In the ten days before his arrest: www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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In the ten days before his arrest: www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Charles Schwab wired about $27.7 million overseas on behalf of Jeffrey Epstein as he tried to purchase a palace in Morocco in the 10 days before his arrest. @reuters.com exclusive w @bradheath.bsky.social @niveditab.bsky.social bsky.social @elisamartinuzzi.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Style ruling: on second mention we will go with The Andrew Formerly Known as Prince.
Epstein's power broker targeted powerful UK editors to try and cleanse his reputation, a few years after that first conviction.
Claimed that the then-editors of the FT and the Economist would be more interested in Epstein's opinions about the world economy than in "tabloid headlines." Hmmm.
If journalists were PRs we might:
Threaten no relationship unless companies let us change their reports before publication.
Make interviewees sign NDAs to enter our building.
Share info they gave us with whoever, perhaps leak it to rivals.
Say we are a professional service, despite no regulator.
If only the council, which appears to have a surfeit of staff to collect money they are not actually owed by me, could perhaps move a few more people into roles that involve picking up the phone to discuss their billing errors.
Hey I've got a great get rich quick idea.
Find lots of gullible CEOs
Tell them the Budget is a form of free advertising for them.
Cut and paste 'X Budget thing is set to increase demand for X company's services.'
Send this memo to all journalists in the world.
Charge every business Β£20k.
If I have a second child can I sacrifice part of their salary into my pension to avoid paying tax?
I think its going to result in bankers having to accept even more of their own banks' shares in lieu of salary, and that is really sad because one should never touch the product :)
Someone was working from home and their cat walked over the keyboard is going to be the most British of reasons
Salary sacrifice pension thing going away? Very expensive for the employers of top earners.
About Β£2.9bn of the Β£4bn saved per HMRC is saved by employers. Your average head of IT, mid-level banker, banking PR person or newspaper editor becomes Β£2k-Β£4k more expensive to employ
Me trying to politely manage small businessesβ coverage and interview expectations for Budget day
On third mention it is now permissable to refer to the late Mr Epstein as βthe deceased plane-spotter.β Yours, the subs.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
βNo! Not Larry Summers!β Wails Devastated NationΒ β theonion.com/no-not-larry...
As a former part-time florist and current markets reporter, the brown rose may signal 'stability' or an Autumn rate cut :)
This is what happens when I open Twitter these days. I will not transliterate it because ick.
First night of holiday = drinks al fresco by the car park by the motorway adjacent to Luton Airport. @easyjet desk staff said airline would comp the room and replacement flight tomorrow morning but refused to put this in writing. Iβm Β£500 down.
Hi
@easyJet
I had to spend 3 hours waiting in Luton airport for staff to fulfil legal rights for cancelled flight (rerouting with another carrier/hotel). My autistic child had two meltdowns while we hung around (sensory hell for him). 2nd horrific experience with you now π’
Keep an eye on the dollar and copper.
The US currency, which investors are mostly short, has just surged. US copper prices have just registered the biggest daily decline on record and 'benchmark' London copper is falling too.
'The dollar will weaken' was investors' most popular view just two weeks ago. Its up 2.2% this week. Non-US assets that boomed because they were 'not dollars' are dropping. Always remember the words of the Wu Tang Clan. "Cash rules everything, dolla dolla bills."
www.reuters.com/business/fin...
The Make Europe Great Again trade (blue line in chart) has called and says it feels poorly and probably won't be in for the rest of the week.
US stocks are not falling on the Fed resisting rate cuts because the Fed is supporting the dollar. This chart from Barclays shows that the 'rest of the world' trade was very much led by investors trying to not get clobbered by the weakening dollar. So dollar up = buy more Google.
This is the US dollar index, after last night's Fed meeting.
The dollar had its worst half-year in the six months to June since 1973, because Trump. The dollar is the new 'Fed put.'
I am a middle aged, middle class, middle England woman who has covered my rattan sofa set 3 seconds before the rains came. This was of course the happiest moment of my life post-45 and the level of joy Iβll be fine not to feel again.
Anyone remember Big Daddy in WWF, that 'heroic' all-American patriot who mainly charged at his opponents and used constant motion to conceal that he didn't have many good skills or moves?
That's Trump, the tariffs are the eternal feud and it is all a show.
www.reuters.com/world/china/...
This is one lie of austerity. Areas of spending are slashed but need isn't. So it travels, scarily. Homeless young women are self-harming to get hospital beds. In some UK areas, A&E attendance has almost doubled in 15 years and ambulance call-outs rose 61%.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Is it OK to enjoy my professional decline, given the ascent was so extremely taxing?
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
