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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 18h

🔶 Gold price tops $4,000 for first time 🔶

The precious metal has soared more than 50% this year, driven by central banks buying bullion to diversify away from the dollar, as well as by investors who see gold as a hedge against inflation and widespread uncertainty

FT www.ft.com/content/ed7f...

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lines down @linesdown.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for the review. I bought the book but I haven’t read it yet. There must be a better recent book on this?

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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 2d

Oh:
- The US sold $80 billion in oil and gas abroad through July.
- China exported $120 billion in green technology over the same period.
By @akshatrathi.bsky.social
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

China Is Beating the US in the Battle for Energy Export Dominance

China’s exports of clean energy technology hit a record in August, with $20 billion shipped globally.

www.bloomberg.com

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lines down @linesdown.bsky.social · 1d

Solidarity with California, Illinois and DC

@jimamendments

The Third
Amendment
Soldier, imagining how nice it will be to nap on my sofa

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lines down @linesdown.bsky.social · 2d

Tomorrow would be good time.

Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 2d

At what point does a governor call up their National Guard to oppose the deployment of an out-of-state National Guard?

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lines down @linesdown.bsky.social · 2d

700 marines eyeing the futon in me and my roommates flex 2br in Santa Monica
The Third Amendment

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 3d

Argentina’s wily currency traders drain Javier Milei’s dollars on.ft.com/4pUkn1R

Argentina’s wily currency traders drain Javier Milei’s dollars

Labyrinthine restrictions and chronic instability spawn strategies to profit from foreign exchange policies

on.ft.com

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lines down @linesdown.bsky.social · 2d

5’8” Mexican humiliates Yankees again.

lines down @linesdown.bsky.social · 2d

The Yankees are being destroyed by a foreign team. The American “century of humiliation” has begun.

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lines down @linesdown.bsky.social · 2d

The Yankees are being destroyed by a foreign team. The American “century of humiliation” has begun.

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lines down @linesdown.bsky.social · 3d

Depends on the screen you want. I like the Kindle Paperwhite. The fact you can’t browse or install apps is a bonus.

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lines down @linesdown.bsky.social · 3d

It’s overall fine but it’s based on a PhD thesis and so a lot of it is just Mau proving he did the reading.

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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 4d

Spot the North-American anomaly: only region where social media use is still growing.
Great work by the FT’s @jburnmurdoch.ft.com
www.ft.com/content/a072... “Have we passed peak social media?”

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 5d

#Solar becomes main source of electricity in the #EU for first time. More than half of the EU’s #electricity in the second quarter of 2025 came from #RenewableEnergy
www.independent.co.uk/tech/solar-p...

Solar becomes main source of electricity in the EU for first time

More than half of the EU’s electricity in the second quarter of 2025 came from renewable energy

www.independent.co.uk

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 4d

this is like half of r/ups now

Hi Andrew,

You have a new invoice for $63,755.71

Tariff Fee on T Shirt

Total Due: $83.27

Government Charges: $59.27
Brokerage Charges: $24.00

How to go about disputing an incorrect tariff charge?

Total Due: $82.92

Government Charges: $68.92
UPS Brokerage fees: $14.00

I’ve received 15 different duties and tariff charges for items I didn’t order.
Customer Seeking Help
The title is the crux of the issue. Over the past 3 weeks I’ve received numerous brown envelopes all charging me for duty and tariff fees associated with items that I never ordered.

The seller is somebody I’ve bought from before, but the last time I purchased from them was several months ago and my name is on the sold to slot. The “shipped to” person is someone I don’t know and the address and tracking address are both unrelated to me.

I’ve sent emails to an address given to my by the one time I was able to get through the phone number listed on the paper bill. They said the invoices will be removed in 4-6 weeks but now I’ve started receiving late fee bills on top. I’ve tried to call in again once a day, but I either get hung up on or my call drops once the wait lasts over an hour.

Any advice? I just don’t want this to go to collections or affect my credit for something I didn’t order or have any relation to besides my name being on something it shouldn’t have.

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lines down @linesdown.bsky.social · 5d

Even with US jobs data from the BLS cancelled the picture of a declining labour market is clear from other sources.

US Hiring Has Slowed, No Matter the Source Economists estimated BLS report to show 53,000 jobs added last month
BLS
ADP
1.0M
0.5
600K
400
200
-0.5
-200
Feb Mar Apr
2022 2023 2024
Sep
2025
Feb Apr
Jun
Sep
2022 2023 2024 2025
Revelio
600K
400
200
huny
-200
Feb Apr Jun
Sep
2022 2023 2024 2025
Source: Bloomberg, Bureau of Labor Statistics, ADP Research, Revelio Labs
Note: Month-over-month employment changes, seasonally adjusted. ADP only measures

Companies in US Reduce Payrolls for a Second Month
Data adjustment may overstate the weakness in the labor market
• Change in private payrolls (SA)
300k
200
100
-100
Dec
2022
Apr
2023
Aug
Dec
Apr
2024
Aug
Dec
Apr
2025
Sep
Source: ADP Research
Bloomberg

Job Postings Declined Throughout September
Openings were little changed in August but notably fell last month
Indeed Job Postings Index
115
110
105
100

T
Dec
Apr
2024
2025
Jul
Source: Indeed
Note: Index is built from a 7-day moving
average of job postings; Feb. 1, 2020 = 100
Bloomberg

Layoffs and Other Separations
Rate
2.10%
2.05
2.00
1.95
1.90
Hiring Rate for Unemployed
Workers
55%
50
M
45
T
T
Jan
Jan
2023
2025
-T
Jan
2023
T
Jan
2024
T
Jan
2025
Source: Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Bloomberg

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aaron from queens from twitter @aaronnarraph.bsky.social · 5d

43% of Democrats (52% of 18-29 voters) say foreign policy and Israel will play a role in their vote in the 2026 primaries. (81% say the economy and healthcare, of course.)

80% want to reduce support for Israel
74% want an arms embargo
72% say it's a genocide
65% want sanctions

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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 5d

🔴 ⚠️ BREAKING: US ISM SERVICES PMI ACTUAL 50.0 (FORECAST 51.7, PREVIOUS 52.0) $MACRO

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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 5d

Canada's S&P Global Services PMI for September was 46.3, down from 48.6 the previous month, indicating a decline in service sector activity. 📉

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 5d

[after tenting my fingers for one month straight] more like stupid tha very idiot

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 5d

Weeks after Charlamagne tha God mocked Hakeem Jeffries calling him “AIPAC Shakur,” Jeffries responds with his own nickname: “Charlatan the Fraud”

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Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 8d

Close to cycle lows for private hires:

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Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 8d

8-year lows for construction openings:

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 8d

David Brent

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Hegseth: "If the words I'm speaking today are making your heart sink, they you should do the honorable thing and resign."

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 8d

Ezra Klein: There's a Rick & Morty quote I really like.

Ezra Klein: It goes like this, "Why would a pop-tart want to live inside a toaster? That would be like the scariest place for them to live."

Ezra Klein: Because in the episode they go to a neighborhood where everyone is a pop-tart and they live in toaster-houses.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 8d

We need a bigger tent, that’s why we must betray and expel the following types of people:

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lines down @linesdown.bsky.social · 9d

I think foreign and defence policy is being amended to match the NATO spending target. I haven’t seen anyone in the government say who we are rearming *against*.