By Paul Sankey
Published on April 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
One of the recent Happy Hour lines that struck me, came from a Republican lobbyist who was a guest in the interim between Trump winning, and Trump being inaugurated. He repeated “tariffs” strongly, then followed up by saying that “During Trump 1, our firm had a track record of 85% success in getting an exemption on tariffs for our clients.” Hmmm. Sure enough, this weekend we have the “Tim Apple Tariff Exemption” whereby suddenly per …
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By Paul Sankey
Published on March 2, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Greetings, Beautiful day here in London, darkening now at 5pm, although temperatures are still wintry-chill, the sun was blazing, and in London, the daffodils are out, following the snowdrops that emerge as early as late January. From here in London, we have another six months of spring, and then go into Autumn. The questionable London summer is a brief transition. By contrast in New York we go from Arctic weather to summer heat with nary …
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By Paul Sankey
Published on October 9, 2024 at 7:26 AM
The internet here at my parent’s apartment is so bad that I looked at buying a Starlink. £299 from Curry’s (British ~Best Buy). I’m tempted to, but in this basement flat, we only have a 20ft square patch of skylight. So now I am running internet from my iPhone and it seems okay including a full Bloomberg. Hats off to technology. And frankly, hats off to Elon. How did he come up with – and …
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