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Riots; inequality; espionage; electric cables; coinage; American leadership; food delivery; Trumpcoin; and introversion
Don’t chart now
Hello uptiers, trapdoors, dropdowns, and double dips
Jobs a bad ’un
How higher rates really can drive higher inflation
Ack-man of La Mancha
Blonde ambition
“Well-positioned businesses are pricing their IPOs above price talk and are trading well in the aftermarket”
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Let’s lyft drivers out of compensation darkness
Sorry!
Macro cuts
The Bank of England; libel; focus; the Cotswolds; table tennis; prime numbers; money; and New Towns
Bill Gross; Mario and Sonic; the capital markets union; China; LDI; cookies; CrowdStrike; and love songs
Russia; Olympic cost overruns; crypto; Los Angeles; walking; dinosaurs; and lobster
And changing its nature in the process
OpenAI; the almighty dollar; US Treasuries; austerity; introversion; SNES; and Hussites
Reverse reserve reservation reservations
That won’t stop Sri Lanka though
Butter luck next time
AI shenanigans; Revolut; t’interwebs; Great Salt Lake; m e n; US debt; insurance x private credit; and streaming x healthcare
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
SimCity; more AI; penny arcades; Marvel; banana ketchup
Compliance FTW
Keep calm and look at the components
Bigly moves
Managers; CrowdStrike; Roblox; shrooms; exorcism
Further adventures in fixed income T&C shenanigans
The search for a more optimal monetary policy
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?