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In Autumn 2022 even though the Bank of England announced the sale of £40bn gilts and kicked off the LDI crisis - the rates still weren't as high as this. Where are Britain's "financial journalists" now?

Ukrainians gaslight me on the war—then fly home for holidays. Should Irish taxpayers keep funding this? Thoughts? ☘️ Store & Join Link: linktr.ee/niallmcconnell1

@bowtiedbrazil Funny seeing Slash mentioned What could be the impact on their clients?

Lesson: cheaping out on the aspects of a biz that can destroy it is almost certainly a bad idea

IEA recommends lockdowns 🫣 (link follows)

We should never have shared our technology

🇬🇧 Jewish leaders, MPs and community figures have launched the UK’s largest ever Refugee Shabbat, with 66 organisations now taking part across England and Scotland. More than 50 attendees gathered in London, with speakers emphasising a moral responsibility to support refugees and warning against rising anti-migrant sentiment. Events and initiatives are now taking place nationwide, focused on integration, interfaith cooperation and support for asylum seekers. Follow: @europa

@DigitalVagrant Wait until spring and Bourton-on-the-water gets an influx of ethnics from the Midlands

I've been away from Manchester for almost two months now, and I've spent that time wandering through the picturesque Cotswolds. In all that time, across nearly a dozen charming towns and villages, I haven't spotted a single hijab. It's a striking reminder of just how dramatically different life feels when you leave the heavily transformed urban centres behind and return to more traditional, cohesive English countryside communities.

@Degen_CPA Same in London The Ned was packed with a heathen mixture of brasses and 30 something girlbosses. A witches brew like no other

The amount of woman in NYC is becoming overbearing and its hitting a point where its a negative. Women outnumber men 65-35 in NYC, I cant go to the grocery store without being stared at, they come up and touch me without permission. Its violating, i dont consent to any of this. Bars are even worse, I just want to chill and drink with my boys, but its impossible, theres just not enough guys to go around. Girls will constantly try to butt into our conversations, offer to buy us drinks, get sexual right away. None of this is wanted. Go away. Just leave us alone you heathens.

Arctic LNG 2 was a Russian LNG project which got sanctioned. Somehow the equipment got stuck in Antwerp harbor and Belgian justice now ordered the entire kit to be auctioned off for cents on the dollar. I'm not kidding, see the link below. I say we bid some memorabilia. This is a nice hobby project for the kids, or for Qatar. Better than Legos. Plus your wife is gonna love to have 250 cryogenic guide vanes in the garage. auctim.com/ords/fr/r/onli…

This Acquiring Minds episode resonated with me. Ex Wall Street/hedge funder buys manufacturing business. He bought smaller than me (he paid all cash with his own $ with a modest seller note). He did this late 40s before selling via seller financing to his COO recently. Good financial return but it was anything but passive. He worked 80 hours a week and would trek from NYC to Vermont during the week so he only saw his family on weekends. COVID wrecked the business. Brian talks about how lonely running a SMB can be (yes, it's incredibly lonely!). It reinforces how we as men are wired to work. Post exit, it's clear he has the energy and interest in looking to do something else (possibly buying another biz but bigger this time). youtube.com/watch?v=Nk4Sce…

When you read about the early history of the Spanish conquest of the Americas, you realize Certain Things about Latin America... From Michele de Cuneo, a Spanish nobleman in Columbus’s second expedition to the Americas: "While I was in the boat, I captured a very beautiful woman, whom the Lord Admiral [Columbus] gave to me. When I had taken her to my cabin she was naked — as was their custom. I was filled with a desire to take my pleasure with her and attempted to satisfy my desire. She was unwilling, and so treated me with her nails that I wished I had never begun. I then took a piece of rope and whipped her soundly, and she let forth such incredible screams that you would not have believed your ears. Eventually we came to such terms, I assure you, that you would have thought she had been brought up in a school for whores."

If the Iranians have already begun to mine the strait south of Larak Island and are now forcing traffic through the even smaller ~5mi strait between Larak and Qeshm Island, I don't see how that's not checkmate. It's impossible to imagine a scenario where they can't maintain fire control over such a narrow passage with drones.

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QatarEnergy Statement on Missile Attacks on its LNG Facilities In addition to the previous attack on Ras Laffan Industrial City on Wednesday 18 March 2026 that resulted in extensive damage to the Pearl GTL (Gas-to-Liquids) facility, QatarEnergy confirms that in the early hours of Thursday 19 March 2026, several of its Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) facilities were the subject of missile attacks, causing sizeable fires and extensive further damage. Emergency response teams were deployed immediately to contain the resulting damage with no reported casualties. QatarEnergy will continue to communicate the latest available information. #Qatar

An African YouTube channel conducted an independent IQ test in Lagos, Nigeria. The average was 73.4, and the median was 69.7.

Joe Kent and Tulsi Gabbard may have been fucking, and that’s why they’re acting weird. Follow: @NewsBarron

Every time I post this video, within the hour, it gets flagged for sensitive content, so we’re gonna keep posting it, Pajeet. Because you stink and the whole world hates you.

Gold and silver are not acting well in a period of rapidly rising geopolitical risks. We have an Iran War, Strait of Hormuz blockade, rising volatility. In the old framework, that setup should be close to ideal for gold. But once you understand what is now driving gold, this move makes perfect sense. Something fundamental changed after the US and Europe froze Russian reserves in 2022. For decades, surplus countries parked their excess savings in US dollar assets, mostly Treasuries. The freezing of Russian reserves combined with the current administration's explicit push to discourage foreign countries from parking excess savings in US financial assets, forced surplus countries to rethink where they store reserves. And those countries haven't changed their domestic policies that generate the excess savings, so those savings have to be placed somewhere. The result is that gold and silver have increasingly become the obvious “neutral” reserve assets. That’s why gold decoupled from the three factors that used to explain it…real interest rates, volatility, and liquidity. Now reserve accumulation flows have become the primary driver. That shift has a consequence I don’t think most investors have thought through. If gold is now primarily driven by reserve flows from surplus countries, then gold has become pro-cyclical. Reserve growth is driven by export revenues, trade surpluses, economic growth in surplus economies. When the global economy is strong and surplus countries are generating large export revenues, their excess savings grow, their reserve accumulation accelerates, and gold catches a bid. When that surplus generation is disrupted, the bid weakens or reverses. This is exactly what is happening with the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. The GCC countries are major reserve/gold buyers and now their export revenues are collapsing. They likely need to liquidate some reserves to cover fiscal obligations, and gold is one of their most liquid assets. Even if the reserve sales aren’t excessive yet, the market can see their reserve accumulation has stalled and probably reversed. That flow, which was a meaningful source of gold demand, has gone to zero at best. There are also secondary effects on other surplus economies. China is the world's largest oil importer. An energy shock of this magnitude slows Chinese growth, and compresses Chinese surpluses, which slows Chinese reserve accumulation. That same growth shock ripples through Korea, Taiwan, Japan, and the rest of Asia. The whole chain that has been driving gold higher, surplus countries generating excess savings that need a home outside the dollar system, is being disrupted by an event that in the old model would have been unambiguously bullish for gold. This doesn't mean the structural case for gold is broken. The dollar standard is still ending. Surplus countries still need an alternative to Treasuries and gold is still the most obvious destination. But it does mean gold is going to be more volatile along that structural trend than most people expect, and the volatility will correlate with global growth and surplus generation rather than with the old drivers. Gold rallies when surpluses expand. Gold sells off when surpluses contract. Even if the reason for the contraction is rising geopolitical risk that, under the old model, should have sent gold to the moon.

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@ZackPolanski B1's you fucking Muppet

Trump has just held up a model of a B2 fighter plane and declared these are dropping the biggest bombs on Iran you’ll ever see. B2s are reportedly taking off from British bases. Keir Starmer must answer my simple question. Are these planes attacking Iran?