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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
This year’s alternative entertainment asset
RIP Chivo, we hardly knew ye
JPow leaves a lump of coal for the degens
Some charts showing all the taxes and all the tax reliefs
Trade war; geographic inequality; Timothée Chalamet; Luigi Mangione documentaries; etc
This seems bad?
Especially about interest rates
Nvidia; crime; Netflix; tariffs; etc
Playing the links
. . . and private-market bagholders only have themselves to blame
That’s all of you, obviously
Making sense of London’s latest blue-chip stock
Superflares; antitrust; Leech; martinis; MAHA; risotto; etc