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[@Birdyword](/creator/twitter/Birdyword)
"Fascinating insight here from Stefanie Stantcheva: "People with more formal education are less likely to see the world as zero-sum but the pattern flips among the highly educated: those with PhDs often show the strongest zero-sum beliefs""  
![@Birdyword Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::138141969.png) [@Birdyword](/creator/x/Birdyword) on [X](/post/tweet/1942604724039213511) 2025-07-08 15:20:32 UTC 96.6K followers, 194.6K engagements


"It's not going to solve any problems right now but it's pretty crazy that the UK isn't hiking the state pension age for people 20yrs and more away from retirement to start flattening this line out"  
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"Nauru GDP is about $150m so in the last *two months* the data suggest the import bill from China alone has been XX% of *annual* output. They must have gotten really into BYD EVs Nothing to see here officer"  
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"People say there's no state capacity any more but here the government pulled off a multi-billion pound relocation of tens of thousands of people with all the planning execution and spending kept completely secret from the country"  
![@Birdyword Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::138141969.png) [@Birdyword](/creator/x/Birdyword) on [X](/post/tweet/1945105494630105311) 2025-07-15 12:57:42 UTC 96.6K followers, 151.3K engagements


"In every anecdote I've ever heard about the subject of an article contacting Murdoch to try to change the line of WSJ coverage (some for big stories like Theranos but also lots more small ones that didn't become public info) they got knocked straight back like this"  
![@Birdyword Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::138141969.png) [@Birdyword](/creator/x/Birdyword) on [X](/post/tweet/1946967742319346081) 2025-07-20 16:17:37 UTC 96.6K followers, 15.2K engagements


"I now think in a few years certainly after the next presidential election cross-party elite opinion will have gravitated towards a soft consensus that the Trump tariffs while slapdash and sometimes misdirected were net good and trade barriers should have been higher earlier"  
![@Birdyword Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::138141969.png) [@Birdyword](/creator/x/Birdyword) on [X](/post/tweet/1945887124781228112) 2025-07-17 16:43:38 UTC 96.6K followers, 231.1K engagements


"Lots of people pointing out that it's only been 7yrs since Apple became the world's first trillion dollar stock but it's even more amazing to me that most investors today were alive when the first company reached $100bn (General Electric in 1995 $211bn in 2025 dollars)"  
![@Birdyword Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::138141969.png) [@Birdyword](/creator/x/Birdyword) on [X](/post/tweet/1942957842065236139) 2025-07-09 14:43:42 UTC 96.6K followers, 4327 engagements


"I will never stop loving that we put generative AI that in everyone's hands for free tools which even a decade ago would have been thought of as almost impossibly magical and one of the most knock-down popular uses for it is making horoscopes"  
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"This is a very "guy who's been away ages" chat but Leeds city centre has seemed progressively better in recent years. There was a long period post-2008 where I thought it was death spiralling. Now v few vacancies lots of nice restaurants less obvious social decay on show"  
![@Birdyword Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::138141969.png) [@Birdyword](/creator/x/Birdyword) on [X](/post/tweet/1948382482249765281) 2025-07-24 13:59:17 UTC 96.6K followers, 13.7K engagements


"Is anyone else now getting unlabeled ad tweets in their Following feed"  
![@Birdyword Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::138141969.png) [@Birdyword](/creator/x/Birdyword) on [X](/post/tweet/1945563343776821395) 2025-07-16 19:17:02 UTC 96.6K followers, 37.4K engagements


"Occasionally I find myself absent-mindedly thinking about the fact that Vice was once worth valued at exactly twice as much as the New York Times"  
![@Birdyword Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::138141969.png) [@Birdyword](/creator/x/Birdyword) on [X](/post/tweet/1945947079894802505) 2025-07-17 20:41:52 UTC 96.6K followers, 76.2K engagements


"Blown away by this figure - per the article Colbert is making maybe $20m. Where does the rest of the $100m go It's a piece-to-camera/guest interview show"  
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"My column this week: Scott Bessent is hopeful that the stablecoin boom can reduce US borrowing costs. And he's right Well sort of sometimes maybe"  
![@Birdyword Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::138141969.png) [@Birdyword](/creator/x/Birdyword) on [X](/post/tweet/1945584740402123048) 2025-07-16 20:42:03 UTC 96.6K followers, 8041 engagements


"Crypto's Big Bang moment in mainstream finance has arrived. Wall Street's embedded crypto-scepticism is giving way with passage of the GENIUS Act the stablecoin boom and with the rapid rise of tokenised real-world assets. My piece this week"  
![@Birdyword Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::138141969.png) [@Birdyword](/creator/x/Birdyword) on [X](/post/tweet/1948296439236313377) 2025-07-24 08:17:23 UTC 96.6K followers, 3469 engagements


"These companies are competitive to a degree that it drums margins to well below government bond yields. But believing they are secret sources of immense profit seems to be hugely popular all over the world"  
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""He has suffered setbacks. The biggest blow came last year when a tabloid revealed he was having an affair with a former swimsuit model""  
![@Birdyword Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::138141969.png) [@Birdyword](/creator/x/Birdyword) on [X](/post/tweet/1947157695263572043) 2025-07-21 04:52:25 UTC 96.6K followers, 4006 engagements


"Timely profile of Yuichiro Tamaki here leader of the DPFP and one of the two big winners of the upper house election in Japan. A centrist/cenre-right self-professed econ policy nerd picking up support from working-age voters"  
![@Birdyword Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::138141969.png) [@Birdyword](/creator/x/Birdyword) on [X](/post/tweet/1947157275891683765) 2025-07-21 04:50:45 UTC 96.6K followers, 5962 engagements


"Nothing we all need more than a couple more incentives in the tax system to invest in real estate"  
![@Birdyword Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::138141969.png) [@Birdyword](/creator/x/Birdyword) on [X](/post/tweet/1947742404280529034) 2025-07-22 19:35:51 UTC 96.6K followers, 8302 engagements


"Amazing how popular these talking points are and how divorced from reality. Musgrave Group which owns SuperValu Ireland's largest chain of supermarkets reported a net income margin of XXX% in 2023. Tesco had a net income margin of XXX% last year"  
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"Affordable housing requirements are like a gateway drug for left-NIMBYISM. You think you're just having a quick puff on the "we need more units at X% below market rate" pipe but soon after you're injecting "supply can't solve the housing crisis" directly into your eyeballs"  
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"Absolutely bruuuutal stuff here. "Some of those who know her well including those who once believed that she had something special think the loss of confidence derives from a realisation that she is out of her depth""  
![@Birdyword Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::138141969.png) [@Birdyword](/creator/x/Birdyword) on [X](/post/tweet/1947943649360122013) 2025-07-23 08:55:31 UTC 96.6K followers, 16.8K engagements


"At over $250bn now there's some serious money in stablecoins. Some of the forecasts are astonishing - Citi reckons the market will be worth $1.6tn by 2030. Standard chartered reckons $2tn by 2028 The GENIUS Act is providing some regulatory certainty to drive that growth"  
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"@Biggiethelad1 Yeah It's a UK-Ireland based role though"  
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"Sorry but the only way Trader Joe's could make it in London is as a trendy tote bag. Tesco Express would eat these guys alive"  
![@Birdyword Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::138141969.png) [@Birdyword](/creator/x/Birdyword) on [X](/post/tweet/1947336230565277800) 2025-07-21 16:41:51 UTC 96.6K followers, 8821 engagements