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The Strategy strategy will keep working until it doesn't
Fertility; Huawei; Schrodinger’s cat; RIP Polygon: App Store
Myprotein, Glanbia, and a parting of the wheys
A legendary round goes into (temporary?!?) retirement
A few annual report lowlights from the former northern powerhouse
Once more unto the breach, says Barclays
Cognitive error
Opec’s last dance to keep inventory under control
CPI in the rear-view mirror
To be taken with a grain of salt
A tariff is a tax, but a tax is not a tariff
Perk it out
Number rabbit hole; phones in schools; ETFs; Margin Call; Martian magnetism
Gandalf; quote thieves; authoritarian brains; Monty Python and the Holy Grail; nuclear energy
Group chats; Silicon Valley; bullshit jobs; obituaries; Pope Francis; and yes, more Liverpool
Tee pain
Liverpool; more Liverpool; then a bit more Liverpool; and yes, even more Liverpool
No Más Málaga
Throw your hands up for Soulpower
Diagrammstein
Delisting dangers
Trade wars; the US exodus; exorbitant privilege; a metaverse startup; San Francisco; sex work; long 1990s; and gang tattoos
Guess whose Spac?
Passive flows rule everything around me
Tariffs; euro adoption; Palantir; Stem brain drain; tax avoidance; political culture; 4Chan; and Gàidhlig
Navigating a bancassurance accounting loophole
Corporate profits; trend quant investing; maga uniforms; disorder; tariffs; dreck; and Hitler
What you don’t publish can’t hurt you
Teed off
Donation nation
Contrarianism; trade wars; social media; lottery cornering; options trading; disease; and AI-enabled Henry Blodget
A battle; a protester; an estimator; a dream; a saint; a gambler; a samurai; and a Toby Carvery
Dissecting a dead-cat indicator
$JAAArgh
Dare Iz A Chartside
Are there foreign covered bonds in your buffer?
’Round our hometown / memories better be fresh