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Guyana is riding high on an oil boom. But can the world’s fastest-growing economy outrun the so-called "resource curse" that has afflicted so many other petro-states? @jpspinetto.bsky.social weighs the odds www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... #Guyana
Oil’s Curse Is Hanging Over the World’s Fastest-Growing EconomyCan Guyana outrun the mismanagement and corruption that have afflicted so many other petro-states?www.bloomberg.comDaniel Ortega’s decision to abolish even the pretense of elections in Nicaragua should trigger a robust international response, says @jpspinetto.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Nicaragua’s Dictatorship Should Be Marco Rubio’s Next ProblemIt’s rare these days to hear a dictator openly admit he won’t bother holding elections. Even the world’s most brutal authoritarian regimes usually resort to sham votes and other tricks to cloak themse...www.bloomberg.comBy not addressing China’s behavior in its trade agreements, the EU is holstering its best trade weapon, says @shannonkoneil.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Europe Has to Take on China to Save Free TradeThe US and the European Union have been on a trade agreement tear, competing to define the future global trading system. The EU looks to backstop the more established rules of the road; the US, to mus...www.bloomberg.comyes, the stock market has now become a Trump casino where high-rollers get the best seats substack.com/redirect/9b7...
Trump Media to sell high-speed access to president’s social media postsFamily company hopes large trading firms will pay for market-moving social media posts milliseconds earlysubstack.comFor all its destructiveness, populism is demonstrating an extraordinary ability not just to survive, but to thrive, says @opinion.bloomberg.com's Adrian Wooldridge www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Populism Isn’t Peaking. It’s DiversifyingA new ritual has evolved in political analysis. A populist leader hits a rough patch. Liberal pundits conclude that populism has peaked. Then another populist leader records a triumph and the pundits ...www.bloomberg.com"There was no shocking big reveal, just a Mad Libs soup of insinuations about the 2020 election, debunked now for years, most notably by officials in Trump’s first administration." @niamalikah on the latest sewage to spew out of Trump's piehole www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Trump Delivers a Reckless Speech on Rigged ElectionsHere we go again.www.bloomberg.comHawaii and Montana are bucking to subvert the Supreme Court's judgment that money is speech, in test cases that couldn’t have come along at a better time, says @opinion.bloomberg.com's @maryellenklas.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Two States Are Making the Case That Money Isn't Political SpeechWho should have more power — the people of the states or the corporations that are authorized by them? For legislators in Hawaii and Montana, the answer is most definitely the former, not the latter. ...www.bloomberg.comDon't be fooled by Trump's attempt to reset the clock of the War Powers Resolution. His war against Iran must now be stopped, says @andreaskluth.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Hey Congress, It’s Day 138 (Not 9) of a War You Must StopWith so much of shock value coming out of Donald Trump’s mouth and Truth Social account, it’s tempting to overlook the gall and cynicism of his letter to Congress dated July 10th. In that missive, the...www.bloomberg.comRubio is hypocritical in selectively citing international law in Hormuz, the South China Sea and elsewhere. Trump is brutally honest in ignoring it altogether. @andreaskluth.bsky.social weighs which is worse www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Rubio the Hypocrite Is Still Better Than Trump the NihilistBehold the sheer hypocrisy of recent statements by Marco Rubio concerning two of the world’s most important waterways, the Strait of Hormuz and the South China Sea.www.bloomberg.comCE's record of rogue killings is long, ugly and unaddressed by Congress. See this investigation of killings from 2015-2021. www.thetrace.org/2024/08/ice-...
Armed and Untouchable: ICE’s History of Deadly ForceNemesia Martinez was working at one of Mississippi’s dozens of poultry plants on July 20, 2016, when she missed a call from her neighbor. It was 9 p.m., and her shift defeathering and extracting the l...www.thetrace.orgSo classy and courageous of Sullivan & Cromwell to come to the aid of a self-confessed pussy-grabber. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
Work on Trump’s E. Jean Carroll Defamation Case Divides Sullivan & CromwellThe law firm’s co-chairman assured partners it would stay out of the president’s appeal of sex-abuse and defamation cases. It reversed course after being asked by Trump’s personal lawyer.www.wsj.comA once-vulnerable Latin America avoided serious disruption from the Iran War. But achieving sustained prosperity remains a tall order, says @jpspinetto.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
On the Iran War, Latin America's Economies Dodged a BulletSo much for the panic attack.www.bloomberg.com"Never before has the federal government sent a large, heavily armed militia—masked and responsive to a partisan faction—to brutalize and subjugate the citizenry of a major US city without provocation." @franciswilkinson.bsky.social on what happened next www.bloomberg.com/opinion/feat...
Minneapolis Offers a Blueprint for How to Beat MAGAFaced with an unprecedented federal assault, citizens of the Twin Cities turned to their neighborhoods, churches and schools to defeat MAGA.www.bloomberg.comThe Trump administration has corrupted the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. What if we just got rid of it? @andreaskluth.bsky.social of @opinion.bloomberg.com explains why we can't www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
If the US Keeps Messing With This Spy Agency, It’ll Pay a High PriceAs the White House keeps roiling the topmost organization in the American espionage hierarchy, questions have resurfaced that are as old — 25 years — as the Office of the Director of National Intellig...www.bloomberg.comABSOLUTELY 100% AMERICAN!!! thank you
Cooper LundIt’s New Foods Day for the Minnesota State Fair and this, to me, is the promise of America www.mnstatefair.org/new/food
I came to Brilliant Corners this morning out of a need for Monk and in remembrance of Rollins. But what jumps out at me from this track is the fundamental importance of Roach: open.spotify.com/track/1OjmEy...
Ba-Lue Bolivar Ba-Lues-AreThelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins, Ernie Henry, Clark Terry · Brilliant Corners · Song · 1957open.spotify.com