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Further adventures in bulge bracket rationalisation of number-go-up economics
What are the lessons of the Libor scandal?
Graphing Stock
Michael Saylor is building a pharaonic edifice of financial engineering. Does his latest fundraise give a clue to the endgame?
Because retail’s gonna retail
Whoever smelt it dealt it
Location sharing; Dubai; Kemi Badenoch; relative value; AI summaries; enshittification; and animals
When firing backfires
Contribute, capitulate, or get cancelled
The tech entrepreneur and (briefly) brain behind Reform UK’s ‘Doge’ project talks cyber security, OSINT and local councils
A podcast cross-promotion post
Token ’bout a revolution
License plates; black hole jumping; words; air con; tram trainers; La Guardia; and algos
But is anyone listening?
Tax evasion; think-tanks; knock-offs; wealth taxes; conversations; BYD; compression; UK x OpenAI; and war
Tesla diner; Once Upon A Time In Shaolin; early libraries; AI; the OBR; king things; and the Alan Turing Institute
Manchester; media; Bitcoin; sex; stagnation; ICE; communication; shorter working hours
Aviva Investors pull back the curtain
Jean-Paul Chartre
The renowned spotter of dodgy and overvalued stocks talks about cleaning up European markets and Clapham pavements
Yes. And no.
Teflon economies; offshore hideaways; bank M&A; bitcoin rot; Japan; and marriage
The cognitive dissonance of America’s pro-crypto policymaking
Are the kids really alright?
Bigly defamatory to emerging markets
Treasuries; yuan devaluation; sectioning; digital literacy; quitting; Macron; cycling; online aggregation; and AI ick
Thanks for all the money, Punks
War is peace, freedom is slavery, dilution is accretion
Deportation nation
One tape to rule them all
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
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Of the people, by the people, for the T-shirt