Robert Armstrong
@robarmstrong.bsky.social
US Financial Commentator, Financial Times. Opinions mine, unfortunately. The pursuit of pleasure is hard work.
Merry Christmas!
Untitled from Cubes in Color on Color http://www.moma.org/collection/works/100131
December 22, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Merry Christmas!
I picking up hundreds of new followers on this platform. I think all of them are bots.
I am the robot king! Bow before me, my creepy fake minions!
I am the robot king! Bow before me, my creepy fake minions!
December 22, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I picking up hundreds of new followers on this platform. I think all of them are bots.
I am the robot king! Bow before me, my creepy fake minions!
I am the robot king! Bow before me, my creepy fake minions!
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I want to raise a few issues with this ...
- The unemployment rate was 4.6% in Nov 2025.
- There are 982,000 more unemployed people in Nov 2025 than in Jan 2025.
- There are 271,000 fewer federal government employees.
- 982,000 > 271,000. More than 3 times more unemployed.
- The unemployment rate was 4.6% in Nov 2025.
- There are 982,000 more unemployed people in Nov 2025 than in Jan 2025.
- There are 271,000 fewer federal government employees.
- 982,000 > 271,000. More than 3 times more unemployed.
December 19, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I want to raise a few issues with this ...
- The unemployment rate was 4.6% in Nov 2025.
- There are 982,000 more unemployed people in Nov 2025 than in Jan 2025.
- There are 271,000 fewer federal government employees.
- 982,000 > 271,000. More than 3 times more unemployed.
- The unemployment rate was 4.6% in Nov 2025.
- There are 982,000 more unemployed people in Nov 2025 than in Jan 2025.
- There are 271,000 fewer federal government employees.
- 982,000 > 271,000. More than 3 times more unemployed.
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👂🏼 SLIGHTLY HUNG-OVER POD TIME 👂🏼
me and @robarmstrong.bsky.social on whether the US economy really is as GREAT as DJT says it is.
Plus: a totally unfair drive-by on Wham and awful corporate festive videos
open.spotify.com/episode/7INA...
me and @robarmstrong.bsky.social on whether the US economy really is as GREAT as DJT says it is.
Plus: a totally unfair drive-by on Wham and awful corporate festive videos
open.spotify.com/episode/7INA...
Three numbers that matter
open.spotify.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:51 AM
👂🏼 SLIGHTLY HUNG-OVER POD TIME 👂🏼
me and @robarmstrong.bsky.social on whether the US economy really is as GREAT as DJT says it is.
Plus: a totally unfair drive-by on Wham and awful corporate festive videos
open.spotify.com/episode/7INA...
me and @robarmstrong.bsky.social on whether the US economy really is as GREAT as DJT says it is.
Plus: a totally unfair drive-by on Wham and awful corporate festive videos
open.spotify.com/episode/7INA...
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🥈 👂🏼 POD TIME 👂🏼 🥈
Because we love getting emails from wing nuts, @robarmstrong.bsky.social and I talked about the three horsemen of the loonpocalypse: gold, silver and crypto. Also about euphoria.
open.spotify.com/episode/02mK...
Because we love getting emails from wing nuts, @robarmstrong.bsky.social and I talked about the three horsemen of the loonpocalypse: gold, silver and crypto. Also about euphoria.
open.spotify.com/episode/02mK...
Gold, silver and crypto
open.spotify.com
December 17, 2025 at 9:34 AM
🥈 👂🏼 POD TIME 👂🏼 🥈
Because we love getting emails from wing nuts, @robarmstrong.bsky.social and I talked about the three horsemen of the loonpocalypse: gold, silver and crypto. Also about euphoria.
open.spotify.com/episode/02mK...
Because we love getting emails from wing nuts, @robarmstrong.bsky.social and I talked about the three horsemen of the loonpocalypse: gold, silver and crypto. Also about euphoria.
open.spotify.com/episode/02mK...
It's time I told all of you: I have been leading a double life
Someone pointed out to me that he looks like @robarmstrong.bsky.social and they were not wrong
For Edi Rama, Albania’s prime minister, these are the best of times and the worst of times. Can he find a way into the European Union?
December 14, 2025 at 12:47 PM
It's time I told all of you: I have been leading a double life
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👂🏼 POD TIME 👂🏼
me, @robarmstrong.bsky.social and @iankmsmith.ft.com on predictions for markets in 2026, featuring:
-Rob telling everyone to chill out about the Fed 🤔
-AI 🫧🫧🫧🫧?
-who let the bulls out? 🐂
open.spotify.com/episode/7HE4...
me, @robarmstrong.bsky.social and @iankmsmith.ft.com on predictions for markets in 2026, featuring:
-Rob telling everyone to chill out about the Fed 🤔
-AI 🫧🫧🫧🫧?
-who let the bulls out? 🐂
open.spotify.com/episode/7HE4...
Can 2026 match 2025?
open.spotify.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:15 AM
👂🏼 POD TIME 👂🏼
me, @robarmstrong.bsky.social and @iankmsmith.ft.com on predictions for markets in 2026, featuring:
-Rob telling everyone to chill out about the Fed 🤔
-AI 🫧🫧🫧🫧?
-who let the bulls out? 🐂
open.spotify.com/episode/7HE4...
me, @robarmstrong.bsky.social and @iankmsmith.ft.com on predictions for markets in 2026, featuring:
-Rob telling everyone to chill out about the Fed 🤔
-AI 🫧🫧🫧🫧?
-who let the bulls out? 🐂
open.spotify.com/episode/7HE4...
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11 December 1904 | A German Jew, Felix Nussbaum, was born in Osnabrück. A painter.
From 1933 in exile. During the war he was interned in Saint-Cyprien camp. He escaped & went into hiding in Belgium. Arrested in 1944 & deported with his wife to Auschwitz where they perished.
From 1933 in exile. During the war he was interned in Saint-Cyprien camp. He escaped & went into hiding in Belgium. Arrested in 1944 & deported with his wife to Auschwitz where they perished.
December 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
11 December 1904 | A German Jew, Felix Nussbaum, was born in Osnabrück. A painter.
From 1933 in exile. During the war he was interned in Saint-Cyprien camp. He escaped & went into hiding in Belgium. Arrested in 1944 & deported with his wife to Auschwitz where they perished.
From 1933 in exile. During the war he was interned in Saint-Cyprien camp. He escaped & went into hiding in Belgium. Arrested in 1944 & deported with his wife to Auschwitz where they perished.
Is it just me or are there suddenly loads of bots on this platform?
December 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Is it just me or are there suddenly loads of bots on this platform?
POD TIME!
An absolute banger on Warner-Paramount-Netflix with James Fontanella-Kahn and Oliver Barnes
www.ft.com/content/d817...
An absolute banger on Warner-Paramount-Netflix with James Fontanella-Kahn and Oliver Barnes
www.ft.com/content/d817...
Who gets to buy Warner Bros. Discovery?
Paramount and Netflix battle to acquire a legendary studio
www.ft.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:20 PM
POD TIME!
An absolute banger on Warner-Paramount-Netflix with James Fontanella-Kahn and Oliver Barnes
www.ft.com/content/d817...
An absolute banger on Warner-Paramount-Netflix with James Fontanella-Kahn and Oliver Barnes
www.ft.com/content/d817...
comedy gold
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...
www.propublica.org
December 8, 2025 at 5:26 PM
comedy gold
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
A little story about the Treasury secretary, Frankling the Turtle, and Treasury prices
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December 8, 2025 at 2:48 PM
A little story about the Treasury secretary, Frankling the Turtle, and Treasury prices
as.ft.com/r/6e764b13-d...
as.ft.com/r/6e764b13-d...
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political science
Found when sorting an old drive. I still, very occasionally, say 'not many badgers in the House of Lords' and this is why:
December 6, 2025 at 12:47 PM
political science
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👂🏼 🧠 BRAINIAC POD TIME 🧠 👂🏼
Me, @robarmstrong.bsky.social and also, big brain @adamposen.bsky.social on:
-inflation? again? 📈
-accidents waiting to happen 😯
-financial stability risks 😬
-crypto: too big to fail? 😱
-Taco the Reindeer 🦌🎄
-American ball sports 🤷🏼♀️
open.spotify.com/episode/0O7M...
Me, @robarmstrong.bsky.social and also, big brain @adamposen.bsky.social on:
-inflation? again? 📈
-accidents waiting to happen 😯
-financial stability risks 😬
-crypto: too big to fail? 😱
-Taco the Reindeer 🦌🎄
-American ball sports 🤷🏼♀️
open.spotify.com/episode/0O7M...
A satanic list of inflationary factors
open.spotify.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:37 AM
👂🏼 🧠 BRAINIAC POD TIME 🧠 👂🏼
Me, @robarmstrong.bsky.social and also, big brain @adamposen.bsky.social on:
-inflation? again? 📈
-accidents waiting to happen 😯
-financial stability risks 😬
-crypto: too big to fail? 😱
-Taco the Reindeer 🦌🎄
-American ball sports 🤷🏼♀️
open.spotify.com/episode/0O7M...
Me, @robarmstrong.bsky.social and also, big brain @adamposen.bsky.social on:
-inflation? again? 📈
-accidents waiting to happen 😯
-financial stability risks 😬
-crypto: too big to fail? 😱
-Taco the Reindeer 🦌🎄
-American ball sports 🤷🏼♀️
open.spotify.com/episode/0O7M...
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I didn’t know her, but I wish I had.
NEW: From our @markhertling.bsky.social, a eulogy for Sarah Beckstrom, the young National Guard soldier shot in Washington, D.C. This is a moving reflection about service, risk, death, grief, and remembrance.
www.thebulwark.com/p/rememberin...
www.thebulwark.com/p/rememberin...
Remembering Spc. Sarah Beckstrom and Honoring Her Service
A soldier lost in Washington, and what her death means for those who served beside her.
www.thebulwark.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:20 AM
I didn’t know her, but I wish I had.
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Ailanthus Leaves II (Vernis du Japon II) from Suite of Plant Lithographs http://www.moma.org/collection/works/77276
December 1, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Ailanthus Leaves II (Vernis du Japon II) from Suite of Plant Lithographs http://www.moma.org/collection/works/77276
I named my fists the Two Cities, because they are about to have the best of times and you are about to have the worst of times
I named my fists Moby and Dick because they whale
I named my fists Lot and 49 because it’s time for some crying
December 1, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I named my fists the Two Cities, because they are about to have the best of times and you are about to have the worst of times
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30 November 1936 | A Belgian Jewish girl, Anna van Kreveld, was born in Borgerhout. She emigrated to The Netherlands.
In November 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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Ggas chambers & crematoria of Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck
In November 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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Ggas chambers & crematoria of Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck
November 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM
30 November 1936 | A Belgian Jewish girl, Anna van Kreveld, was born in Borgerhout. She emigrated to The Netherlands.
In November 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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Ggas chambers & crematoria of Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck
In November 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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Ggas chambers & crematoria of Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck
Pauline Borsook in today's NYT:
November 30, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Pauline Borsook in today's NYT:
@clarkelife.bsky.social bought this on the street near the FT's New York office.
It's been a weird year.
It's been a weird year.
November 25, 2025 at 9:31 PM
@clarkelife.bsky.social bought this on the street near the FT's New York office.
It's been a weird year.
It's been a weird year.
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Six Thousand Two Hundred and Fifty Five Lines http://www.moma.org/collection/works/147072
November 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Six Thousand Two Hundred and Fifty Five Lines http://www.moma.org/collection/works/147072
Todd Snider - DB Cooper
YouTube video by Boulder House Concert
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 PM
TRUMP AND MAMDANI SITTIN' IN A TREE
K-I-S-S-I-N-G
K-I-S-S-I-N-G
November 22, 2025 at 1:53 PM
TRUMP AND MAMDANI SITTIN' IN A TREE
K-I-S-S-I-N-G
K-I-S-S-I-N-G
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🫧👂🏼 POD TIME 👂🏼 🫧
me and the very handsome @robarmstrong.bsky.social on:
-constructive feedback on our personal appearance
-bubble bubble pop?
-Pissing areas in swimming pools
-handbags as an asset class
open.spotify.com/episode/5trY...
me and the very handsome @robarmstrong.bsky.social on:
-constructive feedback on our personal appearance
-bubble bubble pop?
-Pissing areas in swimming pools
-handbags as an asset class
open.spotify.com/episode/5trY...
Nvidia's crazy day
open.spotify.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:29 AM
🫧👂🏼 POD TIME 👂🏼 🫧
me and the very handsome @robarmstrong.bsky.social on:
-constructive feedback on our personal appearance
-bubble bubble pop?
-Pissing areas in swimming pools
-handbags as an asset class
open.spotify.com/episode/5trY...
me and the very handsome @robarmstrong.bsky.social on:
-constructive feedback on our personal appearance
-bubble bubble pop?
-Pissing areas in swimming pools
-handbags as an asset class
open.spotify.com/episode/5trY...