James Mackintosh
jmackin2.bsky.social
James Mackintosh
@jmackin2.bsky.social
Writer of Streetwise column in the Wall Street Journal www.wsj.com/streetwise Here for FinTwit c. 2012. Ex FT
Especially for Catz alumni (inc one former Prince of Darkness)
February 12, 2026 at 9:58 AM
Nena had a good song about that
February 11, 2026 at 5:53 PM
The factual stuff, rather than the rating itself, is what I read the summaries for
February 10, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Yes, but mostly it isn't critical. Credit situation is, gotta hope it didn't hallucinate a big pile of cash backing the bond
February 10, 2026 at 12:25 PM
Classic politicians though.
1. Banks build local solutions.
2. Banks sell local solution to American company
3. Govts approve sale
4. Panic! Somehow American company owns local solution!
5. Higher taxes to build bad state-run version of local solution
February 9, 2026 at 9:13 AM
Nice data. Can you reconcile to IMF net debt figure, IIRC ~130%?
February 9, 2026 at 8:46 AM
Also if you had to pay full cost, would it be worth it? For some tasks sure, for many current uses questionable
February 4, 2026 at 12:16 PM
Best bit of that story was the fact the driver had previously been in the news for having a coach that filled up with snow. How? What?
February 4, 2026 at 10:55 AM
Reposted by James Mackintosh
Time we stripped the Prince of Darkness of his royal title. He should simply be Peter Mandelson-Darkness from now on.
February 3, 2026 at 9:25 PM
(Xeroxes or xeri, xerii, xera?)
February 3, 2026 at 11:45 AM
Also Lexmark. Mine finally gave up after 15+ years of zero problems. Bought by Xerox but some of the Xeroxes (inc the one I bought) are rebadged Lexmarks. So far seems great
February 3, 2026 at 11:44 AM
Good review btw, and good to put it in front of Guardian readers who believe inequality got worse
February 3, 2026 at 9:23 AM
My experience is that no matter how many times one points out this flaw in the argument, they will keep saying 'yeah but billionaires'...
February 3, 2026 at 9:12 AM