It's now official.
The #WallStreetConsensus will soon be a book - about the return of the transformative state.
There may be some Taylor Swift/Travis Kelce macrofinancial jokes (she inflation targeting, he Big Finance) in it.
On the pages of the NYT but not in the actual sight of the state that supposedly sent her there.
This would be a plot too ridiculous for a Netflix series
https://t.co/jsNhxEE7JE
Blowing up Huang's open secret affair same week that Democrat tsunami swept midterms tell us new Silicon Valley strategy:
ramp up national security angle Amdoei been pushing to get restrictions on Chinese AI open models eating their lunch + bailouts if bubble explodes
this will go down in economic history as the singularly stupid self-destruction of a lucrative export sector driven by the hysteria of getting migrant numbers dwon
https://t.co/KQs6E5W7hw
At #websummit and I'm learning intriguing things about The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) - like it won't make public the private entities it subsidises w free compute power
I often joke about capital's impeccable timing, but was there a better/stranger time to be delivering Minskyan takes at #WebSummit2026 on the geopolitics and macrofinance of the AI race?
Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley warns that there’s a humanitarian crisis in Cuba: unless we all make sure that Cubans have access to basic food and energy, “we put at risk people's lives, from babies to elderly people.”
new report for @Europarl_EN 'TransAtlantic Faultlines'
- short-term risk of AI Minsky moment
- state capacity for transformative policies
- run on Eurodollar stablecoins and low-ambitions for digital Euro
🚨 INSANE CRASH
In just 60 minutes, $2.5 TRILLION has been wiped from US stocks, while another $150 BILLION has been erased from crypto.
It's an absolutely bloodbath...
Absolute slaughter.
Double digit losses for many AI companies. SpaceX 10% below IPO price, CoreWeave about to drop below its IPO price. Nvidia is down almost 10%
The AI industry’s day of reckoning may have finally come.
👨💻 THREAD on how data center-related ballot measures are faring tonight
data centers are on the ballot in ~40 localities across 13 states, including proposed bans, votes on specific projects, and recalls of pro-data center politicians
A pleasure to appear on @FT's "The Story of #Money" Podcast, with Gillian Tett and Robin Wigglesworth. We exchanged on @Fpigeaud and I’s book “Africa’s Last Colonial Currency: The #CFA franc story”. Below the link to the episode "Colonialism by Currency"
https://t.co/CdIfCdjnJ3
The Democrats have won. Now they must deliver real change for common people. And urgently.
🔗 I answered your questions on affordability for the @guardian. Link below.
Development lenders, governments and regulators need to deepen African markets so that every dollar they deploy can attract $10 more of commercial capital, an official at the World Bank’s private-sector arm said. https://t.co/epdJpdEzON
@andyburnham@chakrabortty@piercepenniless Healy didn't mean destroying state that neoliberalism built - independent central banks, government policed by bond investors, retirement savings in hands of private equity destroying public goods.
He meant devolution, your mayor bribing capital to build un/affordable houses.
Healey promised 'a radical rewiring of the state' that would deliver @andyburnham farewell to neoliberalism
W @chakrabortty and @piercepenniless we discussed why the Burnham budget is not radically rewiring the neoliberal state
https://t.co/0Q1cG9W5EN
Last month, the British Library decided to turn three of its reading rooms into paid-for WeWork-style coworking spots.
I exclusively spoke with staff on the inside about the last three years of chaos, from disastrous hacks to having four different CEOs.
https://t.co/4180BNajuE