We brought back baggy jeans, Polaroid cameras, and vinyl records. Can we bring back basic human empathy too? The way it’s become so rare is concerning.
The boomers that spent the 80s drunk driving to $5 steak dinners, buying houses on factory salaries, and retiring at 60 with a pension wants to explain to me why I’m bad with money.
They lived like rockstars on a forklift salary and called it discipline.
I live like a monk on a corporate salary and still can’t afford what they had at 28.
The advice didn’t age well.
Neither did the economy it was built on.
Let me walk you through what happened one hour before Trump announced the five day moratorium on Iran strikes.
$1.5 billion in notional S&P E-mini futures contracts. Four to six times normal activity.
One hour before the announcement.
Simultaneously, $192 million in crude oil futures purchased at the same time.
They made between $300 and $400 million dollars off those trades.
Trump claimed he spoke to an Iranian official to negotiate the moratorium.
The Iranians said that person doesn't exist and the conversation never happened.
This is not the first time.
It has happened multiple times. He says something. The trade goes on. He says another thing. The market moves.
But whatever you call it — they are laughing at you and they are laughing at me while they do it.
Hunter Biden sold a painting and Washington lost its mind.
These people are making hundreds upon hundreds of millions of dollars trading on information that only exists inside the most powerful office in the world.
I think we are dramatically underreporting how much money is actually being made here.
This isn't politics anymore.
This is a financial operation running out of the White House.
Bobby Gillespie exercising heroic levels of restraint in the face of the usual buffoonery on mainstream TV’s so-called ‘political’ shows. Worthy of the Turner Prize, etc.
Zack Polanski, "A wealth tax won't fix everything but it would be a very good place to start"
"1% on £10 million, and 2% on £1 billion, would raise around £15 billion a year"
"A clear message that those who have accumulated the most money will pay a little bit more"
"For a truly progressive government a wealth tax needs to be a day one priority"
"And to get our economy moving we much look at all the levers we can pull"
"That must include equalising capital gains tax with income tax"
"Close down tax avoidance loopholes"
"And to expand National Insurance to cover income from investment as well as earned income"
@KOKOLondon is tomorrow's @dubpistols day gig a case of once you're in, you're in for the duration?
Got a couple of friends on the older side wondering if they can really go 7 hour's drinking without food 🤣
Britpop like you’ve never heard it before! Britpop Classical is coming to a venue near you in 2026. This epic show features over 40 performers live on stage, including a full orchestra, live band and guest vocalists Phil Daniels, Saffron (Republica), Gary Stringer (Reef).
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@Reverend_Makers Smalls and XXLs still up for grabs, all depends if they're Glastonbury sized. Their XXL footy shirts were as big as the Leftfield Stage 🤣