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Paul J Davies
@pauljdavies.bsky.social
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Has views on banking and finance for Bloomberg Opinion.
Just because you “like” something doesn’t mean you *like* something…
Money. Music. Books and Bad like really atrocious Jokes. Also #COYS

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Paul J Davies @pauljdavies.bsky.social · Apr 9
🧵 A massive sell-off in Treasury markets is threatening to turn Trump’s tariff war into full blown financial crisis. Hedge funds unwinding highly leveraged basis trades is fuel to these fire sales – that’s bad on its own, but these trades are much more important than just bets on markets.
Shadow Banks Are Too Big to Stay in the Shadows
Mega hedge funds are so critical to modern finance they should be regulated more like banks.
www.bloomberg.com

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Paul J Davies @pauljdavies.bsky.social · 15h
Just discovered this the other day and it absolutely kills me. open.spotify.com/track/77KSGV...
All Alone - Remastered
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Paul J Davies @pauljdavies.bsky.social · 21h
Taking names...
Wall Street execs and government officials gathered for a conference hosted by the Trump family’s cryptocurrency platform — showing how digital assets are both a policy priority and personal profit center in the president's second term www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Trump Family Crypto Bash Convenes Wall Street’s New Believers
Wall Street executives and government officials gathered in Mar-a-Lago’s gilded ballroom for a conference hosted by the Trump family’s cryptocurrency platform — underscoring how digital assets have be...
www.bloomberg.com

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Paul J Davies @pauljdavies.bsky.social · 22h
They're defining it as woke and banning it, right?

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Paul J Davies @pauljdavies.bsky.social · 22h
The kids are *not* alright!

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Paul J Davies @pauljdavies.bsky.social · 22h
You sound exactly like them

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Paul J Davies @pauljdavies.bsky.social · 22h
Yes, I was trying to think of a better way of disparaging it but had to post and move on

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Paul J Davies @pauljdavies.bsky.social · 23h
Oooo... Just spotted Apollo's Marc Rowan among the, erm, exalted leaders who've joined Trump's model UN
mattnegrin.bsky.social Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 1d
The New York Times smeared AOC for saying “um”
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Trump: "We have a man at the end ... you and your new friend ... these are two tough people"

Trump brags about stopping fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan but can't remember the name of either country's leader

Reposted by Paul Davies

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 23h
Oh my god they did the meme.
Four-panel meme using a scene of two characters (Anakin and Padme from Star Wars) talking in a grassy field. Top left panel shows Anakin saying: “RESTORE BRITAIN WILL VET OUR COUNCILLORS FOR RACISM.” Top right panel shows Padme smiling with text: “VET THAT THEY’RE NOT RACIST, RIGHT?” Bottom left panel shows Anakin staring ominously. Bottom right panel shows Padme looking concerned with large text: “RIGHT?”

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Paul J Davies @pauljdavies.bsky.social · 23h
I am redirecting taxpayer money to my own ungovernable vanity project

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Paul J Davies @pauljdavies.bsky.social · 23h
If you want to be banker to the Bored of Peace, this is what you're signing up to >> Trump's Board of Peace no longer has anything to do with its UN mandate and should be blackballed, says @andreaskluth.bsky.social
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Then things turned Trumpy. Last month, in a ceremony at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Trump launched the board, sending out invitations to much of the planet, including dictators such as Belarus’ Alexander Lukashenko. And he attached the board’s charter, which bore no resemblance to the UN Security Council’s Resolution 2803. Above all, the charter makes clear that the entire board is built around the personality of Donald Trump. He is to remain chair in perpetuity, apparently even after his presidency. He has sole discretion to appoint a successor, invite new members and renew the terms of existing members (countries that cough up $1 billion in the first year can stay indefinitely, though). The charter lets Trump do whatever he wants with the board. “I can’t think of a single president in American history who had quite that sense that it was all about him,” says Stephen Walt, a realist scholar of international relations at the Harvard Kennedy School. “So much of what [Trump] does,” he told me, “is designed to bring adulation from others or pretend that he has it.” That quest now takes the form of mashing together the words “Trump” and “peace” in as many contexts as possible, and either appropriating other people’s peace prizes or accepting fake ones created just to please him.

Reposted by Scott L. Greer, David Rothschild, Paul Davies

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 1d
The New York Times smeared AOC for saying “um”
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Trump: "We have a man at the end ... you and your new friend ... these are two tough people"

Trump brags about stopping fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan but can't remember the name of either country's leader

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Paul J Davies @pauljdavies.bsky.social · 1d
Such a wonderful Alan Partridge moment. "No red flags, not even amber ones. Only green, Lynn, green flags all the way back to London!"

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Paul J Davies @pauljdavies.bsky.social · 1d
Guess we could just swap out "felicity" for "criminality"...?
jntod.bsky.social Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 1d
Forty years since Ted Hughes wrote his single most excruciating Laureate poem, for the wedding of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson
The Song of the Honey Bee For the Marriage of His Royal Highness Prince Andrew and Miss Sarah Ferguson 23 July 1986 When all the birds of Roxburghshire Danced on the lawns, and all The Salmon of the Tweed cavorted Over the Garden Wall Gold as the Honey Bee A helicopter snatched you up. The pilot, it was me. The props, like a roulette wheel, Stopped at felicity Soft as the Thistle's Crown

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Paul J Davies @pauljdavies.bsky.social · 1d
I mean, I guess I can understand why you would, but I can really understand why you wouldn't!

JPMorgan in talks to be banker for Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ www.ft.com/content/b101...
JPMorgan in talks to be banker for Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’
About two dozen countries have agreed to join controversial new US-led body as it seeks to raise billions to rebuild Gaza
www.ft.com

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 1d
"More than 75,000 people were killed in the first 16 months of the two-year war in Gaza, at least 25,000 more than the death toll announced by local authorities at the time, according to a study published on Wednesday in the Lancet medical journal." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
Gaza death toll in early part of war far higher than reported, says Lancet study
Research suggests more than 75,000 killed in the first 16 months of conflict, 25,000 more than announced at the time
www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Martin Paul Eve, Paul Davies, Katrina Navickas

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 1d
Forty years since Ted Hughes wrote his single most excruciating Laureate poem, for the wedding of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson
The Song of the Honey Bee For the Marriage of His Royal Highness Prince Andrew and Miss Sarah Ferguson 23 July 1986 When all the birds of Roxburghshire Danced on the lawns, and all The Salmon of the Tweed cavorted Over the Garden Wall Gold as the Honey Bee A helicopter snatched you up. The pilot, it was me. The props, like a roulette wheel, Stopped at felicity Soft as the Thistle's Crown

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Paul J Davies @pauljdavies.bsky.social · 1d
Snort><

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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 1d
Oh, the grand old duke of york
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Paul J Davies @pauljdavies.bsky.social · 1d
Pfffft… there’s bigger headlines in the European investment grade new issues market for us.
jim.londoncentric.media Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 1d
Good luck to anyone trying to publish any other news today.

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Paul J Davies @pauljdavies.bsky.social · 1d
“a man in his sixties from Norfolk”

How small he is now

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Paul J Davies @pauljdavies.bsky.social · 1d
Oh wow.
newseye.bsky.social News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d
BREAKING: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor (formerly Prince Andrew) has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office.

He is accused of sharing confidential government documents with Jeffrey Epstein.

Unprecedented.

Side note: it is Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s birthday today.
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office
It comes after Thames Valley Police said they were assessing a complaint over the alleged sharing of confidential material by the former prince with Jeffrey Epstein.
www.bbc.co.uk

Reposted by Paul Davies

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d
BREAKING: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor (formerly Prince Andrew) has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office.

He is accused of sharing confidential government documents with Jeffrey Epstein.

Unprecedented.

Side note: it is Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s birthday today.
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office
It comes after Thames Valley Police said they were assessing a complaint over the alleged sharing of confidential material by the former prince with Jeffrey Epstein.
www.bbc.co.uk

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Paul J Davies @pauljdavies.bsky.social · 1d
In the simplest, unaccountability-machine form, balanced public service news just becomes a bad averaging machine like a cheap ChatGPT. The nut graph is the most commonly repeated received wisdom on any topic.

Reposted by Will Jennings, Paul Davies

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 1d
Good luck to anyone trying to publish any other news today.

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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 1d
Bayer notes the U.S. order on glyphosate defense production reinforces farmers’ access needs and confirms the company’s compliance.

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Paul J Davies @pauljdavies.bsky.social · 1d
This seems like a silly case that won't tell us anything useful about investment banking culture or reasonable demands....

A court will decide if bankers can be fired for demanding sleep www.ft.com/content/60b3...
A court will decide if bankers can be fired for demanding sleep
US jury to rule on whether Centerview erred by sacking junior analyst who needed at least eight hours’ rest per night
www.ft.com

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Paul J Davies @pauljdavies.bsky.social · 1d
This is the real stablecoin - network of tokenised deposits for regional banks>

US banks are working to build a tokenized deposit network as financial firms fight to stay relevant amid the rise of digital assets www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
US Banks Build Tokenized Deposit Network to Guard Their Turf
US banks including Huntington Bancshares Inc., First Horizon Corp. and M&amp;T Bank Corp. are working to build a tokenized deposit network as financial firms fight to stay relevant amid the rise of di...
www.bloomberg.com

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Paul J Davies @pauljdavies.bsky.social · 1d
The poor man has been living in hell all his adult life

“The original sin was the ousting of Margaret Thatcher by Europhile Conservative wets in 1990…”

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Paul J Davies @pauljdavies.bsky.social · 1d
12 angry men (and some academy kids) and a short war specialist with a comicbook name… who the hell knows what that performance is going to look like. Gonna be quite an atmosphere tho!

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Paul J Davies @pauljdavies.bsky.social · 1d
The banter outcome got you there