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Same shirt, different day
Does it matter though? Really?
The fix is in
Charting is such sweet sorrow
Not all bears hibernate
Active mutual funds are dying, and I’m telling you why
Goldman trading loss; British Naval history; tax penalties; FIMBY; New Jersey mystery drones; etc
Well, an annotated transcript at least
Stock markets are not the economy, luxury edition
Turbulence ahoi
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How UBS learned to stop worrying and love the rally
Krugman; US exceptionalism; tech-bros; corporate finance 101; Russia; socials; designer babies; and Kanji
Information ownership; DOGE; antitrust; private markets; reading comprehension; Huang; and bananas
Trespassing; debanking; stock market concentration; McDonald's; airports; and Nick Candy
Tardiness is next to Godliness, they say
Well the years start comin’ and they don’t stop comin’
Old posting habits die screaming
Tax and spend; Europe vs America; T-bills; Vinted; AI; more AI; failing hospitals; and workplace sabotage
Bye-bye, buyout
QT content
Sentiment; FRED; year-ahead reports; OpenAI; restructuring costs; memecoins; cancer wards
More a chart than a science
Self-reinforcing market forces are creating demand for Michael Saylor’s ‘lottery ticket’ convertible bonds
You won’t believe how it turned out
Et tu, Rosie?
Not out of the woods yet
Empathy fails; industrial renaissance; leveraged MSTR ETFs; Jane Street’s hot streak; Quasar 3C 273
A mea culpa to mark a BTC milestone
Predictions from an arcane method popularised in 18th-century France
Building ür-HFT; YouTube time capsule; 0DTEs; Kootime
The FT Alphaville swag store gets a seasonal refresh
Regulation has failed. It’s time to try indifference
The biggest debt reduction scheme in history?
Cozzie livs? More like cozzie levs
Gifts for the risk takers and rainmakers
Tay-Tay; headlights; lost bitcoin; Y Combinator; Japanification