Jamie Powell @ajb_powell Twitter profile

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Jamie Powell

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11 months

"due diligence", my brother in christ it had no board of directors, no cfo, no head of risk and was incorporated in antigua and barbuda. 2 mins of googling would have got you there.

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Immediately after FTX collapsed, we extensively reviewed our due diligence process and evaluated our 18-month working relationship with SBF. We concluded that we had been deliberately misled and lied to.

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@SeanWoodruff @xyevelynxy @KingJames @StephenCurry30 um. take a look at his tweets from before he was president.

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smoking encourages cancer research

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#bitcoin incentivizes renewable energy

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i just learned that Wittgenstein invented the emoji and now i'm done for the day

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@SeanWoodruff @xyevelynxy @KingJames @StephenCurry30 so basically I can't criticise anyone or anything unless I'm professionally involved? #nonsequitur

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Jamie Powell

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10 months

this is the GOAT 2020-1 bubble thread, only one stock with a positive return since and several -90%

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@BrianFeroldi

3 years

I asked, “What company is worth less than $10 billion today but you think could be worth $500+ billion in a few decades?” I received 710 answers Here are 20 top stocks that have 50x+ potential:

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this meme never misses $PTON

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lmao

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4 years

what about selling a product that doesn't exist yet in the hope of delivering it for cheaper to a customer later? asking for a friend.

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

4 years

u can’t sell houses u don’t own u can’t sell cars u don’t own but u *can* sell stock u don’t own!? this is bs – shorting is a scam legal only for vestigial reasons

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guy who runs a car company with EBIT margins 50% below comps has ideas on gov efficiency

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"I have discussed with Donald Trump the idea of a government efficiency commission and I would be willing to be part of that commission." 一 Elon Musk

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in the uk this would be classified as greenbelt

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In 1971, Soviet geologists working in Turkmenistan set a crater on fire to prevent the spread of methane gas, expecting it would burn for a few days. The hole has since been burning for over 52 years and is know as The Door to Hell.

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whenever a PE firm tell you it’s a “difficult market environment” for exits, remember Uber just raised debt at the fed funds rate

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Uber: from venture backed startup to IPO to issuing 30 year bonds at 5.35% to buy back tons of stock. Truly the American dream.

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3 years

we were also very negative and cynical about Wirecard. weird that

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3 years

Fascinating to search "Bitcoin" in the @FT . Every single article is negative and cynical. I guess they really don't like it...

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huge if true

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2 years

Private equity firms typically buy companies with a combination of equity and debt

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5 months

update from a mate on the way to omaha for the value investor bro mecca $BRK

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4 years

guys, i'm new to this value investing thing but just came across this stonk growing ebitda at a rate in the mid-40s w 30% margins, a 24% ROE, and its trading at JUST 3 TIMES EARNINGS. what am i missing? #deepvalue #investing #stocks

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1 year

new cfa level iv material just dropped

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2 years

genuine lol

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3 years

still can't get quite get over the fact that the BoE basically said "sorry lads, its going to be shit" and then raised rates.

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4 years

was it something i said? @chamath

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3 years

why the hate on $TSLA's stock dividend and share pop? the company is effectively raising guidance by delivering more of its core product to its key customers.

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4 years

it arrived

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7 months

one of the saddest things ive ever read

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4 years

serious question: is there another company in the history of capitalism that claimed it was "supply constrained" and was simultaneously slashing prices every quarter? $TSLA

Tesla Cuts Model 3 Prices in Japan By as Much as 24%

Tesla Inc. slashed prices for its Model 3 in Japan, part of a wider effort to build its presence and spur demand in a market that has seemed largely impenetrable for the electric vehicle maker.

www.bloomberg.com

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estate agent: "lot of buy to let investors looking at this place, at asking it yields 4.5% which is really good" me: "why would you buy a property for 4.5% when risk free 5-year gilts are at 4.6% and capital gains aren't taxed?" estate gent: "..." dont think he liked me

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the uk now has a higher interest rate than the usa with a lower inflation rate and 1/3 the rate of economic growth

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2 years

has CFA in their twitter handle 🚩🚩🚩

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4 years

apparently this was just rolling down a hill. powered by the grace of god $NKLA

Nikola Corporation

@nikolamotor

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Behold, the Nikola One in motion. Pre-production units to hit fleets in 2019 for testing. The Nikola Hydrogen Electric trucks will take on any semi-truck and outperform them in every category; weight, acceleration, stopping, safety and features - all with 500-1,000 mile range!

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4 years

these trains look like they're about to drop the best electro album of 2020

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Michael Knudsen. Train station by night, Denmark.

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confession of the day: i learned how to do a DCF off a Martin Shkreli youtube video. <logs off>

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5 years

The basic salary for an MP? £79,468

Steven Swinford

@Steven_Swinford

5 years

Telegraph splash: Boris Johnson plans to slash income tax for 3million people by hiking 40p rate threshold from £50,000 to £80,000 The move will cost estimated £9.6bn, funded from the £26bn 'fiscal headroom' currently set aside for no deal

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5 years

today, in the emperor has no clothes $TSLA

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2 years

🌘some personal news🌖 friday will be my last day at @ftalphaville and the FT. it’s been a a privilege to write for the best financial news organisation on the planet, and i’m sad to be leaving the brilliant FT fam behind.

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3 years

good rule of thumb: the bigger the grift, the more thin-skinned its investors and operators are

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4 years

shorter me

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3 years

the weighted average of all unvested stock held by $FB employees is $244. the stock is now at $228.

The hidden leverage of stock-based compensation

Live by the stock, die by the stock.

www.ft.com

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3 years

@Billbrowder kind of like making your fortune from the questionable and unregulated privatisations of industrials after a nation has just emerged from communist rule eh?

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2 months

pretty nuts that uk house prices in real terms have been flat since 2003

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5 years

tech bros: "ai is taking over the world". me: "air bnb just recommended that i stay at my own flat".

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3 years

Tiger Global: tell me about ur SAAS business SAAS: revenue number go up Tiger Global: sounds good, we'll give $50m at a $500m valuation SAAS: gr8 Fintwit: wow, such speed of process, such genius

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4 years

finally, a deal for @BillAckman 's SPAC

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@Reuters

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Britain's Queen Elizabeth may go public after having COVID vaccine, Times reports

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2 years

not hard to imagine that the era of comedians getting paid $30m by a streaming service for a few one off shows has finished

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4 years

ARK Invest's due diligence process, a 4 part story $ARKK

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4 years

Hayek just salty that Keynes made bank when day trading from bed and was still more influential than him

Adam Tooze

@adam_tooze

4 years

Extraordinary interview with Friedrich Hayek on John Maynard Keynes: "Keynes was Brilliant, but Economics was Only a Sideline for Him." "Not well read. Not a master of the subject …”. And so on and so forth … breathtaking!

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1 year

worlds most advanced car company update: Tesla: 1 brand, 4 factories, 4 models and 10.5% 1H operating margin Stellantis: 14 brands, 50+ factories, 100+ models and 14.4% 1H operating margin

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4 years

EY galaxy brain

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4 years

evolution doing its thing once again $TSLA

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3 years

question for fintwit: what's the first book you'd recommend to someone who wants to learn the basics of investing but has absolutely zero knowledge? and no, the answer is not McKinsey on Valuation.

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3 years

fyi to anyone in their mid-30s, just bought forward my second jab by 3 weeks by rebooking on the NHS site. (Pfizer)

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2 years

Sales: $100m COGS: $120m SG&A: $50m SBC: $1,250m someone who is good at finance please help me. my growth co is dying

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3 years

to be fair, at least a coin flip has more intellectual rigour than most of ARK's investment research

*Walter Bloomberg

@DeItaone

3 years

CATHIE WOOD SAYS THERE IS A 50% CHANCE THAT TESLA'S AUTONOMOUS STRATEGY IS GOING TO WORK OUT - CNBC $TSLA

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uk econ commentators opining about a decade of lost productivity, stagnant wages and failing social + hard infrastructure after supporting austerity from 2010-15

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5 years

is there a website/ blog that has caused people to lose more money than ZH over the past 10 years? bar, like, Ackman's quarterly letters between '13-'15

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4 years

anyone asked @chamath what his annualised IRR is so far this year?

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tesla bulls -- well known for doing their DD $TSLA

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1 year

its becoming clear EVs are more expensive to repair and insure...RIP the LeSs MoVInG pArTS thesis

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3 years

I didn't want to write this, but someone had to

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3 years

hey siri, show me a perfect example of a failed transportation policy

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@jgillanNews3LV

3 years

A parade of @Tesla cars underneath the @LVCVA convention center. We get a first look at the underground transportation system. We’ll go for a ride at 11 @News3LV

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4 years

staking my claim for the "most niche FT Alphaville article every published" award

MF DOOM: three lessons on business and finance

“Let he who is without sin cast the first stone, after you who’s last? It’s DOOM he’s the worst known”

www.ft.com

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3 years

TBT to last summer when an established VC didn't understand that market capitalisation = shares outstanding x share price. oh, and was long $FSLY.

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@LiebermanAustin

4 years

@ajb_powell It’s actually not. There are many $250 billion market cap companies and they all have different stock prices depending on growth rate, profitability, industry, valuation, etc

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1 year

bigger q: why is the ceo of a major tech firm, under investigation from the several gov agencies, actively using Signal?

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1 year

I love how X is not on her homescreen as she pitches it while holding up her phone

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4 years

value bros right now

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3 years

Palantir founder is about as normal as you’d imagine

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@JTLonsdale

3 years

@danprimack Wow. Great for fathers to spend time w their kids and support moms, but any man in an important position who takes 6 months of leave for a newborn is a loser. In the old days men had babies and worked harder to provide for their future - that’s the correct masculine response.

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after we used a photo from THG chief executive Matt Moulding's Insta this morning in a post, the company got in touch to have the photo removed on copyright grounds. so we made it in Paint instead.

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baillie giff bought the dip all the way down on $CVNA

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4 years

Perhaps the CFA's ethics questions next year should ask how a investment advisor should act if they're not able to perform a paid service for a client within the promised timeframe?

The CFA’s questionable refund refusal

We dive into the books of the prestigious finance exam body.

www.ft.com

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Chairman Birb Bernanke

@Bonecondor

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Incredible quote directly from the article: “We're kind of struggling to hire because the only people who are applying are teenagers," the McDonald's manager said.”

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3 years

retweeting this for no reason whatsoever

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@elonmusk

5 years

@russotalks All cars made since Oct 2016 either have the hardware needed for FSD or are trivially upgradeable

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zoltan is going to end up at zerohedge

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4 years

what are the odds he's net long?

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fungus barons

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4 years

@sgorlick you left out the part where $UBER sold 50c for a $1 and skirted local regs with impunity leading to all sorts of awful neg externalities. but cool.

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things you say when you've underperformed the Nasdaq by 40 percentage points this year

CNBC

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Cathie Wood says her firm is testing a more aggressive strategy that would be 'ARK on steroids'

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5 years

so, in short, there's no adequate explanation for $TSLA's receivables balance @davidein

The question of Tesla’s cash to be collected

Is David Einhorn right to be suspicious about the company’s accounts receivable?

www.ft.com

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@ajb_powell

4 years

to pay taxes don't you have to make profits?

Phil LeBeau

@Lebeaucarnews

4 years

Elon Musk could save billions in taxes if Tesla moves its headquarters from @CNBC via ⁦ @robtfrank ⁩

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Some personal news... I am <extremely> excited to tell you that I will be joining @FTAlphaville next week. Very much looking forward to covering economic oddities and market misbehaviour within such a talented team of reporters.

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3 years

this is how to start a book

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3 years

oh no. not that

Tim Chapman

@IslingtonChap

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Going after Russian Dark money could cause house prices in Central London to crash overnight. Rents could plummet, jeopardising the livelihoods of tens of thousands of landlords. Hold Mr Putin to account, robustly, by all means. But do so sensibly. Pragmatically. Declare war.

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$UBER's results are an exercise in corporate gaslighting, i mean just look at this:

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weird how tesla is the only car company that underperforms on real world range tests consistently

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4 years

weird full circle moment for me: one of the first pieces i wrote at school was a review of Madvillainy -- 16 years later i got to write MF DOOM's obituary for the FT

Shining legacy of MF DOOM, the man in the metal mask

A tribute to the innovative and influential rapper, whose death was announced on New Year’s Day

www.ft.com

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4 years

not sure "eat out to help out" is that great a slogan lads.

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re: Jack Ma -- this is your daily reminder that no one knows who controls Alibaba's VIE. Ma gave it up in 2018 because...he just did $BABA

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2 years

RIP this meme

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3 years

you know you're a top journalist when your opening paragraph features the line "this might not be true but it is certainly believable"

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3 years

Today we learned what the BBC and Downing Street has in common. They don't understand Conservatism ... my column this week 👇 #NorthShropshire

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2 years

that's how to open a piece on esg

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nothing new under the sun -- pretty much every famous banker's wiki goes along the lines of "he was an anarcho marxist at oxford and then joined SG warburg in 1981"

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@MarioNawfal

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🇺🇸 @BillAckman : HARVARD INDOCTRINATED MY DAUGHTER LIKE IT WAS A CULT "She became, like, an anti-capitalist. Like practically a Marxist. We'd talk about capitalism, and she would freak out at the table. That was an indicator, but I didn't know if that was just my daughter or

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how is this different to rolling a truck without an engine down a hill?

Engineering Explained

@jasonfenske13

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Let's do the math on Tesla's Cybertruck 1/4-mile claim... Full video 👉

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Zoom at $144. March 1 2020 close? $146 $ZM

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Bloomberg

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Jeremy Grantham says the historic collapse in stocks he predicted a year ago is underway and even Fed intervention can’t prevent an eventual plunge of almost 50%

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when are we due the @matt_levine freak out over the validity of capital markets? this was from Feb 1... $GME

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5 years

A guest writes in to @FTAlphaville on how to retire by 40. It's easier than you think.

How to retire by 40

It’s really easy.

www.ft.com

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Fox News "journalist" posts a "Hunter Biden text exchange" which is a screenshot of an iPhone whatsapp message on a 2011 Blackberry connected to MTS Network -- which only operates in Russia, Belarus and Armenia. cool cool cool

Mike Emanuel 🇺🇸

@MikeEmanuelFox

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Hunter Biden text exchange from June 2017 obtained by #FoxNews ranting to his business partners about not wanting to "sign over my family's brand", "the keys to my family's only asset" to Tony Bobulinski. Warning: foul language.

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christmas book haul was excellent. merry christmas all🎄

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