Raymond Frenken
@frenken.bsky.social
Dutch financial journalist & strategic communicator. EU markets, policy & geopolitics. Ex-CNBC, Bbg. Filmed EU defence missions globally. Clear writing, complex issues, big picture. Human companion to 🐾 Skye, possibly the smartest living being in Limburg.
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Goed draadje 👇
A few facts I wish more Dutch voters knew:
October 29, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Goed draadje 👇
“We need to get our priorities right,” says long distance swimmer Lewis Pugh at the Morningstar Sustainable Investment Summit in Amsterdam.
He swam across the North Pole, the length of the English Channel, and across a glacier lake at Mount Everest.
He swam across the North Pole, the length of the English Channel, and across a glacier lake at Mount Everest.
September 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
“We need to get our priorities right,” says long distance swimmer Lewis Pugh at the Morningstar Sustainable Investment Summit in Amsterdam.
He swam across the North Pole, the length of the English Channel, and across a glacier lake at Mount Everest.
He swam across the North Pole, the length of the English Channel, and across a glacier lake at Mount Everest.
I recently returned to Arkansas after thirty years. From Helena to the Ozarks, this journey was less about politics and more about memory, family, and how America looks and feels when you come back after a lifetime away.
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September 15, 2025 at 7:10 AM
I recently returned to Arkansas after thirty years. From Helena to the Ozarks, this journey was less about politics and more about memory, family, and how America looks and feels when you come back after a lifetime away.
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Het kabinet-Schoof maakte zich schuldig aan spektakelpolitiek, en had al veel eerder moeten vallen www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
Wat vindt NRC | Het kabinet-Schoof maakte zich schuldig aan spektakelpolitiek, en had al veel eerder moeten vallen
Kabinetsval
www.nrc.nl
June 3, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Het kabinet-Schoof maakte zich schuldig aan spektakelpolitiek, en had al veel eerder moeten vallen www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
The late Margot Friedländer and the hope for a better future amp.dw.com/en/the-late-...
The late Margot Friedländer and the hope for a better future – DW – 05/09/2025
In 2023, DW spoke with one of the then oldest living Holocaust survivors, Margot Friedländer, who moved back to Germany in 2010 and regained her German citizenship. Friedländer died on May 9, 2025.
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May 9, 2025 at 10:50 PM
The late Margot Friedländer and the hope for a better future amp.dw.com/en/the-late-...
Prevost is new pope, an American cardinal committed to the reforms Pope Francis began —
Delighted to see this #HabemusPapam www.ncronline.org/opinion/prev...
Delighted to see this #HabemusPapam www.ncronline.org/opinion/prev...
Prevost is new pope, an American cardinal committed to the reforms Pope Francis began
Augustinian Cardinal Robert Prevost was the least American among the American cardinals, having spent most of his ministry in Peru and Rome. The cardinals clearly wanted someone committed to Pope Fran...
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May 8, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Prevost is new pope, an American cardinal committed to the reforms Pope Francis began —
Delighted to see this #HabemusPapam www.ncronline.org/opinion/prev...
Delighted to see this #HabemusPapam www.ncronline.org/opinion/prev...
Sad to learn of the passings of Paul Hofheinz, a true transatlanticist, inspirational and one of the nicest guys in Brussels, co-founder @thelisboncouncil.bsky.social , and of Richard Vines, who elegantly edited my markets copy when I was at Bloomberg. Both were too young to leave this life.
April 29, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Sad to learn of the passings of Paul Hofheinz, a true transatlanticist, inspirational and one of the nicest guys in Brussels, co-founder @thelisboncouncil.bsky.social , and of Richard Vines, who elegantly edited my markets copy when I was at Bloomberg. Both were too young to leave this life.
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Wow. Het echte verhaal van de stemming over eurobonds van deze week. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
Column | Nederland maakt zich zo klein dat het er niet meer toe doet
In Europa: Caroline de Gruyter
www.nrc.nl
March 15, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Wow. Het echte verhaal van de stemming over eurobonds van deze week. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
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In the gardens of one of the castles on the Isle of Skye, I found this old, mossy set of steps.
#pictureoftheday #isleofskye
#pictureoftheday #isleofskye
March 13, 2025 at 4:58 PM
In the gardens of one of the castles on the Isle of Skye, I found this old, mossy set of steps.
#pictureoftheday #isleofskye
#pictureoftheday #isleofskye
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@jay.bsky.team visual notes from her keynote today at @sxsw!
Community! Open source! Creativity! Connection!
Graphic recording by @heatherwillems.bsky.social of #twolinestudios
#sxsw #sxsw2025 #graphicrecording
Community! Open source! Creativity! Connection!
Graphic recording by @heatherwillems.bsky.social of #twolinestudios
#sxsw #sxsw2025 #graphicrecording
March 10, 2025 at 11:32 PM
@jay.bsky.team visual notes from her keynote today at @sxsw!
Community! Open source! Creativity! Connection!
Graphic recording by @heatherwillems.bsky.social of #twolinestudios
#sxsw #sxsw2025 #graphicrecording
Community! Open source! Creativity! Connection!
Graphic recording by @heatherwillems.bsky.social of #twolinestudios
#sxsw #sxsw2025 #graphicrecording
Dow Jones CEO Almar Latour on AI, press freedom, and the future of news.
Hij begon ooit als stagiair bij het Limburgs Dagblad.
@theverge.com www.theverge.com/decoder-podc...
Hij begon ooit als stagiair bij het Limburgs Dagblad.
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WSJ publisher Almar Latour on preserving press freedom and the promise of AI
The Dow Jones CEO discusses the future of the news business and what it will take to help it thrive.
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March 11, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Dow Jones CEO Almar Latour on AI, press freedom, and the future of news.
Hij begon ooit als stagiair bij het Limburgs Dagblad.
@theverge.com www.theverge.com/decoder-podc...
Hij begon ooit als stagiair bij het Limburgs Dagblad.
@theverge.com www.theverge.com/decoder-podc...
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A lot can happen in five months. 🇺🇸
March 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM
A lot can happen in five months. 🇺🇸
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HE'S LITERALLY READING A SALES PITCH
March 11, 2025 at 8:13 PM
HE'S LITERALLY READING A SALES PITCH
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Onderzoek: Russisch netwerk injecteert westerse AI-tools met desinformatie. Meer daarover bij De Morgen.
www.demorgen.be/snelnieuws/o...
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Onderzoek: Russisch netwerk injecteert westerse AI-tools met desinformatie
De meest gebruikte en bekendste westerse chatbots verspreiden onbedoeld Russische propaganda door systematisch valse beweringen van een pro-Kremlin-netwerk te herhalen. Dit blijkt uit een analyse van ...
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March 7, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Onderzoek: Russisch netwerk injecteert westerse AI-tools met desinformatie. Meer daarover bij De Morgen.
www.demorgen.be/snelnieuws/o...
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Putin was counting on Trump. He was Russia’s only hope. And Trump is now delivering for Putin.
If the US had continued to support Ukraine, we may have been months away from the end of the war. The Russians would not have been able to continue to fight for much longer. They were making almost no progress, taking huge casualties.
March 6, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Putin was counting on Trump. He was Russia’s only hope. And Trump is now delivering for Putin.
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Waarom in vredesnaam Orban en Fico weer de boel laten chanteren? Richt een nieuwe defensie-organisatie op zonder deze Poetin-lovers. Er is geen tijd voor gesteggel, er is geen ruimte voor slappe compromissen. Vol gas op defensie, en laat Hongarije en Slowakije over 20 jaar maar onder de voet lopen.
March 6, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Waarom in vredesnaam Orban en Fico weer de boel laten chanteren? Richt een nieuwe defensie-organisatie op zonder deze Poetin-lovers. Er is geen tijd voor gesteggel, er is geen ruimte voor slappe compromissen. Vol gas op defensie, en laat Hongarije en Slowakije over 20 jaar maar onder de voet lopen.
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“We are witnessing a frontal assault on America’s institutions and if it succeeds, the US will be in serious trouble. When it comes to courts and the military, everyone needs to pay attention. If judges and soldiers are neutralized or captured, democracy dies.”
Marcel Dirsus on the rise and fall of tyrants
"The tyrant usually tries to destroy as many institutions as possible because they’re constraints on his power."
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March 3, 2025 at 7:03 PM
“We are witnessing a frontal assault on America’s institutions and if it succeeds, the US will be in serious trouble. When it comes to courts and the military, everyone needs to pay attention. If judges and soldiers are neutralized or captured, democracy dies.”
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"Wall Street is once again creating and selling securities backed by everything—the more creative the better...Data-center bonds are backed by lease payments from companies that rent out computing capacity."
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They Crashed the Economy in 2008. Now They’re Back and Bigger Than Ever.
Wall Street expects to sell more than $335 billion in asset-backed debt this year. Remember that conference in ‘The Big Short’? It just drew a record 10,000.
www.wsj.com
March 2, 2025 at 8:18 PM
"Wall Street is once again creating and selling securities backed by everything—the more creative the better...Data-center bonds are backed by lease payments from companies that rent out computing capacity."
www.wsj.com/finance/inve...
www.wsj.com/finance/inve...
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Great news for money launderers!
March 3, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Great news for money launderers!
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Zou dit dan toch waar zijn?
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Inside Soviet recruitment: Kazakhstan’s former security chief claims Trump was a KGB asset
Former Chairman of Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee (KNB) Alnur Mussayev claims that the Soviet KGB recruited Donald Trump before the collapse of the USSR, assigning him the alias Krasnov. He ...
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February 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Zou dit dan toch waar zijn?
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Rutte denkt dat de wereld op Nederland lijkt, maar weet ook dat hij als sg NAVO per saldo lakei is van VS. Daarom kiest Rutte nu de facto partij tegen Oekraïne, het land dat hij ondanks MH17 tot 2022 niet wilde leren kennen. Bah.
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NAVO-baas Rutte: Zelensky moet relatie met Trump herstellen
Volgens Rutte is dankbaarheid op zijn plaats voor wat Amerika tot nu toe heeft betekend voor Europa.
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March 1, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Rutte denkt dat de wereld op Nederland lijkt, maar weet ook dat hij als sg NAVO per saldo lakei is van VS. Daarom kiest Rutte nu de facto partij tegen Oekraïne, het land dat hij ondanks MH17 tot 2022 niet wilde leren kennen. Bah.
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I think it's best to avoid all travel to the USA for a while.
US Border Patrol doing a bang-up job, detaining a German tourist with passport & visa indefinitely because...she might tattoo here. Just one of countless horror stories...
German tourist held indefinitely in immigrant detention facility
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German tourist held indefinitely in immigrant detention facility
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German tourist held indefinitely in San Diego area immigrant detention facility
The young woman had planned to spend a month with a friend in Los Angeles and then fly home to Berlin. But she’s been in federal custody since late January.
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March 2, 2025 at 11:50 AM
I think it's best to avoid all travel to the USA for a while.
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Chris Murphy: "It is absolutely shameful what's happening right now. The White House has become an arm of the Kremlin."
March 2, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Chris Murphy: "It is absolutely shameful what's happening right now. The White House has become an arm of the Kremlin."