Academic https://xitter.cf/t.co/ToeGEXfcya & https://xitter.cf/t.co/HiuY1FquJL. Research in financial markets & VUCA. If you are managing risk, you are mismanaging reality. 8,9,58

Fort Collins, CO & Dublin, IRL
Joined July 2009
Brazil is to be renamed Bramerica after Lula is brought to the US to face a trial for sponsoring fishing boats. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
BREAKING: In an unprecedented comeback, Brazil's President Lula da Silva has defeated Flavio Bolsonaro, securing a 4th term in office. Lula is officially the first presidential candidate in Brazil's modern democratic history to lose the first round of voting and go on to win the runoff. Prior to the election, Lula's implied odds of victory had fallen as low as 10%. This marks one of the most remarkable political comebacks in Brazil's history.
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Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a vocal critic of U.S. President Donald Trump, was reelected Sunday. His opponent Flávio Bolsonaro refused to concede defeat and asked for the election results to be annulled due to a last-minute decision extended voting by two hours.
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Kevin Hassett is an embarrassment even in the embarrassment-rich field of economics and in the embarrassment-rich-density of policy talking heads.
Kevin Hassett was on Fox News yesterday insisting that actually, the economy is incredible
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Oh, dear.... surely everything is going to be just fine... #EU #NATGAS storage
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Anyone in official #Denmark wants to say anything definitive?
NOW - Trump: " We did get Greenland."
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BREAKING: The average cost of a family’s annual health insurance premium in the US is up +$1,303 YoY, or +5%, to a record $28,303. This marks the 4th consecutive annual increase of at least +$1,300. Over this period, the average annual premium for family coverage has surged +$5,884, or +26%. To put this into perspective, CPI inflation has risen +13% over the same period, or half as much. Since 1999, the average health insurance premium for a family has soared +$22,494, or +387%. This represents an average annual growth rate of +6.1%, well above CPI inflation at +2.6% over the same period. Health insurance has never been more expensive.
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New: Sources from three countries confirm that the Trump Administration has advocated Viktor Orbán for UN Secretary-General. The US has encouraged Orbán to enter the race, even bringing him the initial idea of a joint U.S.-Russia-China candidacy. WSJ: wsj.com/opinion/viktor-orban…
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"Cut $1.6T in wasteful spending and burdensome Biden era regulations". So the deficit is now $1.99T, right, @SpeakerJohnson?
Republicans have DELIVERED for the American people!   🇺🇸Secured the border completely 🇺🇸Largest tax cut in U.S. history 🇺🇸Cut $1.6 trillion in wasteful spending and burdensome Biden era regulations 🇺🇸 Investment accounts for newborns 🇺🇸First-ever nationwide school choice program 🇺🇸Lowest violent crime rate in 126 years 🇺🇸Biggest decline in prescription drug costs in 60 years 🇺🇸American energy dominance 🇺🇸1 million new private sector jobs 🇺🇸Reshoring U.S. manufacturing 🇺🇸And so much more! Make no mistake: we’re just getting started fighting for you and your family!
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Fundamentally, the Far Right today is largely the Far Left and vice versa. Neither is capable of any fiscal discipline, and both operate on "Let's find some scapegoats to blame for market/government/cultural/social failures".
For all the hand wringing about the ‘far right’, it turns out the far left is a real danger to society. This week’s @Independent_ie column independent.ie/comment/eoin-…
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+ protections of freedoms & liberties of minorities, only to deny these same freedoms & liberties to the groups (including minority groups) they object to. Great example here is the constrained space of intellectual debates within the FL, the 'cancel culture', the 'DEI ethos' +
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+ that is anything but DEI in application to the subjects of majority or even minorities not favored by the FL.
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Congratulations, MAGA. Your hero just told you 'they' are making money off your misery. A 'freaking fortune'.
TRUMP on HIGH GAS PRICES: We’re making money like we’ve never made before. They’ll say: President Trump is bragging about all the money they're making while people are suffering at the pump. I don’t give a damn. We’re making a freaking fortune.
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No signs of cognitive decline there...
Bill Clinton: "I think Congress made a mistake not protesting turning the Rose Garden into what looks like the entrance to Liberace's bathroom"
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“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama
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He is just trolling the libta&ds... ya know, like a pro...
Trump: My uncle invented radar. Can you believe it? He’ll probably be angry that I took out Iran’s radar.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Trump's uncle John G. Trump contributed to WWII radar development and deployment at MIT's Rad Lab but did not invent it. Radar originated earlier via work by scientists including Heinrich Hertz, Christian Hülsmeyer and Robert Watson-Watt. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_G._T… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_o… britannica.com/technology/rad… physicstoday.aip.org/news/a-profile…
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One of the world’s largest private equity firms just issued a report concluding: “Despite massive investments and widespread hype around artificial intelligence, the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech.”
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But there is a corruption tzar now, no?
“In late spring 2020, a source I knew to be reliable called me with a story,” writes Matthew Cole. “The Dutch government had hacked into Jared Kushner’s phone and monitored him as he accessed a Dubai-based bank account. What was odd, the source said, was that the money in the account—hundreds of millions of dollars—had come from a bank in Azerbaijan. Most importantly, Kushner appeared to have transferred significant amounts of money from the Dubai account to other individuals, including a warlord, a mercenary and a one-time hit man. The story sounded preposterous, I told my source. And yet. Six months later, I found myself speaking with someone else about the UAE government and their use of mercenaries in conflicts around the Middle East and Africa when I asked, on a whim, whether they knew anything about Kushner and bank transfers from a UAE account. My acquaintance grew quiet. Then they replied, ‘Yes.’” Kushner’s lawyer denied the bank account existed. Read an exclusive excerpt from Cole’s book, ‘Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East’: vanityfair.visitlink.me/Q5_W…
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