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@Birdyword

Writing about markets for . Interested in finance, economics, history, politics. Concrete prophet. My views, but you're welcome to them: mike.bird@wsj.com

London/Yorkshire
Joined April 2010
Born on April 02

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Jul 27

    SMH who made this

  2. 1 hour ago
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    Haven't seen any no-go zones yet, groddo you have any recommendations?

  3. 1 hour ago

    Stockholm is wet

  4. Retweeted
    10 hours ago
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    Update: they cut me back to 140

  5. Retweeted
    18 hours ago

    Frida Kahlo died in 1954. Theresa May was born in 1956. Photoshop one suspects

  6. 6 hours ago

    Ryanair manages to outdo itself in budget-ness. Sat under a drip on the way to Stockholm.

  7. 10 hours ago
  8. Retweeted

    This quote in the scoop by is almost Trump-esque - glad the pushed back

  9. 10 hours ago
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    Update: they cut me back to 140

  10. 11 hours ago

    Love it when you open someone's Wikipedia and it's brazenly obvious they've written it themselves

  11. 19 hours ago
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    Didn't know what the song was / who it was by! But immediately I was back to ~2003.

  12. 19 hours ago
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    Falter by Hundred Reasons came on the other day. Haven't heard it in maybe 12yrs.

  13. 19 hours ago

    What's the song that's most evocative of a different period in your life?

  14. 22 hours ago

    And this whole time I thought that was the effect of your bad tweets

  15. 23 hours ago

    Couldn't find a 'thinking you understand but realising you don't' gif so I made one from a favourite sketch

  16. Retweeted
    Aug 1

    I wish there was more journalism *about* journalism. Such a fascinating thing to read, as a non-journalist.

  17. Oct 6
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    Canonical ranking of economic data: NZ dairy auction Japan GDP Eurozone jobs All others US NFPs

  18. Oct 6

    When it's European jobs day and I'm trying to raise the hype and nobody will play along.

  19. Oct 6

    Exactly! You think of the Vietnamese currency, very confusing. HT

  20. Oct 6

    For an extremely peaceful and stable country, Iceland sure has had its fair share of political earthquakes.

  21. Oct 6
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