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Jan 23, 2025 | 
reaction.life | Maggie Pagano
Associated Press / Alamy Stock PhotoWell, that didn’t take long. Less than 24 hours after President Trump announced his monumental $500 billion Stargate Project, the sniping between America’s tech ti…
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
reaction.life | Maggie Pagano
By the close of play on Wednesday evening, Britain had come within a whisker of blackouts - despite paying the highest electricity prices in the Western world - and the closest the electricity grid has come to seizing up for more than a decade.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
reaction.life | Maggie Pagano
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
reaction.life | Maggie Pagano
It’s fair to say Rachel Reeves has not had a good week. After the disclosure that she has been economical with the truth about working as an economist for the Bank of Scotland – she actually worked in the retail complaints department at HBOS – the Chancellor was forced to update her LinkedIn profile, prompting the jokers on social media to create the most outrageous memes taking the mickey out of her boasting.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
reaction.life | Maggie Pagano
What a verdict. The dollar shot up to its highest level for four years, Wall Street hit record highs while bitcoin scaled new peaks after Donald Trump clinched the presidency in a stunning landslide gaining the most electoral colleges, the largest share of the popular vote by a Republican candidate for twenty years as well as a majority in the Senate and probably the House too.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
reactionpolitics.substack.com | Maggie Pagano
All the big donor money may be flying into Kamala Harris’ campaign to become the next president of the United States, but the seriously big betting money is now piling up behind Donald Trump. With 12 days to go until one of the most thrilling elections in history, Harris is creaming it in terms of donations. The latest billionaire to back the Democrat candidate is Bill Gates, the Microsoft founder, who is said to have just given $50 million to the Harris coffers.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
reaction.life | Maggie Pagano |Margareta Pagano
All the big donor money may be flying into Kamala Harris’ campaign to become the next president of the United States, but the seriously big betting money is now piling up behind Donald Trump. With 12 days to go until one of the most thrilling elections in history, Harris is creaming it in terms of donations. The latest billionaire to back the Democrat candidate is Bill Gates, the Microsoft founder, who is said to have just given $50 million to the Harris coffers.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
thisismoney.co.uk | Maggie Pagano
Labour hasn’t a clue how business works. The hypocrisy of this government knows no bounds. Earlier this week, Sir Keir Starmer took centre stage at the City’s Guildhall to persuade some of the world’s top businessmen and women that Britain is now the place to invest. Government and investors, he told them, were bound together in a ‘shared endeavour of prosperity’. Growth, he said, was ‘vital if we are to steer our way through a great period of insecurity and change’.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
reactionpolitics.substack.com | Maggie Pagano
Déjà vu? Around this time two years ago, a couple of days after Liz Truss’s mini-budget, the UK’s gilts markets were going haywire with yields soaring, driving up the government’s cost of borrowing to highs not seen for years. The markets were in such mayhem that Truss summoned Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng back from Washington, chopped off his head, replaced him with Jeremy Hunt, who then reversed all her tax cuts and proceeded to chop off her head. The rest, as we all like to say, is history.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
reaction.life | Maggie Pagano |Margareta Pagano
Déjà vu? Around this time two years ago, a couple of days after Liz Truss’s mini-budget, the UK’s gilts markets were going haywire with yields soaring, driving up the government’s cost of borrowing to highs not seen for years. The markets were in such mayhem that Truss summoned Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng back from Washington, chopped off his head, replaced him with Jeremy Hunt, who then reversed all her tax cuts and proceeded to chop off her head. The rest, as we all like to say, is history.
