Katie Martin

‘Cavalier and demeaning’: the Trump team’s hyper-aggressive war rhetoric [FREE TO READ] White House boasts of the military’s lethality and prowess but critics pan the language as callous and cruel

Nice piece on Team Trump's thuggish rhetoric - as.ft.com/r/144e4b81-c...

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Cortisol spike pranging on the jobhuntmogmax

From @duncanrobinson.bsky.social's take on the schadenfreude over the plight of British expats in Dubai www.economist.com/britain/2026...

AFAIK it never happened
think we skipped straight to Web99 IDK

so help me i'll block you 😆

i have peas in my freezer older than some of these guys. good luck to em but... i'm not sure this was their best idea

give it time

remember Web3?

it's about a "DeFi-centric L2" if you're wondering

madam would like these people to leave. her. alone.

we now go live to the banks' PR departments

the only law i can impose is that i've finally identified the agency that sends me all these ridiculous pitches so i've set up a rule to have all its emails sent to spam

crypto is just words.
thank you for coming to my Ted talk.

private credit types tell me the backing of insurance is a huge plus to the market and a sign of its quality so...

some of the best ever stuff. again, no notes

Wealthy Dubai residents race back to UAE to avoid tax bills [FREE TO READ] Some risk spending too few days in the emirate and too many in the UK

'the rich “really value the ability to move and work wherever they want, when they want, and when something like the Iran war disrupts it, they don’t like it”'

i mean, knock yerself out lads, might save a few quid i guess

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(Bloomberg) -- BlackRock Inc. slashed the value of a private loan to zero just three months after assessing it at 100 cents on the dollar, marking the second sudden wipeout to recently hit its private-credit division. The roughly $25 million loan to Infinite Commerce Holdings, a so-called Amazon aggregator that buys up online sellers of products from spa treatments to light bulbs, is now worthless, BlackRock TCP Capital Corp. reported in fourth-quarter filings released last week. The fund had marked the junior debt at 100 cents on the dollar in the third quarter. A representative for BlackRock declined to comment. A spokesperson for Infinite Commerce wasn't immediately available. While a small loan in a troubled niche, its abrupt markdown highlights what critics describe as a key fault line in private credit: the lag between valuations on illiquid loans and the deteriorating performance of the companies behind them. Zips Car Wash was valued near par by its private credit backers in the months before it sought bankruptcy protection. And in November, BlackRock TCP slashed the full value of loans it extended to Renovo Home Partners, a struggling home improvement company.

$BLK hit with more write-downs in private credit. Small loan in a narrow space with known issues but still.

just realised that Operation Epic Fury fits into this but i can't find the meme generator anywhere

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

Very good. Take the day off.

This investigation will be like pulling teeth

Hi. Sorry.

Once again, a regulator showing it has teeth

'Harborne, an aviation entrepreneur and crypto investor, was born in Britain but has lived in Thailand for the past two decades.'

So they do like immigrants? Confused

Ok, noted

Maybe we should be Brit influencers? Brinfluencers?
“Hey guys you should like lowkey come here babes. No sharia law, low crime and free healthcare” *pouts*

The influencers leaping to Dubai’s defence [FREE TO READ] As missiles streak across the region, unfazed residents insist they ‘know who protects us’

‘British expats, he claimed, were refusing to fill out evacuation forms provided by the British government “just in case it somehow turns into a tax form instead”.’

No notes.

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