My short take on the Trump-Xi meeting: https://t.co/0t4o7Mce1x

As I was saying. All the finance-illiterate techies jumped to congratulate DeepSeek for being trained into savant traders based on two days of live trading data. It turns out it was just trained to be a big degen trader, had its moment in the sun and then was promptly liquidated.

I hope this is not what Cambridge teaches in economics. 👀 The post below, of course, is economically misleading. Population is not a relevant benchmark for exports as it implies that China cannot have “overcapacity” because its exports are less than its population share, while

“We think that the world is very fully invested in digital assets and the diversification that comes from real assets [such as African commodity stocks] is becoming a more important part of people’s portfolios”

Weirdly defensive here

I despise this Orwellian, thirdworldist practice. Public records, including government-commissioned research, belong to the people. If there’s any worry that people could get confused about the politics of the government of the day, a GOV.UK-style disclaimer solves the problem.

This also explains the generational frustrations: college-educated NYCers are earning incomes on the lower-middle income end of the spectrum. They are the voters who are most likely to think about their problems in terms of policy and vote based on policy preferences.

There's a clear takeaway here, and it's about education: Educated voters supported Mamdani. The vote share broadly correlates with educational attainment: vote share flips from Cuomo to Mamdani among voters who have at least some college education.

4/ As for those college educated NYCers, their median income is between $36k and $74k. This puts the median college educated NYCer right around the lower middle end of the income spectrum. They are mostly behind the nominal NYC median income of $69k.

one under discussed part of the mamdani campaign was the usage of the video filters. every video used the same soft, humanizing tone consistently. it crafted a world around him. an aesthetic, almost utopian one. close shots, warm tones, delicate pacing. it framed him as the

can't even begin to express the joy it brings me to know that @ZohranKMamdani won the primary. anytime dissertation defense prep has got me down lately, I just watch this & think "this is a salt love letter".. hustle for the salt! hustle for the rice🎉🎉 https://t.co/7VJphGLile

Ok c'mon guys, it's not just the One Big Beautiful Bill ... it's the One Big Beautiful Bill *Act*... gotta get it straight

Academics really need to stop claiming things like 'my research shows xyz is important' without SHOWING xyz is important. Like ffs if it's that important explain why the other obvious explanations don't account for the outcome. Or at the very last use some comparative case

If there's any political coalition offering a promising and bright vision for the future right now, that coalition certainly is not represented by the ascendant red-brownism

Great read from @jerometenk ... he nails it: the appeal of Trump's policies couldn'tpossibly lie in their rhetoric promising a bold and bright vision for the future. And his plummeting approval ratings demonstrate this better than anything https://t.co/Kskpd7OEG2

If we were to create a global economy that recognized the dignity and rights of every person, debt relief for poor countries would be one of the first things we did. Pope Francis knew this, and I hope we remember what he wanted the Jubilee Year of 2025 to mean (5/5)

Poor countries, of course, don't have much money. To meet their populations' needs, government have to borrow—but most lenders charge sky-high interest. 3.3 billion people live in countries that spend more on the *interest* on their debts than education or health (2/5)

@JosephPolitano Trump should just walk around the ports assigning bespoke tax rates to each item he sees

Whether you love or hate tariffs, you can't help but be impressed at the detailed policy planning, the transparency of the policy process, the credibility of Administration announcements, relentless attention to detail, flawless execution, and the thoughtful predictability that

If this is true, it 1) is unbelievably bad, and 2) could not be happening at a worse moment.