@AaronBack

Global Editor of The Wall Street Journal's Heard on the Street column. Previously with @wsj in Beijing and Hong Kong.

 New York, NY
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Joined April 2009
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Bringing back the Newt Gingrich character was a really questionable choice by the simulation writers
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Today's market update:
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Asian Markets Fall Like Cherry Blossoms In Gentle Spring Rain

TOKYO, HONG KONG, SEOUL—Asian stocks closed one of the worst and most mournfully reflective months on record last week, with the falling American dollar negatively impacting trade volume and causing...

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Heard on the Street: Will SpaceX will be a space-age Berkshire Hathaway? Or just a conglomerate of sci fi fever dreams?
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Remember when X was going to become an everything app and disrupt the financial system? We do.
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Link: wsj.com/tech/spacex-takes-co…

SpaceX Takes Conglomerate-Building to Sci-Fi Extremes

Elon Musk’s mishmash of businesses will be a maze for investors to evaluate.

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China has barely been mentioned in this year's Taipei mayoral campaign. But should upstart DPP challenger Puma Shen win, Beijing would lose an important ally in incumbent Chiang Wan-an, who it has likely viewed as a future president it could work with. asia.nikkei.com/opinion/coul…

Could Taipei elect its first DPP mayor in more than 30 years?

Puma Shen has used local issues to take a surprise lead over KMT's Chiang Wan-an

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Breaking: Elon Musk ordered the Starlink slowdown that blindsided Ukraine on.wsj.com/4sgcpBv

Exclusive | Musk Ordered Starlink Slowdown That Blindsided Ukraine

The SpaceX founder authorized the move and has been discussing Ukraine with Trump, but the president has denied ordering the restrictions.

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Big WSJ scoop wsj.com/world/ukraine-starli…

Exclusive | Musk Ordered Starlink Slowdown That Blindsided Ukraine

The SpaceX founder authorized the move and has been discussing Ukraine with Trump, but the president has denied ordering the restrictions.

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when i have really dumb questions i'll ask chatgpt or gemini because i don't want claude to think i'm stupid
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Now that is what I call a high current account surplus.
East Asia Econ
@eastasiaeconOct 15
IMF now forecasts Taiwan’s current account surplus will be 22-25% of GDP for the rest of the decade. Public debt is forecast to fall to 17% of GDP. Anywhere else, these would be reasons for capital inflows and currency appreciation.
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Erin Woo
@erinkwooOct 15
OPENAI to EMPLOYEES: If someone is trying to seduce you, first consider — could they be a spy??? OpenAI is warning its employees about honeypot spies and strangers with children in playgrounds ... a very fun one with @georgia_wells and @MeghanBobrowsky: wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-companies…

AI Companies Play Cat-and-Mouse With Secret-Stealing Spies

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Someone think of the children
Steve Hou
@stevehouOct 15
Well the one silver-lining from Anthropic/OpenAI not having great IPOs may be that it relieves the critical “mansion shortage” in SF.
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Yikes big PPI print
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$TSM TSMC CEO sees no AI demand slowdown and expects growth above its previous ~55% CAGR forecast. "all I can say right now is the demand is extremely robust. We did not see any sign of slowdown. Whether it is a high 50 CAGR, it does not matter. It probably will be higher."
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Jonathan Cheng
@JChengWSJOct 15
.@abrownepek: “I’m betting that the end of the Xi era will look a lot less like Deng’s, whose passing created hardly a ripple…and more like Mao’s, a drama that involved a bloodless coup…intervention by the People’s Liberation Army, and show trials.” semafor.com/article/10/13/20…

View: Xi’s ‘death watch’ will become a global spectacle

China’s internal risks are now the world’s risks.

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Bond yields seem to have calmed down a lot this afternoon. Nasdaq still getting slammed.
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Paul McCartney imitating the kind of songs that are hits these days
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