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charts that don’t matter
‘We have a big currency problem’
Chartstrike
‘Use it or lose it’
Vibesflation => actual inflation
Tay Tay keeps Britain on target, maybe
SpongeBob; PhD poetry; movie memorabilia; IMF reform; dark money
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Parallel lines
Are investors out of touch? No, it’s the children who are going wrong
The board has failed to deliver — bring in the Special Administrators
Boom boom tish
Tech job woes; Southgate’s worst players; Lambda School; dangerous seas and Starmer envy
Hillbilly elegy; polygraphs; The American right’s love for Russia
Sparrow gender politics; rueful Ruffer; Zynpocalypse; Norwegian parenting
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
Further further adventures in VAT case law
Algos; AMD; gambling; insurers; ‘Bullshit Jobs; laughing gas; and deliver drones
For whom the cell tolls
Tee +1 settlement
Private equity; reality TV; school shootings; pilgrimages; coconut trees; Wimbledon; ChatGPT; and Tony Blair
And the survey said …
The UK possesses a rare global commodity: predictability
Sacked ‘whistleblowers’ launch California court action against Europe’s biggest bitcoin-miner-turned-AI-datacentre-builder
Chart-time lover
Barclays; socialism; liberalism; AI doomsterism; the American dream; and misreadings
What’s pink, slimy, and loves Julio Herrera Velutini?