Brian Adams
@duckdevil.bsky.social
Finance PhD, full professor @ University of Portland, college sports enthusiast (Go Ducks), happy cohabitant with my dogs and family.
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This isn't the Japan of 1995. According to the central bank, it's not even the same as last May
Japan’s Rate Milestone Is Just One More Step
The Bank of Japan just raised interest rates to the highest level in three decades. Rather than celebrate that milestone as a comeback for an economy that wrestled with deflation and sluggish growth for a generation, Governor Kazuo Ueda would prefer that you focus on how low they still are. So much so that the bank indicated there’s plenty of scope for additional increases.
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December 19, 2025 at 6:45 AM
This isn't the Japan of 1995. According to the central bank, it's not even the same as last May
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The Jean Kim Center in Lynnwood, which offers showers and washer-dryers for our unhoused neighbors, was about to close after their building was put on the market. It was recently bought with money from our local philanthropist Rick Steves.
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Thanks to Rick Steves, Lynnwood Hygiene Center has a permanent home - My Edmonds News
‘If this place wasn’t here I don’t know how I would’ve survived’ — Sherman Gillins The Jean Kim Foundation’s (JKF) Hygiene Center in Lynnwood is here to stay. Edmonds-based European […]
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December 19, 2025 at 7:47 AM
The Jean Kim Center in Lynnwood, which offers showers and washer-dryers for our unhoused neighbors, was about to close after their building was put on the market. It was recently bought with money from our local philanthropist Rick Steves.
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"I have never encountered a group of people who are more competent, more full of grace and empathy, more willing to serve others than nurses. Nurses should take over," Tatiana Schlossberg.
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A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:07 PM
"I have never encountered a group of people who are more competent, more full of grace and empathy, more willing to serve others than nurses. Nurses should take over," Tatiana Schlossberg.
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““This yield move is about anticipating stronger growth because the world will likely be fiscally more expansionary next year,” said Amy Xie Patrick, head of income strategies at money manager Pendal Group Ltd.”
““This yield move is about anticipating stronger growth because the world will likely be fiscally more expansionary next year,” said Amy Xie Patrick, head of income strategies at money manager Pendal Group Ltd.”
Global Bond Yields Hit 16-Year High on Fading Rate-Cut Bets
Global bond yields have risen to highs last seen in 2009 ahead of a key Federal Reserve policy meeting, signaling concerns that interest-rate cutting cycles from the US to Australia may be ending soon...
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December 10, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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““This yield move is about anticipating stronger growth because the world will likely be fiscally more expansionary next year,” said Amy Xie Patrick, head of income strategies at money manager Pendal Group Ltd.”
““This yield move is about anticipating stronger growth because the world will likely be fiscally more expansionary next year,” said Amy Xie Patrick, head of income strategies at money manager Pendal Group Ltd.”
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As momentum builds further—which it will—the winners won’t just be the smartest. They will be the ones that combine technical prowess with structural advantages, including substantial, diversified internal revenue generation.
#economy #AI @wsj.com @nytimes.com #markets
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As momentum builds further—which it will—the winners won’t just be the smartest. They will be the ones that combine technical prowess with structural advantages, including substantial, diversified internal revenue generation.
#economy #AI @wsj.com @nytimes.com #markets
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December 9, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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As momentum builds further—which it will—the winners won’t just be the smartest. They will be the ones that combine technical prowess with structural advantages, including substantial, diversified internal revenue generation.
#economy #AI @wsj.com @nytimes.com #markets
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As momentum builds further—which it will—the winners won’t just be the smartest. They will be the ones that combine technical prowess with structural advantages, including substantial, diversified internal revenue generation.
#economy #AI @wsj.com @nytimes.com #markets
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Trump believes that all immigrants who aren't runway models are violent criminals. And people were complete fools to believe otherwise.
Trump said last year that he would focus on deporting immigrants who were violent criminals. But a study of arrests in major operations in DC, LA, Illinois and Massachusetts shows that the vast majority of those swept up by ICE have no criminal record.
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ICE Arrest Data Shows Many Immigrants With No Criminal Record
In high-profile operations, more than half of those arrested had no criminal record, an analysis shows.
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December 7, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Trump believes that all immigrants who aren't runway models are violent criminals. And people were complete fools to believe otherwise.
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Unless proven otherwise, every Republican in Congress supports this image:
December 3, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Unless proven otherwise, every Republican in Congress supports this image:
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Way to stand up to... *checks notes* 61-year-old recreational players. Good work, USTA. 🙃
December 4, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Way to stand up to... *checks notes* 61-year-old recreational players. Good work, USTA. 🙃
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Women and children’s wellbeing isn’t a secondary issue to be revisited once geopolitical crises subside. It is central to peace, stability and prosperity
The World Is Failing Women and Children
As many of the world’s leaders convene in South Africa for the G20, we face a sobering truth: Progress for women, children and adolescents — the foundation of human development — is faltering. Decades of hard-won gains in survival, education and equality are at risk. In too many countries, maternal and child deaths are rising, conflicts are eroding health systems, and climate and economic shocks are widening inequalities.
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November 19, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Women and children’s wellbeing isn’t a secondary issue to be revisited once geopolitical crises subside. It is central to peace, stability and prosperity
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65 Years Ago,,, History was made. #RubyBridges
November 15, 2025 at 4:41 AM
65 Years Ago,,, History was made. #RubyBridges
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While we're at it, why do we pay for a fire department when most houses don't even burn down.
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 6:46 PM
While we're at it, why do we pay for a fire department when most houses don't even burn down.
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I’m no Humpy but I do have an unusually powerful “Rally Time” video.
It's @kenjennings.bsky.social time at T-Mobile Park.
October 17, 2025 at 11:44 PM
I’m no Humpy but I do have an unusually powerful “Rally Time” video.
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Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of Fraud. Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them.
The White House has targeted opponents, including a Fed governor, for having more than one primary residence on their loan papers. ProPublica found that, in one case, a Trump cabinet secretary got two...
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October 12, 2025 at 5:51 PM
We are an independent, nonprofit newsroom with more than 150 dedicated journalists.
For those who want to read the facts of our reporting — and the documents on which it is based — here’s the full story:
For those who want to read the facts of our reporting — and the documents on which it is based — here’s the full story:
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This is due to a law signed by Ronald Reagan and has nothing to do with this shutdown fight.
But consider this...
Emergency Medicaid spending in 2023 cost $3.8 billion — just 0.4% of total Medicaid spending.
Now what about the $20 billion taxpayers are giving to Argentina?
But consider this...
Emergency Medicaid spending in 2023 cost $3.8 billion — just 0.4% of total Medicaid spending.
Now what about the $20 billion taxpayers are giving to Argentina?
Leavitt: "When an illegal alien goes to the emergency room, who's paying for it? The American taxpayer."
October 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
This is due to a law signed by Ronald Reagan and has nothing to do with this shutdown fight.
But consider this...
Emergency Medicaid spending in 2023 cost $3.8 billion — just 0.4% of total Medicaid spending.
Now what about the $20 billion taxpayers are giving to Argentina?
But consider this...
Emergency Medicaid spending in 2023 cost $3.8 billion — just 0.4% of total Medicaid spending.
Now what about the $20 billion taxpayers are giving to Argentina?
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MORGAN STANLEY: “.. it’s difficult to ignore the market’s reliance on AI capex. In market-pricing terms, we believe we’re closer to the seventh inning than the first, and several developments indicate we may be entering the later phases of the boom.” 👀
[Shalett]
[Shalett]
October 3, 2025 at 8:02 PM
MORGAN STANLEY: “.. it’s difficult to ignore the market’s reliance on AI capex. In market-pricing terms, we believe we’re closer to the seventh inning than the first, and several developments indicate we may be entering the later phases of the boom.” 👀
[Shalett]
[Shalett]
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American Psychiatrist Association Statement on White House Announcement on Autism
September 23, 2025 at 3:41 AM
American Psychiatrist Association Statement on White House Announcement on Autism
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September 19, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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September 18, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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We didn’t talk about anything that happened lately, it was mainly just talking about what we do for work and he was respectful and I was too. He gendered me and my friend right, I showed interest in his talk about tariffs and auto parts, and then we clanked beers and yelled for our team.
September 14, 2025 at 6:39 PM
We didn’t talk about anything that happened lately, it was mainly just talking about what we do for work and he was respectful and I was too. He gendered me and my friend right, I showed interest in his talk about tariffs and auto parts, and then we clanked beers and yelled for our team.
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💔 Fred Guttenberg whose daughter died in the 2018 Stoneman Douglas High School shooting
September 11, 2025 at 1:43 AM
💔 Fred Guttenberg whose daughter died in the 2018 Stoneman Douglas High School shooting
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An October 1942 FBI leaflet asking the residents of Buffalo to report any "possible violation[s] of our national security statutes" or anything suspicious to the Buffalo Field Office. It concluded, however, with the paragraph below.
Seemed relevant today somehow.
Seemed relevant today somehow.
September 8, 2025 at 12:47 AM
An October 1942 FBI leaflet asking the residents of Buffalo to report any "possible violation[s] of our national security statutes" or anything suspicious to the Buffalo Field Office. It concluded, however, with the paragraph below.
Seemed relevant today somehow.
Seemed relevant today somehow.