Alex
@alexander253.bsky.social
Finance and sports. From the Pacific Northwest.
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May 14, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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2024: Tariff “is the most beautiful word in the dictionary. .. I am ‘Tariff Man’!”
2025:
2025:
April 29, 2025 at 1:22 PM
2024: Tariff “is the most beautiful word in the dictionary. .. I am ‘Tariff Man’!”
2025:
2025:
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APOLLO:
* consumer sentiment collapsing
* US tourism collapsing
* new orders collapsing
* cost pressures UP 🇺🇸
* consumer sentiment collapsing
* US tourism collapsing
* new orders collapsing
* cost pressures UP 🇺🇸
April 26, 2025 at 12:13 PM
APOLLO:
* consumer sentiment collapsing
* US tourism collapsing
* new orders collapsing
* cost pressures UP 🇺🇸
* consumer sentiment collapsing
* US tourism collapsing
* new orders collapsing
* cost pressures UP 🇺🇸
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FT: Trump “has puzzled trade negotiators in Tokyo after complaining about a test where he claims a bowling ball is dropped on a car ..
“.. Japan does not carry out such tests ..”
@financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/b545...
“.. Japan does not carry out such tests ..”
@financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/b545...
April 26, 2025 at 1:48 PM
FT: Trump “has puzzled trade negotiators in Tokyo after complaining about a test where he claims a bowling ball is dropped on a car ..
“.. Japan does not carry out such tests ..”
@financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/b545...
“.. Japan does not carry out such tests ..”
@financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/b545...
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This is deranged. Jan. 6 defendants were repped by one of the best public defender offices in the U.S. They were more likely to be released pretrial & got comparatively light sentences. SCOTUS threw out a bunch of convictions, which almost never happens. They got gold-plated due process!
April 21, 2025 at 7:10 PM
This is deranged. Jan. 6 defendants were repped by one of the best public defender offices in the U.S. They were more likely to be released pretrial & got comparatively light sentences. SCOTUS threw out a bunch of convictions, which almost never happens. They got gold-plated due process!
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Dance with Death, by Hieronymus Hess, 1841, 📸 via Vatican Media Pool
April 21, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Dance with Death, by Hieronymus Hess, 1841, 📸 via Vatican Media Pool
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In another sign things are getting tougher in the job market, the New York Fed found in March Americans lowered their so-called reservation wage--the pay it takes them to accept a new job--from November's peak. www.reuters.com/business/ny-...
April 21, 2025 at 4:49 PM
In another sign things are getting tougher in the job market, the New York Fed found in March Americans lowered their so-called reservation wage--the pay it takes them to accept a new job--from November's peak. www.reuters.com/business/ny-...
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The administration that called Canada “the 51st state” and said “we’re going to get” Greenland is suddenly cowed by sovereignty.
Bondi on Garcia: "That's up for El Salvador if they want to return him. That's not up to us."
April 14, 2025 at 4:12 PM
The administration that called Canada “the 51st state” and said “we’re going to get” Greenland is suddenly cowed by sovereignty.
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Here’s where we’re headed next:
1. Record number of S&P 500 companies pull full-year earnings guidance.
2. “Jay Powell is artificially costing us trillions of dollars with high interest rates, he must be fired.”
3. “Beautiful phone call with my friend President Xi, we’re making a deal.”
1. Record number of S&P 500 companies pull full-year earnings guidance.
2. “Jay Powell is artificially costing us trillions of dollars with high interest rates, he must be fired.”
3. “Beautiful phone call with my friend President Xi, we’re making a deal.”
April 11, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Here’s where we’re headed next:
1. Record number of S&P 500 companies pull full-year earnings guidance.
2. “Jay Powell is artificially costing us trillions of dollars with high interest rates, he must be fired.”
3. “Beautiful phone call with my friend President Xi, we’re making a deal.”
1. Record number of S&P 500 companies pull full-year earnings guidance.
2. “Jay Powell is artificially costing us trillions of dollars with high interest rates, he must be fired.”
3. “Beautiful phone call with my friend President Xi, we’re making a deal.”
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I cannot emphasize enough that drawing huge conclusions from markets that are gyrating through volatility as is currently the case may as well be reading auguries from the guts of some unfortunate chicken.
April 11, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I cannot emphasize enough that drawing huge conclusions from markets that are gyrating through volatility as is currently the case may as well be reading auguries from the guts of some unfortunate chicken.
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If Fed independence falls we are in BIG trouble
Remember he already forced Barr to step down as vice chair
Remember he already forced Barr to step down as vice chair
If it weren't for the tariffs, this would be one of the biggest stories right now.
April 11, 2025 at 12:37 AM
If Fed independence falls we are in BIG trouble
Remember he already forced Barr to step down as vice chair
Remember he already forced Barr to step down as vice chair
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Life comes at you fast:
April 3, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Life comes at you fast:
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April 3, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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April 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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WH has now confirmed: this is insane nypost.com/2025/04/02/u...
April 3, 2025 at 12:17 AM
WH has now confirmed: this is insane nypost.com/2025/04/02/u...
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We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again
April 2, 2025 at 10:30 PM
We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again
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It took just two months to drive two of our closest and most important allies into China's arms.
* CHINESE STATE MEDIA: CHINA, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA REACH A CONSENSUS THAT THREE SIDES WILL JOINTLY RESPOND TO THE U.S. TARIFFS
@reuters.com
@reuters.com
March 31, 2025 at 2:46 PM
It took just two months to drive two of our closest and most important allies into China's arms.
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Just another Sunday. 🇺🇸
March 30, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Just another Sunday. 🇺🇸
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TIME: ".. No single private citizen .. has wielded such power over the machinery of the U.S. government.
".. Soon Americans are going to learn where they interact with the federal government in ways they didn’t realize or took for granted."
@time-magazine.bsky.social
time.com/7213409/elon...
".. Soon Americans are going to learn where they interact with the federal government in ways they didn’t realize or took for granted."
@time-magazine.bsky.social
time.com/7213409/elon...
Inside Elon Musk’s War on Washington
From USAID to the U.S. federal payment system, Musk is spearheading plans to audit and cut multiple government agencies
time.com
February 7, 2025 at 3:54 PM
TIME: ".. No single private citizen .. has wielded such power over the machinery of the U.S. government.
".. Soon Americans are going to learn where they interact with the federal government in ways they didn’t realize or took for granted."
@time-magazine.bsky.social
time.com/7213409/elon...
".. Soon Americans are going to learn where they interact with the federal government in ways they didn’t realize or took for granted."
@time-magazine.bsky.social
time.com/7213409/elon...
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James Madison wrote of the necessity of the separation of powers:
“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive & judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elected, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”
“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive & judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elected, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”
February 5, 2025 at 4:19 PM
James Madison wrote of the necessity of the separation of powers:
“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive & judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elected, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”
“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive & judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elected, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”