NEW/SCOOP: After a yearlong #FOIA battle, I finally obtained Ghislaine Maxwell's prison transfer form from BOP. But the agency redacted its rationale for moving the convicted sex offender to a minimum-security prison Read it in this special edition of FOIA Files 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Ghislaine Maxwell’s Prison Transfer Application Released

FOIA Files obtained a copy of the document from the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The agency redacted its justification for moving the convicted sex offender to a less-restrictive minimum-security prison...

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Elon mentions "the future of civilization" on SpaceX investor call. Everyone drink!

I made this chart yesterday for MLIV Chart of the Day on Bloomberg. Not sure how it sneaked out from behind the paywall.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · last mo.

#RIP hyperscaler buybacks. (via Schwab) $GOOGL $META $ORCL $AMZN $MSFT

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Nobel Laureate Goldin Says Male ‘Duds’ Are Weighing on Birth Rates

With birth rates around the world hitting record lows, politicians, think tanks and intellectuals have offered no shortage of solutions. They want to strengthen the family, expand child tax credits or...

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I've had worse experiences on Ryanair.

RTÉ News@news.rte.ie · 2mo ago

A man was nearly sucked out the window of a Ryanair flight when it "detached" mid-air en route to Germany, with other passengers pulling him back inside www.rte.ie/news/2026/07...

An extraordinary cancer stat recently just dropped: zero. That’s how many UK women in their early 20s died from cervical cancer between 2020-24. My latest @opinion.bloomberg.com is on 20 years of HPV vaccines--& how the US could better maximize the potential of this critical public health tool (🎁):

The US Could Eliminate Cervical Cancer. What’s the Holdup?

An extraordinary cancer statistic recently dropped in a major medical journal: zero.

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$INTC just gave up a 6% move

Pickles: National Hero www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The Chaotic Week When the World Cup Went Missing

Gangsters, spies and an international security agency. There was far more to the March 1966 disappearance of the Jules Rimet trophy than Pickles the dog.

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In Peru's election, Keiko Fujimori and Roberto Sanchez are within 100,000 votes of each other. Sanchez is expected to edge ahead as rural votes are counted. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Peru on Edge as Pollsters Show Leftist Holding Narrow Lead

Peru’s bitterly contested presidential election remained too close to call as Conservative Keiko Fujimori nudged ahead of leftist candidate Roberto Sánchez as votes were still being counted.

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Iran’s World Cup team is finally given visas to the United States but several backroom staff and top federation officials denied entry, risking new fallout. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/w...

Iran’s Soccer Team Allowed Into U.S. for World Cup, but Many Staff Denied

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A propos of nothing.

I don't know why this thread showed up in my feed, but I'm delighted it did.

Paul Cooper@paulmmcooper.com · 2y ago

The best historical artefacts are the accidental ones that freeze a moment in time forever. I thought I’d try to find all the times pets have ruined their owner's day and recorded that instant for all of history.

visual metaphor klaxon

Shades of Geoffrey Howe here.

Jim Pickard@pickardje.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Breaking: Jess Phillips resigns as safeguarding minister just ahead of the 1pm news bulletins

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Stark Class Divides Are Deepening Peru’s Electoral Chaos

Fewer than 15,000 votes stand between a leftist representing Peru’s impoverished communities and a conservative hotel magnate who represents the capital city as they compete for the final spot in June...

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Shot, chaser. @duncanweldon.bsky.social @domw.bsky.social

If you grew up with, like, 10 VHS tapes that your parents recorded off the TV at Christmas, there is no hard mode.

two men in cowboy hats are looking at something in the distance

Alt: Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid.

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Nome@nome.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

Y'all I just found out there is an abandoned Chicken Church in Indonesia and I have been obsessed.

I'm in a conference on monetary policy in Colombia, where there is an open fight between the Ministry of Finance and the central bank, which has increased rates massively (in the run up to election), and the Minister of Finance is giving a presentation on monetary policy.

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Japan Scraps Most Curbs on Exporting Weapons in Historic Shift

Japan removed most of its restrictions on weapons exports, allowing the nation to sell arms overseas for the first time since World War II in a move aimed at strengthening its defense industrial base.

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Tensions in the Iran war ratcheted up over the weekend as the US Navy fired upon and boarded an Iranian-flagged cargo ship in the Gulf of Oman. It’s the first seizure in the US blockade of the Strait of Hormuz bloom.bg/4sNMT5o

In 2025, US tariffs hit 9.6 percent, the highest in 80 years. Estimating the short-run impacts and assessing whether the tariffs have achieved their stated goals, from Pablo D. Fajgelbaum and Amit Khandelwal www.nber.org/papers/w35064

The US Navy will “shortly” begin a blockade of ships entering and leaving the Strait of Hormuz, President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post

Trump Says US Will Begin Blockade of Ships to and From Hormuz

The US Navy will “shortly” begin a blockade of ships entering and leaving the Strait of Hormuz, President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post.

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it's absolutely silly how much random knowledge you can accrue with a Bloomberg terminal and a dash of intellectual curiosity.

They say you become more right-wing as you get older. I certainly find myself getting less and less concerned that the pension triple lock is going to bankrupt the country the closer I get to receiving it.

Politics UK@politicsuk.com · 5mo ago

🚨 WATCH: Nigel Farage formally commits to the state pension triple lock if Reform UK win the next election "The people to whom pensions are being paid, certainly compared to a younger generation today, are those who have actually worked and paid into a system"

Fuel prices in Chile went up 30%-50% last week. Went to the store today. Bread has gone up 25%.

Do 2nd chances in high-stakes exams lead to *long-term* gains?🎓 15 years of ed & labor market outcomes in Chile using an RDD => Immediate boosts in scores & enrollment => But zero effects in graduation & wages! 🔍 Full study: docs.iza.org/dp18467.pdf @joshua-goodman.com @agendacaf.bsky.social

I'm not a military strategist, but surely you'd be more likely to find the uranium if the plans weren't leaked to the Wall Street Journal ahead of time.

Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social · 5mo ago

BREAKING via WSJ President Trump is weighing a military operation to extract nearly 1,000 pounds of uranium from Iran, a complex and risky mission that would likely put American forces inside the country for days or longer.  Full Story: on.wsj.com/4m43Y9G

Treasuries will remain offered and rightly so. Having said that the belly and certainly long end are very quickly coming to a point of being over their skis IMO. The next 6mths will be a conflict of 2 narratives - inflation vs growth/recession CB’s aren’t as keen to hike as STIR traders think 4/n