rtex.bsky.social
My avatar is a chess piece, therefore I must be a strategic thinker
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Dark mode 🕶️
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Nobody hurt, went as planned
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Bought the rumor, sold the news
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I think it's going to fizzle out
We'll see
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Yes, Iran's response seems performative to save face, and plenty of warning had been given to minimize the risk of casualties.
This doesn't look like an escalation, which is why oil prices were falling(!) sharply a few minutes ago
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Good thing Iran had given plenty of advance notice
Send like a performative response to save face, certainly no escalation
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Oil price lower and keeps falling -
Guess the Iranian response is softer than expected
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If only more of these games were set in contemporary and realistic environments
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That article makes it pretty clear SoH has not been closed:
"While Iranian state media reported that the parliament had agreed to endorse blocking the strait, the decision ultimately belongs to Iran's Supreme National Security Council."
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Would be good to build a canal through the UAE as an alternative route
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SoH has not been closed as of now, and oil futures are only 3-4% up (would be much higher if SoH closed)
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The geographic constellation calls for a "UAE canal" as an alternative route
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Closing the Strait of Hormuz sounds like something Just Stop Oil could be blamed for
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They won't, but if they were: mines
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Calm down and take a break from social media. Everything is going to be fine (assuming you're not in Tehran)
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On web/app, I scroll through the MyFT feed timeline (again, list of headlines).
For a quick update, I look for the largest photo and read the headline next to it.
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As a reader, I don't really interact with, or rely on, the front page layout; neither on web/app nor the Digital Edition's paper replica.
I read the Digital Edition in text view (list of headlines), then tap the ones that interest me.
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Might be a regional thing?
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jug#Beer
"In Britain in those parts of the country where there is a choice between a pint (20 fluid ounces) tankard and a straight glass of beer, a tankard may be called a tankard or a "jug". "
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I prefer to think it's all about having the right mindset.
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Thought so myself only last week as I was reading The Devil's Alternative, which tells a story of how Ukraine/Russia tensions ultimately affect Europe and the U.S.
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JA2 world map:
github.com/ariebesehl/J...
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Huh? Ref has been solid so far
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Reminds me of reports on IRC section 891 and the related executive order in February.
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No one will, at least not by watching a video taken from that height and with that resolution.
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To me it looks like an accident because the driver stops at some point. If it had been deliberate, I guess he would have kept going?
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bsky.app/profile/jsam...
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According to the daily chart, the worst sentiment shock of 2025 was observed on Jan 4, and associated with the resignation of Austria's chancellor. That's quite a stretch; perhaps the collective second-round effects of NYE hangover would have been a more plausible explanation for the glum mood.
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Friday's announcement came too late for the weekend edition though; Monday would have been first opportunity to report it in print.
Anyway, part of the value of the print edition is to see what the FT views as significant enough to sacrifice limited space for, and what not.
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I'm surprised the Moody's downgrade is not mentioned anywhere in Monday's issue.
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Can we please not send breaking news notifications that start with "China attacks"
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At this point it's self-fulfilling. Already 0.5% up since he said it 10 minutes ago.
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In 4-5 hours, the gold price will tell us all we need to know.
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Yet another indicator of pigs' evolution towards becoming an airborne species.
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Would have to apply to movie streaming, making this effectively a tariff on digital services and/or intellectual property (depending on implementation). Two areas where the U.S. should not want to provoke retaliation.
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Out with El Chapo, in with AI Chipo
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Inflation-indexed Bund yields barely moved in mid April compared to early March (debt deal), when nominal and real yields rose in tandem.
Could that mean the simultaneous demand for euro and Bunds was due to expected deflationary effects of US/CN tariffs on Eurozone, rather than flight to safety? 🤔
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"I eat bagel."
Disarming in its brevity, timeless in its absence of future, yet firmly grounded in the contemporary; a cosmopolitan mystery.
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Just sound advice that has been given for years in most if not all EU countries, but these days people are actually listening instead of dismissing it.
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Haven't listened but she probably said, or meant to say, "web scraping"
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"image: Gregori Saavedra"
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
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FT's digitized print edition is $35 for 3 months. IMO better value than the more expensive subscriptions to their regular web site. I've found that for this type of publication, I actually prefer the format of a daily digest over a real-time stream.
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IMO a better comparison would be to what the "big-money fund managers" are doing in their personal capacity, i.e. with their own money/portfolios. Incentives, disincentives, and time horizons of retail individuals are not the same as those of decision-makers at institutional.
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Why would @ceesgrootes.bsky.social want to send private messages to your family? 🤔
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IMO the watershed part is the deliberate setup of plausible jurisdictional deniability, as no court in either country can decide who exits or enters the other.
(Note Him emphasizing ES sovereignty, and sole custody)
With that comes the implied threat that no court can save anyone from Their wrath.
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At this point, one must be grateful he didn't attempt to end the war by deporting Zelensky to El Salvador
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L&S (OTC) closed four hours ago with Apple +13%.
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If anything, China have shown to the world their willingness, and perhaps more importantly, their ability, to stand up to the bad actor.
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So *Walter Bloomberg was right after all!
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One needs little hands to screw in those little iPhone screws, I guess
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As it turns out, the "invisible hand of the market" is actually the hand of the guy tweeting as *Walter Bloomberg