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Enron's Jeff Skilling: out of jail and on the crypto trail

Skilling is sniffing out the blockchain bros, says the WSJ.

By: Jemima Kelly

Markets Live

Monday, 25th March 2019

Live markets commentary from FT.com

By: Bryce Elder

A failed ICO is trying to flog itself on eBay

  1. Crypto-shills
  2. Parliament gets it, crypto-currency bunkum edition
  3. The ICO whose team members are literally cartoon characters
  4. The London School of Cryptonomics
  5. Intel's disruption, and the problem with every token pitch
  6. Buy SEC tokens! Now!
  7. Crypto “hedge fund” update
  8. The CryptoMillionsLotto
  9. We ran away with your bitcoins!! LOL, JK
  10. About that Petro
  11. Michelle Mone brings a touch of the avant-garde to finance
  12. Conservative peer stakes her name on a crypto offering, just as the market crashes
  13. Crypto market put on notice — yet again
  14. ICO regulator anger translator
  15. Kodak makes last desperate bid for relevance with cryptocurrency
  16. Crypto cards just suffered a major setback
  17. Bank analyst very proud of his cryptocurrency mining rig
  18. Crypto startup wants to revive the non-dollar petrocurrency idea
  19. Crypto bust alert [siren]
  20. What ICO valuations tell us about the state of modern monopolies

“Seller does not accept returns”.

By: Jemima Kelly

Further reading

Money laundering; Enron; “Merch Madness;” and much more.

By: Colby Smith

US exceptionalism is not fading just yet

Despite the Fed's dovish tilt.

By: Colby Smith

Last week

Thoughts for the weekend

“The slanted font represents our ambition and forward momentum”

By: FT Alphaville

Alphachat on immigration: This time is (mostly) like the others

  1. Our Bond villain technocracy
  2. Is the eurozone fixable?
  3. Could climate change spark the next financial crisis?
  4. Mehrsa Baradaran on “opportunity zones”
  5. The math wizard who became a customer loyalty scheme guru
  6. Alphachat is back! Vol 2.
  7. Alphachat is back! Vol. 1
  8. Jim Millstein discusses the financialisation of America
  9. Alphachat is on hiatus this week
  10. Benn Steil explains the Marshall Plan
  11. Marcel Fratzscher on the dark side of the German economy — now with transcript!!
  12. Marcel Fratzscher explores the dark side of the German economy
  13. Emi Nakamura on calculating inflation
  14. Stephanie Kelton explains how the government budget affects the economy and the mechanics of student debt forgiveness
  15. Jonathan Knee explains 25 years of Wall Street’s evolution
  16. Marcus Noland explains the North Korean economy
  17. Brad Setser explains how corporate tax policy affects the balance of payments
  18. Michele Wucker explains “Gray Rhinos”
  19. Listen - The "gray rhino" theory
  20. James Heckman tells us why IQ is overrated

Leah Platt Boustan of Princeton and Maggie Peters of UCLA compare America's immigration waves

By: Brendan Greeley

More communism at Deutsche Bank

Putting a price on Brexit.

By: Thomas Hale

A new kind of mortgage lending

An Australian example.

By: Thomas Hale

Markets Live

Friday, 22nd March 2019

Live markets commentary from FT.com

By: Bryce Elder

Tesla's number one retail investor begins to doubt himself

  1. Tesla's war against whistleblower Martin Tripp
  2. The Tesla semi-truck is ready to reserve [UPDATED]
  3. Tesla: “Surprise! You may not be fired"
  4. German watchdog slaps down Tesla's pricing practices
  5. How much does Tesla have in the bank?
  6. Tesla: 'Surprise! You're fired!'
  7. Meanwhile, just past midnight on the West Coast...
  8. Stuff Elon says, SEC compliance edition
  9. Tesla's profitability: how every little helped [Update]
  10. Stuff Elon says, (inevitable) bitcoin edition
  11. If it has to be said out loud...(Tesla edition, part deux)
  12. Finally, a Tesla Model 3 for $35,000*
  13. Stuff Elon says
  14. All the better to share you with
  15. A message from the dear leader to the stakhanovites
  16. Tesla's Q3, the mea culpa
  17. Missing: Tesla's full self-driving option
  18. Tesla's full self driving: compare and contrast
  19. Meanwhile, at 1.22am on the West Coast....
  20. The SEC vs Elon Musk [Updated]

And then doesn't. Sort of.

By: Jamie Powell

Further reading

A scooter odyssey; Disney-Fox; the Pentagon's MMT; the Boring Company; and much more...

By: Jamie Powell

The fragility of our digital selves

Who will remember us when we're gone?

By: Jamie Powell

Safkhet Capital's defence of short selling

For your reading pleasure.

By: Jamie Powell

Markets Live

Thursday, 21st March 2019

Live markets commentary from FT.com

By: Bryce Elder

Behind the curtain at China Ding Yi Feng

  1. An answer to Mark Cuban's question
  2. Crumbs! It's CRYPTO: the movie!
  3. National Beverage Corp loses its fizz, and its mind
  4. Amazon won't spin-off Amazon Web Services
  5. Mensch! Dan McCrum is innocent, ok?
  6. Europe's $1 trillion tax gap
  7. Why online propaganda mobs are an investment red flag
  8. Davos has produced an amazing new guide on precisely how not to think about risk
  9. When the public relations industry does PR for itself
  10. Who wants to be crippled by student debt?
  11. The bitcoin price is wrong
  12. The warm fuzzy feeling of Goldman debt
  13. “Cryptoassets” are crashing again. Is it time to start calling them cryptoliabilities instead?
  14. Puff the tragic cryptowagon smokes out the Mumsnet demographic
  15. Don't write off the public sector
  16. Initiative Q: an elementary pyramid scheme with grandiose ideas [Update]
  17. Moral investments aren't outperforming
  18. No one is killing it in crypto (not even Woz)
  19. Too smooth: the red flag at Patisserie Valerie which was missed
  20. No, the housing crisis will not be solved by building more homes

The Hong Kong listed 58-bagger has an *interesting* website.

By: Jamie Powell

Further reading

Video games and politics; Buttigieg, pronounced “Buddha-jidge“; Trump's ”shock" auto-tariffs; neo-Nazis and bitcoin; and more.

By: Jemima Kelly

The rise of educational forgery

  1. For sale: one luxury Georgian townhouse
  2. Canada's educational exposure to China
  3. University graduates and the means of financial production
  4. A business model fit to educate royalty
  5. American education and the rise of philanthropic capital
  6. The financial plumbing of university education
  7. Bailing out the universities
  8. The temptations of student real estate
  9. The Egyptian campus that wasn't
  10. The real student politics
  11. Cambridge University’s £1bn bet on housing
  12. University accommodation deals: it's a wrap
  13. Saudi Arabia vs. Canada, the education angle
  14. When is a loss not a loss?
  15. Taking education into account
  16. On the genealogy of moral hazard
  17. Student flows with Chinese characteristics
  18. The great balance sheet shift of British universities
  19. Spare a thought for the music halls
  20. Universities and the allure of capital markets

Cuckoo essays.

By: Thomas Hale

The Russian wrestler on the run (with video!)

  1. The young men and the sea: the outtakes
  2. Alphaville gets FOOC'd
  3. Urban redevelopment, Potemkin façade edition
  4. Crypto-courting in Kaliningrad

How a former Olympian got caught up in the rush for Baltic gold in Kaliningrad.

By: Jemima Kelly

Amazon (sub)Prime?

How commingling has contaminated Amazon inventory and paved the way for a huge lemon problem.

By: Izabella Kaminska

Markets Live

Wednesday, 20th March 2019

Live markets commentary from FT.com

By: Bryce Elder

Today in TEEIFF

  1. The UK's used car write-off conundrum
  2. GMO's Montier on the rise of the dual economy
  3. Just because it's digital doesn't mean it's green
  4. Kylie Jenner is the world's youngest 'self-made billionaire'
  5. Deliveroo announces “click and collect”
  6. What does a spike in pedestrian fatalities mean?
  7. Why wordcrime has destroyed the economy
  8. The entire economy is Fyre Festival

Virtual assistant delights in your loss.

By: Jamie Powell

A bad situation in Venezuela is getting worse

And the solution hinges on regime change.

By: Colby Smith

Further reading

The internet; Saudi investment; oil and gas; essay mills; and more.

By: Thomas Hale

The UK's used car write-off conundrum

  1. Today in TEEIFF
  2. GMO's Montier on the rise of the dual economy
  3. Just because it's digital doesn't mean it's green
  4. Kylie Jenner is the world's youngest 'self-made billionaire'
  5. Deliveroo announces “click and collect”
  6. What does a spike in pedestrian fatalities mean?
  7. Why wordcrime has destroyed the economy
  8. The entire economy is Fyre Festival

In the TEEIFF, someone is always losing.

By: Jamie Powell

Markets Live

Tuesday, 19th March 2019

Live markets commentary from FT.com

By: Bryce Elder

Further reading

Boeing; Japan's statistics scandal; a history of Enron; the Amazon diaries; and much more...

By: Jamie Powell

Calpers goes all in on private equity

“We need more of it, and we need it now.”

By: Jamie Powell

An answer to Mark Cuban's question

  1. Behind the curtain at China Ding Yi Feng
  2. Crumbs! It's CRYPTO: the movie!
  3. National Beverage Corp loses its fizz, and its mind
  4. Amazon won't spin-off Amazon Web Services
  5. Mensch! Dan McCrum is innocent, ok?
  6. Europe's $1 trillion tax gap
  7. Why online propaganda mobs are an investment red flag
  8. Davos has produced an amazing new guide on precisely how not to think about risk
  9. When the public relations industry does PR for itself
  10. Who wants to be crippled by student debt?
  11. The bitcoin price is wrong
  12. The warm fuzzy feeling of Goldman debt
  13. “Cryptoassets” are crashing again. Is it time to start calling them cryptoliabilities instead?
  14. Puff the tragic cryptowagon smokes out the Mumsnet demographic
  15. Don't write off the public sector
  16. Initiative Q: an elementary pyramid scheme with grandiose ideas [Update]
  17. Moral investments aren't outperforming
  18. No one is killing it in crypto (not even Woz)
  19. Too smooth: the red flag at Patisserie Valerie which was missed
  20. No, the housing crisis will not be solved by building more homes

It's simple really.

By: Jamie Powell

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