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@bardonabike

Sydney, Australia based Actor - Theatre - Shakespeare - Director - Bike Commuter - Baker - Educator - Feldenkrais - Community - Nature - Science - Sport - Politics - Art

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Trump, Markets, And “TACO”: Why The Usual Warning Signal May Fail In Iran, Warns Justin Wolfers
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 👍 536 🔁 156 💬 33 📌 7
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I truly love the cycling infrastructure in the @cityofsydney.bsky.social

22.02.2026 06:27 👍 27 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 1

🤯🤯🤯

14.02.2026 23:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

😳😳😳

14.02.2026 22:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

That’s really beautiful and powerful, Dan. Thanks for sharing.

03.02.2026 07:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

That’s gorgeous

21.01.2026 20:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I wonder what the people of Ukraine think of these independent warriors for liberty and self determination?

06.12.2025 21:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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@nytpitchbot.bsky.social
I think he’s trolling you.

21.11.2025 10:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’ll take two but do they come in other colours?

12.11.2025 12:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Are you a doctor? This is an excellent prescription!

08.11.2025 01:35 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It’s always darkest before the dawn

05.11.2025 08:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I love dark humour

03.11.2025 03:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It was a brilliantly accurate recreation of the style being imitated.

25.10.2025 01:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Noting the flag of distress is key to detecting your irony.

21.10.2025 11:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Great work Prof Wolfman!

19.10.2025 10:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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

18.10.2025 10:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@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 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

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

01.09.2025 10:42 👍 17 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Seems to me your schtick has some stiff competition.

25.08.2025 13:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Seems entirely reasonable

23.08.2025 23:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The real crime wave is “coming from inside the house!”

12.08.2025 04:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’ve always rather liked and respected geraniums. This metaphor, while colourful, is overly flattering to a percentage of US society.

23.07.2025 05:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Pretty good finger, too

17.07.2025 14:31 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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12.07.2025 05:52 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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’?

05.07.2025 00:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

In a way they total 47

29.06.2025 00:57 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0