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Markets Live strategist at Bloomberg News. Politics and history nerd. Book-lover. Opinions are my own (or plagiarized from the wise and witty). Based in Chile.
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Probably thinks Javert is the goodie.

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It’s a scary time to be a person of colour in Ireland. The hatred is so intense. Online and in real life.

submitted 7 days ago • 14 comments

www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

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🎙️ Which emerging markets stand to gain from upheaval in the world trade order? Bloomberg editors and reporters answer your questions bloom.bg/3FgOZYY

submitted 27 days ago • 3 comments

I wonder where Nigel Farage thinks his surname comes from.

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Ironically, this is a tactic that Tren de Aragua has been known to use to abduct and murder people. www.nytimes.com/es/2025/02/1...

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I am pretty sure that a game theorist can produce a model under which unleashing "strategic uncertainty" and financial market chaos can eventually benefit the U.S., but I am even more certain that it would bear no resemblance to what actually took place in the White House.

submitted 49 days ago • 2 comments

Interesting to wonder how much climate-change denialism has already cost the US, and how much more it will cost it in the next few years. www.ft.com/content/c2eb...

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Confused over who's in the running to become the next pope? But you do have some knowledge of financial-crisis era central bankers? This is the thread for you!

submitted 56 days ago • 13 comments

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I can't remember the source of this quote: "Is a democracy in which it is illegal to say 'this is not a democracy', really a democracy?" Any ideas?

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

"Field Marshall Haig, Field Marshall Haig's wife, all Field Marshall Haig's wife's friends, their families, their servants, their servants' tennis partners, and some chap I bumped into in the mess the other day called Bernard."

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www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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americasquarterly.org/article/fail...

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A Japanese group says it has succeeded in improving symptoms of Parkinson's disease patients with nerve cells produced from iPS cells.

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