What's amusing me today

"Are you his parents, Mr and Mrs Faes?"
"That is no child of ours"

or 'Don't talk shit'

Surely if it was corruption, they’d want the title race to be kept interesting for as long as possible? Not sure our battle with Arsenal for second is quite as box office. It was a mistake, they happen.

They aren't getting relegated, so they don't need propping up. This one just feeds into the Arsenal paranoia. Or pro-Liverpool bias.

These days, I’m all for anything that makes Gooners cry more.

I would consider my political views to be fairly centrist and by North American standards centre-left, so I have a lot of time for most lefty talking points. But it is funny that all the lefties on my various feeds who have forever been yelling at anyone who will listen that the markets and particularly the Dow are not reflective of the health of the economy are now gleefully screaming about how the markets are such a clear reflection of what an appalling job Musk and his Russian sidekick are doing of running the country and the impact they're having on the economy.

I am more in agreement with the latter view than the former, btw.

Well, they are an indicator of a particular segment of the economy rather than, say, people's lives, and it's a segment that Trump et al were particularly courting.

Saying which, the staggering promotion of crypto undermines any residual concept of economic literacy

Aren't they just using crypto as a personal wealth making tool? Pump and dump is the term I've heard used a lot.

Both things can be true though.

In general, it’s missing the point to get too worked up about the day to day swings of the stock market being too much of an indicator of the broader economy. But if you make significant changes to the trading arrangements with your biggest trading partners multiple times a week, it creates an instability that will have a detrimental effect on both the stock market and the real economy.

Plus Trump was very keen to use the stock market as an endorsement of his policies when it was going up, so it makes sense to use it against him when it’s going down.

Yes, but also pretending it's a Fort Knox style reserve for the good of the country.

I'm similarly aligned. Im in principle further left but the ability of the folk of that persuasion is toe curlingly awful. Ash Sarkar was a prime example of the ludicrous but the latest piece in the Guardian I don't entirely disagree with. The working class vote Reform I would suggest because totems of the middle class left are plain ludicrous.

That's not how the world works any more.