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Wembley, for a song

Wembley, for a song

A prized asset goes on sale

By: Jamie Powell

Untwist the Fed

Untwist the Fed

It's time for a more aggressive removal of accommodative monetary policy, says Richard Woolnough.

By: Guest Post

Markets Live

Thursday, 26th April, 2018

Live markets commentary from FT.com

By: Bryce Elder

Further reading

A billionaire against Trump; Japan's rent-a-family industry; nukes in the age of AI; communism, religion, and unhappiness; and more.

By: Jemima Kelly

The magic of adjustments: ebitla-dee-da

  1. FUD, inglorious FUD
  2. A complex analysis reaches same conclusion as simple one: hedge funds suck
  3. The jobs guarantee and human-capital “nationalisation”
  4. These hedge fund numbers can't be right
  5. The Vomiting Camel has escaped from Bitcoin zoo
  6. Lies, damn lies, and charticles
  7. The world doesn't need more Elon Musks
  8. No, Facebook should not become a nonprofit
  9. Sell all crypto and abandon all blockchain
  10. Immutable ledgers meet European data protection
  11. Amazon is not a bubble
  12. Japan's economic miracle
  13. Have you ever meta crypto joke you didn't like?
  14. Delaware should change its rules to let the light in
  15. Who needs the labels anyway?
  16. Baby Boomers want your family to finance a larger share of their retirement
  17. No, America would not benefit from authoritarian central planning
  18. No one needs to buy Tesla
  19. How to win a debate in the cult of meritocracy
  20. Steinhoff International and the case of Pepkor Global Sourcing
The magic of adjustments: ebitla-dee-da

There is nothing in the hat.

By: Jamie Powell

WeWork debt and summer camp

WeWork debt and summer camp

Because who needs sales and marketing anyway?

By: Alexandra Scaggs

Markets Live

Wednesday, 25th April, 2018

Live markets commentary from FT.com

By: Bryce Elder

Get in line, SoftBank

Get in line, SoftBank

WeWork taps the bond market, and the capital structure shifts

By: Jamie Powell

Further reading

China's tycoons; MMT in India; don't bet on Wynn; mirages; Mary Jane; and much more...

By: Jamie Powell

FUD, inglorious FUD

  1. The magic of adjustments: ebitla-dee-da
  2. A complex analysis reaches same conclusion as simple one: hedge funds suck
  3. The jobs guarantee and human-capital “nationalisation”
  4. These hedge fund numbers can't be right
  5. The Vomiting Camel has escaped from Bitcoin zoo
  6. Lies, damn lies, and charticles
  7. The world doesn't need more Elon Musks
  8. No, Facebook should not become a nonprofit
  9. Sell all crypto and abandon all blockchain
  10. Immutable ledgers meet European data protection
  11. Amazon is not a bubble
  12. Japan's economic miracle
  13. Have you ever meta crypto joke you didn't like?
  14. Delaware should change its rules to let the light in
  15. Who needs the labels anyway?
  16. Baby Boomers want your family to finance a larger share of their retirement
  17. No, America would not benefit from authoritarian central planning
  18. No one needs to buy Tesla
  19. How to win a debate in the cult of meritocracy
  20. Steinhoff International and the case of Pepkor Global Sourcing
FUD, inglorious FUD

IOTA, the $6bn Bosch-backed cryptocurrency with a thin skin.

By: Jemima Kelly

More on WeWork and its bond offering -- updated

More on WeWork and its bond offering -- updated

Featuring a fun new metric called “community-adjusted EBITDA”.

By: Alexandra Scaggs and Eric Platt

Markets Live

Tuesday, 24th April, 2018

Live markets commentary from FT.com

By: Bryce Elder

Further reading

Perpetual poshness in journalism; the magician of Manhattan; regret minimisation; Tesla credit-default swaps; and more.

By: Jemima Kelly

A complex analysis reaches same conclusion as simple one: hedge funds suck

  1. The magic of adjustments: ebitla-dee-da
  2. FUD, inglorious FUD
  3. The jobs guarantee and human-capital “nationalisation”
  4. These hedge fund numbers can't be right
  5. The Vomiting Camel has escaped from Bitcoin zoo
  6. Lies, damn lies, and charticles
  7. The world doesn't need more Elon Musks
  8. No, Facebook should not become a nonprofit
  9. Sell all crypto and abandon all blockchain
  10. Immutable ledgers meet European data protection
  11. Amazon is not a bubble
  12. Japan's economic miracle
  13. Have you ever meta crypto joke you didn't like?
  14. Delaware should change its rules to let the light in
  15. Who needs the labels anyway?
  16. Baby Boomers want your family to finance a larger share of their retirement
  17. No, America would not benefit from authoritarian central planning
  18. No one needs to buy Tesla
  19. How to win a debate in the cult of meritocracy
  20. Steinhoff International and the case of Pepkor Global Sourcing
A complex analysis reaches same conclusion as simple one: hedge funds suck

Benchmark-beating investment performance cannot be predicted, comprehensive study shows.

By: Dan McCrum

Is Google cheap?

Is Google cheap?

Untangling the Alphabet soup

By: Jamie Powell

Prothena goes splat [Update]

Woodford strikes again.

By: Dan McCrum

Markets Live

Monday, 23rd April, 2018

Live markets commentary from FT.com

By: Bryce Elder

The jobs guarantee and human-capital “nationalisation”

  1. The magic of adjustments: ebitla-dee-da
  2. FUD, inglorious FUD
  3. A complex analysis reaches same conclusion as simple one: hedge funds suck
  4. These hedge fund numbers can't be right
  5. The Vomiting Camel has escaped from Bitcoin zoo
  6. Lies, damn lies, and charticles
  7. The world doesn't need more Elon Musks
  8. No, Facebook should not become a nonprofit
  9. Sell all crypto and abandon all blockchain
  10. Immutable ledgers meet European data protection
  11. Amazon is not a bubble
  12. Japan's economic miracle
  13. Have you ever meta crypto joke you didn't like?
  14. Delaware should change its rules to let the light in
  15. Who needs the labels anyway?
  16. Baby Boomers want your family to finance a larger share of their retirement
  17. No, America would not benefit from authoritarian central planning
  18. No one needs to buy Tesla
  19. How to win a debate in the cult of meritocracy
  20. Steinhoff International and the case of Pepkor Global Sourcing
The jobs guarantee and human-capital "nationalisation"

“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”

By: Alexandra Scaggs

Further reading

Austrian econ; good bad theories; the case for heresy; urban transport; volatility; and much more...

By: Jamie Powell

Last week

Thoughts for the weekend

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  13. Thought for the weekend
  14. Thought for the weekend — end of year edition
  15. Thought for the weekend
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Thoughts for the weekend

“I make money moves”

By: FT Alphaville

NYSE: What's a girl got to be scared of?

NYSE: What's a girl got to be scared of?

In the age of #metoo, the Fearless Girl's relocation feels a bit like the type of office transfer women know all too well.

By: Jennifer Bissell-Linsk

March sadness

March sadness

How not to design an employee incentive scheme.

By: Sujeet Indap

Encore Geoffrey West on why some things stop growing and other things don’t

Alphachat

How systems grow is fascinating, but how they can die and the limits of innovation should also be sobering.

By: Izabella Kaminska

Markets Live

Friday, 20th April, 2018

Live markets commentary from FT.com

By: Bryce Elder

Elsewhere in unusual interest-rate moves...

Elsewhere in unusual interest-rate moves...

Repo rates have climbed above the Fed's designated policy band.

By: Alexandra Scaggs

Further Reading

Reading the fiduciary rule; Cash is a cure... but a bitter pill to swallow; Palantir knows everything; Global income distribution; and more

By: Dan McCrum

These hedge fund numbers can't be right

  1. The magic of adjustments: ebitla-dee-da
  2. FUD, inglorious FUD
  3. A complex analysis reaches same conclusion as simple one: hedge funds suck
  4. The jobs guarantee and human-capital “nationalisation”
  5. The Vomiting Camel has escaped from Bitcoin zoo
  6. Lies, damn lies, and charticles
  7. The world doesn't need more Elon Musks
  8. No, Facebook should not become a nonprofit
  9. Sell all crypto and abandon all blockchain
  10. Immutable ledgers meet European data protection
  11. Amazon is not a bubble
  12. Japan's economic miracle
  13. Have you ever meta crypto joke you didn't like?
  14. Delaware should change its rules to let the light in
  15. Who needs the labels anyway?
  16. Baby Boomers want your family to finance a larger share of their retirement
  17. No, America would not benefit from authoritarian central planning
  18. No one needs to buy Tesla
  19. How to win a debate in the cult of meritocracy
  20. Steinhoff International and the case of Pepkor Global Sourcing
These hedge fund numbers can't be right

Money's coming in, but not really growing in value.

By: Dan McCrum

Now NASDAQ gets in a tangle [Update]

Now NASDAQ gets in a tangle [Update]

The Longfin tale takes a further twist

By: Jamie Powell

We ran away with your bitcoins!! LOL, JK

  1. About that Petro
  2. Michelle Mone brings a touch of the avant-garde to finance
  3. Conservative peer stakes her name on a crypto offering, just as the market crashes
  4. Crypto market put on notice — yet again
  5. ICO regulator anger translator
  6. Kodak makes last desperate bid for relevance with cryptocurrency
  7. Crypto cards just suffered a major setback
  8. Bank analyst very proud of his cryptocurrency mining rig
  9. Crypto startup wants to revive the non-dollar petrocurrency idea
  10. Crypto bust alert [siren]
  11. What ICO valuations tell us about the state of modern monopolies
  12. The Hitchhiker’s Guide To Cryptocurrencies
  13. This is nuts. When’s the crypto crash?
  14. Do crypto enthusiasts fear credit?
  15. What is tokenisation really?
  16. Trouble in ICO paradise
  17. An update on Harry Redknapp’s favourite cryptocurrency
  18. Congratulations on your sudden interest in cryptocurrencies, Harry Redknapp
  19. Crypto-Apple dealer attempts to avoid US regulators — updated
  20. Lol a FoHFs ICO, srsly
We ran away with your bitcoins!! LOL, JK

But actually it's nothing to laugh about. ICOs are serious, guys.

By: Jemima Kelly

Deutsche Bank, HNA, and the GAR chase

Deutsche Bank, HNA, and the GAR chase

A gap emerges in the paper trail that links Germany's biggest bank to its largest shareholder.

By: Cynthia O'Murchu and Robert Smith

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