writer/blogger, formerly journalist at WSJ, Dow Jones, Reuters, others. #economics #markets, #music, #philosophy, #books, #technology, #photos, etc. (ie hopelessly eclectic) Toronto. May not respond to DMs. Blog at: https://doncurren.blogspot.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/dbcurren.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/dbcurren.bsky.social/post/3mki3evl7y223“But the best model for some of the #AI giants may be a company like #CiscoSystems. Unlike the flaky startups, Cisco Systems was a real company with a useful product …But its #stockprice nonetheless went through a crazy #boomandbust.” https://open.substack.com/pub/deanbaker22/p/will-gravity-pull-down-the-ai-bubble?r=b8e6&utm_medium=ios27 Apr 2026 12:34 +0000at://did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mki3evl7y223https://bsky.app/profile/dbcurren.bsky.social/post/3mki34gljtk23“These are not peripheral achievements. They are the #institutional and #legal infrastructure of a state that takes its role in the #international #humanrights #architecture seriously” #Canada [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Apr 2026 12:29 +0000at://did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mki34gljtk23https://bsky.app/profile/dbcurren.bsky.social/post/3mki2sow5fk23“Canada’s #mining and processing sector operates under #environmental, #Indigenousrights, and #labourstandards frameworks that, whatever their imperfections, are verifiable and legally accountable in ways that #Xinjiang production is not.” https://open.substack.com/pub/barryappleton/p/the-same-instrument?r=b8e6&utm_medium=ios27 Apr 2026 12:24 +0000at://did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mki2sow5fk23https://bsky.app/profile/dbcurren.bsky.social/post/3mki2h2n6kk23“America’s first #datacentre #bans have hit the state level (see map below left), with Maine’s #statelegislature this month passing a first-in-the-country temporary #moratorium on all #datacentres larger than 20MW until Nov 2027” https://open.substack.com/pub/adamtooze/p/top-links-1085-data-center-blowback?r=b8e6&utm_medium=ios27 Apr 2026 12:17 +0000at://did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mki2h2n6kk23https://bsky.app/profile/dbcurren.bsky.social/post/3mkhzuiiq4k231 Bloomberg: “The market’s trading into this very tight group of very #speculative #stocks and leaving the rest behind. If you go back and look really over the past year, whenever that’s happened…” 🧵 #markets27 Apr 2026 12:07 +0000at://did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkhzuiiq4k23https://bsky.app/profile/dbcurren.bsky.social/post/3mkhzkn34ys231 Bloomberg: #Alphabet, #Microsoft, #Amazon and #MetaPlatforms report on Wednesday, followed by #Apple and #Samsung a day later. A slew of non-tech companies report too, from #BP to #Volkswagen to #Eli Lilly. 🧵 #markets27 Apr 2026 12:01 +0000at://did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkhzkn34ys23https://bsky.app/profile/dbcurren.bsky.social/post/3mkhzbiluvs23Bloomberg: “With #centralbank meetings for every #G7 country this week — alongside 44% of the #S&P500 reporting by market capitalization, including five of the #Mag7 — it is shaping up to be a blockbuster week, even before factoring in ongoing Iranian war newsflow,” said Jim Reid of Deutsche Bank27 Apr 2026 11:56 +0000at://did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkhzbiluvs23https://bsky.app/profile/dbcurren.bsky.social/post/3mkhyz5di5k23“The #fund will be used to invest alongside the #privatesector in major #projects the #Carneygovernment has committed to building over the coming years, and the government also plans to create a way for individual #Canadians to contribute, the official said” https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-carney-to-announce-sovereign-wealth-fund-monday/27 Apr 2026 11:52 +0000at://did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkhyz5di5k23https://bsky.app/profile/dbcurren.bsky.social/post/3mkhyq5at3c231 BMO: U.S. and Canadian #equityfutures are mixed this morning (-0.1% to +0.2% @ 06:40 EST) amid mixed but mostly higher #global #markets, as investors brace for a bunch of #earnings and #centralbank announcements this week. 🧵27 Apr 2026 11:47 +0000at://did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkhyq5at3c23https://bsky.app/profile/dbcurren.bsky.social/post/3mkhykbmjf223“The idea that the #president can use #the military as he wishes without authority from #Congress demolishes one of the fundamental principles of our #democracy: that we have a right to a say in how our lives and treasure are spent.” https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/april-26-2026?r=b8e6&utm_medium=ios27 Apr 2026 11:43 +0000at://did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkhykbmjf223https://bsky.app/profile/dbcurren.bsky.social/post/3mkgmnatmhs23“After a false start at Rochdale College, where he planned a 180-seat micro-cinema, he leased the former Garden Theatre at 290 College, which became the legendary Cinema Lumière, its programming inspiring countless filmmakers …” https://open.substack.com/pub/thedowntowntheatre/p/the-elektra-theatre?r=b8e6&utm_medium=ios26 Apr 2026 22:37 +0000at://did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkgmnatmhs23https://bsky.app/profile/dbcurren.bsky.social/post/3mkgkqckhp223“To defeat #fascism in the #UnitedStates in a #competitiveauthoritarian #election, we have to mobilize the #youth.” [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Apr 2026 22:03 +0000at://did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkgkqckhp223https://bsky.app/profile/dbcurren.bsky.social/post/3mkgkerwupk23“There is just no good reason for thinking that unifying behind a #centrist #candidate in the #UnitedStates will be as successful a strategy as it was in #Hungary.” https://open.substack.com/pub/jasonstanleyantifascist/p/hungary-shows-the-us-needs-a-progressive?r=b8e6&utm_medium=ios26 Apr 2026 21:57 +0000at://did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkgkerwupk23https://bsky.app/profile/dbcurren.bsky.social/post/3mkfscnqrds2b"'We are here,' #Zelensky said. 'We are in Kyiv. We are protecting Ukraine.' When I visited #Ukraine in 2023, I spoke to #Ukrainian #soldiers who told me that statement sent a jolt of electricity through Ukrainian lines. From that moment, they knew they would not surrender; they would stand" [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Apr 2026 14:46 +0000at://did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkfscnqrds2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/dbcurren.bsky.social/post/3mkfr2pfnys2q“Before I go on with this short history, let me make a general observation – the test of a first-rate #intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed #ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.” - #FScottFitzgerald26 Apr 2026 14:24 +0000at://did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkfr2pfnys2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/dbcurren.bsky.social/post/3mkfqsx2qak2p“It’s no longer accurate to think of #Ukraine as a desperate underdog; it’s becoming an independent power. Even as it fights for its life against Russia, it’s reportedly reaching defense deals with the Gulf states and with the United States …” https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/opinion/zelensky-ukraine-trump-nato-leader.html26 Apr 2026 14:20 +0000at://did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkfqsx2qak2phttps://bsky.app/profile/dbcurren.bsky.social/post/3mkfpsrnsuk2nAnd with only a limited and vicarious access to a highly partial set of facts … [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Apr 2026 14:02 +0000at://did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkfpsrnsuk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/dbcurren.bsky.social/post/3mkfinlm5js23“For many interpreters of our conjuncture, it seems that we are regressing both in terms of #inequality and #international #tension to a configuration alarmingly reminiscent of the pre-1914 era. The inequality numbers in the US resemble those of the #gildedage.” https://open.substack.com/pub/adamtooze/p/chartbook-443-hard-working-hegemon?r=b8e6&utm_medium=ios26 Apr 2026 11:53 +0000at://did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkfinlm5js23https://bsky.app/profile/dbcurren.bsky.social/post/3mkficg3osk23“Over the loudspeaker, someone said that the “dinner service will resume momentarily.” Seconds later, the wranglers rushed us out—the President was leaving. We sprinted past Pete Hegseth and his wife, up the stairs and across the red carpet” https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/inside-the-white-house-correspondents-dinner-as-gunshots-rang-out26 Apr 2026 11:47 +0000at://did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkficg3osk23https://bsky.app/profile/dbcurren.bsky.social/post/3mkfhudkxts23#TorstenSlok, chief economist at Apollo Global Management: The #UK, #Australia, #Germany and #France are more vulnerable to higher #jetfuel #prices26 Apr 2026 11:39 +0000at://did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkfhudkxts23https://bsky.app/profile/dbcurren.bsky.social/post/3mkfg7d6p622v“Yet as the hard-left stressed, the pathologies of #Trump are clearly inseparable from #neo-liberal #capitalism and its contradictions. If the rust-belt’s right-ward turn didn’t quite confirm this, the presence of Bezos et. al. at the Trump inauguration does.” https://www.academia.edu/166005384/Deleuze_and_Guattari_on_Fascism?auto=download&email_work_card=download-paper26 Apr 2026 11:10 +0000at://did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkfg7d6p622v