Jonathan Laws

@TimboJ @PensionsMonkey completely false. Had the NI paid in over the years been invested for a pension (even though it all goes into the income tax pool), then the annual income would be considerably less than the amount paid now.

@PensionsMonkey Yet even with the triple-lock, the state pension is pitiful. Pensions need an overhaul, but the idea that pensioners are somehow being overpaid is laughable. Better to invest contributions and let a pot build, that way the pension would be more like £30K a year.

Left unchecked, the Triple Lock will consume the entire known universe, it is an unsustainable transfer of wealth from people in work to the retired. It has to stop. thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

@sarcastic_hedgi @RyanDetrick read the post again.......

The S&P 500 is now up only 11% since President Trump took office.

"Joe Rogan seems confused. Theo Von is not sure the Donald Trump now in the White House is the same person he voted for in 2024. And Andrew Schulz has done a full 180-degree reversal on Trump’s trustworthiness." "Listening to the manosphere’s top podcasters puzzle aloud at what they wrought is an abject lesson in the perils of political media in the influencer era. The problem isn’t that politically ignorant pontificators have inserted themselves into politics; unlike doctors, lawyers, even electricians, punditry requires zero qualifications or professional licenses. Cocksure but poorly informed loudmouths have always been with us." "No, the problem is that shrewd politicians like Trump know how to promote themselves and their agendas by exploiting ostensibly non-political media spaces dominated by political novices." publicnotice.co/p/rogan-trump-…

Gary Lineker: Genocide is bad. The right: Stick to football. Jim Ratcliffe: The UK is being colonised, and I don't pay personal income tax here. The right: Yaay, Sir Jim Ratcliffe. Man of the people. True patriot. Rashford: Feed the kids. The right: Boo. Stick to football.

@EricBalchunas @RealEJAntoni It's not a story because it would be an abject lie. The US economy added fewer private sector jobs in the 12 months to Jan 26 than it did to Jan 25, and using spot m/m figures for a single month, a year apart, with such noisy data is outright dishonest charlatanism.

@RealEJAntoni This prob should be a big story, but instead, I just saw a headline that said ‘here’s why full employment actually isn’t good’ smh

THIS is the real story out of today's jobs report - Trump was handed an economy that was losing private sector jobs and adding gov't payrolls, but he successfully flipped the script, and one year later it's all private sector growth while cutting gov't jobs:

@AdviserCounsel @IanWenik He's a deranged lunatic, truly a broken individual, saturated with ignorance and bigotry, devoid of any redeeming qualities.

@IanWenik Very few people I’ve opted to block on this platform. He happens to be one of them.

TIL that Lonsdale, Thiel, and Sacks were founders and early investors in Addepar.

@AdviserCounsel i.e. 12 months ago tweets = "Epstein was evil and everyone involved should be prosecuted" to now, tweets = "Epstein was evil, but he framed these people, and we have more important things to worry about, no one cares about Epstein"

In the year of our lord, 2026, if your profile says, “Loves politics,” I am going to assume you are completely and utterly broken.

@JonLemire He has some special bond with fraudsters, con artists, and grifters, sort of a mutual respect and affinity. Honesty bores him, character repulses him, truth offends him, and descency he abhors completely.

@CasinoCapital @Uzocapital Depends on what went on. There will be a long period of time when the funds are not accessible, and will be costs to pay, but some could lose significant funds.

@Jlaws4 @Uzocapital What happens when your SIPP administrator goes into administration? Are your funds at risk? Tied up? I actually have no idea.

The UK SIPP market is about a trillion dollars in size, yet as far as I can tell no provider will let you trade options in them. There's so much there for the taking...I have a suspicion Robinhood will eventually be first, given they're launching an ISA product this month.

@CasinoCapital @Uzocapital Not surprising. Several of the other SIPPS that allowed IB are now in administration. Type of SIPP willing to allow options trading are also likely to allow or have allowed things they shouldn't have.....

@Jlaws4 @Uzocapital Oh well, looks like they don't do it either.

JPow: I was indicted. JP: You weren't indicted. We just had some questions. You blew us off. We impaneled a grand jury for a criminal matter to subpoena you to get answers. You blew off the subpoena. JPow: You didn't have predicate for the subpoena so I didn't answer the questions or appear. JP: We didn't indict you. You said that. JPow: What the heck are you doing? JP: Just trying to make you answer for the budget overruns with the construction. JPow: I already did that to Congress. JP: Yea, I know. I need to do it again. Because the big guy wants you gone and lower rates. JPow: Yea, I'm definitely not going anywhere now. You are a loon.

@EricBalchunas What a 🤡. Everyone sacrificing any notion of integrity to appease and excuse creeping, rather rapidly, fascism.

“Fed independence I’ve always thought was somewhat of a myth. The governors are appointed by the President on a rolling basis so you get this slow takeover of the Fed with your chosen people. So the Fed independence disappears reasonable quickly during any Presidential term. The result is the Fed has always been political.” - Rob Arnott on ETF IQ today @BloombergTV @scarletfu

@AlfDevonshire @CasinoCapital @Uzocapital You will find there was likely a lot more to it behind the schemes, but that is the face value of it, yes.

@CasinoCapital @Jlaws4 @Uzocapital Interesting - looks like Options were being used by scammers who funnelled unsophisticated clients to them and directed those clients in how to invest. Options then on the hook for lack of due diligence when the dodgy intermediary company vanishes.

@CasinoCapital @Uzocapital financial-ombudsman.org.uk/decisions-case…

@Jlaws4 @Uzocapital Tell me more?

@EricBalchunas @BasilTheGreat we do have a problem, and it needs to be toned down, but its multiples less of an issue than bots and grifters on here will lead you to think it is. Far more free speech violations on your side of the pond than here from what I can see.

@EricBalchunas @BasilTheGreat It's a lie mate, don't be so easily manipulated. This is not the amount of arrests for mean tweets, this includes all communications act breaches, like stalking, harassment, abuse, threats etc. And convictions have fallen dramatically.

This is what fascism looks like The UK arrests more people for social media posts than any other country on Earth

Me to my libertarian friend who voted for Trump because he thought Kamala was more likely to make us go to war:

In the past, even with George Floyd, the Trump gov did not rush to smear the man and called for an investigation. That every single member of this Nazi party immediately smeared this woman as a terrorist and defended her murder without even the pretense of impartiality is a massive escalation

There is nothing patriotic about what is occurring on Capitol Hill. This is 3rd world style anti-American anarchy.