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That won’t stop Sri Lanka though
Butter luck next time
No Go! No Go! Ackman
‘Activist Treasury issuance’ or simply going with the flow?
Chart angels
We’re publishing the Insolvency Service’s core allegations against the disgraced financier in full
AI shenanigans; Revolut; t’interwebs; Great Salt Lake; m e n; US debt; insurance x private credit; and streaming x healthcare
Compliance FTW
Keep calm and look at the components
Bigly moves
Further adventures in fixed income T&C shenanigans
The search for a more optimal monetary policy
SimCity; more AI; penny arcades; Marvel; banana ketchup
Managers; CrowdStrike; Roblox; shrooms; exorcism
Novels; dollars; breadth; Biden; cocaine sharks
Sacked ‘whistleblowers’ launch California court action against Europe’s biggest bitcoin-miner-turned-AI-datacentre-builder
Brat summer 🤝 finance bro summer
Don’t fear the repo
Do the best presents once again come in small packages?
Ingerland; chip wars, UBI; fishcake protests
Debt Will Tear Us Apart (Again)
OK maybe this one was too hard
JD Vance; Dr Copper; UK–EU trade; psychedelics; Starwood; credit markets; the Bernanke Review; and computers
charts that don’t matter
‘We have a big currency problem’
Chartstrike
SpongeBob; PhD poetry; movie memorabilia; IMF reform; dark money
‘Use it or lose it’
Vibesflation => actual inflation
Tech job woes; Southgate’s worst players; Lambda School; dangerous seas and Starmer envy
Tay Tay keeps Britain on target, maybe
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Parallel lines
Hillbilly elegy; polygraphs; The American right’s love for Russia
Are investors out of touch? No, it’s the children who are going wrong
Sparrow gender politics; rueful Ruffer; Zynpocalypse; Norwegian parenting
The board has failed to deliver — bring in the Special Administrators