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Mike Bird

@birdyword

Wall Street editor @TheEconomist. Money Talks pod co-host, Buttonwood column co-author. Just a lad from Leeds with a lust for markets, economics and history.

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Great to watch in real time as people discover with shock that the new pope doesn't always agree with the Right on economic issues and immigration, but also doesn't agree with the left on LGBT rights. They're going to go nuts when they find out he was also a catholic priest.

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Britain got a bad deal. 10% tariff on almost everything. Next to nothing in return. That some see this as good just shows how standards have sunk. The U.S. is now a high tariff protectionist country, 10% is the new baseline, and trade deals are judged not on how much they

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Had a great chat with Ken Rogoff this week about the future of the dollar, and what has to be just about the most well-timed book ever published.

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Anecdotal, but I feel like I've seen a few more people who seemed to have permanently migrated to 🟦-sky trickling back to the X dot com motherland

Anecdotal, but I feel like I've seen a few more people who seemed to have permanently migrated to 🟦-sky trickling back to the X dot com motherland