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Global Editor of The Wall Street Journal's Heard on the Street column. Previously with @wsj in Beijing and Hong Kong.

New York, NY
Joined April 2009
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@AaronBack
Aaron Back
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How is this coming along? . "Elon Musk says if done right, X would become half of the global financial system.".
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RT @WSJheard: Squeezed between rising healthcare costs and government spending cuts, shares in major health insurers have been mostly negat….
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Still true.
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Aaron Back
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Jurassic Park movies, ranked: . 1) Jurassic Park.2) Who cares.
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I'm honestly not sure if I have ever enjoyed a Superman movie. I'm young enough that the 1970s originals already seemed dated by the time I saw them.
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I believe this website was supposed to have replaced the global financial system or some such by now?.
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Gemini has 350 million monthly users, nothing to sneeze at. Waymo is miles ahead of Tesla in self-driving cars. With so much hidden value, Alphabet could be a candidate for a breakup if the synergies between its businesses weren't so obvious. Instead it's a screaming buy.
@WSJheard
Heard on the Street
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The best value play in AI: Google . Alphabet is trading at just 18 times forward earnigns, compared to over 30 for Microsoft and Amazon .
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"When informed about the then Prince Charles’s reported sympathy for the unemployed he noted that it might be because the prince was himself unemployed.".
@MrHarryCole
Harry Cole
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“His conservatism was that of Essex, not Eton, and he helped persuade millions of Sun-reading voters that Thatcher would advance their interests better than any trade union leader.”.
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Instead of virtue signaling through your investments, buy and index fund and donate the savings
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Heard on the Street
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So-called MAGA ETFs can often end up like ESG funds, offering exposure nearly the same as an index fund at a much higher cost, says @GunjanJS .
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RT @WSJmarkets: Heard on the Street: Some anti-woke funds can mirror the mistakes of socially conscious investments that were wildly popula….
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So the tariff on an imported car from South Korea or Japan will be 50% starting Aug. 1, correct?.
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Really glad they took to the time to refine the Liberation Day tariffs by rounding them to the nearest 5.
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Liberation Day 2: Multiples of Five.
@NickTimiraos
Nick Timiraos
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Integers divisible by five:. Trump announces tariff rates set to take effect on Aug 1 that are close to the April 2 rates (suspended on April 9). Laos: 40% (previously 48%).Myanmar: 40% (prev 44%).South Africa: 30% (unchanged).Malaysia: 25% (prev 24%).Kazakhstan: 25% (prev 27%).
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RT @NickTimiraos: Integers divisible by five:. Trump announces tariff rates set to take effect on Aug 1 that are close to the April 2 rates….
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RT @Lingling_Wei: Western companies are struggling to secure approvals for rare-earth imports from Chinese authorities, despite the U.S.-Ch….
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Heard on the Street: There's waymo value in Google's self-driving tech than Tesla's .
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Israel’s stock market, which trades Sunday to Thursday, rose for the sixth straight session on Sunday. It’s done better than the S&P 500 since the attacks on Oct. 7, 2023 .
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RT @MattZeitlin: The Senate reconciliation bill, with its harsh phase out of solar and wind, and continued support for geothermal, nuclear,….
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RT @WSJheard: More than 90% of Iran’s oil exports now go to China, at a discount. If that is cut off, China will pay the price. https://….
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RT @RollingStone: One astrophysicist talks to Rolling Stone about the messianic, sci-fi fantasies of the tech oligarchs:. "Musk talks about….
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RT @Brad_Setser: “China’s vision of trade is exporting without importing,” said Brad Setser, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relati….
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