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BEHOLD, IT FELL FROM THE SKY.

By: Jamie Powell

Alphachat is back! Vol 2.

  1. The math wizard who became a customer loyalty scheme guru
  2. Alphachat is back! Vol. 1
  3. Jim Millstein discusses the financialisation of America
  4. Alphachat is on hiatus this week
  5. Benn Steil explains the Marshall Plan
  6. Marcel Fratzscher on the dark side of the German economy — now with transcript!!
  7. Marcel Fratzscher explores the dark side of the German economy
  8. Emi Nakamura on calculating inflation
  9. Stephanie Kelton explains how the government budget affects the economy and the mechanics of student debt forgiveness
  10. Jonathan Knee explains 25 years of Wall Street’s evolution
  11. Marcus Noland explains the North Korean economy
  12. Brad Setser explains how corporate tax policy affects the balance of payments
  13. Michele Wucker explains “Gray Rhinos”
  14. Listen - The "gray rhino" theory
  15. James Heckman tells us why IQ is overrated
  16. Mihir Desai explains the wisdom of finance — Now with transcript!
  17. Mihir Desai explains the Wisdom of Finance
  18. Can we avoid another financial crisis?
  19. Hirschmania, the final chapter
  20. The life and speeches of Sadie Alexander

Warburg Pincus' Bill Janeway discusses the dark side of the “three-player game”.

By: Jamie Powell

Why Silicon Valley wins big from the USMCA

Why Silicon Valley wins big from the USMCA

Canada surrenders to its Bay Area overlords, without a shot being fired.

By: Jamie Powell

AV @ Sohn 2018: Micro Focus to double

AV @ Sohn 2018: Micro Focus to double

Andrew Dickson of Albert Bridge Capital steps where investors fear to tread.

By: Jamie Powell

A modest proposal for the Open Data Institute

A modest proposal for the Open Data Institute

Geospatial data, big tech and the specter of monopoly.

By: Guest post

Keyence's miraculous margins

Keyence's miraculous margins

The Japanese tech group has somehow been best in class for decades.

By: Jamie Powell

Tesla's full self driving: compare and contrast

  1. Tesla's Q3, the mea culpa
  2. Missing: Tesla's full self-driving option
  3. Meanwhile, at 1.22am on the West Coast....
  4. The SEC vs Elon Musk [Updated]
  5. Tesla needs cash, says Morgan Stanley
  6. Calling all suburban Bond villains
  7. If it has to be said out loud... (Tesla edition)
  8. Tesla: ladies, liquor and leverage
  9. Taking Tesla private
  10. Change of control: How would Tesla's creditors fare in a LoLBO?
  11. Tesla going private? We have questions...
  12. Tesla: a strange case of credits [Update]
  13. Je suis Montana Skeptic, part deux
  14. Je suis Montana Skeptic [Update]
  15. Just how many dimensions of chess is Elon Musk playing?
  16. A brief history of Tesla and the number 500,000
  17. About that Tesla short squeeze...
  18. Tesla: debt deterioration meets equity exuberance
  19. Selling an unintelligible dream at Tesla (an update)
  20. Selling an unintelligible dream at Tesla
Tesla's full self driving: compare and contrast

If in doubt, announce it again.

By: Jamie Powell

Tilray's $450m game of chicken

Tilray's $450m game of chicken

Convertible bond investors, close your eyes and pray.

By: Jamie Powell

Oracle: cloud quiet

Oracle: cloud quiet

Follow the capex.

By: Jamie Powell

Regulation and innovation don't have to be enemies

  1. The bitcoin price is wrong
  2. The warm fuzzy feeling of Goldman debt
  3. “Cryptoassets” are crashing again. Is it time to start calling them cryptoliabilities instead?
  4. Puff the tragic cryptowagon smokes out the Mumsnet demographic
  5. Don't write off the public sector
  6. Initiative Q: an elementary pyramid scheme with grandiose ideas [Update]
  7. Moral investments aren't outperforming
  8. No one is killing it in crypto (not even Woz)
  9. Too smooth: the red flag at Patisserie Valerie which was missed
  10. No, the housing crisis will not be solved by building more homes
  11. Sorry Civil, 'crypto-economics' and 'constitutions' won't save journalism
  12. 'Short-termism' isn't a thing, say Fed economists
  13. Coinbase wants to be “too big to fail”, lol
  14. Retailers get so lonely around the holidays
  15. Folli Follie: $1bn of fake sales, and what to learn from the debacle
  16. The new green evangelism
  17. Tilray, how low can it go?
  18. The ICO behind the tragic Everest stunt is now “airdropping” tokens from rockets
  19. Beware the Hindenburg Omen?
  20. The broken conversation about financial regulation
Regulation and innovation don't have to be enemies

Silicon Valley should remember its origins.

By: Jamie Powell

Varoufakis thinks Google gives us nothing in return

Varoufakis thinks Google gives us nothing in return

Is the Greek right?

By: Jamie Powell

Calling all suburban Bond villains

  1. Tesla's Q3, the mea culpa
  2. Missing: Tesla's full self-driving option
  3. Tesla's full self driving: compare and contrast
  4. Meanwhile, at 1.22am on the West Coast....
  5. The SEC vs Elon Musk [Updated]
  6. Tesla needs cash, says Morgan Stanley
  7. If it has to be said out loud... (Tesla edition)
  8. Tesla: ladies, liquor and leverage
  9. Taking Tesla private
  10. Change of control: How would Tesla's creditors fare in a LoLBO?
  11. Tesla going private? We have questions...
  12. Tesla: a strange case of credits [Update]
  13. Je suis Montana Skeptic, part deux
  14. Je suis Montana Skeptic [Update]
  15. Just how many dimensions of chess is Elon Musk playing?
  16. A brief history of Tesla and the number 500,000
  17. About that Tesla short squeeze...
  18. Tesla: debt deterioration meets equity exuberance
  19. Selling an unintelligible dream at Tesla (an update)
  20. Selling an unintelligible dream at Tesla
Calling all suburban Bond villains

Elon Musk's Boring Company is basically trolling us.

By: Dan McCrum

The improbably profitable, loss-making Blue Prism

  1. The bitcoin price is wrong
  2. The warm fuzzy feeling of Goldman debt
  3. “Cryptoassets” are crashing again. Is it time to start calling them cryptoliabilities instead?
  4. Puff the tragic cryptowagon smokes out the Mumsnet demographic
  5. Don't write off the public sector
  6. Initiative Q: an elementary pyramid scheme with grandiose ideas [Update]
  7. Moral investments aren't outperforming
  8. No one is killing it in crypto (not even Woz)
  9. Too smooth: the red flag at Patisserie Valerie which was missed
  10. No, the housing crisis will not be solved by building more homes
  11. Sorry Civil, 'crypto-economics' and 'constitutions' won't save journalism
  12. 'Short-termism' isn't a thing, say Fed economists
  13. Coinbase wants to be “too big to fail”, lol
  14. Regulation and innovation don't have to be enemies
  15. Retailers get so lonely around the holidays
  16. Folli Follie: $1bn of fake sales, and what to learn from the debacle
  17. The new green evangelism
  18. Tilray, how low can it go?
  19. The ICO behind the tragic Everest stunt is now “airdropping” tokens from rockets
  20. Beware the Hindenburg Omen?
The improbably profitable, loss-making Blue Prism

The margin for error on London's Aim is large.

By: Dan McCrum

The WeWork Garden of Eden

  1. The bitcoin price is wrong
  2. The warm fuzzy feeling of Goldman debt
  3. “Cryptoassets” are crashing again. Is it time to start calling them cryptoliabilities instead?
  4. Puff the tragic cryptowagon smokes out the Mumsnet demographic
  5. Don't write off the public sector
  6. Initiative Q: an elementary pyramid scheme with grandiose ideas [Update]
  7. Moral investments aren't outperforming
  8. No one is killing it in crypto (not even Woz)
  9. Too smooth: the red flag at Patisserie Valerie which was missed
  10. No, the housing crisis will not be solved by building more homes
  11. Sorry Civil, 'crypto-economics' and 'constitutions' won't save journalism
  12. 'Short-termism' isn't a thing, say Fed economists
  13. Coinbase wants to be “too big to fail”, lol
  14. Regulation and innovation don't have to be enemies
  15. Retailers get so lonely around the holidays
  16. Folli Follie: $1bn of fake sales, and what to learn from the debacle
  17. The new green evangelism
  18. Tilray, how low can it go?
  19. The ICO behind the tragic Everest stunt is now “airdropping” tokens from rockets
  20. Beware the Hindenburg Omen?
The WeWork Garden of Eden

Tech isolation = no cult.

By: Jemima Kelly and Jamie Powell

IQE: lumpy 'Apple' sauce at the pricey Cardiff chip shop

  1. The bitcoin price is wrong
  2. The warm fuzzy feeling of Goldman debt
  3. “Cryptoassets” are crashing again. Is it time to start calling them cryptoliabilities instead?
  4. Puff the tragic cryptowagon smokes out the Mumsnet demographic
  5. Don't write off the public sector
  6. Initiative Q: an elementary pyramid scheme with grandiose ideas [Update]
  7. Moral investments aren't outperforming
  8. No one is killing it in crypto (not even Woz)
  9. Too smooth: the red flag at Patisserie Valerie which was missed
  10. No, the housing crisis will not be solved by building more homes
  11. Sorry Civil, 'crypto-economics' and 'constitutions' won't save journalism
  12. 'Short-termism' isn't a thing, say Fed economists
  13. Coinbase wants to be “too big to fail”, lol
  14. Regulation and innovation don't have to be enemies
  15. Retailers get so lonely around the holidays
  16. Folli Follie: $1bn of fake sales, and what to learn from the debacle
  17. The new green evangelism
  18. Tilray, how low can it go?
  19. The ICO behind the tragic Everest stunt is now “airdropping” tokens from rockets
  20. Beware the Hindenburg Omen?
IQE: lumpy 'Apple' sauce at the pricey Cardiff chip shop

The iPhone halo versus falling margins, lumpy sales, and endless capex.

By: Dan McCrum

The bull market is running out of brea(d)th

The bull market is running out of brea(d)th

Troubling signs for the “record-long” run.

By: Colby Smith

Ubiquiti Networks: lawyers, regulators, grizzlies and dividends

Ubiquiti Networks: lawyers, regulators, grizzlies and dividends

Watch out for Trump's tariffs as well.

By: Dan McCrum

Wot is gravity

  1. Chart crime as a measure of crypto-desperation
  2. Creative destruction concerns
  3. Wage brain
  4. Et tu, Beto?
  5. Charts and misdemeanours
  6. Deutsche Bank and the thin blue line
  7. The crypto periodic table (sigh)
  8. Wot is colour
  9. US debt is going to crush us all (and gold is the answer)
  10. Pie in the sky
  11. Some help please
Wot is gravity

Forget about Newton, say MoffetNathanson.

By: Jamie Powell

Intel's disruption, and the problem with every token pitch

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

Nobody wants to be locked in.

By: Dan McCrum

Let’s not try make 'crypto chicks' a thing

  1. The bitcoin price is wrong
  2. The warm fuzzy feeling of Goldman debt
  3. “Cryptoassets” are crashing again. Is it time to start calling them cryptoliabilities instead?
  4. Puff the tragic cryptowagon smokes out the Mumsnet demographic
  5. Don't write off the public sector
  6. Initiative Q: an elementary pyramid scheme with grandiose ideas [Update]
  7. Moral investments aren't outperforming
  8. No one is killing it in crypto (not even Woz)
  9. Too smooth: the red flag at Patisserie Valerie which was missed
  10. No, the housing crisis will not be solved by building more homes
  11. Sorry Civil, 'crypto-economics' and 'constitutions' won't save journalism
  12. 'Short-termism' isn't a thing, say Fed economists
  13. Coinbase wants to be “too big to fail”, lol
  14. Regulation and innovation don't have to be enemies
  15. Retailers get so lonely around the holidays
  16. Folli Follie: $1bn of fake sales, and what to learn from the debacle
  17. The new green evangelism
  18. Tilray, how low can it go?
  19. The ICO behind the tragic Everest stunt is now “airdropping” tokens from rockets
  20. Beware the Hindenburg Omen?
Let’s not try make 'crypto chicks' a thing

We don't need “gender equality” in other forms of gambling, so why crypto?

By: Jemima Kelly

Tech is not a bubble

Tech is not a bubble

This time is different, says Goldman.

By: Jamie Powell

Elon Musk plays to human fantasy, and the world plays along

  1. Tesla's Q3, the mea culpa
  2. Missing: Tesla's full self-driving option
  3. Tesla's full self driving: compare and contrast
  4. Meanwhile, at 1.22am on the West Coast....
  5. The SEC vs Elon Musk [Updated]
  6. Tesla needs cash, says Morgan Stanley
  7. Calling all suburban Bond villains
  8. If it has to be said out loud... (Tesla edition)
  9. Tesla: ladies, liquor and leverage
  10. Taking Tesla private
  11. Change of control: How would Tesla's creditors fare in a LoLBO?
  12. Tesla going private? We have questions...
  13. Tesla: a strange case of credits [Update]
  14. Je suis Montana Skeptic, part deux
  15. Je suis Montana Skeptic [Update]
  16. Just how many dimensions of chess is Elon Musk playing?
  17. A brief history of Tesla and the number 500,000
  18. About that Tesla short squeeze...
  19. Tesla: debt deterioration meets equity exuberance
  20. Selling an unintelligible dream at Tesla (an update)
Elon Musk plays to human fantasy, and the world plays along

'I think you could make fusion work.'

By: Dan McCrum

RIB Software: the unicorn rainy-day fund

  1. The bitcoin price is wrong
  2. The warm fuzzy feeling of Goldman debt
  3. “Cryptoassets” are crashing again. Is it time to start calling them cryptoliabilities instead?
  4. Puff the tragic cryptowagon smokes out the Mumsnet demographic
  5. Don't write off the public sector
  6. Initiative Q: an elementary pyramid scheme with grandiose ideas [Update]
  7. Moral investments aren't outperforming
  8. No one is killing it in crypto (not even Woz)
  9. Too smooth: the red flag at Patisserie Valerie which was missed
  10. No, the housing crisis will not be solved by building more homes
  11. Sorry Civil, 'crypto-economics' and 'constitutions' won't save journalism
  12. 'Short-termism' isn't a thing, say Fed economists
  13. Coinbase wants to be “too big to fail”, lol
  14. Regulation and innovation don't have to be enemies
  15. Retailers get so lonely around the holidays
  16. Folli Follie: $1bn of fake sales, and what to learn from the debacle
  17. The new green evangelism
  18. Tilray, how low can it go?
  19. The ICO behind the tragic Everest stunt is now “airdropping” tokens from rockets
  20. Beware the Hindenburg Omen?
RIB Software: the unicorn rainy-day fund

When a market darling has plenty of cash, but asks shareholders for more.

By: Dan McCrum

Bitcoin cash is expanding into the void

  1. The bitcoin price is wrong
  2. The warm fuzzy feeling of Goldman debt
  3. “Cryptoassets” are crashing again. Is it time to start calling them cryptoliabilities instead?
  4. Puff the tragic cryptowagon smokes out the Mumsnet demographic
  5. Don't write off the public sector
  6. Initiative Q: an elementary pyramid scheme with grandiose ideas [Update]
  7. Moral investments aren't outperforming
  8. No one is killing it in crypto (not even Woz)
  9. Too smooth: the red flag at Patisserie Valerie which was missed
  10. No, the housing crisis will not be solved by building more homes
  11. Sorry Civil, 'crypto-economics' and 'constitutions' won't save journalism
  12. 'Short-termism' isn't a thing, say Fed economists
  13. Coinbase wants to be “too big to fail”, lol
  14. Regulation and innovation don't have to be enemies
  15. Retailers get so lonely around the holidays
  16. Folli Follie: $1bn of fake sales, and what to learn from the debacle
  17. The new green evangelism
  18. Tilray, how low can it go?
  19. The ICO behind the tragic Everest stunt is now “airdropping” tokens from rockets
  20. Beware the Hindenburg Omen?
Bitcoin cash is expanding into the void

When nobody's using your system, why not make it four times bigger?

By: Jemima Kelly

Soon, nobody will have any Klout

Soon, nobody will have any Klout

GDPR claims a high-profile victim.

By: Jemima Kelly

Ubiquiti Networks: of cash and borrowed time

  1. The bitcoin price is wrong
  2. The warm fuzzy feeling of Goldman debt
  3. “Cryptoassets” are crashing again. Is it time to start calling them cryptoliabilities instead?
  4. Puff the tragic cryptowagon smokes out the Mumsnet demographic
  5. Don't write off the public sector
  6. Initiative Q: an elementary pyramid scheme with grandiose ideas [Update]
  7. Moral investments aren't outperforming
  8. No one is killing it in crypto (not even Woz)
  9. Too smooth: the red flag at Patisserie Valerie which was missed
  10. No, the housing crisis will not be solved by building more homes
  11. Sorry Civil, 'crypto-economics' and 'constitutions' won't save journalism
  12. 'Short-termism' isn't a thing, say Fed economists
  13. Coinbase wants to be “too big to fail”, lol
  14. Regulation and innovation don't have to be enemies
  15. Retailers get so lonely around the holidays
  16. Folli Follie: $1bn of fake sales, and what to learn from the debacle
  17. The new green evangelism
  18. Tilray, how low can it go?
  19. The ICO behind the tragic Everest stunt is now “airdropping” tokens from rockets
  20. Beware the Hindenburg Omen?
Ubiquiti Networks: of cash and borrowed time

It's bears versus the grizzly as a much-shorted company reports.

By: Dan McCrum

Caption competition

Caption competition

Celebrating the Church of Elon Musk.

By: Jemima Kelly

Blockchain insiders tell us why we don't need blockchain

Blockchain insiders tell us why we don't need blockchain

“It's the same as any system.”

By: Jemima Kelly

Grand Theft obsolescence

Grand Theft obsolescence

Can digital products always deliver what they promised?

By: Jamie Powell

Hey crypto bros! Journalism ≠ advertising

  1. The bitcoin price is wrong
  2. The warm fuzzy feeling of Goldman debt
  3. “Cryptoassets” are crashing again. Is it time to start calling them cryptoliabilities instead?
  4. Puff the tragic cryptowagon smokes out the Mumsnet demographic
  5. Don't write off the public sector
  6. Initiative Q: an elementary pyramid scheme with grandiose ideas [Update]
  7. Moral investments aren't outperforming
  8. No one is killing it in crypto (not even Woz)
  9. Too smooth: the red flag at Patisserie Valerie which was missed
  10. No, the housing crisis will not be solved by building more homes
  11. Sorry Civil, 'crypto-economics' and 'constitutions' won't save journalism
  12. 'Short-termism' isn't a thing, say Fed economists
  13. Coinbase wants to be “too big to fail”, lol
  14. Regulation and innovation don't have to be enemies
  15. Retailers get so lonely around the holidays
  16. Folli Follie: $1bn of fake sales, and what to learn from the debacle
  17. The new green evangelism
  18. Tilray, how low can it go?
  19. The ICO behind the tragic Everest stunt is now “airdropping” tokens from rockets
  20. Beware the Hindenburg Omen?
Hey crypto bros! Journalism ≠ advertising

And we're not here to pump your coins, nor even to take a “neutral” line on them.

By: Jemima Kelly

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