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[@Birdyword](/creator/twitter/Birdyword)
"Goldman Sachs stock was down more than X% this morning after missing equity trading revenue forecasts which the market has now decided doesn't matter in the least and the stock is basically flat"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Birdyword/status/1978163458077061414) [@Birdyword](/creator/x/Birdyword) 2025-10-14T18:18Z 99.5K followers, 4455 engagements


"I reviewed @andrewrsorkin's '1929' which is great. It includes a wonderful Churchillism: The English critic would do well to acquaint himself with the inherent probity and strength of the American speculative machine. It is not built to prevent crises but to survive them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Birdyword/status/1978551889705701721) [@Birdyword](/creator/x/Birdyword) 2025-10-15T20:01Z 99.4K followers, 21.4K engagements


"Not an important point here but I'm always blown away by the seemingly very low actual amounts of cash involved in these things. 4000 isn't a suitcase of cash it's like maybe a small parcel of cash. It's a quarter of a median used car"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Birdyword/status/1979671150289711181) [@Birdyword](/creator/x/Birdyword) 2025-10-18T22:09Z 99.4K followers, 63.9K engagements


"Not saying I live in a crazy political monoculture but I've now seen as many Curtis Sliwa posters as I have those for independent candidate Jim Walden who isn't included in any polls. I think that may have actually been at Jim Walden's house too"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Birdyword/status/1979673214591922182) [@Birdyword](/creator/x/Birdyword) 2025-10-18T22:17Z 99.4K followers, 5342 engagements


"Great to see @PEWilliams_ and Manchester United head coach @TheStalwart live again"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Birdyword/status/1979741989248843906) [@Birdyword](/creator/x/Birdyword) 2025-10-19T02:50Z 99.4K followers, 23.6K engagements


"Maybe a bad deal for the US but there's a potentially important lesson for countries worried about how they'll be treated by the administration: you've got to be epic based and against the libs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Birdyword/status/1980004055716896772) [@Birdyword](/creator/x/Birdyword) 2025-10-19T20:12Z 99.4K followers, 20.1K engagements


"Gold futures open in five minutes. Your weekend is OVER"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Birdyword/status/1980030010678280446) [@Birdyword](/creator/x/Birdyword) 2025-10-19T21:55Z 99.4K followers, 8546 engagements


"Hope everyone enjoyed the 2025 regional banking crisis (Thurs Oct 16th - Thurs Oct 16th)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Birdyword/status/1980285895862604046) [@Birdyword](/creator/x/Birdyword) 2025-10-20T14:52Z 99.5K followers, 25.7K engagements


"Only two weeks until the NYC mayoral election and Mamdani is conspicuously silent on the issue of adults dressing up for Halloween too early in October"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Birdyword/status/1980372567006511149) [@Birdyword](/creator/x/Birdyword) 2025-10-20T20:36Z 99.4K followers, 25.2K engagements


"I hadn't clocked that we had reached the point in the French political crisis where the Bourbon pretender asks if everyone is *really* so sure they want a republic at all"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Birdyword/status/1978151693637324907) [@Birdyword](/creator/x/Birdyword) 2025-10-14T17:31Z 99.5K followers, 78.3K engagements


"Having a nasty premonition about getting a call from an angry PR person noting that MrBeast Securities is a different firm to MrBeast Capital and that the former didn't have exposure to the CDO default in question"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Birdyword/status/1978576878148415959) [@Birdyword](/creator/x/Birdyword) 2025-10-15T21:41Z 99.5K followers, 18.7K engagements


"Who remembers those Fed balance sheet / S&P XXX charts You don't see those so much any more"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Birdyword/status/1980353727283519996) [@Birdyword](/creator/x/Birdyword) 2025-10-20T19:21Z 99.5K followers, 548.5K engagements


"I never know whether people are being serious with this so sorry if this was a joke but I'm not sure one series 8x-ing and another 14.5x-ing in 45yrs with massive deviations from that relationship at various points is actually a useful indicator"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Birdyword/status/1980627858419585334) [@Birdyword](/creator/x/Birdyword) 2025-10-21T13:30Z 99.5K followers, 8260 engagements


"Lot of excitement out there today about the surge and slump in gold prices but remember gold is the only real money out there. And priced in gold gold looks quite stable. Will continue monitoring this and update if something changes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Birdyword/status/1980676621074891224) [@Birdyword](/creator/x/Birdyword) 2025-10-21T16:44Z 99.5K followers, 17.6K engagements


"This is one of the most important points about the decline in fertility and one of the less well-known. Fewer young people means less fluid intelligence less disruptive innovation (the sort that completely changes the direction of future research)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Birdyword/status/1980977222774112507) [@Birdyword](/creator/x/Birdyword) 2025-10-22T12:39Z 99.5K followers, 169.3K engagements


"This sort of extreme sensitivity to bond yields in a specific pre-budget period does not seem like a very sensible way of organising fiscal policy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Birdyword/status/1980992416623865990) [@Birdyword](/creator/x/Birdyword) 2025-10-22T13:39Z 99.5K followers, 36.8K engagements


"🚨 BIG hiring news 🚨 We're looking to hire a finance writer at The Economist based either in New York or London. Sparkling writing and idea-generation a must journalistic experience not necessary. A very rare opening on a stellar team"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Birdyword/status/1981021978262736957) [@Birdyword](/creator/x/Birdyword) 2025-10-22T15:36Z 99.5K followers, 35.1K engagements


"Objectively the funniest outcome is now that Sliwa beats him into second place"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Birdyword/status/1981381812673769714) [@Birdyword](/creator/x/Birdyword) 2025-10-23T15:26Z 99.5K followers, 6807 engagements


"I co-authored our piece this week on the quiet rise and rise of guest worker-style migration in the rich world and why it's thriving even in places where anti-migration politicians are ascendant or in charge already and the enormous opportunities to getting it right"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Birdyword/status/1981394419430682637) [@Birdyword](/creator/x/Birdyword) 2025-10-23T16:16Z 99.5K followers, 15.8K engagements


"Again it's going to be very funny if AI progress hits a wall capital markets freak out and the only thing saving everyone from a huge blowup is the environmental groups and local political gripes slowing down the projects"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Birdyword/status/1976085039369814092) [@Birdyword](/creator/x/Birdyword) 2025-10-09T00:39Z 99.5K followers, 11.8K engagements


"I agree with the sentiment here to a degree BUT you have to do this as a total return with a stream of rental income for the housing or it's bordering on a chart crime. And you've got to consider the volatility too"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Birdyword/status/1978616458801270864) [@Birdyword](/creator/x/Birdyword) 2025-10-16T00:18Z 99.5K followers, 20.6K engagements


"There's a lot of downsides to the way Twitter works now but when someone calls in Grok for support in an argument and Grok disagrees with them and they start arguing with Grok instead it's extremely funny"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Birdyword/status/1978983238086295690) [@Birdyword](/creator/x/Birdyword) 2025-10-17T00:35Z 99.5K followers, 91.4K engagements


"I'm going to endeavour to get the phrase "going down like a diving duck" into my next article about an FX market selloff"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Birdyword/status/1980702442586333466) [@Birdyword](/creator/x/Birdyword) 2025-10-21T18:27Z 99.5K followers, 7803 engagements


"Policy suggestion for New York if anyone knows people involved in state or city politics - people could be required to pass some sort of test before being allowed to drive. Proof of being able to operate the vehicle understanding street signs traffic lights etc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Birdyword/status/1980751072554537144) [@Birdyword](/creator/x/Birdyword) 2025-10-21T21:40Z 99.5K followers, 9307 engagements


"That's true not just for the businesses hiring or the migrants themselves (the wage uplift for people in the XX largest developing economies to low-skilled US work is 400%) but the source countries too several of which are pursuing guest worker deals to drive remittances"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Birdyword/status/1981395570976838100) [@Birdyword](/creator/x/Birdyword) 2025-10-23T16:21Z 99.5K followers, 1827 engagements