Anders Rune

Efter 38 år på Teknikföretagen är utsikten en annan.

[Global War Desk @GlobalNewsHQI]

🚨 MELONI JUST SENT A MESSAGE THAT WON'T GO UNNOTICED IN WASHINGTON 👀🔥

🇮🇹 Reports say Meloni canceled her US visit.

Then came the line:

🇮🇹 "Neither I nor Italy beg anyone."

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At a time when many European leaders are trying to avoid friction with Washington...

Meloni appears determined to project independence.

That's why every statement from her sparks debate.

Some see a leader defending national sovereignty.

Others see a leader taking an unnecessary risk.

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Either way, this doesn't look like the language of someone eager to win approval from powerful allies.

And that's exactly why people are paying attention. 👀

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Why? Why does Trump so love taxing Americans?

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

When a European government starts to view the United States as strategically unreliable, it doesn't hold a press conference. It rewrites its procurement frameworks. The €50 billion fighter jet program that was going to Lockheed Martin gets redirected to Airbus.

[Anders Rune @chefekonom]

Cash is King!?: Fed to launch $40bn debt-buying scheme after money market strains https://t.co/jloCleZzVy

[Anders Rune @chefekonom]

Kunskapsläget i administrationen?

[Travis Akers 🇺🇸 @travisakers]

The higher the bond return, the worse the economy is performing.

I cannot believe this is a real post from @USTreasury.

What an embarrassment of incompetence.

[Jens Nylander @nylanderjens]

Is EU bureaucracy to much ?

[Fareed Zakaria @FareedZakaria]

Hamilton said the constitution limits the President’s foreign policy powers because “an avaricious man might be tempted to betray the interests of the state [for] the acquisition of wealth.” https://t.co/AZFoyb2hw0

[Anders Rune @chefekonom]

Är detta sant!? Om så håll i hatten

[John Jackson @hissgoescobra]

WSJ with a devastating, intensely-sourced article demonstrating how Trump, Kushner, and Witkoff tried to sellout Ukraine, the U.S., and Europe for money. It's so bad one of our European allies shared evidence of the planned business deals. A must-read.

https://t.co/VRYfsRFqdq

[Anders Rune @chefekonom]

@sentdefender Om ovan sant, varför slutar inte alla uppmärksamma Ts alla konstiga utspel? Solid isolation vare ett straff som nog tog på rätt ställe…

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

Following several days of outrage from both Democrats and Republicans in Congress over the 28-point peace agreement for Ukraine, claimed to have been written jointly by senior officials from the U.S. and Russia. Republican Sen. Mike Rounds announced tonight, after speaking with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, that the proposal being circulated was a documents written by the Russians, not the United States.

Sen. Angus King stated that the leaked plan, which was allegedly provided to White House Special Envoy Steve Witkoff by officials claimed to be representing Russia, was essentially a “wishlist” of demands by Russia and was not the position of the Trump Administration. Neither Rounds, King, nor any other Senator appeared to understand why it took the administration over three days to make clear the 28-point plan was not the policy being pushed by the U.S. State Department.

Republican Senators on the delegation to Halifax stated that they were also told by Secretary Rubio that he was unaware of any “ultimatum” provided to Ukraine requiring their agreement to the ceasefire plan before Thanksgiving, with the threat of pulling material and intelligence support from Kyiv.

[Anders Rune @chefekonom]

Ending Russia’s war against Ukraine needs only one point | George W. Bush Presidential Center https://t.co/gspOnHFZt6

[Otavio (Tavi) Costa @TaviCosta]

TRUMP ANNOUNCES $2,000 TARIFF DIVIDEND FOR AMERICANS

You can’t cure inflation by giving people money to spend, running a 6% government deficit, and having the Fed cut interest rates.

My two cents:

Don’t let volatility scare you — stay focused on hard assets.

[Anders Rune @chefekonom]

@JohanRomin Effektsökeri från Ekdahl? Eller den mer klassiska ”upp flyga orden, tanken stilla står..?

[Anders Rune @chefekonom]

@elonmusk @zerohedge So Bitcoin is just an electrical energy bill, right!?

[Anders Rune @chefekonom]

@EuromaidanPress @Marekwalkuski ”TW” is for two weeks and to weak.

[Anders Rune @chefekonom]

Dagens sågning…

[Gilles 🇨🇭🤝🇫🇷🤝🇩🇪 🤝🇪🇺✊ @Gilles_Bourdin]

Excerpts from The Times of London.
Someone asked, "Why don't some Britons like Donald Trump?"
Nate White, an eloquent and witty English writer, wrote this magnificent response:
Trump lacks certain qualities that the British traditionally value.
He has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honor, and no grace—qualities, oddly enough, with which his predecessor, Mr. Obama, was generously endowed.
While Trump may be ridiculous, he has never said anything ironic, amusing, or even mildly funny—not once, ever. I don't mean this rhetorically, I mean it literally: never. To British sensibilities a lack of humor is almost inhuman.
But with Trump, it's a fact. He doesn't even seem to understand what a joke is—to him, a joke is a crude comment, an illiterate insult, an act of casual cruelty.
Trump is like a troll, he's never funny or laughs; he just squeals with delight or mockery.
And the scary thing is, he doesn't just utter crude and stupid insults: he actually thinks while he uses them. His mind is a mere robotic algorithm of petty prejudices and instinctive nastiness.
There is never an underlying layer of irony, complexity, nuance, or depth. It's all superficial. We see him as lacking an inner world, a soul.
In Britain, we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky outsiders: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist.
Trump is neither plucky nor an outsider. He's the opposite.
He's not even a spoiled rich boy, nor a greedy fat cat.
He's more of a big white slug, a privileged Jabba the Hutt.
And worse, he's a bully.
When he finds himself in the midst of bullies; in that case, he suddenly transforms into a sniveling sidekick.
He strikes downwards—something a gentleman should not, could not, and should never do—and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly enjoys hitting the vulnerable or the voiceless—and he hits them when they are down.
So the fact that a significant minority—perhaps a third—of Americans watch what he does, listen to what he says, and then think, “Yes, he seems like my kind of guy” is a source of confusion and great distress to the British.
After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him utter a sentence or two, without staring into the abyss. He makes artlessness an art form; he's a Picasso of pettiness, a Shakespeare of shit. His flaws are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum.
There have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of evil people too. But rarely has stupidity been so evil, and rarely has evil been so stupid.
He makes Nixon seem trustworthy and George W. seem intelligent.
If Frankenstein decided to create a monster composed entirely of human flaws, he would create a Trump and a remorseful Dr. Frankenstein screamed in anguish, "My God what have I created?"
If an idiot were a television show, Trump would be the box set.

[Anders Rune @chefekonom]

@ibinvestorX Långsiktigt stiger bostäder principiellt i takt med inflationen. Har nog alltid betraktats som dyrt men långsiktigt lönsamt äga. Notera därtill mark en real tillgång beroende av läge o befolkning. Sparsamhet nödvändig förutsättning. Skatter o risk avgör sparval. Lycka till!

[Anders Rune @chefekonom]

TACO still in business?

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian foreign minister Lavrov are meeting in Kuala Lumpur.

[Anders Rune @chefekonom]

@PhillipsPOBrien Never the case Trump get that prize….

[Anders Rune @chefekonom]

@PhillipsPOBrien Taco?