Grant Friedman
241 posts
Grant Friedman
@GrantFriedman89
Interested in politics, markets and global events. 🇿🇦
Johannesburg, South Africa Katılım Mart 2020
393 Takip Edilen110 Takipçiler
This is how Germany defenestrated their economy and no amount of wind or solar power will ever be able to replace what was lost.
Chris Martz@ChrisMartzWX
This is the saddest chart you will ever see.
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@RyanHoliday Would be great to host you in South Africa while you are this side of the world. Reach out if interested 👌🏼
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“To get a sense of how little electricity people use in sub-Saharan Africa, imagine each person there turning on a 50-watt light bulb. That alone would instantly double consumption. Nigeria, with 240m people, generates less electricity than Wyoming, with 0.6m”
—@TheEconomist
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Day 5 🔥🔥🔥
Halfway mark!
Johann Biermann 🇿🇦@JohannBiermann1
Day 4* * Got invited to a late lunch. Ordered some fillet to keep the streak going!
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Fed Funds Rate: Market Expectations...
-May 2025: Hold
-Jun 2025: Hold
-July 2025: 25 bps cut to 4.00-4.25%
-Sep 2025: 25 bps cut to 3.75-4.00%
-Oct 2025: 25 bps cut to 3.50-3.75%
-Dec 2025: Hold
bilello.blog/newsletter
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@GrantFriedman89 @TrungTPhan Based on current financial data and portfolio listings, Bernard Arnault and his firms like Aglaé Ventures do not hold any reported shares in Netflix as of December 2025. The 1999 investment appears to have been exited.
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LVMH’s Bernard Arnault saving Netflix from bankruptcy in 1999 with a $30m check (probaly for ~10% of company) is one of the wildest tech industry cameos ever
TBPN@tbpn
Netflix rejected a $12M offer from Bezos in 1999. Blockbuster "laughed [Netflix] out of the room" when Netflix offered to sell to them for $50M. Today they announced their acquisition of Warner Bros, and have a market cap of $426B.
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@News24 - how can you say JHB has built only 553 apartments over the decade when we, Africest Properties, have built at least 6,000 in that time period.
News24 🇿🇦@News24
In the decade to 2023, Cape Town added almost 97 000 residential units, whereas Johannesburg built only 40 000 – behind both Tshwane and Ekurhuleni. brnw.ch/21wY46e
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Management team deservedly celebrating. At the same time, Optasia’s AI-enabled platform is granting an average of 370 loans per second! Every day.
Optasia@OptasiaPlatform
Today marks a historic moment for Optasia! Our first day of trading on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. This milestone reflects the confidence of our investors and partners, and our shared vision to shape the future of inclusive finance. #OptasiaIPO #AIPoweredFintech
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@CaptSpringbok @JR_monstaparty I have the identical story, most expensive saddest weekend 🤣
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10 years ago! My friend, drunk after we beat Wales in the QF, called me from South Africa and said, “Buy tickets for the semi-final, I’ll pay and I’m flying over.” I waited until the next morning and called him - he couldn’t remember the conversation, then said, “Buy them anyway, I’m coming!” We then lost to NZ 😭😂
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@TrungTPhan Loved the book, the Churchill part was probably my favorite surprise. What a treat reading it @andrewrsorkin - thank you 🙏🏼
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Andrew Ross Sorkin’s new book “1929” has wild details of Winston Churchill YOLO trading US stocks before The Great Depression:
▫️Traded £400,000 a week on margin at one point.
▫️Was in New York on “Black Monday” in October 28, 1929 (Dow fell 13% and another 12% next day) and portfolio got wiped.
▫️“Took years” to recover from financial losses but eventually clawed it back with publishing deals (his largest financial windfall was a book deal for his WWII memoirs).
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After a record-breaking performance like that, who else?
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#Springboks #ForeverGreenForeverGold #RSAvARG
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The bond market is pricing in 2 more 25 bps rate cuts by year-end and 3 more 25 bps cuts in 2026. That would bring the Fed Funds Rate below 3%. After a brief hiatus, easy money is back.
Video: youtube.com/watch?v=nuDXtH…
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@TPCarney What a brilliant reply, how is ww2 becoming such a distance memory for society
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Half of the difference is air conditioning.
Half of the remainder is refrigerating our milk.
Then there are the ice cubes in our water.
Finally, we have light up stuff like this.
Michael A. Arouet@MichaelAArouet
Can someone please explain why an average American needs twice as much energy as an average European?
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Bad lighting has ruined almost everything.
Even sitting in a Spur is now like being in a Dischem.
Not everything (almost nothing) needs to be bright white light at 4000 Kelvin.
We really need to make lighting great again.
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@JohannBiermann1 @AndreBothmaTax While it all depends on the role, but a customer facing staff member should be able to put a short video out to promote themselves. We judge the videos on many aspects (did the applicant chose a clean, neat place to take it, was the video shakey) shows basic awareness.
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@AndreBothmaTax I low key agree with him... we're not all cut out for making videos of ourselves 🙈
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If you’re not willing to send a 2 minute video for a job, how willing would you be to do the job that you do get?
Trev@Tokyo_Trev
I am not sending a 2min video of myself shem. You can keep the job
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