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May all chart-quaintance be forgot
Two is a trend
An 11th annual celebration of cancellation
We have questions
Why central banks are right to care about the green stuff
Guinness swap lines activated; Hawk Tuah; James Bond; entropy; Mr Beast Games
The latest three-letter acronym to excite and alarm people
This year’s alternative entertainment asset
RIP Chivo, we hardly knew ye
JPow leaves a lump of coal for the degens
Some charts showing all the taxes and all the tax reliefs
Christmas quiz; Amazon delusion; Bossman eternal; beer baron; s’mores box; etc
Trade war; geographic inequality; Timothée Chalamet; Luigi Mangione documentaries; etc
This seems bad?
Especially about interest rates
Nvidia; crime; Netflix; tariffs; etc
Playing the links
. . . and private-market bagholders only have themselves to blame
That’s all of you, obviously
Making sense of London’s latest blue-chip stock
Superflares; antitrust; Leech; martinis; MAHA; risotto; etc
Same shirt, different day
Does it matter though? Really?
Goldman trading loss; British Naval history; tax penalties; FIMBY; New Jersey mystery drones; etc
The fix is in
Charting is such sweet sorrow
Krugman; US exceptionalism; tech-bros; corporate finance 101; Russia; socials; designer babies; and Kanji
Not all bears hibernate
Active mutual funds are dying, and I’m telling you why
Well, an annotated transcript at least
Information ownership; DOGE; antitrust; private markets; reading comprehension; Huang; and bananas
Stock markets are not the economy, luxury edition
Turbulence ahoi
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Trespassing; debanking; stock market concentration; McDonald's; airports; and Nick Candy
How UBS learned to stop worrying and love the rally