Head over to @ftalpha on Twitter at 2.30pm GMT for some faster-paced tin-hat market observations from the FT Alphaville team. We will try to be interactive too. Consider it a hosted Twitter rant.
It has only taken six days for the S&P500 to lose a tenth of its value after hitting an all-time high last week.
Global trade is under pressure from coronavirus.
eKrona testing; Bloomberg NDAs; disturbing deep fakes; plus much, much more...
The eurozone has almost 50,000 central bankers – more than double the number in the US.
Face masks. Global supply chains need them because manufacturing needs them.
Departure of chief economist linked to research on the ties between aid and corruption.
Everybody loves a comeback story.
The story of how, half a decade ago, Jamaica hit rock bottom.
… and the parallels to historical plans for “full money” systems that never became a reality.
Michael Bloomberg and the influencers; Uber’s actual profitability; Big pharma and coronavirus; plus much more...
Japan has means of surviving years of sluggish growth that the US lacks.
There is no way this would count as QE in Europe. But a tolerance for permanently bloated balance sheets marks a change in stance for all central banks.
Gruhub listings aren’t want they should be; the art of pawning; the problem with Gini; plus much more...
When public life gets too much.
Official measures are way out of sync with public thinking on prices.
Confuses business interests with US economy.
Malta’s blockchain visions; Woke coke; Davos burnout clinics; plus much more...
Fine, bash GDP. But it’s unclear we have a better measure of prosperity.
There is a broader message in central banks’ differences on greening the economy.
How bond market sensitivities are increasingly critical for banking regulation.
According to Willem Buiter, the central banks of the eurozone member states could go bust. We think he overstates the risk.
A big waste bill; A world without pain; Markets in posthumous possibilities, plus much more...
Words are a better guide than numbers on where the economy is heading.
Introducing a new series focused on the unintended consequences of morally motivated market actions: because the road to hell is often paved with good intentions.
Is there anything abnormal about negative real rates?
Europe’s central bankers want a new target. First they must look at why inflation has been so low for so long.
Conspiring slowly; the truth about journalism careers; tracking your pre-schoolers; plus much more...
Martin Armstrong, the market forecaster and former felon, is waging a war on MMT. But getting the details will cost you.
Old risks might have diminished, but the crash has brought new ones with it.
