Stephen Rea @stephenrea2

Politics. History. The Arts. Dublin, Ireland Joined August 2009

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Ken Berenger @KenBerenger

3 days ago

Oil made Rockefeller rich. Steel made Carnegie wealthy. Now, Wall Street has chosen its next industry to monopolize: WATER. Here’s how they’re turning the most essential resource into their next monopoly and the alternative no one talks about: 🧵

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Ken Berenger @KenBerenger

3 days ago

The result? MIT found nearly 1 in 3 U.S. households already struggles to pay water bills. That’s 40 million Americans on the brink of “water poverty.” And unlike fuel or streaming, you can’t cut water. You pay, or your tap runs dry.

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Ken Berenger @KenBerenger

3 days ago

This isn’t economics, it’s water poverty. 2M Americans lack running water, while the poorest towns pay the most. The fix? Flip the model. Do the OPPOSITE of a monopoly: Investors profit from treating wastewater, not billing families.Done right, Wall Street becomes the solution.

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Lee Hepner @LeeHepner

3 days ago

Earlier this week, a federal court found it could not terminate Google’s Search monopoly because firms like Apple, Samsung and AT&T depend on Google’s illegal payments. It’s an extraordinary threat to the whole of antitrust law. Google’s monopoly was deemed too big to terminate.

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IMF @IMFNews

3 days ago

AI breakthroughs won’t come from scale alone. History shows innovation thrives on competition and decentralization; Carl Benedikt Frey writes in F&D magazine. imf.org/en/Publication…

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IMF @IMFNews

a week ago

Watch our latest Back to Basics video to learn about bonds and the important role they play in the global economy.

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StockMarket.News @_Investinq

7 days ago

Quantitative Tightening (QT). For years, central banks bought bonds to hold yields down (Quantitative Easing). Now they’re shrinking balance sheets. QT = central banks stepping back as bond buyers. Investors must absorb more supply and they demand higher yields to do it.

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Mohamed A. El-Erian @elerianm

10 hours ago

From the @FT editorial, “The bond vigilantes will keep on circling: Investors are losing faith in the ability of western governments to rein in spending.” #economy #markets #debt #deficits #bonds

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Sheena Chestnut Greitens @SheenaGreitens

6 hours ago

I don’t think people in the US understand the level of impact this raid/set of arrests is having in South Korea:

Raphael Rashid @koryodynasty

7 hours ago

I don’t think people in the US understand the level of impact this raid/set of arrests is having in South Korea:

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Mike Bird @Birdyword

16 hours ago

By our assessment, the AI boom is not yet near the scale of those railways manias, but nor is it any longer in the ranks of the minor tech excitements. It might be a bigger deal already in terms of the potential disappointment, depreciation and danger than the Dotcom Boom.

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Aaron Smith @Aaronsmith333

a day ago

Bin watch #6: Nick McGowan and Chris Crewther also rolled out the Ferrari comparison. Clearly the memo from Liberal HQ’s Department of Dumb Cost Analogies went out on time. /6

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Ray Wilton now on Bluesky as Raymond Wilton💧 @raywilton4

10 hours ago

@Aaronsmith333 @anneOkeefe7 Aaron’s thread is great. Thank you Aaron.✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻 Recorded on the public record evidence of lnp statements on the cost of machete bins. lnp, this is what they do. lnp lie at every turn.👇🏻

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Freedom of the Press @FreedomofPress

2 years ago

Israel is now banning almost any detailed reporting on the Israel-Gaza war unless it’s submitted to its “Censorship” office for review. While it’s censoring international journalists in Israel, it’s still not allowing them into Gaza at all. theintercept.com/2023/12/23/isr…

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Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster

3 weeks ago

This should be a much bigger story than it is: in 2024, Israel's military censor banned 1,635 articles from publication & partially redacted another 6,265. @Ha_Matar CC @972mag. Just imagine what horrors they don't want us to know about.

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The Wall Street Journal @WSJ

2 days ago

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is forming its own police force, as President Trump’s immigration crackdown widens beyond traditional law-enforcement agencies on.wsj.com/4m5SjWf

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Victoria @victoriaslog

23 hours ago

Putin’s spokespet Peskov said that everyone should understand the FSB has access to all messaging apps Russians use and to all their conversations. Russians can’t complain even privately because there’s NO privacy.

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Rolling Stone @RollingStone

9 hours ago

Rick Davies, the Supertramp co-founder, singer, and keyboardist who penned some of the band's most popular and enduring songs, including "Goodbye Stranger," "My Kind of Lady," and "Cannonball," has died at age 81. Access the free article here: rollingstone.com/music/music-ne…

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Ben Rothenberg @BenRothenberg

16 hours ago

The Trump security lines are not moving outside. #USOpen

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Rolling Stone @RollingStone

14 hours ago

U.S. Open Crowd Booed Trump Repeatedly Watch: rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

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Steven Methven @StevenJMethven

21 hours ago

The media is, as usual, doing a bad job of reporting on yesterday’s protest in Parliament Square. And, in my view, as someone who spent 8.5 hours at the protest reporting for @novaramedia, the @metpoliceuk have dangerously misrepresented what happened. A visual 🧵