#mike bloomberg

[imkeepinit]

#tax policy #rigged system #Warren Buffet #Jeff Bezos #Mike Bloomberg #Elon Musk #twitterature #Mohamad Safa

[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this Washington Post story:

Former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg on Wednesday will pledge to accelerate the transition to clean energy in an additional 15 developing countries, according to details shared exclusively with The Climate 202 ahead of the official announcement.

The commitment comes less than two months before the COP27 climate talks in Egypt, where developing countries are expected to ask wealthy nations for long-overdue funding to help them cope with the ravages of climate change.

The details: The pledge will be unveiled during the United Nations Climate Action: Race to Zero and Resilience Forum in New York City, where world leaders are also gathered for the U.N. General Assembly, as part of a “Countdown to COP27.”

Bloomberg Philanthropies will develop programs and partnerships in 15 developing nations where “demand for power is projected to grow rapidly and there is abundant potential for renewable energy such as solar and wind,” according to a news release shared with The Climate 202.

The 15 nations are Botswana, Cambodia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Madagascar, Morocco, Mexico, the Philippines, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, Thailand and Uganda.

According to data from BloombergNEF, the 15 countries account for nearly 27,637 megawatts of coal power plant capacity and have more than 8,046 megawatts of coal capacity under construction, planned, or permitted. However, in almost all of these markets, wind or solar is the cheapest source of new electricity generation.

Bloomberg Philanthropies has already sought to bolster clean energy in 17 countries and the European Union, including the 10 developing countries announced in May at the Sustainable Energy for All Forum in Kigali, Rwanda.

At the COP26 climate talks last year in Glasgow, Scotland, Bloomberg also pledged to help shutter or cancel one-quarter of the world's coal plant capacity.

#Mike Bloomberg #Bloomberg Philanthropies #renewable energy

[committeeof100]

I think about this Bloomberg campaign video a lot. Unfortunately I do not have the full thing, but I do have a brief snippet

#mike bloomberg #2020 election #2020 democratic primaries #donald trump #drumpf #too funny #shrek 2

[epic-mike]

im experimenting with he/she please bear with me here

#mike.txt #mike bloomberg #yo mama

[jewishcissiekj]

Cassie, Tim, and co. in The Night Before Christmas... - DC Universe Holiday Special 2008 | Written by Rex Ogle with art by Mike Dimotta

#merry christmas to all who celebrate #(not me i just love this story and when cassie is tall) #cassie sandsmark #dc comics #dc #tim drake #teen titans #robin #dc robin #wonder girl #bombshell #amy allen #red devil #kid devil #eddie bloomberg #jaime reyes #blue beetle #traci 13 #rex ogle #mike dimotta #comics #comic panels

[dvarapala]

sometimes, it's hard to settle on what to watch during movie night. luckily, mike and udyati have a fool proof way of settling these things: daring each other. the last person to tap out gains movie privileges for that night. / @escapesvelocity

#eye contact / #escapesvelocity #mike bloomberg & udyati rao. #*mine: edits #queue.

[waywardera]

 📷 for Santi to take Mike's photo

#𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 ╲ santiago feat. mike bloomberg #escapesvelocity #surprise photo >:) #esp when santi figures out how to work a polaroid

[dencyemily]

Analyst Cautions of Possible Bitcoin Downturn Amid Escalating ETF Excitement

In the midst of the excitement surrounding the potential approval of a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF), Bloomberg Intelligence's senior macro strategist, Mike McGlone, issues a cautionary warning. Speaking in a recent discussion with crypto influencer Scott Melker, McGlone expresses concerns about a possible downturn for Bitcoin, citing historical risk patterns observed in risk assets, including Bitcoin, after significant rallies. He draws parallels with past events such as the fall of Lehman Brothers and the collapse of FTX, highlighting the inherent risk associated with Bitcoin's current market position.

McGlone points out similarities between Bitcoin's current price behavior and patterns observed before previous market tops, signaling a potential trend reversal. This perspective becomes particularly significant as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) considers spot market Bitcoin ETF applications. McGlone advises caution, especially with the upcoming SEC decision, stating, "This is the week. If they rug pull, that’s bad. If they launch, well, lessons have been those haven’t been good. And is there a lot of hype and bullishness? Yeah, just as much as I’ve seen it at other peaks."

Despite Bitcoin's recent 2.5% surge to $45,205, McGlone advises against undue optimism, urging investors to exercise caution. While Bitcoin has seen a substantial rally, climbing 50% from $30,000 and tripling in value compared to the previous year, McGlone emphasizes the need for prudent investment strategies, especially given the uncertainties surrounding the potential ETF approval and the historical risk patterns associated with significant market movements.

#Bitcoin #BTC #ETF #exchange-traded fund #Bloomberg Intelligence #Mike McGlone #crypto #cryptocurrency #market analysis

[yesadanlerma]

September 20, 2022 - A Beginner's View : Inflation, the Economy, Climate, Clean Energy, Health etc, How Are They Related in Our Current Everyday Lives? - An On-Going Inquiry, Part 7 - #ClimateTweets

A selection of Tweets I've Retweeted about #Climate & related topics, both scary & hopeful 😊🙏

https://felipeadanlerma.com/?s=Climate‘Completely absurd’: Student organization to challenge I-35 expansion to 20 lanes – Sept 20, 2022 https://thedailytexan.com/2022/09/20/completely-absurd-student-organization-to-challenge-i-35-expansion-to-20-lanes/#My climate related posts –https://felipeadanlerma.com/?s=Climate* There’s few more hated roadways in Austin than I-35; and a group of students…

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#@Reuters #Bloomberg @business #Climate change #Energy #Fortune @FortuneMagazine #Johan Rockstrom @jrockstrom #Matthew Todd @MrMatthewTodd #Mike Hudema @MikeHudema #Operation Noah @OperationNoah #The Daily Texan @thedailytexan #Twitter #Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar #Zahra Hirji @Zhirji28

[redjaybathood]

holy fucking shit can leftists in the US make themselves useful for once and instead of boycotting Starbucks - a coffee chain that does not, in fact, give money to Israel - call their reps because:

⚡ The US House will next week vote on an standalone $17.6 billion Israel aid package without any Ukraine aid, Speaker Mike Johnson said Saturday, — Bloomberg.

How to find your rep: https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative

Ukraine needs your help to fight off the invasion.

Israel does not.

#usa #ukraine #israel/palestine

[bidenharris-bidunity]

#drjillbiden kamalaharris michelleobama barackobama joebiden kathyhochul letitiajames Mike Bloomberg america

[committeeof100]

#mike bloomberg #funny meme tho #2020 democratic primaries

[thewales]

The Times:

During his solo visit, William will meet the UN secretary-general, António Guterres, hold bilateral meetings with delegations from Ecuador and Vanuatu, wade into the Hudson River to highlight a pioneering water project and unveil this year’s 15 Earthshot finalists before November’s awards ceremony in Singapore, which he will attend with the Princess of Wales.

An aide said: “This trip is part of his evolution as a global statesman which is incredibly important, especially since becoming Prince of Wales. He and his courtiers have been thinking about how to manage that transition from Duke of Cambridge to the next king. You’ve seen a number of iterations of that, whether that’s meeting with Joe Biden in Boston or travelling to the border with Ukraine and talking about the importance of fighting for our freedoms.

“The US is very important to him. The world’s climate movers and shakers will be in New York having conversations about the future of the planet and the prince is keen to be part of those conversations and put Earthshot front and centre. He has huge ambitions for what the prize can become and is extremely focused on its legacy and impact.”

William will be joined in New York by the actress Cate Blanchett, an Earthshot champion, and Mike Bloomberg, the city’s former mayor, whose Bloomberg Philanthropies has committed more than $20 million (£16 million) to support previous Earthshot finalists in developing their projects.

 William will meet some of New York’s firefighters to thank them for their service and to discuss mental health.

Full article for free

#brf #the prince of wales #the princess of wales #prince william #earthshot prize

[beardedmrbean]

Jan. 21 (UPI) -- U.S. Department of Homeland Security officers have searched a Chinese auto parts maker that a congressional committee has accused of trade fraud.

DHS officers executed the search warrant at Harco Manufacturing Group in Moraine, Ohio, on Thursday, according to the Dayton Daily News. Harco is a subsidiary of Sunsong, the Chinese parts manufacturer. Sunsong acquired Harco in 2015. The address for Harco is the same address Sunsong North America lists on its website.

There is growing concern among U.S. lawmakers that some Chinese companies are evading U.S. tariffs, the news portals Axios and Bloomberg have reported.

The search was "part of an ongoing federal investigation," a DHS spokesperson told Dayton Daily News.

In September, the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party in September wrote a letter to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas accusing Qingdao Sunsong of moving some of its production to Thailand to evade U.S. tariffs.

The letter identified Qingdao Sunsong's public filings, which say the company's products are subject to U.S. import tariffs of 25% imposed on certain goods made in China and that "in order to reduce tariff costs, the issuer has accelerated production in Thailand."

In the letter to Mayorkas, Republican congressmen Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin and Darin LaHood of Illinois called Sunsong's actions a "case of blatant trade fraud that is having a catastrophic impact on American manufacturers."

"The use of transshipment to evade United States tariffs is a serious violation of U.S. law and undermines American economic and national security," the lawmakers wrote.

The Biden administration has kept many of the tariffs that the Trump administration imposed on China beginning in 2018.

China has not met its commitment laid out in a 2020 trade deal with the U.S., which required the country to increase its purchases of U.S. goods and services.

#nunyas news

[odinsblog]

No one loves Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman more than America’s elite. In recent years, we’ve seen leaders, investors, and celebrities hold out a Saudi exception to human rights in the service of a blurry concept of national interests that requires the U.S. to constantly compromise its values in service of an autocrat. And so MBS has been welcomed back into the establishment fold, and he won over Washington. And now he’s taking a victory lap.

When Saudi Arabia convened a 2018 summit in Riyadh, businesspeople shielded their name tags from view, sheepish about seeking MBS’s money just days after journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s murder. But the stigma has apparently worn off, and big names in finance, tech, media, and entertainment showed up at the Miami edition of Davos in the Desert.

The entire conceit of the conference is that Saudi Arabia can be abstracted from MBS, who is hardly ever mentioned yet remains the unspoken force behind the events. The host, the Future Investment Initiative Institute, a mouthful, is essentially the crown prince’s personal think tank. Session after session offered platitudes and ruminations on the least controversial ideas ever—AI is going to change the world! Climate is important! Sports bring people together! The two-day gathering was titled “On the Edge of a New Frontier,” itself a sort of redundant name. (Isn’t a frontier an edge?)

Yasir Al-Rumayyan, governor of a major sovereign wealth fund that’s currently under Senate investigation, led the proceedings. The Public Investment Fund that Al-Rumayyan runs is the conference’s founding partner and powers its lavish events. That Al-Rumayyan has $70 billion in annual investments to dole out is enough to draw out financial titans, curious entrepreneurs, and former Trump officials.

Jared Kushner, who had grown a beard, was talking about his theory of investing, without noting that MBS’s sovereign wealth funds had reportedly contributed $2 billion to his Affinity Partners. Steve Mnuchin, who similarly snared $1 billion of Saudi funds for his Liberty Strategic Capital, wore a suit and dress sneakers and talked about Israel as a tech hub. Mike Pompeo, in a tie, said that U.S. leadership in the world requires a “stability model” that involves working with “like-minded nations,” though “they’re not all going to be democracies.” Little wonder he rushed U.S. arms to Saudi Arabia as secretary of state as part of an end run around Congress.

Doing business with Saudi Arabia has become so normalized that the CEOs of major corporations and investment firms showed up in droves. There was Accenture’s Julie Sweet, Blackstone’s Stephen Schwarzman, and Thiel Capital’s Jack Selby. David Rubenstein—the billionaire who has played host to President Joe Biden at his Nantucket estate—spoke alongside his daughter Gabrielle. (This year, the Biden administration didn’t send an emissary, but the deputy commerce secretary, Donald Graves, attended in 2021.)

Journalists have kept a distance from Saudi Arabia after the dismemberment of Washington Post columnist Khashoggi, but in Miami the moderators included CNN’s Bianna Golodryga, Fox’s Maria Bartiromo, Bloomberg’s Manus Cranny, and The Wall Street Journal’s Gerard Baker.

MBS has especially used boldfaced names to rehabilitate his standing post-Khashoggi, his crackdown on women activists, and the destructive Yemen war. In Miami, there was a fireside chat with failed Senate candidate Dr. Oz. “Saudi Arabia is, I think, doing some wise investing and shifting mindsets by trying to leapfrog, in some cases, where the West is,” Oz said.

For Gwyneth Paltrow, it was just another fun public event. She spoke about how Goop had “built meaning” for its fans, in conversation with entrepreneur Moj Mahdara, a former adviser to Hillary Clinton. It was particularly incongruous when Paltrow discussed bringing more women to the cap table to fight the patriarchy.

Rob Lowe had some advice for Riyadh’s efforts to break into Hollywood and create its own film industry. “My view is there’s no reason that Saudi shouldn’t be the leader in IP in the same way they’re attempting to be the leader in sports and everything else,” Lowe said. “You need to have someone who can communicate: Why Saudi, why now.”

For all of the glitzy stage management and slick social media branding, at many moments there were fewer than 50 people watching the livestream on YouTube. But what mattered more were the opinion leaders, financiers, and tycoons in the room.

Big Tech was there, too, with Google’s Caroline Yap and Dell’s Michael Dell. Nothing was quite as obsequious as last year’s gathering in Miami when Adam Neumann, Marc Andreessen, and Ben Horowitz—all beneficiaries of Saudi Arabia’s financial largesse—gushed about how MBS is like a “founder,” except “you call him, ‘His Royal Highness.’”

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#politics #saudi arabia #jared kushner #mohammed bin salman #jamal khashoggi #davos #uae #corporate greed #mbs

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Maya Yang at The Guardian:

The House of Representatives voted 360 to 58 on the updated divest-or-ban bill that could lead to the first time ever that the US government has passed a law to shut down an entire social media platform.

The Senate is expected to vote on the bill next week and Joe Biden has said he will sign the legislation.

“This bill protects Americans and especially America’s children from the malign influence of Chinese propaganda on the app TikTok. This app is a spy balloon in Americans’ phones,” said Texas Republican representative Michael McCaul, author of the bill, Bloomberg reports. The updated TikTok bill comes as part of House Republican speaker Mike Johnson’s foreign aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. The passage of the updated version of the bill came after Maria Cantwell, the Senate commerce committee chair, urged the House in March to revise the bill’s details, which now extends TikTok’s parent company ByteDance’s divestment period from six months to a year. In a statement released on Tuesday, Cantwell said: “As I’ve said, extending the divestment period is necessary to ensure there is enough time for a new buyer to get a deal done. I support this updated legislation.” Critics of the popular social media app argue that ByteDance, which is based in China, could collect user data and censor content that is critical of the Chinese government. In March, Avril Haines, the director of national intelligence, warned in a House intelligence committee hearing that China could use TikTok to influence the US’s 2024 presidential elections.

What a disgrace: The US House passes 360-58 a bill to ban TikTok if there is no divesture within 9 months (extendable by the President to a year) from ByteDance. This bill likely will head to the Senate next and then President Biden's desk. #TikTokBan

#TikTok Ban #TikTok #US House of Representatives #118th Congress #US Senate #Joe Biden #Social Media #ByteDance