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Sean Tuffy
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I tweet mostly about FinReg & crossborder funds. Sometimes I tweet about other stuff. Personal account, all opinions my own and whatnot.
Dublin, IrelandJoined August 2013
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It’s weird that America is facing a obesity epidemic
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One half of a bologna sandwich at Famous 4th Street Deli in Philadelphia. All their sandwiches are this size, and there is no option to order only a half!
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Happy Kwik-E-Mart ham expire day 🎂
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Pics or it didn’t happen
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Flight operations at Dublin Airport were once again suspended this evening (Monday) for safety reasons after a drone was spotted on the airfield. Following a suspension of around 40 minutes, flight operations restarted around 19.45. (1/3)
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They’re wrong
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Pet parents often say that losing their animal companions is as hard as, if not harder than, losing a human family member, experts say wapo.st/3wXmJTk
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The US staged the “Chinese” balloon so that it’s $67 billion new fighter jet could score its first air takedown and it’s hilarious
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Sure it was
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Wow: Northcom chief Gen. VanHerck says the balloon was up to 200 ft tall, with a payload the size of a jetliner. It weighed "in excess of a couple thousand lbs" and potentially carried explosives " to detonate and destroy the balloon."
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How Trumpian
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BIDEN TO ISSUE PROPOSED GUIDANCE TO ENSURE CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS FOR MOST FEDERAL INFRASTRUCTURE SPENDING ARE MADE IN U.S., -WHITE HOUSE
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This whole thing is sketchy and it’s unlikely it’s the only example of SBF looking for cracks in the banking system to exploit
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Too little, too late to keep the Feds at bay
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Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, said it’s temporarily suspending deposits and withdrawals of US dollars using bank accounts trib.al/oySOsG8
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“Like water seeping into the cracks of a foundation, crypto companies have been relentless in attempting to penetrate the core of the banking business for years and this appears to be one of the cracks.”
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Great article on one of the people making empty Manhattan office buildings into apartments
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Well, I thought it was funny
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Remember when you used to stop, stay out of the shot, and wait for some one to take a picture in public?
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FTX pre-bankruptcy setup allowed insiders to "freely transfer assets of the company with no accountability and no tracing," Ray says.
"One of the founders could come into this environment, download half a billion dollars worth of wallets on a thumb drive and walk off with them."
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Ray talking now about cooperating with criminal and regulatory authorities. Some highlights:
- Collected 10 terabytes of data from FTX entities, over 27 million documents
- Interviewed/received proffers of 24 current/former employees
- 156 requests from SDNY
- Produced 70k docs
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Something real disconcerting about eggs being sold in lots of 10
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The thing about these Trad architecture accounts is that they almost certainly all have the remains have the remains of their victims in a freezer in their basements
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I don’t really do it anymore but that ChatGPT thing seems like a great tool for content marketing.
Some MarTech company should look to leverage it.
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I’m a modified ‘bounder’, btw
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In FTX world today, there is a hearing about to begin in bankruptcy court over the Trustee's request for an independent examiner. FTX and its lawyers at Sullivan & Cromwell are opposed
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So this?
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We don’t talk enough about what a mess this is going to be
I really liked the question asking Eisman how he moved past the 2008 financial crisis (unlike others who shall not be named), and he said he got to know Daniel Tarullo pretty well and the work he was doing and realized the Fed took care of the systemic risks.
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Hedge fund manager Steve Eisman famously bet big against subprime, as documented in The Big Short.
@TheStalwart and I speak with him about the ‘paradigm shift’ he sees unfolding in markets right now.
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Tag yourself
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Yes, I am a deeply satisfied user of…Germany
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The best part is that he doesn’t live particularly close to the airport
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One person lodged 23,431 noise complaints about Dublin Airport in 2022 irishexaminer.com/news/arid-4106
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This still remains one of the greatest bollard moments of all time. This will DEFINITELY brighten your day. Enjoy.
#WorldBollardAssociation
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the irresistible urge to inform british people looking for me to answer emails rapidly that i am, in fact, observing the ancient irish festival of the covid bank holiday
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Remember when I said anyone who got SBF/FTX money should be coming up with a plan to give it back?
Well, this is why
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Didn’t notice that humans don’t have horns, though, did he.
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The mind-blowing detail of Michelangelo's Moses:
There is a tiny contracted muscle in the forearm, which only contracts when the little finger is raised.
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Kyrie’s gonna spend his off-days walking around the grassy knoll with a notebook, a protractor and binoculars
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Sure, Jan
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Notable: US officials say they were able to block the balloon from gathering intel during its overflight of the US, while the US military was able to turn the tables, so to speak, to gather intel on the balloon itself and its equipment.
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luka: i need help
mark cuban: the best i can do is complete chaos
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What time does the Super Bowl start?
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this is bollocks. Q: is the pension industry bankrupt today? A: no. Q: did the BoE operation cost the public a lot of money? A: no, it almost certainly made a profit. It was a regulatory *success*.
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strategies. This was the most serious regulatory failure since the 2007/8 banking crisis. As Truss says, it contributed to the very real danger that the UK government would be unable to service its debts after investors reacted badly to her mini budget. This does not mean…
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I was willing to mostly ignore the Truss thing but now they’re bringing FinReg into the mix
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her unfunded tax cuts would have been economically sustainable in the absence of the LDI fault line, but it does represent seeming incompetence over many years by regulators, incompetence that has imposed economic costs on all of us. It is odd that…
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If pesto wants to talk about "incompetence that costs everyone" let's remember the time his colleagues had to restrain him from trying to destroy the Greek banking system because he had read a memo wrongly
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