Economics anorak, former investment banker, eclectic taste in music from pop to classical.
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With reports that HMRC will start photographing people's homes to assess Mansion Tax liability one point is surely clear. A huge amount of money is going to be spent on a tax that will raise almost nothing. What's the point?
The Kennedy family sues to block Trump's arch, arguing it would cast shadow on JFK's grave ... share.google/Gg5NdoErTNZ3ACA…
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'Pay attention to what's happening in Chile. Truckers are putting Kast's government, which is very close to Milei, in a bind.
There are protests across the country, road blockades + banging pots and pans throughout the capital over rising fuel prices.' A cost of living protest!
🚨Atención con lo que pasa en Chile. Camioneros ponen en jaque al gobierno de Kast muy amigo de Milei. hay protestas en todo el país cortes de rutas y cacerolazos en toda la capital por el alza del combustible.
La situación es insostenible. 🚨
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Crazy. Europe's gas prices have DOUBLED this year. Diesel up over 40%. Gas storage at historic lows.
Factories are closing. Households are getting squeezed. And Europe's political elite? Off to the UN climate junket in Turkey to preach Net Zero while praying for a mild winter.
Russian energy dependence. Nuclear shutdowns. Fracking bans. Net Zero lunacy. All political decisions that left Europe dangerously exposed long before the Iran war.
These were deliberate decisions, not acts of God.
And once again, Europeans pay the price. Where's the accountability?
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Genius level thinking by the UK government. We have just been in Dunkelflaute due to lack of wind. So we will have more wind farms to also produce 0 in such a situation.
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There is a nationwide general strike in Spain today!
One of Christine Lagarde's legacy's as the protestors are largely complaining about the cost of living and, in particular, the cost of housing 👇
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BREAKING: Thomas Massie’s resolution to impeach Pete Hegseth fails in the House 211-204, after 11 Democrats failed to show up for the vote.
If those 11 Democrats had showed up, Hegseth would have been impeached 215-211.
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UK POLICE SAY A MEMBER OF THE U.S. ARMY HAS BEEN ARRESTED AS PART OF A COUNTER-TERRORISM POLICING INVESTIGATION, ADDING THAT THE COUNTRY TO WHICH THE ALLEGATIONS RELATE IS RUSSIA
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Ueno’s record bond issue slides below 6 cents on the dollar bloomberg.com/news/newslette…
'Anthropic is so desperate to IPO before Democrats take control of House and Senate that it cut its IPO valuation target by FIFTY PERCENT to $ 1 trillion!'
Oh my god, Anthropic is so desperate to IPO before democrats take control of house and senate that it cut its IPO valuation target by FIFTY PERCENT to $ 1 trillion even below the $1.25 trillion valuation OpenAI fetched in its last private fundraise
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S.C. retweeted
NY Fed: US Household Debt Rises $334 Billion to $19.1 Trillion in Q3
NY Fed: Total US household debt increased $334 billion to $19.1 trillion in Q3
NY Fed: Mortgage debt rose $257 billion to $13.4 trillion
NY Fed: Credit card debt increased $22 billion to $1.3 trillion
NY Fed: 5% of outstanding household debt was in some form of delinquency at the end of September
NY Fed: Overall delinquency rates increased compared with Q2, although transitions into serious delinquency declined from Q3 2025
NY Fed: Share of student loans 90 days or more past due remained broadly unchanged at 10.9%
NY Fed: Mortgage transitions into delinquency increased but remained historically low
NY Fed: Credit card delinquency rates expected to improve
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Eight-year-olds are told in one classroom video prepared by HMRC:
“You can think of tax as one shared bank account that everyone in the country pays into. The government is then in charge of looking after this bank account and sharing all the money to help everyone in the country. This money is also used to pay for the things that your town or city needs. When you’re older and you get a job, or maybe even start your own business, the taxes you’ll pay will all be added into this shared bank account."
Europe is bracing for soaring energy bills 👇 but unfortunately, the situation is worse in the UK and it's largely down to Ed Miliband and the Net Zero zealots!
"The overall idea is to support citizens in a quite challenging winter. Obviously, the best thing we can do is invest in energy infrastructure."
Eurogroup president Kyriakos @Pierrakakis on #EuropeToday as inflation fears grow and energy prices continue to rise.
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'Paraguay President's LAMBORGHINI WORTH MORE THAN HALF A MILLION DOLLARS which he stole from the savings of more than 3 million Paraguayans when their money disappeared from UENO Bank!'
🚨 ENCUENTRAN LAMBORGHINI DE MÁS DE MEDIO MILLÓN DE DÓLARES DE SANTIAGO PEÑA
Que se robó de los ahorros de más de 3 millones de paraguayos al desaparecer su dinero de UENO Bank.
Todo el peso de la ley a ese criminal de la Ultra Derecha...
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After a bruising week for AI stocks, CoreWeave faces a high bar to convince Wall Street that the AI trade is alive and well when it reports earnings after the bell bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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The government tried to hide these figures for a year
We found that, for some nationalities, almost no foreign criminals are deported
Almost all serious foreign criminals from countries like Jamaica and Nigeria have been allowed to stay in the UK based on spurious human rights claims - and many have gone on to commit more offences here, including rape and murder
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