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Wrist rollers and Rolex flippers, your time is up
Everybody say, when you hear the [sellside] call / You got to get it [investment] underway
Would an official sector creditor by any other name be treated as sweetly?
Tron (crypto, not movies) gives itself a soundtrack
Does size matter any more? FT Alphaville examines the ‘death of small-caps’ narrative
Amazon; homes vs golf; lots of AI; screen as escape; Britain’s richest man; ‘The Magician’; etc
Pedal to the metal, balls to the wall, margins to the floor
Even the IMF underestimates the industry’s heft, according to JPMorgan
Altice brings debt-contract gamesmanship to Europe
The PM who knew too much goes a bridge too far
As mining rewards fall, transaction fees must rise
Undersea cables; Dubai; lawyers; Bluey; manufacturing; Hollywood; mouse bridges; etc
Knock on Wood
Notes on performative default and Chekhov’s water pistol
Banks; Argentina; more banks; brainwashing; viruses; Space Ghost; etc
An ‘inflection point’ approaches, says Barclays, and not the good kind
We’re Miffed Too
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Zero-problem options?
Private debt; Iran; IMF meetings; ‘Amicus Thief’; Hudson Yards; ‘woke’ Scrabble; etc
Once upon a time, I was falling in love. But now I’m only falling apart. There’s nothing I can do. A total eclipse of the chart
Breaking down Sotheby’s foray into art-backed securities
For now at least
Introducing a UK market mixed motoring metaphor metric
A spoonful of courage needed to help the medicine go down
Tech crime; podcasting in Norway; open kimonos; robotaxis; AI gadgets; macro; wooly mammoths; Shein; and LAN parties
(We’re talking about US rate cuts, not revolution)
One tiny, lightly regulated African nation plays an oversized role in global token trade
California family learns about private-equity hardball while selling supermarket chain
European productivity; Brexit; American trade wars; URL spoofing; Greg Coffey; childbirth; and bad therapy
Reflation Britannia
Lagardians of the galaxy
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Monetary transmission and millennial trolling from the IMF
Albert Hirschman; Thames Water; CB balance sheets; marginal returns of learning; social media; dental cavities; and dreck
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