Trump, Markets, And “TACO”: Why The Usual Warning Signal May Fail In Iran, Warns Justin Wolfers
What happens when the U.S. starts a war—and the biggest economic pain lands somewhere else?
Financial markets are a real-time forecasting machine: billions of dollars placed on bets about the…
Here's what worries me. The U.S. is less oil-dependent than our peers, and so Wall Street has responded far less to the war in Iran than financial markets abroad. When the country calling the shots feels only a small share of the pain, that's a dangerous asymmetry.
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04.03.2026 14:54
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I truly love the cycling infrastructure in the @cityofsydney.bsky.social
22.02.2026 06:27
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🤯🤯🤯
14.02.2026 23:00
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😳😳😳
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I know a Phil Thompson and a Matt O’Sullivan - but neither of them are the ones in the Liberal Party.
12.02.2026 12:11
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That’s really beautiful and powerful, Dan. Thanks for sharing.
03.02.2026 07:05
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As a song I heard the other day said: “What’s good for the goose is good for the propaganda.”
02.02.2026 03:49
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That’s gorgeous
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I wonder what the people of Ukraine think of these independent warriors for liberty and self determination?
06.12.2025 21:40
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@nytpitchbot.bsky.social
I think he’s trolling you.
21.11.2025 10:26
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Had a trip down memory lane today, too.
Almost all the single story houses were now full-height, double-story.
15.11.2025 07:42
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I’ll take two but do they come in other colours?
12.11.2025 12:32
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Are you a doctor? This is an excellent prescription!
08.11.2025 01:35
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It’s always darkest before the dawn
05.11.2025 08:59
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I love dark humour
03.11.2025 03:34
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It was a brilliantly accurate recreation of the style being imitated.
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Noting the flag of distress is key to detecting your irony.
21.10.2025 11:24
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Great work Prof Wolfman!
19.10.2025 10:49
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That’s a very disconcerting article - the description of the lives of the young men seems to chime with the ‘men are being demonised’ arguments I see spreading more widely
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@justinwolfers.bsky.social
Given that corporations will do much better under a system of laws that are coherent, stable and clear, is it not in the interest of shareholder value (that boards are obliged to work towards) that they form a united front and reject Trumps capricious ’reforms’?
21.09.2025 13:31
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My father introduced me to this poem 30 years ago. Not a year goes by that I do t read it and every year it unfolds something new. In recent years, obviously, it has become terrifyingly real
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Seems to me your schtick has some stiff competition.
25.08.2025 13:32
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Seems entirely reasonable
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The real crime wave is “coming from inside the house!”
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In 1991 I was stranded in Paris overnight.
I wandered the streets, helped a woman change her flat tire, got ushered into a restaurant with tuxedoed waiters to wash my hands, strolled under the Arc de Triumph & beautiful young lady gave me a rose before blushing & rushing off (maybe it was a dare).
05.08.2025 03:43
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I’ve always rather liked and respected geraniums. This metaphor, while colourful, is overly flattering to a percentage of US society.
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Pretty good finger, too
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Prelude to the English Civil War
Podcast Episode · Not Just the Tudors · 30/06/2025 · 55m
@hcrichardson.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/n...
This might right up your street. 18min: Can the king declare an emergency and use that to ‘raise taxes’?
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In a way they total 47
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