Non dom😂…Asked if he was a billionaire, as has been frequently reported, Haidar said: “Let me just say I am close to theguardian.com/news/2024/may/…

I wonder if it also predated austerity. I suspect not.

If you have a gap on your teaching roster next year, I might be able to fill it. Macro, money, finance, metrics, maths for econ. Let me know.

Most of Sudan is only one step away from a full blown famine. In a lot of areas the only thing stopping people starving is the presence of community kitchens. This is why we setup 3 kitchens in Khartoum State and are in the process of setting up a 4th. But there has been a…

I confess these are both real examples

it comes across as unhinged, frankly. it does not project strength or confidence that you, as a separate sovereign nation, are that worked up about whether northwestern creates an advisory subcommittee on investment policy with student participation

Nice bit about Rhys Mwyn Radio Cymru show in The Guardian
theguardian.com/music/2024/may…

This book delivers on the title (which is saying a lot)

It's also an enjoyable primer on cybernetics and how its ideas could benefit economics, management, governance, social media, etc. (I have not been paid to say this)

What we are seeing is the re-tranching of the banking system where banks parcel the riskiest slice to private credit, providing less risky lending themselves. Thats why private credit & banks are partnering. Private credit could be the Ozempic to help banks on yet another diet

Look, Labour are in this position because of consistent briefing from a 'senior source' against their own policies, this is exactly what happened with the green investment pledge, too. People are justified in being skeptical of Labour's prevaricating.

In which I get so excited about Kieran Healy's excellent 'The Ordinal Society' that I write a whole post about its subject before finishing the book to see if I was right or not. open.substack.com/pub/backofmind…

Pleasure to join tom keene & Paul Sweeney on Bloomberg Radio to discuss the tussle between private credit and banks - and Tom's choice of new piano

We also chatted about why private credit firms have changed tack from adversaries, partnering up with banks to originate more assets

people on Twitter will always be like 'oh you try to defend US policy on the merits? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, not engaging' and then not not engage

I don't know, PPE got me by

Dan Davies A lot of the early history of computing can be thought of as arising from people not wanting to have Norbert at the meeting.

Norbert Wiener says whut

A revealing podcast exchange between the former editor of the Sun David Yelland and top PR man (+ former Murdoch son in law) Matthew Freud about why Keir Starmer should keep his distance from Rupert. From

read.amazon.co.uk/kp/kshare?asin…

Rep. French Hill (R-Ark) took a lot of swings today -- at the White House, the CFPB, even a quick one at JPM's Jamie Dimon -- but his slam on Silicon Valley Bank's customer base was a flavor I haven't seen in a bit