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Michael del Castillo

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Writing about banking for Fortune Media, writing about borderlessness for myself. Learning to farm. 🖖🏽

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Michael del Castillo 's avatar Michael del Castillo @delcastillo.bsky.social
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Did we really dodge that recession? JPMorgan's head of commercial banking research says founder optimism about the American economy is no anomaly. “What they’re seeing on the ground in their own businesses is giving them optimism."

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Andy Greenberg's avatar Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social
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Yesterday was pub day for the UK edition of Tracers in the Dark, with a new title: Lords of Crypto Crime.

To all the UK and Aussie folks bugging me about this for the last 18 months, thank you for your patience and hope you enjoy!

www.amazon.co.uk/Lords-Crypto...

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Michael del Castillo 's avatar Michael del Castillo @delcastillo.bsky.social
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It’s open source and interoperable. Build a competitor and steal the users. Or be quiet

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JUST OUT: The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is proposing to revise its guidelines establishing standards for recovery planning by some large insured national banks, federal savings associations, and federal branches: www.occ.gov/news-issuanc...

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Michael del Castillo 's avatar Michael del Castillo @delcastillo.bsky.social
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GREETINGS BLUESKY! WARNING: I'm going to start posting financial stories I write for Fortune here. I love the creative vibes of this place, and hope my business writing isn't a wet blanket. But I also firmly believe in the future of decentralized social for all. Thanks for following, and reading!

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Just a week after passing the Federal Reserve stress test with flying colors, this regional bank virtually unknown outside of New England take’s the top spot on Morgan Stanleys midcap banks earnings preview: fortune.com/2024/07/02/m...

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Bank of America's chart guru, Stephen Suttmeier, said TODAY marks the beginning of the S&P 500's 'strongest' average two-week period...over the past 96 years: fortune.com/2024/07/01/s...

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HAPPENING NOW: Bank advocacy groups are pouncing on the Supreme Court decision to overturn the "Chevron deferment," while the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is reviewing the decision: fortune.com/2024/06/28/s...

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Alex Knapp's avatar Alex Knapp @thealexknapp.bsky.social
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For Juneteenth, I want to take the opportunity to highlight what I think is one of the best stories I've ever written. It's the story of Barney Ford, who escaped enslavement in the 1850s and both won and lost several fortunes in the Old West.

www.forbes.com/sites/alexkn...

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Alex Knapp's avatar Alex Knapp @thealexknapp.bsky.social
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"To Boeing's long list of urgent near-term problems, add one more. It needs a new airplane."

So begins a really astute analysis of the company's competitive landscape by my colleague Jeremy Bogaisky. Check it out -

www.forbes.com/sites/jeremy...

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Michael del Castillo 's avatar Michael del Castillo @delcastillo.bsky.social
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Sorry, I meant OP. Thanks! :)

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Michael del Castillo 's avatar Michael del Castillo @delcastillo.bsky.social
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Just for my reference, who did write that?

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Michael del Castillo 's avatar Michael del Castillo @delcastillo.bsky.social
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Yeah, these points may be valid, but without links the comments merely propagate another kind of propaganda. Please share links of critiques

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Idil's avatar Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social
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Why would any student ever bother writing an essay themselves ever again What is the point of any of this. It’s so transparent, it’s just determined hollowing-out of every aspect of society to fund like nine billionaire optimised peptide breakfast smoothies

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Tracy O’Connell Novick's avatar Tracy O’Connell Novick @tracynovick.bsky.social
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"after taking office and examining hundreds of pages of curriculum, Gore was shocked by what she found — and didn’t find.
The pervasive indoctrination she had railed against simply did not exist."

www.texastribune.org/2024/05/15/t...

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Brooke Binkowski's avatar Brooke Binkowski @brooklynmarie.bsky.social
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Holy shit lol, I didn't expect any of these folks to change their mind based on evidence, ever

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Michael del Castillo 's avatar Michael del Castillo @delcastillo.bsky.social
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The Great Flattening: Apple’s “apology comes across as heartfelt…the reason why people reacted so strongly to the ad is that it couldn’t have hit the mark more squarely.” stratechery.com/2024/the-gre... Stratechery by Ben Thompson

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Jay 🦋's avatar Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team
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You guys did great work 🫡 Wishing you the best with whatever comes next!

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Rabble's avatar Rabble @rabble.nz
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I’m so sorry to hear this. You’ve been a creative band of hackers who both made amazing things and community around it. I look forward t what all of you do next.

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Brooklyn Zelenka's avatar Brooklyn Zelenka @expede.wtf
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All good things must come to an end. Today I'm sad to say goodbye to @fission.codes

It was an audacious company from the start, and I wouldn't trade the experience for anything. I'm so grateful for the past 5+ years getting to work on interesting things with *awesome* people 💜

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Lili Saintcrow's avatar Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.bsky.social
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“It could be a trojan horse that no one noticed in Section 230 that effectively bars websites from taking legal action against middleware providers who are providing technical means for people to filter or screen content on their feed..." www.lawfaremedia.org...

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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH's avatar Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.bsky.social
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Misinformation campaigns target fluoride, the cavity-fighting mineral, prompting communities to reverse water fluoridation. Dentists are enraged. Parents are caught in the middle. Some comments by my collaborator Donald Chi and me. 🛟🧪 Medsky episky policysky sociology

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Dani cRabaiotti 🦀's avatar Dani cRabaiotti 🦀 @danirabaiotti.bsky.social
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Welcome to the Science feed!

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Mark Harris's avatar Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social
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Series of tweets about Columbia from an NBC News reporter.

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Michael del Castillo 's avatar Michael del Castillo @delcastillo.bsky.social
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The older I get, the more I’m starting to wonder if procrastination is really just work-life balance?

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Maladroithe's avatar Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social
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I looked it up and this is apparently true: Warren Beatty produces a couple of schlocky, low-budget short form films every handful of years so he can keep the rights to Dick Tracy as a Fuck You to the studios who fucked his beloved project from the get-go

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Benjamin Dreyer's avatar Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.bsky.social
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Let's celebrate Paul Robeson's birthday!

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Michael del Castillo 's avatar Michael del Castillo @delcastillo.bsky.social
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Yes! I grow those in my backyard. Gorgeous and delicious

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CRAZY opening paragraph of his bio: “was an American bass-baritone concert artist, stage and film actor, professional football player, and activist who became famous both for his cultural accomplishments and for his political stances.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ro... Like WTF?!?!

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Teddy Wilson's avatar Teddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social
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Trumpism Is Emptying Churches: The former president’s embrace of White Christian militantism coincides with a precipitous decline in religious affiliation in the US.

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Jack Nicholson is in the original!

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A bipartisan group of former senior national security and legal officials, including veterans of the Trump administration, are urging lawmakers to impose new limits on a president’s power to deploy federal troops on domestic soil.

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Lucas Turnbloom's avatar Lucas Turnbloom @lucasturnbloom.bsky.social
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Wow! Thanks for that. ♥️ Yep, I could sure use the push on this platform. Can’t seem to find any traction over here yet.

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Michael del Castillo 's avatar Michael del Castillo @delcastillo.bsky.social
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Oh my gosh I just read your profile. With the response you just gave, you gotta change that, dude

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