oh my goodness
financial times reporting that $META is now thinking of raising "tens of billions" in new share sale
$GOOGL opened the floodgates...if all the Mag 7s think the market is willing to buy newly issued equity...
then you would imagine that $MSFT and $AMZN also participate
we are in a new paradigm in funding the ai buildout
@OddStats@market_sleuth Recreated with @claudeai it's not the same:
"It's a real comparison of real data, but the implied prediction is statistically weak. This type of chart gets shared a lot during anxious markets and almost never pans out as suggested. It's more fear-inducing than informative."
Unit Labour Costs in the UK have gone from some of the most competitive in the G7, to the worst since the introduction of the National Living Wage in 2016 (and amplified by employer NICs, and the recent ERA). Yet politicians trumpet it as one of their signature achievements. The overall package has made employing young people increasingly unattractive for employers.
Nationalise Morrisons, use it as the foundation for a new, publicly-owned grocery store selling high quality, affordable food. National-level version of the Mamdani plan in New York.
Need to think big in a world with repeated, major shocks to essential supply systems.
No smoking gun, but the preponderance of evidence points to smartphones, not economics, as the culprit for the global drop in fertility:
• In the US and UK, births fell first and fastest in areas that got 4G earliest
• Birth rates were stable in the US, UK and Australia until 2007; in France and Poland until 2009; in Mexico and Indonesia until 2012; in Ghana, Nigeria and Senegal until 2013-15
Each of these inflection points matches local smartphone adoption (see picture).
• The younger the age group, the sharper the drop.
• in-person socialising among young adults is dropping. In SK, by 50% in 20 years
• Sexual dysfunction is higher among heavy social media user
• Effect is largest in culturally traditional societies — Middle East, Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa
• Decline holds across countries hit hard by GFC 2008 and those not hit, fast-growing and not growing.
Excellent again @jburnmurdoch.
https://t.co/RYEMXD2bRM
generalists are about to win big
If you understand a little of tech, business, and people, and can connect everything fast.
you're sitting on a goldmine right now.
@TPExpressTrains the 1707 from Manchester picadilly to warrington West didn't open the doors for the front carriage. So now I have to go to Liverpool parkway