Polemic Paine
@PolemicTMM
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Team Macro Man, City veteran, investor, trader and lover of wild places. Fascinated by behavioural biases.
On the financial beach
Joined April 2014
@paulkrugman This is the 1st cited reference I have received from a Nobel Laureate and I will wear it with pride, even if just twitter. Thx!.
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You aren't allowed to own your EV . You may rent it. Smacks of desperation by western car manufacturers wringing the last out of their diminishing legacy customers. Much like UK banks. Simply accelerates the move to the new competition.
Volkswagen is now charging a recurring fee to unlock the full power of customers' electric cars. Owners are only able to access full horsepower by paying a monthly subscription fee of £16.50. Welcome to your Net Zero future, paying a subscription to use your car properly.
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RT @visegrad24: Czechia has become the first European country to experiment with a 150 km/h (93.3 mph) speed limit on selected highway sect….
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RT @EllliotttB: Private equity adding law firm ownership to their hospital/ambulance/insurance portfolio is like the modern version of Shel….
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All part of 'The Great Expectance', which encompasses all forms of reliance on someone else to sort out your shit.
From the Financial Times’ article, “How the West got hooked on economic support: Crisis firefighting has given way to dependence on governments and central banks.”. #economy #markets @ft
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Good morning world!. Let's see what today brings in new and clumsy ways the UK government will make our lives hell. Tax happiness, perhaps?.
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Idea. If everyone wants higher taxes, tax everyone who wants higher taxes. That'll sort it.
NEW: Compass poll of Labour members has dropped. 91% support a wealth tax, 84% want to end the two-child limit, 74% want to stop suspending dissenting MPs - and that's just the start. The government is out of step with the mainstream of the Labour Party. In the @Independent.
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RT @Gerald_Ashley: V interesting thread on the Tocqueville Effect.@rorysutherland @koenfucius @CravenPartners @rshotton @PolemicTMM @sebs_t….
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RT @AndrewOrlowski: The expansion of NGOs from a tiny handful of permanently skint basement dwellers into a vast decentralised political fo….
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RT @kelvmackenzie: Has this government gone stark staring mad? The Times reports Gatwick airport has been told by the Treasury that its bus….
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RT @Object_Zero_: Nuclear build out. Do people realise that a 50MW SMR or even a 10MW microreactor still has the same licensing process as….
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RT @Faenerator: “The overlap of the most valuable things you can do with a product and the things that happen to be fully quantifiable are….
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RT @DeblockBlock: @koenfucius @ManiBasharzad @PolemicTMM I never listened to Piketty, Zucman, or Milanovic, but the general lack of account….
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BBC news turn signal. 'If the BBC headline a financial story, it's over'. Finally time to take profit on the rise from 70p to 1100p on Rolls Royce.
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Tufan Erginbilgic says business deals to supply nuclear power for artificial intelligence could boost its fortunes
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Renewables exposed how grids built for steady, centralised generation buckle under volatile, decentralised inputs, forcing huge infrastructure upgrades. AI could do the same to the internet, not just by adding traffic, but by changing it. Instead of short human-driven bursts,.
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Just one of the paradoxes in the UK government's push for growth AND net zero. Energy is the basic raw material of growth.
Minutes from the U.K.’s AI Energy Council show ministers are being pushed to use gas to fuel the country’s data centre buildout. If the UK wants to be a world leader in AI, it will have to abandon Net Zero policies.
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RT @CapX: The habit of high-profile economists being spectacularly wrong is hardly new. ✍️ @ManiBasharzad .
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The belief that we can predict precise quantitative outcomes is a mistaken one
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RT @ClintelOrg: In the Netherlands, we have a tradition of so-called tiles (in the famous Delft blue) with meaningful sayings. We find thi….
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RT @ReutersBiz: The airline industry’s dirty secret: Clean jet fuel failures
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Reuters found that over 160 sustainable aviation fuel projects have been announced over the past 12 years, but only a small portion have gone ahead.
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UK's Online Safety Act now sees it much less onerous to print pamphlets and circulate them rather than publishing online. Returning to 17th/18th Century UK.
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