Mike Bird
@Birdyword
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Wall Street editor @TheEconomist. Money Talks podcast co-host. Into markets, history and economics. Author of THE LAND TRAP, out now!
New York, USA
Joined April 2010
The Land Trap is now OUT in the US! Just two days to wait until the UK release. Pre-orders should be landing imminently.
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Any replies suggesting that I am "inured to the effects of alcohol because I drink too much" will be hidden and the replier blocked.
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I am actually blessed in that this seems less true for me than it ever has. All the worst hangovers I've ever had were between the age of 14-22 and my ability to bear them for the same level of drunkenness has gone up over time.
I hate when people who are like 32 get all “ohh im so old and fragile now” because it’s all self-inflicted, but I will say one thing which is that the number of drinks it takes to give me a hangover has declined precipitously
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Not even really wrong from a tactical perspective, you can totally imagine the drumbeat of negative news about this in reality (Palace refurbishment enough to pay for free bus travel to the moon for one billion pensioners!)
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The Palace of Westminster actually collapsing around the legislators working in it because they keep delaying the decision on what to do with it is a bit on-the-nose as a symbol
EXCL: Final decision on restoring the Palace of Westminster will be delayed until 2030s MPs were expected to vote by the end of 2025 on a way forward for fixing the crumbling parliament, but that now won't happen Story w/@danbloom1
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Have a great weekend everyone. See you at 6pm Sunday, when futures open.
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The flipside of this is that a lot of extremely rich people are Romans who want to be Greeks, and would pay any amount of money for the prospect that a bit of intellectual status might somehow rub off on them. So if you're an intellectual, hold out for a bit more cash!
rich people, politicians, and celebrities often discover that intellectuals are very cheap dates and willing to debase themselves for relatively small amounts of money, power, or glamour, the three things hard to obtain in intellectual life
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rich people, politicians, and celebrities often discover that intellectuals are very cheap dates and willing to debase themselves for relatively small amounts of money, power, or glamour, the three things hard to obtain in intellectual life
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Have you ever noticed that these stories about how No. 10 is a bad building to run a government from seem to come up more regularly when the government has a level of popularity equivalent to an estate agent that kills household pets for fun?
🏠 "Keir hates it" We have a big piece on the trials of running a G7 country from Downing Street — a poky rabbit warren in three Georgian townhouses knocked together Mice, "nan's bathrooms," duct-taped carpets, dodgy heating, no phone signal, hardly any showers ... and a prawn
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Men of New York: FYI there's a Proper Cloth sample sale downtown until tomorrow and they're selling a lot of stuff with a wide size range at large discounts (I say because I've now looted it for what I wanted)
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A history of land? Yes please! Finally getting started on this beauty from @Birdyword. I'll share a full review once done.
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The S&P 500 is down 3% from a an all-time high it hit two and a half weeks ago
JUST IN: Stock market is now in "extreme fear"
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The fent contamination/drink-spiking/general drug tests stacked up behind the anti-theft glass is just a bit on-the-nose, I think the scriptwriter has gone a bit overboard here. Suggest making it more subtle when redrafting.
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"I bought the first popular short-form video social media app three years before Douyin launched, then closed it down four years later, during my time as the CEO of the big social media app that never really worked out how to make money, AMA"
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In this position I would probably not be keen to remind people of perhaps the biggest piece of bag-fumbling in the history of social media. But everybody's different!
BREAKING: Vine reboot called diVine has been launched after being funded by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey. It includes over 100K videos from Vine’s archive and no AI-generated content is allowed.
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