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Mr Blockhead wants to school us all on blockchain

Keep your kids away from their screens, folks; it’s dangerously disruptive out there. 

By: Jemima Kelly

Further reading 

A Mormon fund; an AirBnB scam; the intelligence coup of the century; and more.

By: Jemima Kelly

CryptoMom wants to give the crypto kids a break

  1. Blockchain goes extra-terrestrial 
  2. The Woz and the crypto wonga
  3. The crypto Buffett lunch has been postponed. Lucky Warren Buffett.
  4. A $100m ICO being sued by the SEC wants more of your money
  5. A crypto Buffett lunch is on the cards. Poor Warren Buffett.
  6. LGC-Coin fights back against the Financial Times
  7. Introducing the “exit coin” for the luxury sector
  8. A failed ICO is trying to flog itself on eBay
  9. Crypto-shills
  10. Parliament gets it, crypto-currency bunkum edition
  11. The ICO whose team members are literally cartoon characters
  12. The London School of Cryptonomics
  13. Intel's disruption, and the problem with every token pitch
  14. Buy SEC tokens! Now!
  15. Crypto “hedge fund” update
  16. The CryptoMillionsLotto
  17. We ran away with your bitcoins!! LOL, JK
  18. About that Petro
  19. Michelle Mone brings a touch of the avant-garde to finance
  20. Conservative peer stakes her name on a crypto offering, just as the market crashes
Hester Peirce 

Because what they really need, after all, is a token “safe harbour period”.

By: Jemima Kelly

Further reading

Wind turbines; Labour and the working class; the London Fish Exchange; Epstein’s mystery bank; and more.

By: Jemima Kelly

Oh no, the death-techers are coming

  1. China’s PMI print doesn’t mean much
  2. Let’s flatten the coronavirus confusion curve
  3. NMC Health: presented without comment
  4. When “commission-free trading” isn’t (really) free
  5. Michael Milken: financial innovator
  6. Bitcoin’s “halvening” won’t boost its price 
  7. CEO of JPM, recipient of $bns in state aid, bashes socialism
  8. Trump just made a joke about negative rates
  9. The Witcher is not a freelancer
  10. The ITV M&A fantasy
  11. Blockchain, all over your face
  12. Baillie Gifford: pot kettle black
  13. Is Facebook’s status as the bête noire of political advertising justified?
  14. The Eurosystem might have a fatal flaw. But it’s not this
  15. Venture capital for the ‘forgotten’
  16. The troublesome Trump inside trading claim
  17. The US economy is not recession-proof
  18. Hedge fund bro gonna hedge fund bro
  19. What do women want? Some crypto flavoured mansplaining, apparently.
  20. The Fed’s wishful thinking on inflation

Tech so disruptive it makes you want to kill yourself.

By: Jemima Kelly

Further reading

Ray Dalio vs journalism; the saga of Santander; Google Maps hacks; impeachments; and more.

By: Jemima Kelly

The entire economy is Fyre Festival, crypto edition

  1. When rent-seeking gets shameless
  2. Spotted in NYC: a very bad Twitter ad
  3. Turns out WeWork’s future is bright
  4. When risky zero-sum behaviours prop-up growth
  5. Will artificial intelligence destroy poker?
  6. Marketing in the Fyre Festival economy
  7. Uber becomes modern art
  8. Enron’s Glassdoor page
  9. Vaudeville, in pictures
  10. TEEIFF: confirmed by third parties
  11. The security and prosperity paradox, shoplifting edition
  12. Vaudeville, now with real celebrities
  13. How a guy called Colin Platt became the richest person in the world
  14. Why security tokens are categorically and absolutely not crypto tokens
  15. Today in TEEIFF
  16. The UK's used car write-off conundrum
  17. GMO's Montier on the rise of the dual economy
  18. Just because it's digital doesn't mean it's green
  19. Kylie Jenner is the world's youngest 'self-made billionaire'
  20. Deliveroo announces “click and collect”

Scammers gon’ scam. 

By: Jemima Kelly

Bitcoin’s “halvening” won’t boost its price 

  1. China’s PMI print doesn’t mean much
  2. Let’s flatten the coronavirus confusion curve
  3. NMC Health: presented without comment
  4. When “commission-free trading” isn’t (really) free
  5. Michael Milken: financial innovator
  6. Oh no, the death-techers are coming
  7. CEO of JPM, recipient of $bns in state aid, bashes socialism
  8. Trump just made a joke about negative rates
  9. The Witcher is not a freelancer
  10. The ITV M&A fantasy
  11. Blockchain, all over your face
  12. Baillie Gifford: pot kettle black
  13. Is Facebook’s status as the bête noire of political advertising justified?
  14. The Eurosystem might have a fatal flaw. But it’s not this
  15. Venture capital for the ‘forgotten’
  16. The troublesome Trump inside trading claim
  17. The US economy is not recession-proof
  18. Hedge fund bro gonna hedge fund bro
  19. What do women want? Some crypto flavoured mansplaining, apparently.
  20. The Fed’s wishful thinking on inflation

And the word shouldn’t be halvening (nor even halving, though that would be preferable). It should be tapering. 

By: Jemima Kelly

Tesla and the number 500,000, again

  1. Elon Musk promised ventilators. These are BPAP machines.
  2. Elon doesn’t get it 
  3. Tesla’s quarter-end push has a pandemic problem
  4. Elon Musk’s SolarCity suit deposition: the highlights
  5. Tesla’s sufficient management
  6. Tesla and the question of change
  7. Mamma Mia...
  8. The question of Tesla’s cash to be collected
  9. Elon versus the evil shorties
  10. Mad Man breaks window
  11. Tesla’s mysterious income
  12. Tesla/ Germany: 'glorious success' or Schnapsidee?
  13. Tesla: Rorschach test
  14. Tesla’s Q3: what really matters
  15. Tesla, meet wall
  16. The great Tesla solar roof distraction
  17. Volkswagen/Tesla: errr
  18. Walmart sues Tesla over dodgy solar service
  19. Tesla’s fake buyout, one year on
  20. Tesla’s second quarter, charted

The Lord Elon, he loves that half-million. 

By: Jemima Kelly

Further reading

WeWork kills the keg; comedy for machines; robots and the poor; dramatic action; and more. 

By: Jemima Kelly

Baroness Mone is now flogging business retreats for £15,000

But what happened to all the blockchain adventures? 

By: Jemima Kelly

Further reading

Private credit; trapped in Iran; poor Americans; growth; and more.

By: Jemima Kelly

Technical analysis, blockchain litigation edition

  1. A diseased pie disaster
  2. Future’s flubbed pie chart
  3. Goldman’s missing Y axis
  4. Unpicking the UBS lock
  5. ARK Invest’s enthusiastic EV predictions don’t add up
  6. This “Event Risk Radar” is a bad idea
  7. Political commentators and market wizards
  8. Tesla is worth <checks notes> $10, $250 or $500
  9. A fall in house prices would not devastate Germany’s economy
  10. When technical analysis goes rogue
  11. How not to understand money 
  12. 359% pie = 100% trigger
  13. Bitcoin: beyond da moon
  14. High treason against pie charts
  15. The bitcoin price can finally be understood
  16. Et tu, Lib Dems? [Update]
  17. Deutsche Bank derivative dumbness
  18. Presented without comment
  19. The quality of chart needed to raise $2m in an ICO
  20. The fall and rise of nations

“Following the 2018 enforcement wave, blockchain litigation returned to its previous upward trajectory in 2019.”

By: Jemima Kelly

Blockchain, all over your face

  1. China’s PMI print doesn’t mean much
  2. Let’s flatten the coronavirus confusion curve
  3. NMC Health: presented without comment
  4. When “commission-free trading” isn’t (really) free
  5. Michael Milken: financial innovator
  6. Oh no, the death-techers are coming
  7. Bitcoin’s “halvening” won’t boost its price 
  8. CEO of JPM, recipient of $bns in state aid, bashes socialism
  9. Trump just made a joke about negative rates
  10. The Witcher is not a freelancer
  11. The ITV M&A fantasy
  12. Baillie Gifford: pot kettle black
  13. Is Facebook’s status as the bête noire of political advertising justified?
  14. The Eurosystem might have a fatal flaw. But it’s not this
  15. Venture capital for the ‘forgotten’
  16. The troublesome Trump inside trading claim
  17. The US economy is not recession-proof
  18. Hedge fund bro gonna hedge fund bro
  19. What do women want? Some crypto flavoured mansplaining, apparently.
  20. The Fed’s wishful thinking on inflation

How good does the distributed dream-ledger taste? 

By: Jemima Kelly

Further reading 

Roberto, a soup; nomic-nomics; a warning from Yamaha; America’s favourite poison; and more.

By: Jemima Kelly

Is Facebook’s status as the bête noire of political advertising justified?

  1. China’s PMI print doesn’t mean much
  2. Let’s flatten the coronavirus confusion curve
  3. NMC Health: presented without comment
  4. When “commission-free trading” isn’t (really) free
  5. Michael Milken: financial innovator
  6. Oh no, the death-techers are coming
  7. Bitcoin’s “halvening” won’t boost its price 
  8. CEO of JPM, recipient of $bns in state aid, bashes socialism
  9. Trump just made a joke about negative rates
  10. The Witcher is not a freelancer
  11. The ITV M&A fantasy
  12. Blockchain, all over your face
  13. Baillie Gifford: pot kettle black
  14. The Eurosystem might have a fatal flaw. But it’s not this
  15. Venture capital for the ‘forgotten’
  16. The troublesome Trump inside trading claim
  17. The US economy is not recession-proof
  18. Hedge fund bro gonna hedge fund bro
  19. What do women want? Some crypto flavoured mansplaining, apparently.
  20. The Fed’s wishful thinking on inflation

Twitter’s and Google’s limiting of political advertising doesn’t make them inherently morally superior.

By: Jemima Kelly

Further reading 

Propaganda; sleep; conviction; Cummings; and more. 

By: Jemima Kelly

Fintech users just can’t get enough of traditional banks

New data show challenger banks aren’t managing to convince customers to ditch their old high-street accounts. 

By: Jemima Kelly

Will the lights go out on Sark this Christmas?

  1. The island of Sark goes into lockdown
  2. Sark’s electricity crisis is brewing again
  3. Sark’s energy hits prices only billionaires can afford
  4. The sovereign movement
  5. Who's really got the upper hand in offshore tax negotiations?
  6. What can the failed Brecq-xit teach us about Brexit?
  7. Alphaville spent 36 hours on the island of Sark. Here's how it went.
  8. Could all of the lights go out on Sark?
  9. When fake news purveyors visit Sark

Not unless there’s a power cut (we just wanted to get Christmas into the headline). But they could, possibly, go out on New Year’s Day...

By: Jemima Kelly

Festive Reading

Alphaville gets a visit from St. Nick.

By: Jemima Kelly

Blythe’s back, but has she said bye-bye to blockchain?

Blythe Masters joins $473m private equity fund. 

By: Jemima Kelly

What do women want? Some crypto flavoured mansplaining, apparently.

  1. China’s PMI print doesn’t mean much
  2. Let’s flatten the coronavirus confusion curve
  3. NMC Health: presented without comment
  4. When “commission-free trading” isn’t (really) free
  5. Michael Milken: financial innovator
  6. Oh no, the death-techers are coming
  7. Bitcoin’s “halvening” won’t boost its price 
  8. CEO of JPM, recipient of $bns in state aid, bashes socialism
  9. Trump just made a joke about negative rates
  10. The Witcher is not a freelancer
  11. The ITV M&A fantasy
  12. Blockchain, all over your face
  13. Baillie Gifford: pot kettle black
  14. Is Facebook’s status as the bête noire of political advertising justified?
  15. The Eurosystem might have a fatal flaw. But it’s not this
  16. Venture capital for the ‘forgotten’
  17. The troublesome Trump inside trading claim
  18. The US economy is not recession-proof
  19. Hedge fund bro gonna hedge fund bro
  20. The Fed’s wishful thinking on inflation

“There would be more women investing in bitcoin if they had more educational materials to help them, a new report found.”

By: Jemima Kelly

Further reading

Social priming; dumpster diving; media apocalpyse; MMT; and more. 

By: Jemima Kelly

When is a blockchain startup not a blockchain startup? 

(Clue: it’s something about the blocks. And the chains.)

By: Jemima Kelly

Further reading

Drunken raccoons; lottery-crazed clerks; great and mighty things; gaps; and more.

By: Jemima Kelly

Eton discovers blockchain

Attention future PMs and kings: the Blockingdon Club awaits you.

By: Jemima Kelly

Further reading 

Special EY clients; scaredy-cat Boris; lonely Macron; undiplomatic Trump; and more. 

By: Jemima Kelly

Is the fintech bubble bursting?

One chart suggests it might be. 

By: Jemima Kelly

Further reading 

Disappearing apostrophe’s; professional Santas; desperate Lib Dems; Corbynite economics; and more.

By: Jemima Kelly

Further reading 

Adam Sandler; narrative violation; LEGO; chimneys; and more.

By: Jemima Kelly

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