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When a measure becomes a target . . .
Betray My Chart
Gilt yields are ever more in the eye of the beholder
Caveat bookie
Morgan Stanley gets metaphysical
Policy like it’s 1999
Stiglitz; checkboxes; writers; maps; salt; cyborgs; and liquids
Or: how to make £330mn by being sub-par
An ambitious supply-side agenda has defined economic perceptions of his presidency. So have shocks
How’s that?
Dual-class struggles
Tee + 1 settlement
Flying; creativity; Meta; benefits; India; barbed wire; the Cybertruck; and TV archiving
NYC; celebrity interviews; UK housing; “military grade rave tech”; “futuristic Cybertruck”; hedge fundation; the Libertarian Party; AI and climate change
Slang; spying; animals; Justin Timberlake; Andrew O’Hagan; fake meat; Netflix; and handbags
Medium friends; maps; white America; The Economist; European banks; Montreal; traffic noise; and celibacy
The US labour market is probably weaker than the non-farm payroll numbers imply
Only love can break your chart (Andrew Weatherall mix)
AI; worker scarcity; mobile game ads; pay-to-play academia; plastic recycling; and Yanks abroad
Living on the wrong side of the tenure track
Oh, Canada . . .
X marks the plot
BREIT; property management; inflation; Ukranian nuclear power; explosives; AI; bicycle theft; and time travel
China; war; banking; productivity; suspiciously round numbers; coding school; social media; and Wu-Tang
Investors can't be sold the ‘Permira discount’
The case for a case
Congestion charges; inheritance tax; labour; fund flows; octopus inflation; intelligent life; and Tube journeys
Could stability already be ‘priced in’?
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ChatGPT; AI retrenchment; monetary policy; foot-and-mouth; Asda; bootleg vinyl; tax; and paywall mortality
Want a slice of the Barclay Brothers’ empire? You might just be able to have it, thanks to a kooky German investor
Poisonous charts
China; pop music; G7; boomers; 40 acres; Amazon; photography; motherhood; childhood; more childhood; and classics
Scrap creditor sequencing and let them talk
Avid Bioservices made a blunder
Neil Woodford; tinfoil hats; Tories; arena tours; economics; medieval games; and movies
Simply the pest
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