Time asked Trump why he didn't think his plan for a 10%+ tax on all imports would be inflationary:
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FT journalists for sale to the highest bidder.
Shock photos reveal hacks at top London restaurants.
app.galabid.com/ftflicappeal23…
Shock photos reveal hacks at top London restaurants.
app.galabid.com/ftflicappeal23…
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Looking forward to talking to @The_Real_McNab this Saturday at the Appledore Book Festival about his thrilling tale of a mission to rescue aid workers in the mountains of Afghanistan
appledorebookfestival.co.uk/tickets
appledorebookfestival.co.uk/tickets
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FYI: Vista describes its Programme Membership as a "an innovative Jet Card solution"
vistajet.com/en-gb/stories/…
vistajet.com/en-gb/stories/…
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Paperbacks!!
First sight of these beauties. Handy red Money Men arriving May 4, order now
amazon.co.uk/Money-Men-Star…
First sight of these beauties. Handy red Money Men arriving May 4, order now
amazon.co.uk/Money-Men-Star…
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Thanks to everyone who queued up at the @IInews Berlin Summit yesterday. Scribbled in about 200 copies by the end
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Terrific piece from @MilesMJohnson today
What is a London law firm called *Discreet Law* doing threatening a journalist in the UK on behalf of the Russian warlord known as Putin's Chef?
ft.com/content/8c8b05…
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A clear out of legal files at the FT unearthed that time Wirecard sued me for half a million euros. Great days
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Cult classic Danish horror 'Breaking News'
(MidJourney prompt: breaking news, movie poster, 8k, sense of drama)
(MidJourney prompt: breaking news, movie poster, 8k, sense of drama)
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Spotted on Midjourney: the (mindblowing) AI took a few seconds to create a fully formed new Nike concept shoe discord.com/channels/66226…
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To bid for lunch with me at London’s @ColonyGrillRoom and support the FT's Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign go to ft.com/appeal by Jan 29. Or end the agony now and donate £10k to FT FLIC.
@khalafroula, @jellison and @gilliantett have already hit the ceiling:
@khalafroula, @jellison and @gilliantett have already hit the ceiling:
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However, Nixon had already launched the 'War On Drugs'.
youtube.com/watch?v=y8TGLL…
youtube.com/watch?v=y8TGLL…
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The commission was appointed by Richard Nixon, stacked with serious people and led by a former Pennsylvania Governor Raymond Shafer, and was thorough. It held hearings, and authorised 20 reports on the various issues.
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Did you know that the 50 year war on drugs started with a commission of conservative politicians recommending the decriminalisation of marijuana? A short 🧵
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Let's hope the bumblers over @TheFCA watch. They got both barrels from Paul Murphy this week
ft.com/content/46710e…
ft.com/content/46710e…
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Skandal! Bringing Down Wirecard is 🔥🔥🔥
Terrific reception at the Curzon Mayfair last night, I can’t wait for the rest of the world to start watching it on Netflix tomorrow.
Enormous thanks to the FT, Passion Pictures and Netflix. What a story to tell.
#wirecardskandal
Terrific reception at the Curzon Mayfair last night, I can’t wait for the rest of the world to start watching it on Netflix tomorrow.
Enormous thanks to the FT, Passion Pictures and Netflix. What a story to tell.
#wirecardskandal
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Terrific afternoon at the FT Weekend Festival. And the book shop has sold every copy of Money Men
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But note the casual last line from a former prosecutor that shows just how deep the rot goes in the US system.
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Always a favourite. I distinctly remember calling Paul Murphy afterwards. “I’ve been fucking defenestrated…”
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Win tickets to an exclusive Early screening of the Wirecard movie in today’s Due Diligence newsletter! ft.com/content/7ef3d4… Skandal! Arrives on Netflix September 16
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Wow, high praise indeed, thanks!
Strongbrew would have tasted sublime that day, but it was this Rose de Jeanne
Strongbrew would have tasted sublime that day, but it was this Rose de Jeanne
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Thanks to French nutrition scores we notice the kids cereal of tiny chocolate biscuits (C) has LESS sugar and MORE fibre than our ‘healthy’ grown-up choice (D).
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Is this Jan Marsalek?
"Marsalek has been spotted entering the Aerobus residential complex at 4/1 Kochanovsky Prospect Street, the residence of one of his female friends."
youtube.com/watch?v=IxVcvF…
"Marsalek has been spotted entering the Aerobus residential complex at 4/1 Kochanovsky Prospect Street, the residence of one of his female friends."
youtube.com/watch?v=IxVcvF…
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Jan Marsalek spotted in Moscow!
SZ have teamed up with the Dossier Center to track down Wirecard's absconded spymaster/thief, with a lot of detail about his new name - German Bazhenov - restaurant choices, FSB minders, and a possible picture 👇
sueddeutsche.de/projekte/artik…
SZ have teamed up with the Dossier Center to track down Wirecard's absconded spymaster/thief, with a lot of detail about his new name - German Bazhenov - restaurant choices, FSB minders, and a possible picture 👇
sueddeutsche.de/projekte/artik…
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That system also grants German prosecutors with a weak to non-existent case significant power to extort defendants rather than admit mistakes. Like in 2017 pursuing critics of Wirecard rather than the company:
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MONEY MEN is "electrifying" and a "riveting read" says this review in Spears: spearswms.com/money-men-the-…
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Why Barristers are on strike:
NEW BLOGPOST: The Criminal Bar on strike - 9 Things You Need to Know
thesecretbarrister.com/2022/06/27/the…
#Action4Justice
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A nightclub owner, an ex-copper and an old-school reporter walk into a bar...
MONEY MEN is out today!
The thrilling true story of Wirecard’s wild rise and crashing fall charts an investigation like no other. It reveals hidden worlds of short sellers and whistleblowers, pornographers and private militias, hackers and spies. 🧵1/6
amazon.co.uk/House-Wirecard…
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Money Men in excellent company on Amazon with @OliverBullough Butler to the World and @Billbrowder Freezing Order
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Why do we fall for frauds? Reflections from a decade writing about them in Life & Arts this weekend
MONEY MEN is out today!
The thrilling true story of Wirecard’s wild rise and crashing fall charts an investigation like no other. It reveals hidden worlds of short sellers and whistleblowers, pornographers and private militias, hackers and spies. 🧵1/6
amazon.co.uk/House-Wirecard…
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Top shelf, in great company at Waterstones Piccadilly ✍️✍️✍️
MONEY MEN is out today!
The thrilling true story of Wirecard’s wild rise and crashing fall charts an investigation like no other. It reveals hidden worlds of short sellers and whistleblowers, pornographers and private militias, hackers and spies. 🧵1/6
amazon.co.uk/House-Wirecard…
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MONEY MEN has cracked the top 100 on Amazon now. Currently… 69th
(Settle down you at the back there)
Onwards!
(Settle down you at the back there)
Onwards!
MONEY MEN is out today!
The thrilling true story of Wirecard’s wild rise and crashing fall charts an investigation like no other. It reveals hidden worlds of short sellers and whistleblowers, pornographers and private militias, hackers and spies. 🧵1/6
amazon.co.uk/House-Wirecard…
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First sighting in the wild. Waterstones on Gower St has sold more than half its stock already. These five are now signed.
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MONEY MEN is storming up the Amazon charts today. No 256 in all books! Great work everyone, keep it up.
MONEY MEN is out today!
The thrilling true story of Wirecard’s wild rise and crashing fall charts an investigation like no other. It reveals hidden worlds of short sellers and whistleblowers, pornographers and private militias, hackers and spies. 🧵1/6
amazon.co.uk/House-Wirecard…
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MONEY MEN is out today!
The thrilling true story of Wirecard’s wild rise and crashing fall charts an investigation like no other. It reveals hidden worlds of short sellers and whistleblowers, pornographers and private militias, hackers and spies. 🧵1/6
amazon.co.uk/House-Wirecard…
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“This is my only boy. You can’t let anything happen to him, you understand.”
Wirecard messed with the wrong woman. When they mistreat her son, a Sikh mother in Singapore becomes determined to blow the whistle. A document blows the story wide open. But can we print it? ⅚
Wirecard messed with the wrong woman. When they mistreat her son, a Sikh mother in Singapore becomes determined to blow the whistle. A document blows the story wide open. But can we print it? ⅚
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At the heart is a whizz kid in a hurry. He has no idea what he’s doing and his mad schemes backfire. Yet it somehow works and, with a copy of Sun-Tzu’s the art of war under his arm, Wirecard’s ‘chaotic genius’ takes his holidays in a Syrian warzone with Russian Mercenaries. 3/6
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He got headhunted to British Leyland, ended up with a top job at the tractor unit, and soon realised it was doomed. He was waiting till after a holiday using the company car to quit, when they sat him down and handed over a big redundancy check.
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Were investors waiting for arrests to capitulate?
They're still waiting for one of them - this guy peering over my shoulder skipped off to Moscow before warrants were issued THREE DAYS later.
They're still waiting for one of them - this guy peering over my shoulder skipped off to Moscow before warrants were issued THREE DAYS later.
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To celebrate the publication of MONEY MEN we are offering one lucky winner a signed copy of this real life thriller.
RT to win, delivered to a UK address, winner drawn June 18.
RT to win, delivered to a UK address, winner drawn June 18.
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The winner has been decided by Wirecard-stein raffle
Thank you for playing. The 10pm Tether price hit 0.9986.
Well done @Edmund_Schuster @RabbiJacob16 @benyeohben @beingianbergin @Postbote1970 @preiselbernd @BenFoldy @BenFoldy @Simon_Craven
If you could all bring a knife to the Strand Underpass, we'll proceed to sudden death*
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Oh, hang on a second. MONEY MEN is in fabulous company over on the Corporate Finance chart, and it doesn't come out till next week. Tremendous pre-order work everyone
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The German press for House of Wirecard has been great, here's a snapshot from Falter
Note to self: schedule interviews before a Paul Murphy Lunch, rather than afterwards...
Note to self: schedule interviews before a Paul Murphy Lunch, rather than afterwards...
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The translation is substantially fatter than the original, (which comes out in the UK June 16)
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First sight of the translation!
Due to rampant demand, HOUSE OF WIRECARD is out today in all good German bookshops:
ullstein-buchverlage.de/nc/buch/detail…
Due to rampant demand, HOUSE OF WIRECARD is out today in all good German bookshops:
ullstein-buchverlage.de/nc/buch/detail…
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A polite young man! Now there's something to put a spring in your step on a Saturday morning.
From a very kind interview in Berliner-Zeitung ahead of the German language HOUSE OF WIRECARD publication next week.
berliner-zeitung.de/politik-gesell…
From a very kind interview in Berliner-Zeitung ahead of the German language HOUSE OF WIRECARD publication next week.
berliner-zeitung.de/politik-gesell…
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So, does anything jump out in this 2014 response from Wirecard CEO Markus Braun? (I'd asked him if the company faked its profits.)
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I've recorded the audio book version with @RakkitProducti1
Apparently "there's lots of people who are worse at it than you", so that bodes well 🙃
Apparently "there's lots of people who are worse at it than you", so that bodes well 🙃
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Algorithmic stablecoin?
Brings to mind Doc Brown pouring stale beer into the reactor of his flying DeLorean
Brings to mind Doc Brown pouring stale beer into the reactor of his flying DeLorean
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At the AltFi Festival of Finance to talk about Wirecard this morning, and the day has started on the theme of trust and the explosion of buy now pay later schemes. A lot of “consumer engagement” apparently.
#fof22
#fof22
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Wirecard’s spymaster peered over my shoulder while I spent a year writing MONEY MEN. If you’re out there Jan, I’ll put a signed one aside as Moscow bookshops are unlikely to get stock. 😉
(Everyone else can pre-order here penguin.co.uk/books/1444756/…)
(Everyone else can pre-order here penguin.co.uk/books/1444756/…)
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Tremendous work on those orders. Money Men is currently the number one bestseller in Amazon's **squints** company histories chart.
The last seven years of my life have been wild, full of weirdos, spies, outlandish discoveries, sleuthing, hangovers, bungling criminals, madcap schemes, Libyan militias and Russian nerve gas. And it’s all in this book, out June 2022. Order your copy here: penguin.co.uk/books/1444756/…
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The last seven years of my life have been wild, full of weirdos, spies, outlandish discoveries, sleuthing, hangovers, bungling criminals, madcap schemes, Libyan militias and Russian nerve gas. And it’s all in this book, out June 2022. Order your copy here: penguin.co.uk/books/1444756/…
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