
Craig Stirling
@CraigStirling
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Senior editor for economics at Bloomberg. Opinions are mine, retweets don't endorse.
Joined May 2011
RT @business: The bombardment of Gaza has left contaminated soil, blackened water and mounds of garbage spreading disease and pollution; a….
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The bombardment of Gaza has left a toxic legacy of contaminated soil, blackened water and disease-spreading garbage that will last generations.
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RT @ZSchneeweiss: Switzerland’s likely interest-rate cut to zero threatens to test banks via @bbenrath
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RT @ZSchneeweiss: Lagarde steels for battles ahead after ECB hits sweet spot with @CraigStirling @alicegledhill1 ht….
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RT @BBCWorld: Man in Norway wakes to find huge container ship in garden
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Johan Helberg says he was "quite astonished" to look out of his window and see the vessel.
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Italy is just two days away from the chance to start shaking off the near-junk status that has hung over Giorgia Meloni’s premiership
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Italy is just two days away from the chance to start shaking off the near-junk status that has hung over Giorgia Meloni’s premiership.
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RT @ZSchneeweiss: EU exports to US shot up just before Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ via @CraigStirling .
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RT @ZSchneeweiss: Cryptoassets could pose a stability risk to financial markets if the US push to embrace them ends up fostering systemic s….
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RT @PaulWallace123: Tricky decision for #Turkey's central bank today. Its 1st rate meeting (bar the emergency one when it hiked its overnig….
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Turkey is set for a tricky interest-rate decision on Thursday, due to the market turmoil following last month’s arrest of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s biggest rival and the onset of a global...
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RT @ZSchneeweiss: EU trade chiefs close ranks as Trump tariffs jolt global trade via @KowalczeKamil @europressos ht….
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RT @PJTheEconomist: I don't think I have ever read anything so absurd in @FT Why publish it? The idea that VAT somehow creates a trade barr….
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The US needs to act over the competitive advantage the EU gives its companies in areas like value added taxes
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RT @ZSchneeweiss: The UK is a Hostage to fortune in a world roiled by Trump via @CraigStirling .
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RT @ING_Economics: Increased European defence spending couldn't come at a worse time for countries with stretched budget balances https://t….
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RT @economics: Sunday’s election was a stark reminder of a growing ideological divide in German politics
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Christian Görke isn’t against Germany easing its borrowing rules, he just doesn’t want “a pure economic stimulus for the arms industry.” The veteran Left Party lawmaker is part of a new class of...
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RT @BloombergUK: Gold in the Bank of England vault is trading at a discount to the wider market, as fears over potential Trump tariffs spar….
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Gold in the Bank of England vault is trading at a discount to the wider market, as fears over potential Trump tariffs spark a scramble for bullion that’s resulting in weeks-long queues to withdraw...
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RT @TheCriticMag: “Starmer spent four years pretending he thought Corbyn would be a suitable PM. After that, pretending Trump is a master d….
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“Things that would have provoked utter outrage just a few years ago have now become almost commonplace,” Keir Starmer told us, and just for a moment, you might have imagined he was talking about the…
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Some advanced economies including the UK shouldn’t delay interest-rate cuts at a time when their labor markets may be about to sour, according to TS Lombard economist Dario Perkins. via @economics.
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Some advanced economies including the UK shouldn’t delay interest-rate cuts at a time when their labor markets may be about to sour, according to TS Lombard economist Dario Perkins.
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RT @hwallop: I had no idea this was the reason why Compare the Market uses those very annoying meerkats for its advertising. Fascinating b….
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Frankfurt’s skyline is getting darker as old office towers in Germany's financial capital sit vacant via @markets.
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In one of Frankfurt’s most central neighborhoods, a stone’s throw from the city’s main train station, a 19-story highrise once occupied by DZ Bank’s Union Investment unit has been vacant for more...
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RT @DavidHenigUK: This is a fair account of UK EU relations and the impact of Brexit. As I wrote last September, rebuilding the relationshi….
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The union jack was lowered in Brussels this week in 2020. Today, despite the problems caused by leaving, a yearning for ‘Breturn’ flowers
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