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Halliburton holy shit

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The billionaire version of “I never thought the leopards would eat my face” is supporting a corrupt, personalist, and vindictive regime and just believing you’ll always be on the inside of the corrupt personalist vindictiveness. Many such cases!

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

NAAIM Exposure 81, down fractionally

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Make China great again. Or the downside of not thinking even one step ahead in a trade war. www.wsj.com/business/aut...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

This iPhone production episode of Odd Lots reminds me of all those articles on Dwayne Johnson’s diet. “He hasn’t eaten candy since 1989! He eats 5 pounds of cod a day!” and my thought is “Yeah, the US isn’t going to do any of that.”

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

I’m gonna lose it man

submitted 7 days ago • 86 comments

Medicaid is the most important source of long-term care for the elderly. www.wral.com/lifestyle/he...

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

Still true today 👇

submitted 9 days ago • 8 comments

NAAIM Exposure up to 88, highest since early March.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

the implications of our supreme court potentially overturning a unanimous decision from a international trade court on international trade law are not lost on me

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

this stuff is shameful and these people should be shunned from polite society

submitted 10 days ago • 7 comments

Fed’s gotta cut

submitted 10 days ago • 9 comments

(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump’s global tariffs were deemed illegal and blocked by the US trade court, a major blow. The ruling can now be appealed by the Trump administration in federal court. The court said justifying them on the basis of "national emergencies" exceeded his authority.

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Mortgage rates are higher now than they were when the Fed began cutting last September. 🤡

submitted 11 days ago • 100 comments

Me in @opinion.bloomberg.com: Job growth has been slowing, but the growth in the number of Americans collecting Social Security has been accelerating -- this "silver tsunami" is helping support consumption as the economy deals with other headwinds: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

submitted 12 days ago • 8 comments

“Fifty years from now, you will want to be able to look in the mirror and know that you did what you thought was right, in every part of your life. At the end of the day, your integrity is all you have.” Jay Powell www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

submitted 13 days ago • 10 comments

Just rewatched that incredible film by Eastwood I'll take this down if @conorsen.bsky.social disagrees

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Good to see this. The law partners surrendering on core rule of law issues to Trump are legitimately the most contemptible people in the country. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/b...

submitted 15 days ago • 7 comments

youtu.be/y2qUs_c4Z08?... 🎶Can't you tell...🎶

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

The Trump admin seems to believe putting a 10% then 20% then 10% then 25% on cars then 25% on car parts then threatening a 50% tariff is "negotiating in good faith with the EU", and the Euros saying "this is stupid" is not negotiating in good faith.

submitted 16 days ago • 9 comments

With the Trump meme coin dinner about to get underway, I’m minded to reshare my favorite column lede of the year (from @edwardluce.bsky.social)

submitted 16 days ago • 12 comments

I just finished meeting with one of our amazing international students who is graduating and was reflecting on their experience here. And then open this. What a horrible, horrendous thing to do—I hope it can be stopped quickly.

submitted 16 days ago • 8 comments

It isn’t just Urban that had a blockbuster Q. $AMZN updates today that US retail sales are still going strong. Yes tariffs haven’t yet impacted prices but going into that storm with strength. Hooboy that Target 😱 $TGT $WMT $HD $XLY $XLF msn.com/en-us/money/co…

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

I'm not very good at narratives but maybe the bond market is saying it doesn't love giving a tax cut to Elon.

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Seems like more people should be talking about this www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 18 days ago • 49 comments

The latest effort at tax reform, writes Jason Furman, “which I can think of only as tax deform, is a tremendously expensive effort to make the tax code less efficient, less fair and more complicated.”

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

However progressive you are and whatever your policy goals are, there’s really no way to make progress unless you can win a senate majority — that’s the bar. www.slowboring.com/p/whats-the-...

submitted 20 days ago • 12 comments