Cian Twomey
@cian2me.bsky.social
Financial economist. Interested in digital finance, portfolio ideas, and behavioural finance. Credit union chair. And devoted to a little dachshund
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“.. a poll of Germans found nearly two-thirds said they wanted to avoid US brands. .. an astounding 83 per cent of Swedes said they were no longer buying US brands.”
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February 2, 2026 at 6:26 PM
“.. a poll of Germans found nearly two-thirds said they wanted to avoid US brands. .. an astounding 83 per cent of Swedes said they were no longer buying US brands.”
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@financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/3276...
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“There’s something uniquely American about stablecoins”
Make of that what you will
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Make of that what you will
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The stablecoin war: Wall Street vs crypto over the future of money
[FREE TO READ] Banks say rules governing the digital currency are a risk to financial stability. Are they just trying to stamp out competition?
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February 2, 2026 at 9:45 AM
“There’s something uniquely American about stablecoins”
Make of that what you will
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Make of that what you will
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This is the U Penn donor who helped push the President out, pushed to eliminate arts & science offerings, and drafted Trumps "compact" with universities.
People like Rowan repeatedly claimed the moral high ground to impose their agenda on students and faculty.
People like Rowan repeatedly claimed the moral high ground to impose their agenda on students and faculty.
Top Apollo Global Management executives including chief Marc Rowan held wide-ranging discussions over the firm’s tax arrangements with Jeffrey Epstein throughout the 2010s www.ft.com/content/092d...
Apollo chief Marc Rowan consulted Epstein on firm’s tax affairs
New files reveal extensive talks between disgraced financier and key decision makers at US private capital firm
www.ft.com
February 1, 2026 at 8:53 PM
This is the U Penn donor who helped push the President out, pushed to eliminate arts & science offerings, and drafted Trumps "compact" with universities.
People like Rowan repeatedly claimed the moral high ground to impose their agenda on students and faculty.
People like Rowan repeatedly claimed the moral high ground to impose their agenda on students and faculty.
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Spectacular in the sunshine.
Adare Manor is certainly one of the jewels of Irish hotels
Adare Manor is certainly one of the jewels of Irish hotels
February 1, 2026 at 1:10 PM
Spectacular in the sunshine.
Adare Manor is certainly one of the jewels of Irish hotels
Adare Manor is certainly one of the jewels of Irish hotels
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Xi calls for China’s renminbi to attain global reserve currency status ft.trib.al/P7yHdQE
Xi calls for China’s renminbi to attain global reserve currency status
Latest commentary details ambitions for ‘powerful currency’ to play a greater role in trade and forex
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February 1, 2026 at 9:41 AM
Xi calls for China’s renminbi to attain global reserve currency status ft.trib.al/P7yHdQE
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Hoping Matt Goodwin loses Gorton and Denton for many reasons, not least because we can deploy the headline, and resulting nickname, Matt Badloss
January 31, 2026 at 10:10 AM
Hoping Matt Goodwin loses Gorton and Denton for many reasons, not least because we can deploy the headline, and resulting nickname, Matt Badloss
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Barely a few hours after President Donald Trump named him as the next nominee to chair the Federal Reserve, Kevin Warsh was revealed to be in the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case files.
Trump's Fed chair pick named in Epstein files just hours after his nomination
Barely a few hours after President Donald Trump named him as the next nominee to chair the Federal Reserve, Kevin Warsh was revealed to be in the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case files.According to The New Republic, "Warsh’s name appears to be on an emailed list of guests to 'St. Barth’s Christm...
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January 30, 2026 at 11:15 PM
Barely a few hours after President Donald Trump named him as the next nominee to chair the Federal Reserve, Kevin Warsh was revealed to be in the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case files.
Not a bad spot for the long weekend.
Golfers won't arrive until September 2027 ;)
Golfers won't arrive until September 2027 ;)
January 30, 2026 at 11:55 PM
Not a bad spot for the long weekend.
Golfers won't arrive until September 2027 ;)
Golfers won't arrive until September 2027 ;)
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Amid the doom & crazy coming from the other side of the Atlantic, last year I suggested that #Trump's excesses would help catalyse a #GreatGlobalRebalancing away from the #US
One year on, LISTEN to how this has accelerated & why this is wonderful news 4 RoW
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One year on, LISTEN to how this has accelerated & why this is wonderful news 4 RoW
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The Great Global Rebalancing: How Trump's America is Losing its Grip on the World's Capital with Sony Kapoor
Podcast Episode · The David McWilliams Podcast · 27/01/2026 · 45m
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January 29, 2026 at 8:06 AM
Amid the doom & crazy coming from the other side of the Atlantic, last year I suggested that #Trump's excesses would help catalyse a #GreatGlobalRebalancing away from the #US
One year on, LISTEN to how this has accelerated & why this is wonderful news 4 RoW
podcasts.apple.com/no/podcast/t...
One year on, LISTEN to how this has accelerated & why this is wonderful news 4 RoW
podcasts.apple.com/no/podcast/t...
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Good god...embodying all of the 7 deadly sins at once really does eat away at you...
i have not jumped on the “any day now” bandwagon thus far, but he legitimately looks near death in this photo.
January 28, 2026 at 10:31 PM
Good god...embodying all of the 7 deadly sins at once really does eat away at you...
Matt Goodwin MP
a young boy is wearing a yellow shirt and smiling for the camera .
ALT: a young boy is wearing a yellow shirt and smiling for the camera .
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January 27, 2026 at 10:36 PM
Matt Goodwin MP
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🚨 NEW PROFILE: Emily Oster, Brown University Economist
Nobody bothered to ask what an economist might really know about managing an infectious disease pandemic. She raked in millions peddling disinformation before pivoting to MAHA.
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Nobody bothered to ask what an economist might really know about managing an infectious disease pandemic. She raked in millions peddling disinformation before pivoting to MAHA.
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PROFILE: Emily Oster, Brown University Economist
From COVID-19 Cheerleader to MAHA Cheerleader
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January 23, 2026 at 12:21 AM
🚨 NEW PROFILE: Emily Oster, Brown University Economist
Nobody bothered to ask what an economist might really know about managing an infectious disease pandemic. She raked in millions peddling disinformation before pivoting to MAHA.
👇 READ, SUB, SHARE WIDELY: www.panaccindex.info/p/profile-em...
Nobody bothered to ask what an economist might really know about managing an infectious disease pandemic. She raked in millions peddling disinformation before pivoting to MAHA.
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Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.
January 27, 2026 at 5:36 AM
Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.
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It’s always funny when palantir employees discover that they work at palantir
Palantir employees are pressing company leadership over its work for ICE in internal company Slacks obtained by @wired.com
"In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this."
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"In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this."
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Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti
“In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this,” one worker wrote on Slack.
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January 26, 2026 at 10:51 PM
It’s always funny when palantir employees discover that they work at palantir
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The president should be impeached and convicted, as should everyone responsible for these outrages. ICE should be disbanded. So should the Department of Homeland Security. And the people who have killed should be investigated and brought before judges and juries.
We have to see the logic of the killings as well as the killings themselves. The horror is a truth in itself. But it is also a sign of a political logic, one known from the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century.
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Lies and Lawlessness
The Camps, the Executions, and the Future
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January 25, 2026 at 10:25 PM
The president should be impeached and convicted, as should everyone responsible for these outrages. ICE should be disbanded. So should the Department of Homeland Security. And the people who have killed should be investigated and brought before judges and juries.
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The execution of Alex Pretti is playing so badly because you can look at his actions and life story - his last act was helping, boy scout, athlete, health care worker to veterans - and compare those to the men who killed him and know which you would want to be your son, brother, father, uncle.
January 26, 2026 at 4:18 PM
The execution of Alex Pretti is playing so badly because you can look at his actions and life story - his last act was helping, boy scout, athlete, health care worker to veterans - and compare those to the men who killed him and know which you would want to be your son, brother, father, uncle.
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NEW: Derivatives-based ETFs are Wall Street’s hottest investment
Assets in US outcome ETFs, which layer derivatives on top of benchmarks like the S&P, have quadrupled since 2022 to $280bn
Our deepdive on ETFs bringing complex derivatives strategies to the masses 🧵
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Assets in US outcome ETFs, which layer derivatives on top of benchmarks like the S&P, have quadrupled since 2022 to $280bn
Our deepdive on ETFs bringing complex derivatives strategies to the masses 🧵
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Derivatives-based ETFs are Wall Street’s hottest investment | IFR
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ETFs bring derivatives strategies to a wider audience
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January 26, 2026 at 12:24 PM
Don't invest unless you know the risks!
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A long read on the awfully exciting world of mystery boxes that work except when they don't.
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The quant shop — AI lab convergence
Alpha 🤜 🤛 AGI
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January 26, 2026 at 8:40 AM
A long read on the awfully exciting world of mystery boxes that work except when they don't.
www.ft.com/content/1831...
www.ft.com/content/1831...
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This is the single funniest excuse he could have come up with for not wanting to be booed in public
President Donald Trump will not be attending Super Bowl LX on Feb. 8 in Santa Clara, Calif., he said in an interview with the New York Post.
“It’s just too far away,” he said.
“It’s just too far away,” he said.
January 26, 2026 at 12:52 AM
This is the single funniest excuse he could have come up with for not wanting to be booed in public
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Overwhelming majority want Elon Musk’s X banned in Ireland
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January 25, 2026 at 1:31 PM
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The events of the last 24 hours show why it's important to build functional verification structures in public and counterpublic spaces to resist the authoritarian erosion of our democratic systems, as described in this thread.
🧵 @jburnmurdoch.ft.com is spot on about the conditions in his FT piece. Liberal democracy held it together thanks to growth, good demographics, and the promise of a better future. Those days are gone, and that’s the "why" behind the erosion. However...
Democratic politicians have, though, pursued growth in GDP at the expense of other values. One response to @jburnmurdoch.ft.com pessimistic scenario is refocus on those values, combined with egalitarianism, sufficiency and quality of life. Not "it's the economy, stupid" but "it's the the society"
January 25, 2026 at 9:24 AM
The events of the last 24 hours show why it's important to build functional verification structures in public and counterpublic spaces to resist the authoritarian erosion of our democratic systems, as described in this thread.
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Say his name: Alex Jeffrey Pretti, an intensive care nurse, ten shots. Gunned down by ICE on a Minneapolis street, blood on the President’s hands.
January 25, 2026 at 8:53 AM
Say his name: Alex Jeffrey Pretti, an intensive care nurse, ten shots. Gunned down by ICE on a Minneapolis street, blood on the President’s hands.