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@SimonDixonTwitt Hear hear!

I believe everything happens for a reason, and I’m eternally grateful for the path I was guided toward. Looking back, I honestly can’t think of anything worse for me personally than spending my life as an executive at a bank. What once felt like a setback became a blessing. That path ultimately led me to Bitcoin and in my opinion, very much guided. I spent more than a decade and a half as the CEO of a regulated investment bank, and I’m deeply grateful for that experience and for eventually selling part of that business to Coinbase. But what I value most now is freedom. The freedom to speak openly. The freedom to continue the work I started decades ago: Understanding the monetary system, Exposing how it actually operates, …and helping people position themselves ahead of it rather than becoming victims of it. That mission matters more to me than status, titles or institutional approval ever could.

@duediligenceguy its not a govt, its a fascist kleptocracy

I understand the government's argument... ...but I'm sure you understand my skepticism. ;-{)}

@TheBarmyArmy Warnie was pretty amazing - high intelligence commentary - deep understanding of many things that go with cricket

Who’s the best cricket commentator ever?

@jameslavish The best fin publication on substack without a doubt

Quick heads up: if you've been paying attention to the debt headlines this week, tomorrow's Informationist is for you. Titled "How America Becomes a Banana Republic," it walks through where the country actually stands, the old playbook the new Treasury and Fed are about to try, and the iceberg the headlines aren't showing. Drops at 5am PT, as always. Enjoy. And have a great night.

@dimitrilascaris @SecScottBessent getting banged up the backside

@SecScottBessent You’re a genocidal war criminal who should be rotting in a jail cell at The Hague.

While the surviving IRGC Leaders are trapped like drowning rats in a sewage pipe, Iran’s creaking oil industry is starting to shut in production thanks to the U.S. BLOCKADE. Pumping will soon collapse. GASOLINE SHORTAGES IN IRAN NEXT!

Images from the book “Hip-Hop in London 1982-1994” by David Corio.

@SimonDixonTwitt China would bulldoze India in their sleep mate

A check on Chinese power, used by FIC.

@CorySwan @laurashin imagine working with pomp…

Jeff Park has resigned from ProCap sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archiv…

'Early Morning, Harrow Road' (2008) by Caroline Coon stephenfriedman.com

Daddy G, Willie Wee, Nellee Hooper, and Milo Johnson & others of the Wild Bunch Crew, Bristol, 1984/85.

@spectator @richardpbacon what an absolute load of tosh, hilariously so

Dubai is like the dazzling partner some people enjoy being seen with, but know deep down they would never marry. Style without substance. Attraction without culture. All the confidence but none of the charisma. A place associated with glitz and glamour, not class and intellect. ✍️ Atbin Moayedi Article | spectator.com/article/dubai-…

@Aakar__Patel @WhiteHouse Best only

@WhiteHouse calming markets by talk of blowing up what remains

Statement from President Trump on South Pars Gas Field:

@Aakar__Patel @FirstSquawk Veg items only please

@FirstSquawk why your souting but

INDIA BUYS OVER 30M BARRELS OF STRANDED RUSSIAN OIL – WSJ

@Citrini7 you’d think, right?

Is this bad

@AsianDigest She is so irrelevant

Priyanka Chopra face when #JavierBardem said Free Palestine at the #Oscar

@Calamondins1 @anders_aslund absolutely spot on

@anders_aslund Bad analysis. Kuwait COULD HAVE come back much stronger if it had simply copied the Dubai or Abu Dhabi model.. however, having an elected parliament full of kleptomaniac morons and being too preoccupied with preserving tradition and religious culture, they chose not to evolve.

I lived in Kuwait 1977-78. It was the lively center of the Gulf, while Dubai, Abu Dhabi & Qatar were parochial outposts. In 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait. Although the West liberated Kuwait in 1991, Kuwait has never come back. The same is now likely for Dubai, Abu Dhabi & Qatar.

@Lowkey0nline mufti wenk

As part of the UAE's normalization with Israel, Mufti Menk broke fast with Rabbi Levi Duchman.
 Before that, Duchman played a key role in the opening of the Israeli embassy in the UAE and is pictured here enjoying a private Zoom meeting with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu.

@Citrini7 @insane_analyst @jukan05 Not enough! 😃

@insane_analyst @jukan05 First day on the job he tried to get us to lever up the citrindex to 500% gross.

Every Korean has a little Bill Hwang inside themselves. Right, @jukan05?

@robprogressive Dubai is a vacuous place full of crooks running away or rich people having to flee warzones coz they can

Yet another 2 of my (multi-millionaire) friends have left the U.K. for Dubai, just this week Three of the 12 richest billionaires in the U.K. have also LEFT the U.K. All taking all their tax, business, spending & jobs with them. And it’s getting worse & worse But is it really a surprise? I was recently in Dubai & it makes paying taxes in the U.K. feel like a scam No income tax. No capital gains tax. 5% VAT. 9% corp. Tax. No inheritance tax Yet the city thrives: Clean. No homeless. Safe World-class infrastructure. Wealth & opportunity everywhere But the U.K. burdens us with record levels of tax, crime & political envy Chronically broken public services. Low/no innovation or investment AND 500,000 more millionaires & billionaires predicted to leave the U.K. by 2028 Where did it all go wrong?