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And venture capital and hedge funds, naturally
Furries; the yen; Jar Jar Binks; media swagger and Louisbait
‘Brickell Bay North’ is shooting itself in the foot
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And can US mortgages be made portable or assumable?
The bell tolls for Big Ben
The ungrateful deadhead
Ft. Bad some news for the non-US Anglosphere
Finance blog (glamorous, ∞ pixels tall, GSOH), looking for event partner
Capital loss
“How big a threat is cannabis legalisation to alcohol sales?” — not answered here
Crowding fears vs FOMO
Pizza; activism; Munger; bacteria; CVC; Larry
The only chartbreaker
Carbon removal; art; Dave Courtney; 6%; California man; teenagers; and orangutan self-care
Panic rooms; meal deals; watch calendars; Murdoch; *gestures at world*; salt; and messianic pedicure
Time to ease the squeeze
Might a STOLI cocktail leave a $20bn hangover?
NBIM; private capital; term premia; capital ratios; food barons; tipping; IMEI numbers; homelessness; and drinking fountains
The worker insecurity hypothesis versus Lina Khan
Tape, measured
Private equity; AI factors; AI’s limits; intergalactic AI; AI in the building; insurance; Icelandic UX; Hermes; music; and rocks
Sofa, so good
Zen and the art of expectation maintenance
FT Alphaville’s main takeaways from the secretive trading firm’s bond prospectus
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Top-tier asset, cheap pricing, savvy tactics. And balloons
Chinese cars; private equity; Fidelity; Adani; publishing; education; co-ops; childbirth; and website T&Cs
Controversial things come in low-value packages
Driven to distraction
Chartbeats (José González version)
Chatham House Misrule
While Investor Relations just want to top up their tans
Stupidity; Soho; Stiglitz; and spam
Return to the £3.66mn Cellar: The Plonky Version
Yes, you probably have to care about this one
Why now, why not earlier, why ever, at what price, and what it might mean for fertiliser production in North Yorkshire
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