@barray on Sun Feb 27 20:07:32 UTC 2022 said: &eLooks like #bp #british #petroleum will not #exit #russian #investment so easily, with #russia #central #bank #banning selling of #russian #securities by #foreigners https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/russia.. This means they don't really have many #options available to #sell their #holdings ... Things are certainly #escalating ...Looks like #bp #british #petroleum is getting out of #russian #oil giant #rosneft due to the #invasion of #ukraine https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/.. They are expecting to lose $25 #billion #dollars as a result. This in theory should also increase their #longterm #energy #security by not being #politically #dependant on an #unstable #government ...
@barray on Wed Jun 02 03:54:35 UTC 2021 said: &eThe #democrats are not *really* against wealth inequality, they are just against certain people having wealth. #elonmusk could politically be classified as #central or #rightwing - but #jeffbezos if way more #leftwing - so imagine which one they will choose to support...#biden is talking about taxing the wealthiest 0.1% to cover *some* of his ridiculous #us spending. Meanwhile, the #senate is talking about bailing out #jeffbezos for $10 billion because a space project he was working on lost out on a contract: https://www.lotuseaters.com/us-senate-pr.. Absolutely fucking ridiculous. It's just robbing Peter to pay Paul. Bezos must be very aligned with the Democrats for them to be pulling so many favours...