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Macro trader. I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused.
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Good Stuff from The Bad Place.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

A lot of nattering nabobs of negativism on here, but I for one am confident this is as well thought out as, for example, his tariff plan.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Paging @jsphctrl.ft.com

submitted 18 days ago • 10 comments

Apropos nothing in particular. www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

The macro tourist in me preparing to short GBP after reading this weekend's Lunch With the FT.

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Financial Times choosing violence this morning.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Classic blow-off top.

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Bessent's Maoist baloney wouldn't smell quite as bad if he didn't look like he should be playing Richie Rich's dad in a straight to streaming movie.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

If you think there's going to be a trade deal today between the US and the UK, rather than the concept of a plan, I've got a boatload of chlorinated chickens to sell you.

submitted 52 days ago • 11 comments

My wife uses the thickness of the FT's How to Spend It supplement as an economic indicator, but the blaring signal that we're spiralling down is this page, usually filled with frivolous tchotchkes.

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

I love how their dissembling has trapped them in this 'you wouldn't know them; Xi goes to another school' bit.

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

Did they memory hole Navarro and Lutnick?

submitted 61 days ago • 2 comments

You wouldn't know them; they go to a different uninhabited island.

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

China can retrench longer than the US can retrench; this is a simple fact of economic life which we're seeing play out as the Trump administration's pain points are on show. If the US had built a coalition against China, perhaps it would be a different story, but moron ate all his cards on live TV.

submitted 65 days ago • 2 comments

The art of taxation famously consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing. The tariff cudgel achieves precisely the opposite - minimal revenue, everyone angry, markets whipsawing. Art of the Deal.

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment

The funniest thing about the tariffs was people saying 'yeah, these are his PRINCIPLES!'. Like, he has some animating impulses, sure, but principles; c'mon.

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

A reminder of how this stuff works: bsky.app/profile/five...

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

They made Mr Market look like @weisenthal.bsky.social

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

Tom and Jerry meets Veep

submitted 70 days ago • 2 comments

There are 160 million jobs in America, and Donald Trump couldn't be hired for a single one of them - no way he could make it through the interview process for anything, not even dogcatcher. And yet here we are, letting him take a hatchet to the global economic system. Something is profoundly wrong.

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments