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Further adventures in fixed income T&C shenanigans
The search for a more optimal monetary policy
Brat summer 🤝 finance bro summer
Don’t fear the repo
Do the best presents once again come in small packages?
Debt Will Tear Us Apart (Again)
Novels; dollars; breadth; Biden; cocaine sharks
OK maybe this one was too hard
charts that don’t matter
‘We have a big currency problem’
Chartstrike
‘Use it or lose it’
Sacked ‘whistleblowers’ launch California court action against Europe’s biggest bitcoin-miner-turned-AI-datacentre-builder
Ingerland; chip wars, UBI; fishcake protests
JD Vance; Dr Copper; UK–EU trade; psychedelics; Starwood; credit markets; the Bernanke Review; and computers
SpongeBob; PhD poetry; movie memorabilia; IMF reform; dark money
Vibesflation => actual inflation
Tech job woes; Southgate’s worst players; Lambda School; dangerous seas and Starmer envy
Tay Tay keeps Britain on target, maybe
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Parallel lines
Hillbilly elegy; polygraphs; The American right’s love for Russia
Are investors out of touch? No, it’s the children who are going wrong
Sparrow gender politics; rueful Ruffer; Zynpocalypse; Norwegian parenting
The board has failed to deliver — bring in the Special Administrators
Boom boom tish
Always looking for the bright side
🎶It’s the most wonderful time of the year; when the JPMorgan ETF handbook lands in our inbox 🎶
It’s not coming home; covenant grammar; RIP ties; Norwegian cable
No thing rules forever
Sharp charts
Imgonnagetyoubackabovetarget
The London Stock Exchange; lithium; living arrangements; the Beckhams; advice; truth; and Labour
So says Goldman Sachs
Immigration; AI; more AI; wood; rent controls; repo; and footnotes
Vimes ‘boots’ revisited
Zero; Foucault; cars; Cybertrucks; NDAs; Hemingway; and the UK