hughalpen.bsky.social
@hughalpen.bsky.social
cynic. bear. goldbug
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WE JUST GAVE ALL THE ORIGINAL EPSTEIN FILES TO CLOUDFLARE. THEY ACCIDENTALLY DESTROYED THEM.
November 18, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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thinking about how i get anxious writing emails because i don't want to sound like a moron while larry summers is apparently typing emails like this:

u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.
November 13, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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NEW: Britain’s top libel firm, Carter-Ruck, acted for OneCoin - a $4bn crypto-fraud.

The firm threatened whistleblowers, journalists, regulators, and even the police.

Carter-Ruck's work helped the fraud continue as long as it did.

Was that a crime?
October 19, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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As someone who hasn't spent as much time thinking about stablecoins as I should, I found this Izabella Kaminska interview extremely interesting.
www.financialsense.com/blog/21379/r...
Redollarization and Digital Statecraft: How Stablecoins Are Rewiring Global Power
Aug 21, 2025 – When most people think of digital money, they picture Bitcoin or central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) like China’s digital yuan. But beneath the surface, a quieter revolution is unde...
www.financialsense.com
August 22, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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New government data is being prepared for release.
August 12, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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The Treasury Secretary is squinting hard to see economic acceleration from here.
July 31, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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South Park is getting canceled after this lmao.
July 24, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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Brilliant. 🔥
Economic genius Donald Trump explains how he comes up with tariff rates
July 11, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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There is a brilliant two-part documentary on my absolute favourite baroness (the one who once threatened me with “definition lawyers”) airing tonight and tomorrow night at 9pm on BBC2 and it features meeee (mainly in episode 2, THE FALL, obv) www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
The Rise and Fall of Michelle Mone - Series 1: 1. The Rise
The life of Michelle Mone was a rags-to-riches story that seemed too good to be true. Now, she is under investigation for fraud and facing a possible prison sentence.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 28, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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May 12, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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This was the first time Pope Francis died:
April 21, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Bezos, Zuck, et al have succeeded more wildly than they could ever have dreamed in monetary terms. But they’re still trying to win the games we set ourselves to consider our lives successful. And have judged that making epic moral compromises is the least worst route to this success.
March 20, 2025 at 11:27 AM