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Stocks don’t care about your crises — and we have the charts to prove it
Financial duck-rabbits
Idiotic return ratings
Chartistic
The founder of Redington talks inflation, children’s books, St James’s Place and natural capital
A quiz about charts
Ted’s excellent Fed plumbing adventure; Huawei watches; financial mediocrity; the nature of money; Tesla crashes
A sticky wicket
Peering inside one of the tech world’s strangest companies
Token gestures
RIP FAIT. We hardly knew ye
Complexity ain’t all that, wonks say
Monetising primacy; Nick Cage FTW; the real Salt Path; Stoicism; buyback execution issues
PE; stalkerware; biomedical research; peer review; European defence; Jota; TfL
Bonds; conversations; FT; Tampa pensions; crypto scams; financial repression; counting
Even the index providers are puzzled by the ambush
This will probably age badly
AI & GDPR; AI & expertise; AI & creativity; firewood; microphotography; bank branding; AI & chess
No tickets required
Last time he got what he needed instead
Asbestos; US dollar; nuclear fusion; forex; basal melt rates; trade strategy; risk sensitivity
An inconvenient truth
Shirt happens
It’s a family affair
Arini; tax; the art market; parenting; Powell; orchestras; AI bands; AI shopkeepers; British management; Staley and Epstein; London
How an Italian fugitive used diplomatic immunity to work with Dubai royalty and Liberia’s fallen hero
Sketches for My Sweet Chart the Drunk
The Numis co-founder and GOAT media analyst talks London markets, sell-side research, loyalty, local papers, and tennis
Stablecoins; Wisselbank; class war; catastrophe bonds; AI therapy; execution; McDonald's; and Eurovision
When the world’s dullest industry gets very exciting
Living in the past, it’s a new regulation
Autocallable ETF; AK-47; antitrust; Iranian concrete; Indy astroturfing; Hims; time; Julie Burchill; and Tracy Thorn
And are parallels to the era of Free Banking any good?
Ethena goes
A feature, not a bug
Stagflation; Aa+; debt mutualisation; rare earths; Substack; NYC; superfans; and the making of a janky canal boat game
Is $9.3bn a lot of money?