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how's this for a headline www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Trump Blows Through His Iran Red Lines in Justifying Peace Deal
President Donald Trump and his team had several red lines that they used to justify the US war against Iran. At a press conference on Wednesday, Trump largely brushed them aside.
www.bloomberg.com
June 18, 2026 at 6:56 AM
how's this for a headline www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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As many as 100 million Chinese consumers are struggling to service their personal debt, fueling a largely hidden crisis that threatens Beijing’s efforts to revive the world’s second-largest economy
China’s $300 Billion Pile of Bad Consumer Debt Threatens Economy
As many as 100 million Chinese consumers are struggling to service their personal debt, fueling a largely hidden crisis that threatens Beijing’s efforts to revive the world’s second-largest economy.
bloom.bg
June 18, 2026 at 7:15 AM
As many as 100 million Chinese consumers are struggling to service their personal debt, fueling a largely hidden crisis that threatens Beijing’s efforts to revive the world’s second-largest economy
Absolutely outrageous.
About 80% of domestic helpers are not permitted to turn on air conditioning when their employers are not home, according to the Hong Kong Federation of Asian Domestic Workers Unions
www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...
www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...
Hong Kong helpers urge employers to relax ‘air-con ban’ in heatwave
Employer draws widespread online criticism for scolding domestic helper who switched on air conditioner an hour early in hot weather.
www.scmp.com
June 3, 2026 at 8:40 AM
Absolutely outrageous.
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Standard Chartered CEO Bill Winters in Hong Kong said AI will replace "lower-value human capital" as the company today announced it would cut 15% of its support staff by 2030
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
StanChart CEO Says AI to Replace ‘Lower-Value Human Capital’
Standard Chartered Plc Chief Executive Officer Bill Winters delivered a blunt message on the future of the bank’s workforce, warning that a push into artificial intelligence will eliminate thousands o...
www.bloomberg.com
May 19, 2026 at 8:17 AM
Standard Chartered CEO Bill Winters in Hong Kong said AI will replace "lower-value human capital" as the company today announced it would cut 15% of its support staff by 2030
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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1/6
Good Steven Barnett piece. He points out that "targeting growth rates inconsistent with productivity trends leads to distortive policies", and argues instead for a "dramatic, permanent payroll tax cut" to boost consumption.
www.ft.com/content/d078...
Good Steven Barnett piece. He points out that "targeting growth rates inconsistent with productivity trends leads to distortive policies", and argues instead for a "dramatic, permanent payroll tax cut" to boost consumption.
www.ft.com/content/d078...
China does have one powerful lever to boost consumption
A permanent cut in the payroll tax could benefit workers and the world
www.ft.com
April 20, 2026 at 6:48 AM
1/6
Good Steven Barnett piece. He points out that "targeting growth rates inconsistent with productivity trends leads to distortive policies", and argues instead for a "dramatic, permanent payroll tax cut" to boost consumption.
www.ft.com/content/d078...
Good Steven Barnett piece. He points out that "targeting growth rates inconsistent with productivity trends leads to distortive policies", and argues instead for a "dramatic, permanent payroll tax cut" to boost consumption.
www.ft.com/content/d078...
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Taiwan’s private banks are grappling with a talent crunch in their bid to target the island’s growing pool of wealthy clients, forcing firms to boost compensation, with base salaries climbing about 40% in the past five years in some instances. Read more: bloom.bg/4crSnfU
📷️: I-Hwa Cheng/Bloomberg
📷️: I-Hwa Cheng/Bloomberg
April 15, 2026 at 5:45 AM
Taiwan’s private banks are grappling with a talent crunch in their bid to target the island’s growing pool of wealthy clients, forcing firms to boost compensation, with base salaries climbing about 40% in the past five years in some instances. Read more: bloom.bg/4crSnfU
📷️: I-Hwa Cheng/Bloomberg
📷️: I-Hwa Cheng/Bloomberg
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Personal bugbear of mine after years of watching the very good people at #HKWalls put on a fantastic annual #streetart festival in Hong Kong: news media fails to embed or refer to their map. One super fun, seasonal urban walking tour coming up this weekend... www.google.com/maps/d/viewe...
March 25, 2026 at 10:39 AM
Personal bugbear of mine after years of watching the very good people at #HKWalls put on a fantastic annual #streetart festival in Hong Kong: news media fails to embed or refer to their map. One super fun, seasonal urban walking tour coming up this weekend... www.google.com/maps/d/viewe...
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Trump's announcement that he's putting off his summit with Xi Jinping for "a month or so" echoes previous last minute switches regarding foreign travel and meetings with world leaders.
Trump’s China Delay Echoes Pattern of World Stage Leverage Plays
President Donald Trump has long used last-minute switches on foreign travel and meetings with heads of state as he seeks to gain a diplomatic upper hand and keep foreign partners on their toes.
bloom.bg
March 17, 2026 at 4:30 AM
Trump's announcement that he's putting off his summit with Xi Jinping for "a month or so" echoes previous last minute switches regarding foreign travel and meetings with world leaders.
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“The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.” — All the President’s Men
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Trump Has Never Been a Planner, and in War That’s Deadly
“The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.” — All the President’s MenSenator Chris Murphy of Connecticut, a Democrat and member of the Foreign Relations Committee, took...
www.bloomberg.com
March 12, 2026 at 1:01 PM
“The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.” — All the President’s Men
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Mojtaba Khamenei is Iran's new Supreme Leader. He's already got a global property empire worth millions.
Read our Big Take from January: bloom.bg/4llL0ea
Read our Big Take from January: bloom.bg/4llL0ea
Mojtaba Khameni: How Iran Supreme Leader's Son Built a Global Property Empire
Mojtaba Khamenei has amassed sprawling international investments, while economic hardship at home has sparked Iran's deadliest protests in decades.
bloom.bg
March 9, 2026 at 11:57 AM
Mojtaba Khamenei is Iran's new Supreme Leader. He's already got a global property empire worth millions.
Read our Big Take from January: bloom.bg/4llL0ea
Read our Big Take from January: bloom.bg/4llL0ea
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This is exactly right.
Age verification / online ID check legislation literally forces companies to collect MORE data on children (and everyone else) not less.
We desperately need privacy, antitrust, and algorithmic justice legislation.
Not censorship bills like KOSA and expanded surveillance.
Age verification / online ID check legislation literally forces companies to collect MORE data on children (and everyone else) not less.
We desperately need privacy, antitrust, and algorithmic justice legislation.
Not censorship bills like KOSA and expanded surveillance.
Republicans are using kids as a smokescreen for what Big Tech lobbyists want: a national surveillance program to harvest our data with zero protections for people and their privacy.
We must fight this dangerous expansion of surveillance technology.
We must fight this dangerous expansion of surveillance technology.
March 6, 2026 at 6:49 PM
This is exactly right.
Age verification / online ID check legislation literally forces companies to collect MORE data on children (and everyone else) not less.
We desperately need privacy, antitrust, and algorithmic justice legislation.
Not censorship bills like KOSA and expanded surveillance.
Age verification / online ID check legislation literally forces companies to collect MORE data on children (and everyone else) not less.
We desperately need privacy, antitrust, and algorithmic justice legislation.
Not censorship bills like KOSA and expanded surveillance.
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Iran’s missiles and drones forced Dubai’s bankers into their home offices and shattered the sense of safety in the blingy Gulf emirate.
Dubai’s Bankers Stay Home as War Reshapes Ramadan
Conflict in the Middle East is forcing Dubai’s expats to adjust to the reality of upheaval, and learn an unfamiliar script.
bloom.bg
March 8, 2026 at 8:30 AM
Iran’s missiles and drones forced Dubai’s bankers into their home offices and shattered the sense of safety in the blingy Gulf emirate.
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The AI culture war is showing up in user behavior. After OpenAI’s Pentagon deal, ChatGPT users started switching to Anthropic’s Claude.
AI Users Pick Claude in Its Feud With the Pentagon
The AI culture war is showing up in user behavior.
bloom.bg
March 6, 2026 at 8:07 AM
The AI culture war is showing up in user behavior. After OpenAI’s Pentagon deal, ChatGPT users started switching to Anthropic’s Claude.
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1/12
Very interesting Bloomberg article on one of my favorite topics – how, in a hyperglobalized world (i.e. one with very low transportation, communication, and financial-transaction costs), countries that control their external accounts effectively...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Very interesting Bloomberg article on one of my favorite topics – how, in a hyperglobalized world (i.e. one with very low transportation, communication, and financial-transaction costs), countries that control their external accounts effectively...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
China’s Cheap Money Is Shaking $9.5 Trillion Global Loan Market
Chinese banks, flush with low-cost funds, are reshaping parts of the global loan market, underscoring how deflationary pressures in the world’s second-largest economy are increasingly influencing comp...
www.bloomberg.com
March 4, 2026 at 8:43 AM
1/12
Very interesting Bloomberg article on one of my favorite topics – how, in a hyperglobalized world (i.e. one with very low transportation, communication, and financial-transaction costs), countries that control their external accounts effectively...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Very interesting Bloomberg article on one of my favorite topics – how, in a hyperglobalized world (i.e. one with very low transportation, communication, and financial-transaction costs), countries that control their external accounts effectively...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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It's kind of crazy that the AP now takes donations, but the far crazier thing would be if the AP went away.
Because the NYT, no matter how much money it rakes in from Wordle and Wirecutter, will never put a full-time reporter in a state capital like Pierre, South Dakota.
apnews.com/donate?targe...
Because the NYT, no matter how much money it rakes in from Wordle and Wirecutter, will never put a full-time reporter in a state capital like Pierre, South Dakota.
apnews.com/donate?targe...
February 27, 2026 at 2:50 AM
It's kind of crazy that the AP now takes donations, but the far crazier thing would be if the AP went away.
Because the NYT, no matter how much money it rakes in from Wordle and Wirecutter, will never put a full-time reporter in a state capital like Pierre, South Dakota.
apnews.com/donate?targe...
Because the NYT, no matter how much money it rakes in from Wordle and Wirecutter, will never put a full-time reporter in a state capital like Pierre, South Dakota.
apnews.com/donate?targe...
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NEW from ProPublica:
Guards at Trump's family detention camp are grabbing kids' writing, artwork, and crayons.
They've even taken one kid's drawing of Bratz dolls.
www.propublica.org/article/dill...
by @mckenziefunk.com and @micarosenberg.bsky.social
Guards at Trump's family detention camp are grabbing kids' writing, artwork, and crayons.
They've even taken one kid's drawing of Bratz dolls.
www.propublica.org/article/dill...
by @mckenziefunk.com and @micarosenberg.bsky.social
February 26, 2026 at 12:32 PM
NEW from ProPublica:
Guards at Trump's family detention camp are grabbing kids' writing, artwork, and crayons.
They've even taken one kid's drawing of Bratz dolls.
www.propublica.org/article/dill...
by @mckenziefunk.com and @micarosenberg.bsky.social
Guards at Trump's family detention camp are grabbing kids' writing, artwork, and crayons.
They've even taken one kid's drawing of Bratz dolls.
www.propublica.org/article/dill...
by @mckenziefunk.com and @micarosenberg.bsky.social
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All of the youth initiatives in Hong Kong's 2026-2027 Budget Speech:
1. Get the youth to move out
2. Encourage them to work in the civil service
1. Get the youth to move out
2. Encourage them to work in the civil service
February 25, 2026 at 8:22 AM
All of the youth initiatives in Hong Kong's 2026-2027 Budget Speech:
1. Get the youth to move out
2. Encourage them to work in the civil service
1. Get the youth to move out
2. Encourage them to work in the civil service
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Since this will likely come up in the SOTU: Yes, US stock markets are up since Trump took office (14%).
But in the rest of the world, markets are up WAY more. Cumulative market gains are more than triple ours (43%)
But in the rest of the world, markets are up WAY more. Cumulative market gains are more than triple ours (43%)
February 24, 2026 at 11:04 PM
Since this will likely come up in the SOTU: Yes, US stock markets are up since Trump took office (14%).
But in the rest of the world, markets are up WAY more. Cumulative market gains are more than triple ours (43%)
But in the rest of the world, markets are up WAY more. Cumulative market gains are more than triple ours (43%)
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Drilling kit for Russia's money-spinning oil industry, yachts linked to Medvedev and Yanukovych, an aircraft for Chechen warlord Ramzan Kadyrov.
All part of $8bn trade flowing through the UK's island havens since 2022.
All part of $8bn trade flowing through the UK's island havens since 2022.
Russian firms have routed $8bn of trade through British island territories since invasion of Ukraine
Anti-corruption group Transparency International have catalogued ‘sanctions circumvention’ channelled through ‘unaccountable jurisdictions’
www.theguardian.com
February 25, 2026 at 8:15 AM
Drilling kit for Russia's money-spinning oil industry, yachts linked to Medvedev and Yanukovych, an aircraft for Chechen warlord Ramzan Kadyrov.
All part of $8bn trade flowing through the UK's island havens since 2022.
All part of $8bn trade flowing through the UK's island havens since 2022.
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For a city on the cusp of ending its longest run of budget deficits in two decades, Hong Kong isn’t brimming with confidence just yet.
Hong Kong Is Near End of Budget Deficit Era But Caution Prevails
For a city on the cusp of ending its longest run of budget deficits in two decades, Hong Kong isn’t brimming with confidence just yet.
bloom.bg
February 24, 2026 at 8:00 AM
For a city on the cusp of ending its longest run of budget deficits in two decades, Hong Kong isn’t brimming with confidence just yet.