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Kate Duguid @kateduguid.bsky.social · 19h

If you missed it earlier this week, here's Claire's piece on what's happening in the room at Bessent's Fed chair interviews www.ft.com/content/6875...

Scott Bessent grilled Fed chair candidates on rates and quantitative easing

Trump administration ends first round of interviews to find replacement for Jay Powell

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Kate Duguid @kateduguid.bsky.social · 1d

This is lovely www.nytimes.com/2024/04/16/m...

The Rom-Com That’s Responsible for My Marriage (Published 2024)

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Kate Duguid @kateduguid.bsky.social · 1d

The latest big scoop from our First Brands team: www.ft.com/content/9eec...

US justice department launches inquiry into First Brands

New York prosecutors’ probe into bankrupt company is at an early stage and described as a fact-finding mission

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 6d

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

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Valerie Gonzalez @valontheborder.bsky.social · 7d

JUST IN: ICE didn’t say how much migrants would get or when the offer would take effect, but The AP obtained an email to migrant shelters saying children 14 years of age and older would get $2,500 each. Children were given 24 hours to respond.

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Trump administration offers migrant children $2,500 to voluntarily return to home countries

The Trump administration is offering migrant children $2,500 to voluntarily return to their home countries, dangling a new incentive in efforts to persuade people to self-deport.

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Kate Duguid @kateduguid.bsky.social · 7d

I guess I might also say this if I were in charge of a tech company that survived the dot-com bust? www.ft.com/content/8d80...

Jeff Bezos hails AI boom as ‘good’ kind of bubble

Amazon founder’s comments follow warning by Goldman Sachs’ David Solomon that ‘it’s not different this time’

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Kate Duguid @kateduguid.bsky.social · 7d

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Kate Duguid @kateduguid.bsky.social · 7d

US multinationals and big exporters are way outperforming domestic-focused companies, in part thanks to the weak dollar www.ft.com/content/a8a7...

Multinationals race ahead as dollar slump divides US stock market

Domestically focused companies lag behind as currency suffers worst year since early 2000s

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 11d

TL;DR, the current CR doesn't have any risks to gender-affirming care. But the upcoming spending fight will and it's important to differentiate between the two, especially when it's information for a vulnerable population. Our job should be to seek truth and report it and minimize harm.

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Kate Duguid @kateduguid.bsky.social · 11d

Useful Erin thread

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11d

1. There's a lot of confusion about this out there. Let me make it easier:

There are two ways to keep the government open: The full FY26 appropriations bill for the entire year, and a continuing resolution to keep it open for a few months at current levels.

Both are part of negotiations right now.

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Mike Konczal @mtkonczal.bsky.social · 11d

Here's the genuine problem. There's a lot of bottom-up arguments Miran makes for r* = 0%, each a good deal outside of consensus but interesting.

But there's also another thing that could make someone argue r* = 0%, as show in the algebra below (all discussed in the piece).

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Mike Konczal @mtkonczal.bsky.social · 11d

New post, I finally wrote my thoughts on the Stephen Miran Federal Reserve speech.

I think it shows yet another reason for central bank independence. Without it, you can't tell what's a genuine outsider take and what's just carrying water for the Executive.
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Miran’s Case for Cuts: A Reminder of Why Independence is Essential

Stephen Miran's recent speech highlights not just a debate over r*, but the deeper risks of allowing White House talking points to shape monetary policy.

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Kate Duguid @kateduguid.bsky.social · 11d

Ah - seems like the thought is that a strict reading immediately strips care from Medicare/medicaid, and a broader interpretation of this could mean withholding funds from hospitals. At least that’s Erin Reed’s take open.substack.com/pub/erininth...

Trump Digs In On Anti-Trans Provisions In Shutdown Fight Message

The provisions are becoming a key sticking point in the ongoing fight to keep the government open.

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Kate Duguid @kateduguid.bsky.social · 11d

this would go beyond Hyde Amendment, right? cause it would cut all federal funding to hospitals providing trans care? not just forcing state to cover medicaid/medicare costs?

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 12d

In honor of Eric Adams dropping out, I'm now resharing my all-time favorite bit of Eric Adams content

for years, this thing was like my video from The Ring, where I had to get other people to watch it in order for me to stay alive

enjoy

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk2W...

Sen. Eric Adams: Combating Gun Violence

YouTube video by New York Daily News

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 12d

A third of the nation’s climate adaptation centers may close, which would hamper projects aimed to help people, wildlife, land and water react to a changing climate.

Trump officials shut off funding for climate adaptation centers

A third of the U.S. Geological Survey’s Climate Adaptation Science Centers are expected to drastically wind down and possibly close after Sept. 30.

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Kate Duguid @kateduguid.bsky.social · 12d

honestly “pictures big pictures“ also insane

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Kate Duguid @kateduguid.bsky.social · 12d

“a place where you could secrete drugs”

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 14d

First Brands cash crunch intensified after creditor seized funds on.ft.com/4nSwhHH

First Brands cash crunch intensified after creditor seized funds

Growing financial strains at US auto parts supplier pushes group closer to bankruptcy

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 15d

Survey of Oil and Gas executives via the Dallas Fed shows one comment saying about their equipment, "Over the course of the past year, tariffs have pushed pricing higher on these products."
www.dallasfed.org/research/sur...

Oil and gas activity slips again on elevated uncertainty, higher costs

Activity in the oil and gas sector declined slightly in the third quarter of 2025, according to oil and gas executives responding to the Dallas Fed Energy Survey.

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Kate Duguid @kateduguid.bsky.social · 16d

Actually maybe its when Thiel calls humanitarian efforts anti-Christian

Kate Duguid @kateduguid.bsky.social · 16d

Mine is the part where the Christian tech CEO is faced with questions about his unmanned killer drones

“Trae was building his own tech company and really facing hostility around what he was building, why he was building unmanned defense systems with Anduril,” she said.

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Ian Smith @iankmsmith.ft.com · 17d

In many ways, inflation is the whole ball game. If it goes the right way it will relieve some pressure on the UK borrowing squeeze. And vice versa www.ft.com/content/372c...

Why are UK borrowing costs so high?

Inflation and ‘risk premium’ help keep yields elevated, say investors

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A Reader of the FT @a-reader-ft.bsky.social · 17d

Trump urges pregnant women to avoid paracetamol over unproven autism links—Scientists have condemned the claims as untrue and potentially damaging, and the UK regulator continues to recommend paracetamol in pregnancy. www.ft.com/content/24d6... Zehra Munir @financialtimes.com

Trump urges pregnant women to avoid paracetamol over unproven autism links

Scientists dismissed contentious claim and UK still backs paracetamol use in pregnancy

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Kate Duguid @kateduguid.bsky.social · 19d

this is Jael-coded @jael.bsky.social

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