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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?
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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