I worked for Merrill Lynch at Moorgate at the same time. We didn’t drink at lunch and wondered why others did. We just bought food and got on with the job.
Simon Ziegler
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Founder of 2 tech startups. Ex investment banker. Politically centre/lefty. Dad to the most wonderful man and woman on the planet.
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Wow
This chart, illustrating how central bank direct holdings of gold now exceed those of U.S. Treasuries for the first time in some thirty years, is attracting significant attention.
#gold #centralbanks #markets #bonds
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We watched a bit of one programme and its was super tedious. The food is incidental, boring and lacks coherence. The programme is all about her and her high class friends. She’s smart and I’m sure she could have made something good. This ain’t it.
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Totally disgusting. The point of democracy is to argue your case. This is authoritarian intimidation. I’d like to see somebody culpable in court for this.
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Totally agree with your sentiment here. That’s why I said “if well executed”. From this administration good execution of policy is an oxymoron.
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Good morning! Working (in inverted commas) from home today, where “home” I my sister in law’s apartment in rural Switzerland. Pure joy.
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Cool. I won’t be stupid enough to ask your opinion of us Londoners.
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Major apologies. How do you characterise you Wiltshire folk?
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So do you prowl the mean streets of Somerset, beating people up while reciting recipes in Middle English? It would be oddly impressive if yes.
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Much as it pains me to say this about the current US Administration, this is a good idea if executed well. UK Government websites are really well designed with a single, understandable user experience permeating through them. US Govt websites still look like 1990s abominations.
President Trump’s new chief design officer Joe Gebbia, an Elon Musk ally who also worked for DOGE, says he wants to overhaul the interface of government websites to make them more beautiful and less complicated to use — like a visit to the Apple Store.
Trump's new chief design officer aims to make federal websites ‘satisfying'
Joe Gebbia, an Elon Musk ally who also worked for DOGE, said navigating dot-gov websites should be just as easy as visiting the Apple Store.
