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Rats leaving sinking ship? twitter.com/NJ_Timothy/sta…

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RT @Schuldensuehner: Good Morning from Germany, where consumers are in depressed mood as disposable incomes fall. GfK German Consumer Confi…

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RT @monakdohle: Every 0.1% on yield changes means about a £1m in margin calls to them, so a 1% change in long-dated gilt yields means £100m…

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RT @monakdohle: Just got off the phone with an investor for a big UK DB scheme who told me that they are throwing the kitchen sink to meet…

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RT @jnordvig: BoE intervention to stabilize 30-year bonds is having an effect. But the currency not loving it. The solution to one proble…

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RT @ChrisGiles_: This is now financial crisis territory…. ….limited to the UK BoE will seek to stabilise – as it did after Brexit vot…

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RT @ChrisGiles_: Entirely self-inflicted wound, forcing the BoE to restart the printing presses to bail out pension funds which were fallin…

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RT @SAshworthHayes: (3) Pension funds are massively exposed to gilts, subject to margin calls (?!) and have all been buying the same assets…

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RT @ritholtz: Over the last 50 years, development has surged along the Tampa region's 700 miles of shoreline, with people+buildings along t…

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RT @henrymance: a currency trader tells me that sterling is falling only because markets are worried that Jacob Rees-Mogg will be sacked as…

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Meanwhile, after knocking out the power supply in all of Cuba, a hurricane just shy of catastrophic force 5 is bearing down on Florida. Sustained winds of 155 mph! twitter.com/NHC_Atlantic/s…

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RT @Histoire_image: Georges #Clémenceau est né #CeJourla #28septembre #1841. Leader des #républicains radicaux, il captive par sa parole et…

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RT @AntoineBouvet2: Huw Pill said yesterday the BoE won't sell gitls into a dysfunctional market The gilt market was dysfunctional a few w…

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RT @jonsindreu: Also, I think we should stop thinking that buying bonds is a contradiction with central banks tightening policy, which is…

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RT @TorstenBell: Bank is effectively doing temporary extra QE to stop wild increases in rates on long term gilts. Comms is a nightmare give…

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Wow … this is how they are framing it … "material risk to financial stability" … of course @DanielaGabor twitter.com/jchoonara/stat…

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But hang on … Im confused … is the Bank of England not "sound money" any more? twitter.com/joecguinan/sta…

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RT @leadlagreport: The Bank of England move is NOT bullish for stocks. Why? Because they aren't panicking due to stocks, but rather gove…

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RT @lewis_goodall: Huge concern in the City about risk of contagion to other markets, pension, insurance etc (hence IMF intervention).

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Behind the scenes things must have gotten pretty panicky for the BofE to unleash this bond-buying! twitter.com/jsblokland/sta…

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RT @FTAlphaville: Bank of England to buy bonds again (temporarily, natch) on.ft.com/3CbiSEz

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RT @Illume_Movement: So AMAZING!!!! twitter.com/ian_fraser/sta…

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@sahil_mahtani Do those people have twitter accounts one can follow? This isnt my normal patch! 😉

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@sahil_mahtani Im interested by your alternative hypothesis. Do say more. Seriously. Have Truss/Kwarteng made reference to 1988? Interesting.

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RT @vonderburchard: German government: "Alternative financing options" allow the state to bail out ailing energy providers instead of makin…

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RT @M_PaulMcNamara: *KWARTENG TO ASK FINANCIERS NOT TO BET AGAINST POUND: SKY words fail me

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RT @GavinHJackson: This @adam_tooze piece gets at the problem I have when writing about the UK. How do you engage with politics that is jus…

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@journeymanhisto Exposure to the US has very much informed this piece. twitter.com/journeymanhist…

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@AlfaFellowship Italy not a member of G7? Were suggestions not made in 2011? Genuine question.

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And so it begins! twitter.com/GrahameLucas/s…

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Practically everyone in their right mind can agree on the folly of the Tory tax-cuts but what is the standpoint of critique? Chartbook Newsletter #156 on false friends and Project Fear 3.0. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-15… https://t.co/WpQfGmbMg3

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IMF launches biting attack on UK’s plan to implement £45bn of debt-funded tax cuts …. ft.com/content/069620… I began to retweet that and then wrote an angry Chartbook Newsletter instead. #156 on Project Fear 3.0, the Tories & the gatekeepers adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-15… https://t.co/2thgrR1Xu8

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RT @policytensor: So, not a "fiscal risk premium" at all, contra @RobinBrooksIIF; if anything, the plunge in the pound was pricing a "monet…

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RT @AimeTim: @adam_tooze on the economistic logic of Truss & Kwarteng. For me, this can be read as something like a performative act, one…

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RT @DanielaGabor: like @adam_tooze I am not convinced Truss/Tories are toast, or that Labour's 'sound money' strategy to reclaim the mantle…

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