@gralefrit.bsky.social You have to see these! A friend of mine has been collating a series of images entitled "Things my students have written turned into Philomena Cunk quotes" and they're just glorious.

"But Gandalf said, 'This is much to demand...that your master should receive in exchange what he must else fight many a war to gain! Or has the field of Gondor destroyed his hope in war, so that he falls to haggling?'"

Hitler tells Neville Chamberlain he'll halt war in exchange for the Sudetenland.

And the rest of Czechoslovakia. And Danzig. And the rest of Poland. And Denmark. And the Low Countries. And Northern France. And...

Richard Nixon & Co. explain Trump' Epstein comms strategy in a tape-record conversation, March 22. 1973: www.nixonlibrary.gov/sites/defaul...

a literal cult

Vance mistook Ukraine for the Republican congressional caucus

Zelenskyy is my hero. A true anti-fascist. A man with more bravery and dignity in his other finger then most of his detractors will encounter in their lifetime

EM currencies have fallen so much since the 2008 crisis, most valuation models say EM FX is a screaming buy. The problem is that such models are based on mean reversion and that's not the world we live in any more. If the US puts tariffs on China, EM FX will fall a lot further...