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Edward Harrison
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Journalist at Bloomberg. Author of The Everything Risk newsletter.
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On Truss & Kwarteng in ‘22. Allister Heath, Telegraph: “the best budget I have ever heard a British chancellor deliver". Alex Brummer, Mail: “a genuine Tory package elbowing to one side the Treasury's fiscal conservatism".
These men will now be paid actual money for their analysis of today’s budget.
November 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Elon Musk Said Grok’s Roasts Would Be ‘Epic’ at Parties—So I Tried It on My Coworkers

Spoiler: It's as bad as you thought it would be

www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
Elon Musk Said Grok’s Roasts Would Be ‘Epic’ at Parties—So I Tried It on My Coworkers
It went about as well as you’d expect.
www.wired.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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- He stopped the policy of encouraging flu immunization in Louisiana
- Delayed reporting on a pertussis outbreak that killed two children in Louisiana.
-Promoted false information on covid vaccine harms.
He is now number 2 at CDC.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
Controversial Louisiana surgeon general tapped for CDC leadership role
Louisiana Surgeon General Ralph Abraham has spoken against Covid shots and ended mass vaccination campaigns. Now he's in a position to make national health decisions.
www.nbcnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:49 PM
ICYMI

Is the statute of limitations now up on Comey?
US District Judge Cameron Currie has dismissed the criminal indictments against former FBI Director James Comey and New York AG Letitia James after finding that former Trump attorney Lindsey Halligan was not lawfully appointed as a prosecutor. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
A Fraudster Pardoned by Trump Gets 37 Years for Running Ponzi Scheme

“A New Jersey man convicted of defrauding investors of roughly a quarter-billion dollars is among a growing number of people granted clemency only to to be charged with new crimes.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/n...
A Fraudster Pardoned by Trump Gets 37 Years for Running Ponzi Scheme
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:03 AM
U.S. Coast Guard Will No Longer Classify Swastikas, Nooses as Hate Symbols www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:53 PM
DJT Stock Has Cratered, Wiping Out More Than $5 Billion in Trump Family Wealth www.barrons.com/articles/djt...
Truth Social Owner DJT Stock Craters, Erasing $5 Billion in Trump Family Wealth
Trump Media stock has traded at all-time lows in recent days.
www.barrons.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Trump says his approval ratings are down, except with 'smart people' reut.rs/3JYnRAg
Trump says his approval ratings are down, except with 'smart people'
U.S. President Donald Trump did something on Wednesday he has rarely done: He admitted his poll numbers had gone down.
reut.rs
November 20, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Republicans are resisting Trump a ton recently
Republican lawmakers are resisting Trump’s proposal to send $2,000 checks to working-class households next year ahead of a midterm election cycle dominated by voters’ concerns about the cost of living and the US economy.
Trump’s $2,000 Tariff Check Idea Draws Republican Resistance
Republican lawmakers are resisting President Donald Trump’s proposal to send $2,000 checks to working-class households next year ahead of a midterm election cycle dominated by voters’ concerns about the cost of living and the US economy.
bloom.bg
November 20, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Legit one of the funniest things I have read in a long time.

Imagine being some sovereign wealth fund that gave this guy billions to invest in AI and slowly realizing he sunk the whole thing into making a personal simpbot.
oh so grok is *fucked* fucked
November 19, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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I reckon this would have been labelled socialism had Obama or Biden done it.
November 20, 2025 at 12:32 AM
The Fed realizes rate cuts are stoking the AI bubble
“.. with several of these participants highlighting the possibility of a disorderly fall in equity prices ..” 👀

#FedMinutes
November 19, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Nothing screams lame duck more loudly than the GOP congressional caucus unifying against POTUS in part based on this argument.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
November 19, 2025 at 11:49 AM
The midterms could be very bad for Trump.

"Democrats holding their largest advantage, 14 points, since 2017 on the question of who respondents would vote for if the midterm elections were held today"
www.npr.org/2025/11/19/n...
Poll: Democrats have biggest advantage for control of Congress in 8 years
A new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll shows some major warning signs for President Trump and Republicans ahead of the 2026 midterm elections as Americans want the president to focus on lowering prices.
www.npr.org
November 19, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Home sellers outnumbered buyers by a record 36.8% in October
www.redfin.com/news/buyers-...
It’s the Strongest Buyer’s Market in Records Dating Back Over a Decade
Home sellers outnumbered buyers by a record 36.8% in October, giving buyers who were in the market room to negotiate.
www.redfin.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Looks like the lady in line ahead of me at Albertsons is having a day:
November 19, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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ICYMI: “.. rivaling or surpassing models hundreds of times its size, even outperforming Chinese rival DeepSeek's famed R1 that went viral at the start of this year ..”

(via @deanbaker13.bsky.social)
venturebeat.com/ai/weibos-ne...
November 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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TRUMP ON WASHINGTON POST COLUMNIST JAMAL KHASHOGGI:

“A lot of people didn’t like that gentleman that you’re talking about,” Trump said... “Whether you like him or didn’t like him, things happen, but he knew nothing about it, and we can leave it at that.” 

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Trump, Eyeing Deals, Says MBS ‘Knew Nothing’ About Khashoggi
US President Donald Trump said Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman “knew nothing about” the the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018, as the pair met to announce eco...
www.bloomberg.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Trump admin axed 383 active clinical trials, dumping over 74K participants arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
Trump admin axed 383 active clinical trials, dumping over 74K participants
It’s a “violation of foundational ethical principles of human participant research.”…
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:03 PM
China is killing the US on EVs and now solar too
In 2024, China installed 1.5x as much new solar as the entire US installed base.

(via MS/Jonas)
November 18, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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MSFT/NVDA partnership with Anthropic.

- NVDA $10bn stake in Anthropic
- MSFT $5bn stake in Anthropic
- Anthropic commits to buy $30bn of Azure compute (initially 1GW of Grace Blackwell/Vera Rubin)
- Claude to be available across Copilot and only frontier model on all 3 major clouds
Microsoft, NVIDIA and Anthropic announce strategic partnerships - The Official Microsoft Blog
Anthropic to scale Claude on Azure Anthropic to adopt NVIDIA architecture NVIDIA and Microsoft to invest in Anthropic Today Microsoft, NVIDIA and Anthropic announced new strategic partnerships. Anthro...
blogs.microsoft.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Reminds me of what Rick Bookstaber said about the financial system crashing in 2008. Systems that can crash because of single points of failure are inherently fragile
November 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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“More than seven decades later, the 79-year-old Sanford grandfather – still a man without a country – found himself in legal limbo in the Alligator Alcatraz detention camp in the Everglades, picked up on a decades-old deportation order authorities had previously chosen not to enforce.”
November 17, 2025 at 5:48 PM