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Finance bros in January: Bessent is a hedge fund guy! He knows finance. He'll be the grown-up in the room. Bessent in February: We expect GDP to rise on less woke, more Trumpcoin. Also, tariffs will strengthen the dollar when it comes to imports but weaken the dollar for exports.

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One of the many fabulous rooms of the Morgan Library in NYC. What I don’t understand is how Jaye P Morgan made so much money from appearing on Match Game and The Gong Show.

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Mark this as another week in which I did not fire nuclear weapons experts that I quickly needed to rehire once I learned what they did. That's more than 2,000 consecutive weeks, people.

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They say you learn more from failure than success. Trump and his businesses have declared bankruptcy six times between them. So he must know a lot about... something.

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My "After further reflection I've come to the realization that I'm not a Nazi" t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt

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Extraordinary story the Wall Street Journal. X is threatening advertisers that if they don’t spend more, Elon Musk will use his influence in government to block company mergers. That’s extortion.

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I am all for people learning history and improving themselves, but I would have hoped that Politico's Jack Blanchard had known what the New Deal was before starting this high-profile job.

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Financial #advisors plan to make significant shifts in alternative product use over the next two years. Based on findings from FUSE Research Network’s research, use of cryptocurrency/digital assets, interval and tender-offer funds, and hedge funds will see an increase of 15% or more in use.

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The New York Times is complicit in this and Pamela Paul is partly responsible for this.

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What good is Aaron Boone? He’s not a good tactician, he hasn’t shown an ability to develop young #Yankees players (Volpe, cough cough)… and now he can’t keep the clubhouse together. www.mlb.com/news/marcus-...

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Now read Sassoon's blistering Feb. 12 letter to Attorney General Bondi. "Although Mr. Bove disclaimed any intention to exchange leniency in this case for Adams's assistance in enforcing federal law, that is the nature of the bargain laid bare in Mr. Bove's memo." static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...

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Happy to be quoted in this article on retirement plan #advisors expecting improved business from SECURE Act 2.0. (The story is less than a 1 1/2-minute read) www.fa-mag.com/news/dc-plan...

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No disrespect to musical artists such as Mariah Carey, Phish, Billy Idol, or Oasis, but the new list of candidates for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame once again excludes me... even though I have listened to more rock and roll than many of these other so-called nominees

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This is interesting. Note that this is not a broad blow against AI using other folks' IP to train their models. Rather, this ruling found that an AI firm violated Fair Use in large part because it “meant to compete with Westlaw [a Thomson Reuters unit] by developing a market substitute.”

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I saw this banger on threads:

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Judge temporarily blocks Trump administration from placing 2,200 USAID workers on paid leave.

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Don't just ask how Musk/Trump actions serve their supposed purposes. Ask how they aid the attempt to seize power paulkrugman.substack.com/p/autogolpe

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"In December, NCAA president Charlie Baker said during a congressional hearing in Washington that he believed there were fewer than 10 transgender athletes among the 510,000 competing at schools across all three divisions." www.nytimes.com/athletic/611...

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The aspect of digital #marketing that #AssetManagers think they most need to enhance is the use of data & analytics, with 45% citing a need for "lots of" improvement (especially getting colleagues to use data-driven insights), according to a survey of marketers FUSE conducted with the IMEA.

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The willful ignorance of this classic is going to be the theme of the next four years, isn’t it?

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Coverage of our research on the growth of #alternatives (PE, hedge, etc.) in the #WealthManagement channel. Among the traditional asset managers worth watching in this space are BlackRock (as usual), Franklin Templeton, and Nuveen. www.investmentnews.com/rias/alts-sh...

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The Wall Street Journal editorial page has been a pillar of the Right since before Reagan, so this is remarkable — even to me, a Democrat. Some of what remains of the GOP establishment refuses to back the global trade war, so we might see how many old political allies DJT can afford to alienate.

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wall street, working to elect a senile fascist: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! wall street, being governed by a senile fascist: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

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New Trump executive order requires all U.S. citizens to use "American standstill" instead of "Mexican standoff"

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