Sterling Wong

ex-@Business reporter | @ColumbiaJourn, @Minyanville, @SarahLawrence alum

[Sterling Wong @sterlingwong]

@agoda I got a fraudulent charge on my credit card for a an Agoda booking that i didn't make. I emailed your Customer Service and called your number but didn't get a response. Please help...

[CJ Fogler 🫡 @cjzero]

I had to see the jump rope dog

[Justin Sherin @wychstreet]

Judi Dench was on Graham Norton last night to push her new book about her life and work with Shakespeare. After making the point we quote Shakespeare daily without knowing it, this happened:

[Timothy Burke @bubbaprog]

The shot I was hoping for, the show's director missed, but Getty's Kevin Winter got

[Sterling Wong @sterlingwong]

Holy bombshell. I always thought he'd end his career on Centre Court at Wimbledon.

[Roger Federer @rogerfederer]

❤️

[Metro @MetroUK]

The world of chess has been rocked by the biggest scandal in years after a player allegedly used wireless anal beads and its vibrations to signal his next move... 😭

Iconic? Let's find out 👇 https://t.co/kFc9NVJWIk

[Andrew J. Hawkins 🚇🚌🚲🛴 @andyjayhawk]

the lede to this story belongs in a museum https://t.co/4qftjJiigL

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

Everyone is focused on the $10k/$20k of student debt forgiveness, but the most important policy change was related to income-driven repayment plans.

These are some of the worst incentives I've ever seen created by public policy:

[First Squawk @FirstSquawk]

VIETNAM TO MAKE APPLE WATCH AND MACBOOK FOR FIRST TIME EVER - NIKKEI

[Amichai Stein @AmichaiStein1]

CNN: Saudi Arabia is expected to announce this week that it will allow all commercial flights to and from Israel to use its airspace and allow Israel's Muslim minority to take charter flights directly to Saudi Arabia to participate in the Hajj

[Sterling Wong @sterlingwong]

I don't think Prince William is a fan of Djokovic. #Wimbledon

[Shamik Dasgupta @ShamikDasgupta1]

Oof @nytimes that is one hell of a correction.

[Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur]

Former President George W. Bush: “The decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq. I mean of Ukraine.”

[Victoria Haneman @TaxLawProf]

There is a lot to process with this new parental verification on my child’s iPad.

[Austen Allred @Austen]

Wild that you can go a full decade at Yale ordering and selling an average $4 million/year in electronics before anyone starts to notice.

Say an iPad costs $2,000 on average.

We’re talking the equivalent of 2,000 iPads/yr for ten years.

[Sterling Wong @sterlingwong]

Why we stopped making Einsteins, by @erikphoel https://t.co/OHCtx1XUnE

[Sterling Wong @sterlingwong]

Fascinating and insightful thread on Russia and its dependency on the global/Western economy, and why that is so.

(Also separately, a well-done tweet thread makes me think about how this is a legit journalism format these days)

[Kamil Galeev @kamilkazani]

Let's discuss Russian economy. Many underestimate its dependency upon technological import. Russia's so deeply integrated into Western technological chains that severing these ties will lead to its collapse. Sanctions are already effective and can be made even more efficient🧵

[Javier Blas @JavierBlas]

UPDATED: European natural gas prices zoom to a fresh all-time high, rising >75% today. Benchmark TTF is trading above €345 per MWh.

** That's equal to more than $100 per million Btu, or more than to $600 a barrel of oil equivalent ** (I promise you there are not typos there).