعون / ܫܡܥܘܢ / שמעוןDr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 25/06/2026I especially love this diagram. 5248562012
Reposted by شمعون / ܫܡܥܘܢ / שמעוןJW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 03/07/2026I agree that there is a serious conversation to be had about the institutional preference for achieving social goals in ways that don’t have a direct budgetary cost, even if the true costs are higher, and the benefits less, than with direct public spending. 517734
Reposted by شمعون / ܫܡܥܘܢ / שמעוןDaniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · 19/06/2026the short-lived life of a super majority Labour government with BlackRock politics was so obvious even a professor of economics could predict it 1329
Reposted by شمعون / ܫܡܥܘܢ / שמעוןChris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Analysis by @sanjanamv.bsky.social on Israel’s use of white phosphorus in Lebanon and the dangers it poses to public health and the land, with a reference to @baydoun.nl's visual database documenting its use and commentary from @wammezz.bsky.social. .nytimes.comWhat Visual Evidence Tells Us About Israel’s Use of White Phosphorus in Lebanon 02422
Reposted by شمعون / ܫܡܥܘܢ / שמעוןSaul Rosenberg @saul-rosenberg.bsky.social · 07/06/2026easily the dumbest critique of ai that's doing the rounds is that it is - tout court - bad in a business sense: ie, there is no profits to be made. 111
Reposted by شمعون / ܫܡܥܘܢ / שמעוןEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Bari Weiss not beating the bootlicking propagandist allegations here: 18097412848
Reposted by شمعون / ܫܡܥܘܢ / שמעוןDavid Sligar @davidsligar.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Difficult to overstate how misleading this is. Any % tax on capital gains (sale price less purchase price) will by mathematical construction result in differing rates relative to sale price. Including the existing regime! That’s not a “profound oversight”, that’s what CGT *is*. 2214
Reposted by شمعون / ܫܡܥܘܢ / שמעוןDavid Sligar @davidsligar.bsky.social · 28/05/2026It also occurred to me that the worked example in the piece ignores large CGT concessions for active small businesses, such as the 50% active asset reduction. These substantially reduce real world CGT. The piece confounds more than it enlightens. 0153
Reposted by شمعون / ܫܡܥܘܢ / שמעוןTom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 28/05/2026I've heard a number of stories both first and second-hand over the years about employment services run by the Church of Scientology, funnelling jobseekers to Scientology front businesses to work for the Church of Scientology on their various scandalous anti-social activities. 36527
Reposted by شمعون / ܫܡܥܘܢ / שמעוןIndependent Media Australia. @indymediaaus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/05/2026Why the criticisms of Labor's tax changes are mostly wrong pearlsandirritations.com/e/daily/20… #Auspolpearlsandirritations.comWhy the criticisms of Labor's tax changes are mostly wrongLabor’s tax policies will improve intergenerational equity and ensure more equal tax treatment of income from labour and capital. 197
Reposted by شمعون / ܫܡܥܘܢ / שמעוןKate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Enjoyed this column so much 1153
Reposted by شمعون / ܫܡܥܘܢ / שמעוןMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Trump is paying Iran $25,000,000,000 to return things back to the way they were before he started his pointless, lost war to distract from the Epstein inconvenience. He's an "Art of the Deal" genius that way. 1202013506
Reposted by شمعون / ܫܡܥܘܢ / שמעוןrimidar @rimidar.au · 12/05/2026Nick Newling currently live-blogging monochiracally 131
Reposted by شمعون / ܫܡܥܘܢ / שמעוןGreg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 19/05/2026This headline is a disgusting lie Special Disability Trusts are not affected *AT ALL* The article even makes it clear the concerns of the bloke (a solicitor with expertise in wills and estates) in this story are not about his disabled son but his other children being able to minimize their tax! 21338120
Reposted by شمعون / ܫܡܥܘܢ / שמעוןJim Stanford @jimbostanford.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Here is a timely & comprehensive review of this week's Australian federal budget from the whole team at the Centre for Future Work: futurework.org.au/report/budge.... Tax reforms on capital gains & trusts needed and long overdue. But more commitment needed on the spending side.futurework.org.auBudget briefing paper 2026–2027 – Centre for Future work 052
Reposted by شمعون / ܫܡܥܘܢ / שמעוןGreg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Who among us did not have a $50,000 share portfolio when we were 20yo? The Oz finds a typical young person. 7733980
Reposted by شمعون / ܫܡܥܘܢ / שמעוןJamie Hall @jamiehall.cc · 11/04/2026Welfare is good, actually. We should aspire to having the best welfare system in the world 02210
Reposted by شمعون / ܫܡܥܘܢ / שמעוןNick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Israel had threatened previously to murder the Lebanese journalist that they assassinated today 4166111
Reposted by شمعون / ܫܡܥܘܢ / שמעוןDavid Sligar @davidsligar.bsky.social · 06/05/2026perfect snapshot of the property-owner welfare state: nurse 1 has $30k urgent dental expenses 2 asks personal finance guru how to pay 3 is “cash strapped” but has investment properties 4 hates capital gains tax, doesn't want to sell 5 barefoot investor advises never to touch precious super 161
Reposted by شمعون / ܫܡܥܘܢ / שמעוןDavid Sligar @davidsligar.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Once, the Australian would consider such a critical factual error to be deeply embarrassing. Now no one cares. The column does its job as partisan slop. 0154
Reposted by شمعون / ܫܡܥܘܢ / שמעוןDavid Sligar @davidsligar.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Excellent demolition of “affordable housing”. It’s a muddled no man’s land between market and social housing, achieving the goals of neither. It functions as a modest benefit to a tiny fraction of middle class families. It’s costly, inefficient and impedes geographic and occupational mobility. 1228
Reposted by شمعون / ܫܡܥܘܢ / שמעוןBin Chicken @binchicken9000.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Regarding the Partner Income Test "Respondents reported delayed medical care, skipped essentials, unpaid bills, housing insecurity, relationship strain, fear of disclosure, financial dependency, and reduced ability to leave unsafe relationships." #AusPol #Centrelink 1/3 11513
Reposted by شمعون / ܫܡܥܘܢ / שמעוןNils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 13/05/2026“For states to thrive & to accumulate & maintain power, the right people have to be in charge. There is no perfect means to achieve this & there is the inevitable tension between the skills needed to rise to the top & those suited to serving the general interest.” open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...open.substack.comOn Superpower SuicideAnd the recovery of justice 094
Reposted by شمعون / ܫܡܥܘܢ / שמעוןSteve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 15/05/2026hard power only works as a backstop to soft power. 051
Reposted by شمعون / ܫܡܥܘܢ / שמעוןMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 15/05/2026Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed. Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us. 104116473779
Reposted by شمعون / ܫܡܥܘܢ / שמעוןJW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 16/05/2026This is definitely worth paying attention to. But we should keep in mind that what matters for bond markets is *not* inflation as such, but central bank action in response to it. For a long time the distinction didn’t matter much, but in the Warsh era it might. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... 1266
Reposted by شمعون / ܫܡܥܘܢ / שמעוןJW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Was just checking to see if anyone had made this joke. Sure enough. 151
Reposted by شمعون / ܫܡܥܘܢ / שמעוןAlex Turnbull @alexbhturnbull.bsky.social · 18/04/2026People seem to have a lot of resistance to solar and storage as solving a lot of decarbonisation and replacing gas quickly because it seems too simple. Friend, do you know that AI is substantially just matrix multiplication? Simple and scaled often works. #EnergySky 2409
Reposted by شمعون / ܫܡܥܘܢ / שמעוןAlex Turnbull @alexbhturnbull.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Great reporting www.ft.com/content/7d51... 0178
Reposted by شمعون / ܫܡܥܘܢ / שמעוןRemain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 26/03/2026YIMBY + rent control + counter-cyclical public finance for new builds + putting manners on landlords is the way to go 0103
Reposted by شمعون / ܫܡܥܘܢ / שמעוןAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 27/03/2026that rare exception to Betteridge's law of headlines 39919
Reposted by شمعون / ܫܡܥܘܢ / שמעוןJW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 27/03/2026As I said to my students the other day, while talking about the banking system: When everything is working you don’t think about your plumbing. You turn on the faucet and the water comes out. But when something goes wrong, that’s when you really need to know where the pipes are. 24511
Reposted by شمعون / ܫܡܥܘܢ / שמעוןAlex Turnbull @alexbhturnbull.bsky.social · 26/03/2026The Missing Model? Got it right here pal #EnergySkysubstack.comThe Missing Model: Why Finance Has No Good Framework for Commodity Procurement Under Geopolitical RiskAnd an open-source attempt to build one. 24112
Reposted by شمعون / ܫܡܥܘܢ / שמעוןAlex Turnbull @alexbhturnbull.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Nuts that gov is giving the money away rather than having a cap / floor on which they could - at times like this - make a return. 1147
Reposted by شمعون / ܫܡܥܘܢ / שמעוןAlbert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 21/03/2026greater the trust and stability in a society, the lower the chances of fuel riots and political instability bsky.app/profile/iand... 1121