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just the most amazing live experiment to run on the central nervous system of finance, like trying to fit a new steering wheel on to a moving car
www.federalreserve.gov/econres/note....
www.federalreserve.gov/econres/note....
Banks in the Age of Stablecoins: Some Possible Implications for Deposits, Credit, and Financial Intermediation
The Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington DC.
www.federalreserve.gov
December 19, 2025 at 11:01 AM
just the most amazing live experiment to run on the central nervous system of finance, like trying to fit a new steering wheel on to a moving car
www.federalreserve.gov/econres/note....
www.federalreserve.gov/econres/note....
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It is not clear whether the issue was the decision to have the shit sandwich or the choice of bread.
December 19, 2025 at 10:33 AM
It is not clear whether the issue was the decision to have the shit sandwich or the choice of bread.
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Clay letters from ancient Mesopotamia are alive with idiom, sayings, and everyday language that I love.
Here are just a few random ones so you can enjoy them too.
Here are just a few random ones so you can enjoy them too.
December 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Clay letters from ancient Mesopotamia are alive with idiom, sayings, and everyday language that I love.
Here are just a few random ones so you can enjoy them too.
Here are just a few random ones so you can enjoy them too.
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You lot need Dick Van Dyke singing Let's Go Fly a Kite on his 100th birthday more than you know.
December 15, 2025 at 10:33 PM
You lot need Dick Van Dyke singing Let's Go Fly a Kite on his 100th birthday more than you know.
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This line rankled in the Beeb's write-up of tributes to Rob and Michele Reiner.
It flows into Trump saying the deaths were "very sad", as if it were a tribute like the others.
And as for "a swipe" - 90% of Trump's post was mockery and boasting.
It flows into Trump saying the deaths were "very sad", as if it were a tribute like the others.
And as for "a swipe" - 90% of Trump's post was mockery and boasting.
December 15, 2025 at 8:05 PM
This line rankled in the Beeb's write-up of tributes to Rob and Michele Reiner.
It flows into Trump saying the deaths were "very sad", as if it were a tribute like the others.
And as for "a swipe" - 90% of Trump's post was mockery and boasting.
It flows into Trump saying the deaths were "very sad", as if it were a tribute like the others.
And as for "a swipe" - 90% of Trump's post was mockery and boasting.
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"Bluesky is an echo chamber."
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"
I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"
I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
December 15, 2025 at 10:12 AM
"Bluesky is an echo chamber."
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"
I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"
I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
You will be visited by three spirits
December 9, 2025 at 9:29 AM
You will be visited by three spirits
What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again?
Lotus 123 macros
Lotus 123 macros
December 8, 2025 at 2:08 PM
What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again?
Lotus 123 macros
Lotus 123 macros
The FIFA memorial prize in economic sciences isn’t a real FIFA prize
December 5, 2025 at 7:52 PM
The FIFA memorial prize in economic sciences isn’t a real FIFA prize
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This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
November 30, 2025 at 9:57 AM
This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
Well done all, especially in Wales. The Nathan Gill effect?
November 29, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Well done all, especially in Wales. The Nathan Gill effect?
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Dominic Cummings screeching about the 'Inspector Clouseau Inquiry', evidently snarlingly unaware that whether by accident or design, Clouseau invariably identifies and apprehends the real criminals.
November 21, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Dominic Cummings screeching about the 'Inspector Clouseau Inquiry', evidently snarlingly unaware that whether by accident or design, Clouseau invariably identifies and apprehends the real criminals.
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How do refugees come 'with permission'?
November 15, 2025 at 10:33 PM
How do refugees come 'with permission'?
Roll pitch. Release elephants onto pitch. Repeat until Budget day
November 14, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Roll pitch. Release elephants onto pitch. Repeat until Budget day
Daily Star journo seen buying lettuce just before the gilt market open
November 14, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Daily Star journo seen buying lettuce just before the gilt market open
Evening viewing sorted
November 1, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Evening viewing sorted
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Peter Watkins, Oscar-winning director of The War Game, dies aged 90
Peter Watkins, Oscar-winning director of The War Game, dies aged 90
Radical English director who clashed with the BBC over his ‘horrifying’ film about nuclear war, was forced to look abroad to continue working
Peter Watkins, the radical British film-maker who won an Oscar for his controversial drama-documentary The War Game, about a nuclear attack on Britain, has died aged 90. His son Patrick confirmed that he died on Thursday, but no cause of death has been given.
Watkins was an uncompromising figure who clashed with the BBC after the latter failed to show The War Game on broadcast TV, and subsequently led a peripatetic film-making existence, looking overseas for backing. He was wary of the press, in a rare interview he spoke to the Guardian in 2000, saying he was “someone who has been working for 30 years to help shift the power balance between public and TV”. He added: “Had TV taken an alternative direction during the 1960s and 1970s and worked in a more open way, global society today would be vastly more humane and just.” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 31, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Peter Watkins, Oscar-winning director of The War Game, dies aged 90
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Minority representation on TV causes outrage
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
October 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Minority representation on TV causes outrage
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
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There is a underrepresentation of men in gilets and quarter zips in TV advertising.
October 28, 2025 at 8:47 AM
There is a underrepresentation of men in gilets and quarter zips in TV advertising.
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As far as I can tell, this policy would deport my Swedish wife (who has a well-paying job and pays thousands in tax each year, not that that should decide these things) because she "took" from society by going on maternity leave when our kids were born.
Tory policy is to revoke permanent residence (ILR) for everybody who does not earn £38k - deporting most nurses who have ILR
This is put in the video as "who is unlikely to contribute more than they cost"
NB: video does not say EU settled status is exempt
No govt since Idi Amin has done this
This is put in the video as "who is unlikely to contribute more than they cost"
NB: video does not say EU settled status is exempt
No govt since Idi Amin has done this
October 22, 2025 at 6:13 AM
As far as I can tell, this policy would deport my Swedish wife (who has a well-paying job and pays thousands in tax each year, not that that should decide these things) because she "took" from society by going on maternity leave when our kids were born.
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Did they get the management consultants in or something?
Whereas drug gangs used to be vertically integrated, with a single kingpin supervising production, transport and distribution, they now rely heavily on outsourcing. This has fuelled specialisation and innovation
The traffickers are winning the war on drugs
New decentralised networks are even harder to disrupt than the hierarchical gangs they have replaced
econ.st
October 19, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Did they get the management consultants in or something?
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4 years ago today I stumbled across the greatest tv listing ever written
October 4, 2025 at 2:47 PM
4 years ago today I stumbled across the greatest tv listing ever written
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Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment
Woman named as new Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first
Woman named as new Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first
Bishop of London Dame Sarah Mullally, a former nurse, has been named as the next Archbishop of Canterbury - the first time a woman has been appointed to the role in the Church of England's history.
news.sky.com
October 3, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment
Sent by my daughter. You’ve probably seen it already. But if you haven’t, you, like me, will be singing it all day
October 2, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Sent by my daughter. You’ve probably seen it already. But if you haven’t, you, like me, will be singing it all day