Win Monroe
@winmonroe.bsky.social
Another economist.
Views and bad hot takes are my own, if even that.
Likes & RTs =/= endorsements.
Views and bad hot takes are my own, if even that.
Likes & RTs =/= endorsements.
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I woke up to see the news. I am aghast.
I can't believe the FIFA peace prize has been disrespected like this. Is nothing sacred anymore?
I can't believe the FIFA peace prize has been disrespected like this. Is nothing sacred anymore?
January 3, 2026 at 8:23 AM
I woke up to see the news. I am aghast.
I can't believe the FIFA peace prize has been disrespected like this. Is nothing sacred anymore?
I can't believe the FIFA peace prize has been disrespected like this. Is nothing sacred anymore?
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I’ve spent this morning morbidly watching the MTV channels close down and the final songs played were:
MTV Music - Video Killed the Radio Star (Buggles)
Club MTV - Don’t Stop the Music (Rihanna)
MTV 90s - Goodbye (Spice Girls)
MTV 80s - Together in Electric Dreams (Oakey and Moroder)
MTV Music - Video Killed the Radio Star (Buggles)
Club MTV - Don’t Stop the Music (Rihanna)
MTV 90s - Goodbye (Spice Girls)
MTV 80s - Together in Electric Dreams (Oakey and Moroder)
December 31, 2025 at 10:34 AM
I’ve spent this morning morbidly watching the MTV channels close down and the final songs played were:
MTV Music - Video Killed the Radio Star (Buggles)
Club MTV - Don’t Stop the Music (Rihanna)
MTV 90s - Goodbye (Spice Girls)
MTV 80s - Together in Electric Dreams (Oakey and Moroder)
MTV Music - Video Killed the Radio Star (Buggles)
Club MTV - Don’t Stop the Music (Rihanna)
MTV 90s - Goodbye (Spice Girls)
MTV 80s - Together in Electric Dreams (Oakey and Moroder)
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Leandro Trossard has the most goal contributions in all competitions for Arsenal this season - six assists and seven goals.
#ARSAST
#ARSAST
a drawing of a cat with the number 67 written above it
ALT: a drawing of a cat with the number 67 written above it
media.tenor.com
December 31, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Leandro Trossard has the most goal contributions in all competitions for Arsenal this season - six assists and seven goals.
#ARSAST
#ARSAST
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Searching (fruitlessly, for something else in) the IMF's Oct GFSR, I can see why this chart gives them the heebie-jeebies.
UST mkt has flunked both its last two tests as global risk-free asset. www.imf.org/-/media/file...
UST mkt has flunked both its last two tests as global risk-free asset. www.imf.org/-/media/file...
December 30, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Searching (fruitlessly, for something else in) the IMF's Oct GFSR, I can see why this chart gives them the heebie-jeebies.
UST mkt has flunked both its last two tests as global risk-free asset. www.imf.org/-/media/file...
UST mkt has flunked both its last two tests as global risk-free asset. www.imf.org/-/media/file...
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Favorite books of the year
December 30, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Favorite books of the year
Favorite books of the year
December 30, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Favorite books of the year
Chopped and screwed music in the airport after a blues rock band is the most Austin thing ever
December 30, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Chopped and screwed music in the airport after a blues rock band is the most Austin thing ever
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2025 IN MARKETS* 📈📉📈🧵
1. People came into the year pretty bullish on US stocks and $ (because Trump)
US stocks soar more than 20% for second year in a row
www.ft.com/content/b413...
Dollar surges against euro and sterling
www.ft.com/content/e572...
*focusing on big markets in US and Europe
1. People came into the year pretty bullish on US stocks and $ (because Trump)
US stocks soar more than 20% for second year in a row
www.ft.com/content/b413...
Dollar surges against euro and sterling
www.ft.com/content/e572...
*focusing on big markets in US and Europe
US stocks soar more than 20% for second year in a row
Investor excitement over AI helps Big Tech once again drive gains in blue-chip S&P 500
www.ft.com
December 29, 2025 at 1:02 PM
2025 IN MARKETS* 📈📉📈🧵
1. People came into the year pretty bullish on US stocks and $ (because Trump)
US stocks soar more than 20% for second year in a row
www.ft.com/content/b413...
Dollar surges against euro and sterling
www.ft.com/content/e572...
*focusing on big markets in US and Europe
1. People came into the year pretty bullish on US stocks and $ (because Trump)
US stocks soar more than 20% for second year in a row
www.ft.com/content/b413...
Dollar surges against euro and sterling
www.ft.com/content/e572...
*focusing on big markets in US and Europe
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Big banks are getting their sweet revenge on private credit as the Trump administration dials back regulatory restrictions. Read more: bloom.bg/3MSnBUB
📷: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg
📷: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg
December 29, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Big banks are getting their sweet revenge on private credit as the Trump administration dials back regulatory restrictions. Read more: bloom.bg/3MSnBUB
📷: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg
📷: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg
For all its faults and changes, Austin remains awesome. If only it had public transit, it would be undefeated
December 28, 2025 at 4:53 AM
For all its faults and changes, Austin remains awesome. If only it had public transit, it would be undefeated
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The guy who put a 19 year old named Big Balls in charge of gutting key government services: “experience matters when lives are at stake”
December 28, 2025 at 12:18 AM
The guy who put a 19 year old named Big Balls in charge of gutting key government services: “experience matters when lives are at stake”
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Yeah, the central panel in this arch is concave AND convex at the same time. I’ve never seen anything like this outside of sci-fi.
I just assumed these arches are THE feature that’s being highlighted, as you see them at every (?) Elizabeth Line station.
December 27, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Yeah, the central panel in this arch is concave AND convex at the same time. I’ve never seen anything like this outside of sci-fi.
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The Pop Tarts mascots are turning on each other
December 27, 2025 at 11:34 PM
The Pop Tarts mascots are turning on each other
Rereading a classic
December 26, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Rereading a classic
Just saw an AI video trying to do Daria and honestly it's a whole new level of ick
December 25, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Just saw an AI video trying to do Daria and honestly it's a whole new level of ick
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“Deserts are wastelands” 🌼 🐢
December 24, 2025 at 3:39 AM
“Deserts are wastelands” 🌼 🐢
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Cancel culture is out of control
Stephen Miller wants everyone at 60 Minutes who “engaged in this revolt” (aka told the truth) fired
December 24, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Cancel culture is out of control
Overheard in a Texas bar:
"I only use beef tallow as moisturizer now"
"I only use beef tallow as moisturizer now"
December 24, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Overheard in a Texas bar:
"I only use beef tallow as moisturizer now"
"I only use beef tallow as moisturizer now"
Some super interesting charts in here for people who follow the topic
Good morning, New York. While you were sleeping, house prices falling in about half of London’s local council districts was the most-read story ft.trib.al/tPAU1DU
December 23, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Some super interesting charts in here for people who follow the topic
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Also something’s been lost in the Lego world. The shift from lots of blocks to more specialised pieces can’t be good for childhood creativity.
December 23, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Also something’s been lost in the Lego world. The shift from lots of blocks to more specialised pieces can’t be good for childhood creativity.
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This is incredibly obviously going to be the rolling problem with a “tougher” immigration stance. We still need people to do things. And, ultimately, either we hire/retain them or the things don’t get done. Everything else is hollow rhetoric.
Hundreds of foreign prison staff 'offered emergency extension to visa' to stop the prison system collapsing
Hundreds of foreign prison staff 'offered emergency extension to visa' to stop the prison system collapsing
Hundreds of foreign prison staff who could have faced deportation and the sack have been offered an emergency extension to their visa in order to stop the prison system collapsing, Sky News understands.
news.sky.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:39 PM
This is incredibly obviously going to be the rolling problem with a “tougher” immigration stance. We still need people to do things. And, ultimately, either we hire/retain them or the things don’t get done. Everything else is hollow rhetoric.
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Consumer confidence data is basically useless for markets/econ forecasting at this point. There is just no universe where periods when inflation was 5x as high, real income growth was deeply negative, or unemployment was more than 2x current were better than the current backdrop.
December 19, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Consumer confidence data is basically useless for markets/econ forecasting at this point. There is just no universe where periods when inflation was 5x as high, real income growth was deeply negative, or unemployment was more than 2x current were better than the current backdrop.
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This by the excellent @jburnmurdoch.ft.com confirms my view that political trends are being driven by the halting of the upward economic conveyor belt - striking charts: www.ft.com/content/30a4... Welcome to the age of zero-sum politics
Welcome to the age of zero-sum politics
A stalled economic conveyor belt is behind the rise of anti-system, anti-growth parties on both the right and left
www.ft.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:31 AM
This by the excellent @jburnmurdoch.ft.com confirms my view that political trends are being driven by the halting of the upward economic conveyor belt - striking charts: www.ft.com/content/30a4... Welcome to the age of zero-sum politics
It's gonna be waller isn't it? [Good if so]
December 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
It's gonna be waller isn't it? [Good if so]