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Fund management

The delusion of private equity IRRs

The dumbest PE performance metric still bamboozles some investors

FTAV’s Friday charts quiz

The chart of seduction

The uncertainty of measuring trade uncertainty

Who cares what the papers say?

US Treasury bonds

The Japanese government bond market is in trouble

The return of the bond vigilantes . . . in Japan?

US financial regulation

SEC vs FRB: private credit edition

Joined up thinking

Vivek Ramaswamy’s barmy bitcoin army

Strive Asset Management + some Discord servers = “Berkshire Hathaway of Bitcoin”?

FTAV’s further reading

Optimal onion-slicing; NYC tycoons; perfect soy sauce; Trump Inc

Pharmaceuticals sector

A look inside the US regulatory loophole that might keep weight-loss jabs affordable

He who understands it, earns it. He who doesn’t, pays it

Bank of England

Is the Bank of England’s inflation survey really tricksy, or are we stupid, or is it both?

Shorting is hot again

Someone alert WallStreetBets

Bloomberg Terminal outage support thread

How then shall we live?

Investing in funds

Taiwan’s huge ETF industry is in an FX pickle

It’s not just a lifer issue

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