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At times like these, it’s worth remembering just how bad Kwasi Kwarteng was as chancellor
American [stock market] carnage
California’s wildfire fund could face a test
Do the chartman
Ego trips ≠ share tips
From borrowers to sorrowers
Liz Truss; work; equity research; the UK; BlueSky; ads; babies; maths; bond yields; and think tanks
Investors to Beijing: C-, must do better
Ground pound
More than you’d think!
A sell-side icebreaker
Capital flows
Social media; anti-social reality; BlackRock; Michael Barr; Nietzsche; stonks; Apple; and fragmentation
Multi-strategy –> Multi-manager –> Multi-boutique
Fertility; social care; Iranian oil; bubbles; H-1B visas; mileage taxes; knitting; OS X; and music
Demography is destiny
World’s biggest game of Jenga
Pinball machines; Doom; plane crashes; Michael Green; tax; men; Denmark; and Christian rock
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Accelerating purchases, insider sales, and a rapidly evaporating premium
Migration nation
Neobanks; French fries; stripping; ABBA; wine; knots; media; and cars
Match’s metrics for success
Information is power, and money
Nobody knows nothing
Penile accidents; Zildjian; allocator laments; subscriptions; Markle’s cooking show
Ignore the Fed’s flip-flop and focus on labour dynamics
Public domain day; shorthand; fertility rates and Doom CAPTCHA
Two is a trend
May all chart-quaintance be forgot
Guinness swap lines activated; Hawk Tuah; James Bond; entropy; Mr Beast Games
*relatively speaking, obviously
An 11th annual celebration of cancellation
We have questions
Why central banks are right to care about the green stuff
Christmas quiz; Amazon delusion; Bossman eternal; beer baron; s’mores box; etc
The latest three-letter acronym to excite and alarm people