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stephenfidler.bsky.social
Journalist. Former correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and Reuters.
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With every year that passes, the Tory plan to deal with Farage once and for all by holding a referendum on EU membership looks more and more like a stroke of genius.

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So widely liked and respected, someone who belied the usual first impression. A senior Pentagon official described him to me as “Like Wagner, better than he sounds.” An appreciation by James Mann. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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You what?

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Superb obit here of my friend and former colleague Gwen Robinson by @edwardluce.bsky.social - she was one of a kind. Probably had the widest network of contacts of any journo I have known. Lost far too soon. www.ft.com/content/ec0b...

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

A great shame. A fine journalist and nobody’s fool.

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

Having your econ team promote “lower aggregate demand” is definitely a choice. @cnbc.com

submitted 107 days ago • 104 comments

He won’t live for ever but it’ll seem like it

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My first guess for a future Trump pardon: Elon

submitted 114 days ago • 0 comments

Turning on the cricket for some light relief. Oh.

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments

This from the NY Times shows, among other things, how the UK’s share of US imports collapsed around 2018, and the UK fell from sixth to 12th place. Is there a good explanation for why? General post-referendum shrinkage of the export sector? Anyway, UK hasn’t needed tariffs to cut exports to US.

submitted 115 days ago • 1 comment

What a dirge is Flower of Scotland.

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Turns out it’s easier to win a cricket match with 12 players.

submitted 117 days ago • 1 comment

Solved

submitted 118 days ago • 0 comments

Nice tribute to a lovely man and fine colleague.

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The two largest economies in the world will, as of January 20, be run by economic illiterates. Read this reporting from Lingling Wei. www.wsj.com/world/china/...

submitted 139 days ago • 1 comment

Paul Krugman and Simon Nixon turn up in my inbox minutes apart today with Substack posts on the fact that US long-term interest rates are rising even as short-term rates fall. Krugman asks whether there is "insanity premium" on LT rates, Nixon whether we're seeing "an American Liz Truss moment." 1/9

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I recall seeing Jimmy Carter wading through a rowdy crowd one night in Asuncion, Paraguay, I think in 1993, putting himself at risk to mediate in a disputed presidential election that almost no Americans were aware of. One of a kind. Remembering Jimmy Carter www.newyorker.com/news/postscr...

submitted 150 days ago • 0 comments

Reminds me of a 1960/70s joke. “I went to a good school. It was approved.”

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Presumably the answer was no, based on the poor punctuation. www.thetimes.com/article/5320...

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New thread from "Karl" on Ukraine; the first since the U.S. election. With @holgerroonemaa.bsky.social: 🧵

submitted 191 days ago • 11 comments

This should ease any worries you might have had

submitted 196 days ago • 1 comment

Hey the Dems’ voter fraud game was pretty crap this time around

submitted 203 days ago • 1 comment

Now to see how oligarchy combined with impunity and likely incompetence fares in the United States.

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Am I sensing professional jealousy here?

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