Tom Hochleutner
@tomhochleutner.bsky.social
Markets guy, dad, food and travel enjoyer. Posts mine and not my employer's.
Can I buy TikTok for $15 billion?
September 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Can I buy TikTok for $15 billion?
Amazing ROI
Just out: the crypto industry spent more than $18.4 million lobbying in the first half of this year, on pace for a record high, according to our analysis of the latest disclosures covering more than 40 groups.
Crypto Industry Is Spending More on Lobbying Than Ever
Eyeing major legislative wins, the cryptocurrency industry is on pace to spend a record amount on federal lobbying, according to a Sludge analysis of disclosures covering the first half of 2025.
readsludge.com
July 24, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Amazing ROI
I was helping a friend clean up the Amnesty International table at Lalopalooza in 1994. We were carrying chairs back to her car, and pushed the elevator button. The elevator doors open,and inside is George Clinton and a whole bunch of P-Funk All Stars. George stepped back so we could get on.
July 18, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I was helping a friend clean up the Amnesty International table at Lalopalooza in 1994. We were carrying chairs back to her car, and pushed the elevator button. The elevator doors open,and inside is George Clinton and a whole bunch of P-Funk All Stars. George stepped back so we could get on.
Great hockey game.
June 5, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Great hockey game.
It's honestly amazing how many terrible companies America has. There are 12 companies worse than Boeing? There are 8 companies worse than the one where millions of regular people cheered the assassination of a previously unknown senior executive? But it's hard to argue when you read the list.
May 21, 2025 at 12:33 AM
It's honestly amazing how many terrible companies America has. There are 12 companies worse than Boeing? There are 8 companies worse than the one where millions of regular people cheered the assassination of a previously unknown senior executive? But it's hard to argue when you read the list.
I think NYC should change its congestion pricing tax to the Trump congestion pricing tariff.
May 12, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I think NYC should change its congestion pricing tax to the Trump congestion pricing tariff.
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We elected people who hate due process, freedom of speech, and checks and balances.
April 2, 2025 at 11:14 AM
We elected people who hate due process, freedom of speech, and checks and balances.
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The 66-year-old woman kicking this guy’s ass is a retired professor of medicine with 16,000 citations on Google Scholar
Goals
Goals
March 25, 2025 at 3:19 AM
The 66-year-old woman kicking this guy’s ass is a retired professor of medicine with 16,000 citations on Google Scholar
Goals
Goals
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People need to be crystal clear about something: The requirement that the government ANSWER to a court on the legal basis for detaining someone is literally the core liberty right (habeas corpus). If the government says they don’t have to do that bc “national security,” YOU can be disappeared.
March 18, 2025 at 4:51 AM
People need to be crystal clear about something: The requirement that the government ANSWER to a court on the legal basis for detaining someone is literally the core liberty right (habeas corpus). If the government says they don’t have to do that bc “national security,” YOU can be disappeared.
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The institutions of the American economy depend on the institutions of American democracy; rule of law, consistent regulation, stability, and all the rest.
That’s what’s being destroyed and that’s what risks the *entire economy.
Saying that out loud shouldn’t (and can’t) be a risk
That’s what’s being destroyed and that’s what risks the *entire economy.
Saying that out loud shouldn’t (and can’t) be a risk
The whole thing is important, but listen until the end: the US depends a lot on the flow of capital into the country because it is perceived as the safest port in a storm. Once that is no longer true, a lot of things Americans take for granted go away.
A top economics reporter goes off script on national TV: “I am going to say this at risk of my job, but what President Trump is doing is insane.”
March 12, 2025 at 3:45 AM
The institutions of the American economy depend on the institutions of American democracy; rule of law, consistent regulation, stability, and all the rest.
That’s what’s being destroyed and that’s what risks the *entire economy.
Saying that out loud shouldn’t (and can’t) be a risk
That’s what’s being destroyed and that’s what risks the *entire economy.
Saying that out loud shouldn’t (and can’t) be a risk
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A top economics reporter goes off script on national TV: “I am going to say this at risk of my job, but what President Trump is doing is insane.”
March 12, 2025 at 3:10 AM
A top economics reporter goes off script on national TV: “I am going to say this at risk of my job, but what President Trump is doing is insane.”
Anyone else spending their weekend studying Canadian securities regulations... Just because?
March 7, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Anyone else spending their weekend studying Canadian securities regulations... Just because?
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Elon hired Clarence Beeks of Lyndhurst Security to deliver the crop estimates on time with no deviations.
February 24, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Elon hired Clarence Beeks of Lyndhurst Security to deliver the crop estimates on time with no deviations.
What's the point of having an expanded college football playoff if only certain teams are allowed to win?
January 1, 2025 at 10:43 PM
What's the point of having an expanded college football playoff if only certain teams are allowed to win?
Has everyone done all their year end sexual harassment, info-sec, compliance, continuing ed, and regulatory trainings? Did I miss any?
December 17, 2024 at 12:59 PM
Has everyone done all their year end sexual harassment, info-sec, compliance, continuing ed, and regulatory trainings? Did I miss any?
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If you like and retweet this post, you are on the nice list. (Only HAVE 24 HOURS)
If you don’t well… you might be on the list that no one wants to be on. 🎅🫡
If you don’t well… you might be on the list that no one wants to be on. 🎅🫡
November 23, 2024 at 2:57 PM
If you like and retweet this post, you are on the nice list. (Only HAVE 24 HOURS)
If you don’t well… you might be on the list that no one wants to be on. 🎅🫡
If you don’t well… you might be on the list that no one wants to be on. 🎅🫡
Not sure how many Fintwit people are here, but the SEC's loss in the case challenging the dealer rule is pretty amazing. Not sure what value there is in forcing all investment managers that sometimes make two sided markets register as dealers. Seems silly. Would have had lots of bad consequences.
November 21, 2024 at 11:26 PM
Not sure how many Fintwit people are here, but the SEC's loss in the case challenging the dealer rule is pretty amazing. Not sure what value there is in forcing all investment managers that sometimes make two sided markets register as dealers. Seems silly. Would have had lots of bad consequences.
Seems like AML controls might not be a terrible idea.
FTX sues crypto trader "Humpy the Whale" alleging margin trading market manipulation from January 2021 to September 2022, leading to FTX and Alameda losing $1B (Callan Quinn/CoinDesk)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
November 11, 2024 at 12:00 PM
Seems like AML controls might not be a terrible idea.
It's possible that lots of stories written on billionaires capitulating to Trump could be better for Harris than had the newspapers endorsed her.
October 26, 2024 at 2:58 AM
It's possible that lots of stories written on billionaires capitulating to Trump could be better for Harris than had the newspapers endorsed her.