Nigel Farage is shilling gold and silver on the internetThis is our surprised face.We don’t want to call the top but . . . (Vision Fund edition)Guess who is launching a Spac?Nikola/Hindenburg: gravitational spinThe electric truck bubble stock du jour responds to the evil shorty.Is GMO’s Montier right on ‘absurd’ US stocks?Everywhere you look, tech is expensive. It’s just the US has a far higher exposure to the sector than other developed markets.‘Commerzbank has confirmed its top position in German equity research, sales and corporate access’Presented without comment.Once again Kodak pivots, and the share price explodesRemember KODAKCoin?More from this SeriesBlockchain: it really is a tough sellDesperate times call for selling premium reports via articles that tell people to “invest” in Tether.Sterling has not become an emerging market currencyAnd neither will it any time soon.Jeff Ubben/ESG: flip flop“Anyway the AUM flows, doesn’t really matter to me.”Is this the nuttiest risk factor of all time?The Hertz clown car continues to motor along.The tech start-up that wants to “validate” the female orgasmRelida reckons the main problem with women reaching climax is “a lack of evidence”. (They have an algorithm for that, naturally.)It’s a great time for conspiracy theories to thriveThis time, the Obama Foundation appeared to have accidentally let slip that the brutal killing of George Floyd was some kind of hoax.Let’s call Trump out, but let’s get our facts straight tooIt’s possible to do both, and it’s more powerful that way.Today, in efficient marketsIt Hertz.We can’t blame all the indirect health damage on the lockdownWith or without it, the collateral damage from the virus would have been severe.Weirdly, blockchain can’t help combat coronavirus We really didn’t think we’d have to spell this out, but if we must... Leading ‘UK’ start-ups want a handout tooDear Rishi, please help my LuxCo with the bills.China’s PMI print doesn’t mean muchLet’s not get too excited.Let’s flatten the coronavirus confusion curveChloroquine might not be very effective, but FT Alphaville is.NMC Health: presented without commentOne RNS you do not want to miss.When “commission-free trading” isn’t (really) freeCome on, take a punt! What's the worst that could happen?Michael Milken: financial innovatorA very brief history.Oh no, the death-techers are comingTech so disruptive it makes you want to kill yourself.Bitcoin’s “halvening” won’t boost its price And the word shouldn’t be halvening (nor even halving, though that would be preferable). It should be tapering. CEO of JPM, recipient of $bns in state aid, bashes socialismJamie Dimon: “Capitalism is the greatest thing that ever happened to mankind.”Trump just made a joke about negative ratesConfuses business interests with US economy. The Witcher is not a freelancer“Toss a coin to your Witcher, preferably at a rate consummate with local minimum wage laws.”The ITV M&A fantasyWhat’s the definition of insanity again?Blockchain, all over your faceHow good does the distributed dream-ledger taste? Baillie Gifford: pot kettle blackApparently price discovery is bad, unless you’re investing in companies that facilitate it.Is Facebook’s status as the bête noire of political advertising justified?Twitter’s and Google’s limiting of political advertising doesn’t make them inherently morally superior.The Eurosystem might have a fatal flaw. But it’s not thisAccording to Willem Buiter, the central banks of the eurozone member states could go bust. We think he overstates the risk.Venture capital for the ‘forgotten’If by forgotten, you mean affluent urban areas.The troublesome Trump inside trading claimWhen the rabbit hole doesn’t have a bottom.The US economy is not recession-proofOld risks might have diminished, but the crash has brought new ones with it. Hedge fund bro gonna hedge fund broMike Platt has loadsa money, and wants everyone to know.What do women want? Some crypto flavoured mansplaining, apparently.“There would be more women investing in bitcoin if they had more educational materials to help them, a new report found.”The Fed’s wishful thinking on inflationThey, like others, are still sticking to their targets like glue. Dalio and Diddy: when genius collidesIf billionaire drops wisdom in a gated mansion, does it make a sound?State-backed crypto is a contradictionDeutsche’s fuzzy concept of cryptocurrency leads to silly prediction.Rejoice! Venture capital wants to pay for your holidayJust when you thought real-estate couldn’t get anymore financialised. Are electric vehicles more damaging than diesel? Switching to EVs is no cure all, but it’s better than standing still. The £3bn hole in the Tory manifestoLet’s promise a gigafactory, because why not?ArtGo loses its marblesA Hong Kong bubble, and the question of twilight trading.Are banks really magic money trees?No.Will Lagarde’s sneaky tweet change much? Picture paints a thousand words, but EU will struggle to add more women to ECB’s policymaking council. Can we all calm down about Apple Card’s “gender bias”That includes you, Elizabeth Warren. UBS’ billionaire boondoggle Its wealth management arm mangles the data.When fast fashion jumps on the eco-wagonCompanies like H&M don’t need to invest in “sustainable” start-ups. They need to stop selling cheap, throwaway clothes. GenX will set central banks’ climate responseThe climate change debate pits the young against the old, but those in the middle must solve it.The stablecoin anathema Pegging is naturally centralised.Masters of the universe, don’t be scared of Elizabeth WarrenWhat history tells us about the Dems’ stock market performance.Missing: the GE short reportAnd like that, it’s gone.The average lifespan of a fiat currency isn’t 27 yearsIf that seems obvious to you, you are clearly not a bitcoiner. Lord King: Brexit is no big dealMerv loses his nerve.No inflation? Tell that to my landlord Monetary policymakers need to spell out why they don’t pay more attention to asset prices, such as housing. Today, in fintech marketingYouGov’s “blockchain-based” sell-your-own data platform makes no sense (*update) Presented without commentBlock.one headedRide-sharing apps can’t save the planet (obv)But they can come up with excellent green-flavoured marketing strategies. The WeWork bull caseWell, sort of.WeWrite-downAsset liability mismatch experiment struggles to get out the gate.No deal Brexit is not a hedge fund conspiracyNot this again.Europe’s digital infrastructure issueSometimes, monopolies are good.Let’s give a helping hand to Andrew YangDid we hear you say blockchain, sir? FT Alphaville is here to assist you with your media coverage.Anatomy of a malware scamHow we lost and then recovered approximately £27 through our Vodafone contract.ARK Invest’s Tesla model gathers dustLast updated May 30.A delirious defence of Uber“Investors who dumped Uber stock last week are idiots.”WeLiquid: Adam Neumann pockets $700mWe did not see this coming.Yesterday, in efficient marketsA case of mistaken identity.The warm fuzzy feeling of indirectly owning TencentHow to invest in China, but not invest in China.The best of Morgan Stanley's Adam JonasA paean to the Tesla bull turning bearish.Apple/Tesla: M&A and heartbreakWoe betide he, who forgets EV.Did Beyonce make $300m from Uber's IPO?Probably not.Bitcoin is the 10-year Treasury of our timeWhere US-China trade tensions go, bitcoin will follow. (Up.) High resolution music is a solution looking for a problemAudiophile trigger warning.Amazon is furious about this negative reviewReputation is an idle and most false imposition, oft got without merit and lost without deserving. Missing: $500bn of American savingsThe greatest trick the Devil ever pulled, was convincing the world that interest income might have existed.Blockchain for Brexit: a wonderfully terrible idea But also an opportunity to show how nonsensical the technology is.The Bank of Hodlers [sic] (sigh)And the myth of decentralisation.Behind the curtain at China Ding Yi FengThe Hong Kong listed 58-bagger has an *interesting* website.An answer to Mark Cuban's questionIt's simple really.Crumbs! It's CRYPTO: the movie!“FEAR. IS THE ULTIMATE. CURRENCY.” National Beverage Corp loses its fizz, and its mind'Negligence nor mismanagement nor woeful acts of God were not the reasons – much of this was the result of injustice!'Amazon won't spin-off Amazon Web ServicesSorry Scott Galloway, but it takes two to do the $1tn tango.Mensch! Dan McCrum is innocent, ok?The market in Wirecard was not manipulated.Europe's $1 trillion tax gapWe've got to be talking about tax evasion, tax evasion, tax evasion. Why online propaganda mobs are an investment red flag If an enterprise needs an army of online thought police to protect it, it's definitely not an investment worth making.Davos has produced an amazing new guide on precisely how not to think about riskWhen the public relations industry does PR for itselfWho wants to be crippled by student debt?The bitcoin price is wrongThe warm fuzzy feeling of Goldman debt“Cryptoassets” are crashing again. Is it time to start calling them cryptoliabilities instead? Puff the tragic cryptowagon smokes out the Mumsnet demographicDon't write off the public sectorInitiative Q: an elementary pyramid scheme with grandiose ideas [Update]Moral investments aren't outperformingNo one is killing it in crypto (not even Woz)Too smooth: the red flag at Patisserie Valerie which was missedNo, the housing crisis will not be solved by building more homesSorry Civil, 'crypto-economics' and 'constitutions' won't save journalism 'Short-termism' isn't a thing, say Fed economistsCoinbase wants to be “too big to fail”, lolRegulation and innovation don't have to be enemiesRetailers get so lonely around the holidaysFolli Follie: $1bn of fake sales, and what to learn from the debacleThe new green evangelismTilray, how low can it go?The ICO behind the tragic Everest stunt is now “airdropping” tokens from rocketsBeware the Hindenburg Omen?The broken conversation about financial regulationThe improbably profitable, loss-making Blue PrismThe EM rout is not made in AmericaWages and growth and honestly we just give upBritain's first blockchain-enabled co-working space isn't blockchain-enabledThere is a FIRE that never goes outThe WeWork Garden of EdenIQE: lumpy 'Apple' sauce at the pricey Cardiff chip shop
Nigel Farage is shilling gold and silver on the internetThis is our surprised face.We don’t want to call the top but . . . (Vision Fund edition)Guess who is launching a Spac?Nikola/Hindenburg: gravitational spinThe electric truck bubble stock du jour responds to the evil shorty.Is GMO’s Montier right on ‘absurd’ US stocks?Everywhere you look, tech is expensive. It’s just the US has a far higher exposure to the sector than other developed markets.‘Commerzbank has confirmed its top position in German equity research, sales and corporate access’Presented without comment.Once again Kodak pivots, and the share price explodesRemember KODAKCoin?More from this SeriesBlockchain: it really is a tough sellDesperate times call for selling premium reports via articles that tell people to “invest” in Tether.Sterling has not become an emerging market currencyAnd neither will it any time soon.Jeff Ubben/ESG: flip flop“Anyway the AUM flows, doesn’t really matter to me.”Is this the nuttiest risk factor of all time?The Hertz clown car continues to motor along.The tech start-up that wants to “validate” the female orgasmRelida reckons the main problem with women reaching climax is “a lack of evidence”. (They have an algorithm for that, naturally.)It’s a great time for conspiracy theories to thriveThis time, the Obama Foundation appeared to have accidentally let slip that the brutal killing of George Floyd was some kind of hoax.Let’s call Trump out, but let’s get our facts straight tooIt’s possible to do both, and it’s more powerful that way.Today, in efficient marketsIt Hertz.We can’t blame all the indirect health damage on the lockdownWith or without it, the collateral damage from the virus would have been severe.Weirdly, blockchain can’t help combat coronavirus We really didn’t think we’d have to spell this out, but if we must... Leading ‘UK’ start-ups want a handout tooDear Rishi, please help my LuxCo with the bills.China’s PMI print doesn’t mean muchLet’s not get too excited.Let’s flatten the coronavirus confusion curveChloroquine might not be very effective, but FT Alphaville is.NMC Health: presented without commentOne RNS you do not want to miss.When “commission-free trading” isn’t (really) freeCome on, take a punt! What's the worst that could happen?Michael Milken: financial innovatorA very brief history.Oh no, the death-techers are comingTech so disruptive it makes you want to kill yourself.Bitcoin’s “halvening” won’t boost its price And the word shouldn’t be halvening (nor even halving, though that would be preferable). It should be tapering. CEO of JPM, recipient of $bns in state aid, bashes socialismJamie Dimon: “Capitalism is the greatest thing that ever happened to mankind.”Trump just made a joke about negative ratesConfuses business interests with US economy. The Witcher is not a freelancer“Toss a coin to your Witcher, preferably at a rate consummate with local minimum wage laws.”The ITV M&A fantasyWhat’s the definition of insanity again?Blockchain, all over your faceHow good does the distributed dream-ledger taste? Baillie Gifford: pot kettle blackApparently price discovery is bad, unless you’re investing in companies that facilitate it.Is Facebook’s status as the bête noire of political advertising justified?Twitter’s and Google’s limiting of political advertising doesn’t make them inherently morally superior.The Eurosystem might have a fatal flaw. But it’s not thisAccording to Willem Buiter, the central banks of the eurozone member states could go bust. We think he overstates the risk.Venture capital for the ‘forgotten’If by forgotten, you mean affluent urban areas.The troublesome Trump inside trading claimWhen the rabbit hole doesn’t have a bottom.The US economy is not recession-proofOld risks might have diminished, but the crash has brought new ones with it. Hedge fund bro gonna hedge fund broMike Platt has loadsa money, and wants everyone to know.What do women want? Some crypto flavoured mansplaining, apparently.“There would be more women investing in bitcoin if they had more educational materials to help them, a new report found.”The Fed’s wishful thinking on inflationThey, like others, are still sticking to their targets like glue. Dalio and Diddy: when genius collidesIf billionaire drops wisdom in a gated mansion, does it make a sound?State-backed crypto is a contradictionDeutsche’s fuzzy concept of cryptocurrency leads to silly prediction.Rejoice! Venture capital wants to pay for your holidayJust when you thought real-estate couldn’t get anymore financialised. Are electric vehicles more damaging than diesel? Switching to EVs is no cure all, but it’s better than standing still. The £3bn hole in the Tory manifestoLet’s promise a gigafactory, because why not?ArtGo loses its marblesA Hong Kong bubble, and the question of twilight trading.Are banks really magic money trees?No.Will Lagarde’s sneaky tweet change much? Picture paints a thousand words, but EU will struggle to add more women to ECB’s policymaking council. Can we all calm down about Apple Card’s “gender bias”That includes you, Elizabeth Warren. UBS’ billionaire boondoggle Its wealth management arm mangles the data.When fast fashion jumps on the eco-wagonCompanies like H&M don’t need to invest in “sustainable” start-ups. They need to stop selling cheap, throwaway clothes. GenX will set central banks’ climate responseThe climate change debate pits the young against the old, but those in the middle must solve it.The stablecoin anathema Pegging is naturally centralised.Masters of the universe, don’t be scared of Elizabeth WarrenWhat history tells us about the Dems’ stock market performance.Missing: the GE short reportAnd like that, it’s gone.The average lifespan of a fiat currency isn’t 27 yearsIf that seems obvious to you, you are clearly not a bitcoiner. Lord King: Brexit is no big dealMerv loses his nerve.No inflation? Tell that to my landlord Monetary policymakers need to spell out why they don’t pay more attention to asset prices, such as housing. Today, in fintech marketingYouGov’s “blockchain-based” sell-your-own data platform makes no sense (*update) Presented without commentBlock.one headedRide-sharing apps can’t save the planet (obv)But they can come up with excellent green-flavoured marketing strategies. The WeWork bull caseWell, sort of.WeWrite-downAsset liability mismatch experiment struggles to get out the gate.No deal Brexit is not a hedge fund conspiracyNot this again.Europe’s digital infrastructure issueSometimes, monopolies are good.Let’s give a helping hand to Andrew YangDid we hear you say blockchain, sir? FT Alphaville is here to assist you with your media coverage.Anatomy of a malware scamHow we lost and then recovered approximately £27 through our Vodafone contract.ARK Invest’s Tesla model gathers dustLast updated May 30.A delirious defence of Uber“Investors who dumped Uber stock last week are idiots.”WeLiquid: Adam Neumann pockets $700mWe did not see this coming.Yesterday, in efficient marketsA case of mistaken identity.The warm fuzzy feeling of indirectly owning TencentHow to invest in China, but not invest in China.The best of Morgan Stanley's Adam JonasA paean to the Tesla bull turning bearish.Apple/Tesla: M&A and heartbreakWoe betide he, who forgets EV.Did Beyonce make $300m from Uber's IPO?Probably not.Bitcoin is the 10-year Treasury of our timeWhere US-China trade tensions go, bitcoin will follow. (Up.) High resolution music is a solution looking for a problemAudiophile trigger warning.Amazon is furious about this negative reviewReputation is an idle and most false imposition, oft got without merit and lost without deserving. Missing: $500bn of American savingsThe greatest trick the Devil ever pulled, was convincing the world that interest income might have existed.Blockchain for Brexit: a wonderfully terrible idea But also an opportunity to show how nonsensical the technology is.The Bank of Hodlers [sic] (sigh)And the myth of decentralisation.Behind the curtain at China Ding Yi FengThe Hong Kong listed 58-bagger has an *interesting* website.An answer to Mark Cuban's questionIt's simple really.Crumbs! It's CRYPTO: the movie!“FEAR. IS THE ULTIMATE. CURRENCY.” National Beverage Corp loses its fizz, and its mind'Negligence nor mismanagement nor woeful acts of God were not the reasons – much of this was the result of injustice!'Amazon won't spin-off Amazon Web ServicesSorry Scott Galloway, but it takes two to do the $1tn tango.Mensch! Dan McCrum is innocent, ok?The market in Wirecard was not manipulated.Europe's $1 trillion tax gapWe've got to be talking about tax evasion, tax evasion, tax evasion. Why online propaganda mobs are an investment red flag If an enterprise needs an army of online thought police to protect it, it's definitely not an investment worth making.Davos has produced an amazing new guide on precisely how not to think about riskWhen the public relations industry does PR for itselfWho wants to be crippled by student debt?The bitcoin price is wrongThe warm fuzzy feeling of Goldman debt“Cryptoassets” are crashing again. Is it time to start calling them cryptoliabilities instead? Puff the tragic cryptowagon smokes out the Mumsnet demographicDon't write off the public sectorInitiative Q: an elementary pyramid scheme with grandiose ideas [Update]Moral investments aren't outperformingNo one is killing it in crypto (not even Woz)Too smooth: the red flag at Patisserie Valerie which was missedNo, the housing crisis will not be solved by building more homesSorry Civil, 'crypto-economics' and 'constitutions' won't save journalism 'Short-termism' isn't a thing, say Fed economistsCoinbase wants to be “too big to fail”, lolRegulation and innovation don't have to be enemiesRetailers get so lonely around the holidaysFolli Follie: $1bn of fake sales, and what to learn from the debacleThe new green evangelismTilray, how low can it go?The ICO behind the tragic Everest stunt is now “airdropping” tokens from rocketsBeware the Hindenburg Omen?The broken conversation about financial regulationThe improbably profitable, loss-making Blue PrismThe EM rout is not made in AmericaWages and growth and honestly we just give upBritain's first blockchain-enabled co-working space isn't blockchain-enabledThere is a FIRE that never goes outThe WeWork Garden of EdenIQE: lumpy 'Apple' sauce at the pricey Cardiff chip shop