If I understand correctly, indexing Social Security using the C-CPI-U or chained CPI as the cost-of-living escalator is a reform that would not be possible under the Big Beautiful Bill. This was part of the political platform of Niki Halley when she ran for the Republican nomination in 2024. This was an excellent recommendation. I was hoping that President Trump would adopt it when he became president. He was, after all, who introduced it as an escalator of the federal government when he did tax reform in his first term, making it the escalator for income tax brackets and other elements of the federal tax code. Really, it should be the default escalator for virtually everything now escalated by other consumer price series.

00:00:00 Polzn Bladz - Caller Response (Extended Mix)
00:04:34 Calvin O'Commor - Can We Go Back (Extended Mix)
00:10:03 Kwone - Adagio (Extended Mix)
00:12:36 Noah Seven - Make You Smile (Extended Mix)
00:15:16 Nitesonik - Invictus (Extended Mix)
00:19:09 Dankann - Chasing Rainbows (Harshil Kamdar Extended Remix feat. Sarah Jane Neild)
00:23:29 The Conductor & The Cowboy - Feeling This Way (Brent Rix Extended Remix)
00:29:32 Public Domain - Amsterdam (Metta & Glyde Remix)
00:34:49 Ryoji Takahashi - Memories In The Sand (Nhato Remix)
00:37:57 Deejay Tao - Solar Symphony
00:42:04 Sean Mathews - Outlander (Extended Mix)
00:48:28 Röyksopp - What Else Is There (Steve Dekay Bootleg Remix)
00:51:50 Armin van Buuren - Computers Take over the World (Extended Mix)

I Love Trance Vol.4 (Emotion Pure / mixed by ToshiMin@tor)

This is the latest in my series of podcasts explaining how economics works in the credit crunch and now virus pandemic era. This week I give my thoughts on Is there, in your view, a tipping point — a percentage at which a country can bo longer afford its debt costs? The gap between EU and UK base rates is now significant. Is it abnormally so, by historical standards? Is it warranted?Do you think ONS are correct saying only 0.1 difference on restated CPI after car tax error? Hi Shaun, re your article on the scale of the US fiscal problem, is the CBO saying that Trump's Big Beautiful Bill will add $2.4tn to the US deficit by 2034 on the one hand, and also that his tariff hikes will reduce budget deficits by $2.5 trillion over the decade through 2035? Given your many years of experience, I am curious as to what extent you believe bond markets respond to political discourse Vs economic data/indicators?

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“Tone Up the Message When the Spotlight Gets Too High”
by Tikkek

Tikkek’s “Tone Up the Message When the Spotlight Gets Too High” is a defiant, genre-warping anthem about being seen for everything but your truth. Drawing from funk, gospel, electronic and dub elements, the track explores what it means to fight for your message in a world that fixates on how you look, where you're from, and how well you fit the narrative.

At its heart, the song is a sharp response to the pressure many people face when their identity—racial, ethnic, cultural—becomes a spectacle, a “diversity point,” or a label long before their actual voice is heard. Tikkek, the musical alter ego of a Maltese-Australian producer and multi-instrumentalist, wrote this track as a reclamation of narrative and tone: not toning down to be palatable—but toning up to be undeniable.

“The higher the spotlight shines,” says Tikkek, “the more distorted things can get. You start to feel like an exhibit instead of a person. So I made this track about turning that energy into fuel. If they’re going to watch, I’ll give them something real to hear.”

Musically, it’s layered and unpredictable—moody synths, distorted horns, looped bass, and fragments of gospel harmony float above a shifting rhythm. Just when it settles, it mutates. Tikkek intentionally resists being pigeonholed. That’s the point.

Lyrically, the track delivers poetic punches:

“They see the headline, not the handwriting / The pigment, not the paragraph.”
The message is unmistakable: people are more than how they’re perceived. And when the world gets louder in its assumptions, the response is not to shrink—but to amplify the truth.

With its cheeky yet serious tone (and a title that flips the old “tone it down” cliché on its head), the song acts as both personal manifesto and universal invitation: say what you came to say, even when the room wants to talk over you.

Key Themes:

Navigating visibility vs. representation
Identity beyond performance
Reclaiming narrative from cultural stereotyping
Speaking louder when asked to be quieter

Quote from Tikkek:

“Someone once told me they loved how ‘multicultural’ my music sounded. Like I was a playlist, not a person. I made this track as a reminder—to them and to myself—that the story behind the sound matters more than the surface.”

For fans of:
Moby, Saul Williams, Massive Attack, Moses Sumney, Prince, FKA twigs

“Tone Up the Message When the Spotlight Gets Too High” is more than a track. It’s an act of sonic self-respect. A stand against being flattened into categories. A groove with something to say. Loudly.

Tone Up the Message When the Spotlight Gets Too High

Longnose in Space

00:00:00 - Andrea Maggino & Marco Santoro - Disco Down (Brokenears Mix)
00:04:14 - Marco Santoro - Respect (Extended Mix)
00:07:43 - Morning Elegance - Fuego
00:13:29 - Ministry Of Funk - Azuca (Trumpet Summer Mix)
00:17:59 - Hatiras - Waiting Endlessly
00:21:43 - Jay Vegas - Break Ya Down (Mark Knight Remix)
00:26:22 - David Penn - Losing You
00:29:50 - Cheesecake Boys - Right Here
00:32:50 - Block & Crown - No Doubt About It
00:35:35 - Angelo Ferreri - Oh Me !
00:39:27 - Popcorn Poppers - Switch
00:44:11 - Block & Crown - Get Ourselves 2Gether
00:46:43 - Ghostbusterz - Do It Salsa
00:49:57 - Nico Zandolino - Mentirosa (Extended Mix)
00:53:00 - Freemasons - Desperados

House Mix Vol.6 (Summer Beats 2025 / mixed by ToshiMin@tor)

Gęękers are speculating on his newest projects restlessly eager to hear and vibe to his euphoric and exciting ways.

lifęoftheparty(dęnshęgotmę)

Mildly Aggressive EDM Dance Song. House Beat, with good dance floor energy.

You Let Me Go

Summer Sound'z 🏝️ Part 6

club-style mix with a couple of breaks and builds, retrro analogue sounds and a wide, sweeping vocal 

no-one left to hold

Hardstyle remix of my older song. Yes, rocket, lift me away.

Lift Me Away

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