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Jean-Paul Chartre
The renowned spotter of dodgy and overvalued stocks talks about cleaning up European markets and Clapham pavements
Yes. And no.
The cognitive dissonance of America’s pro-crypto policymaking
Are the kids really alright?
Bigly defamatory to emerging markets
Teflon economies; offshore hideaways; bank M&A; bitcoin rot; Japan; and marriage
Thanks for all the money, Punks
A podcast cross-promotion post
War is peace, freedom is slavery, dilution is accretion
Deportation nation
One tape to rule them all
Treasuries; yuan devaluation; sectioning; digital literacy; quitting; Macron; cycling; online aggregation; and AI ick
Britain; Turkey; Andreessen; interest rates; OpenAI; upper middles; and football
The unintended consequences of protecting degens from algos
TACO; public private funds; the next China shock; the OBR; random selection; the FDA; and movie words
But is anyone listening?
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Lovely lovely data
Of the people, by the people, for the T-shirt
American VAT; immigration; coltan ore; insurance post GLP-1; Superman; 3I/ATLAS; bird flu; and bears
But only if they provide higher education services
Liberté, égalité, volatility
Chartisanship
Thomas Fugate; MechaHitler; Ackman; assisted suicide
‘Mr Agg’ on the birth of the world’s biggest and most influential bond market index
Isn’t there a word for that?
Holy Popplio; uneasy oligarchy; AI hallucinations; Norway vs homelessness; NYC Jonathan Swift
For whom the bell tolls
Will the FCA yield or show some backbone?
Dinosaur films; chemical castration; kidnaponomics; Schrodinger’s Tariffs
A new wager of the century?
Stocks don’t care about your crises — and we have the charts to prove it
Financial duck-rabbits
Ted’s excellent Fed plumbing adventure; Huawei watches; financial mediocrity; the nature of money; Tesla crashes
Chartistic
Idiotic return ratings