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What’s going on with US car insurance?

Too much, apparently

US politics & policy

Don’t break the Treasury market while trying to save it

Unilateral action could be disastrous

Starling Bank Ltd

Thirty UK premium stocks that have more conflict-of-interest risk than Starling Bank

Skinned in the game

R-star rises again

Just don’t stare at it too long

Ofgem wants your energy supplier to make more money (update)

Regressive taxation for a brighter future

Sovereign bonds

PSA: no one should care about the US credit rating

Wake us up when it’s SD*

FTAV’s further reading

Cat killers; Tesla Files; AI police; Guinness World Records, DeSantis’ failure to launch

Technology sector

Investors are so horny for AI that they’ve invested $175mn in OpenAI’s VC fund

Summer of Sam Altman

SVB’s biggest customers, revealed. Kinda

Saved by the bell

Meet the pizza-loving diplomat behind Antigua News’s big Credit Suisse scoop

Flamboyant owner of obscure website claims files were “absolutely not secret”

US politics & policy

‘Passing the debt ceiling is like passing a kidney stone’

We know it will pass, it is just a question of how painful it will be, argues Pimco

Sovereign bonds

Pray for gilt traders

Nightmare on Threadneedle Street

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Thursday, 25 May, 2023

FTAV’s further reading
Trash samurai; R**; long-term dinosaurs; corporate earnings guidance; and Quackonomics
Wednesday, 24 May, 2023

Chinese employment
The Chinese youth unemployment phenomenon
One in five is now out of work
Wednesday, 24 May, 2023

Financial fraud
A beginner’s guide to getting away with accounting fraud, part two
Unbelievable receivables
Wednesday, 24 May, 2023

FTAV’s further reading
Debt ceilings; Binance; average people; PornHub; Manchester City; clearing; climate litigations; and long movies
Tuesday, 23 May, 2023

UK Finance
The City needs an intervention
Enough reports. UK capital markets’ arrested development can only be fixed with official support
Tuesday, 23 May, 2023

Global Economy
R Star Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
Fun with asterisks
Tuesday, 23 May, 2023

Sovereign bonds
T-bill debt ceiling watch
Politicians negotiating, T-bill yields moving, someone please stop the ride we want to get off
Tuesday, 23 May, 2023

FTAV’s further reading
Stan the man; Lego bandits; black holes; Libor fixing; Apollo’s big test
Monday, 22 May, 2023

Oops!…I Forgot That I Paid My Sister Half a Million Dollars
A short, stupid proxy adventure
Monday, 22 May, 2023

European banks
Turn and face the ch-ch-ch-changes, European treasurers
Oh look out you bank rock ‘n rollers
Monday, 22 May, 2023

Sovereign bonds
JPMorgan’s US debt default Q&A
Sellside research as a public service
Monday, 22 May, 2023

Banks
Beware of European gloating over the US banking mess
UK banks have seen the same shift in deposit bases
Monday, 22 May, 2023

FTAV’s further reading
RIP Amis; killer whales; monetary mysteries; Influencernomics and Buttigieg
Friday, 19 May, 2023

Technology sector
LinkedIn has a fake commenter problem
On the internet, nobody knows you bought a dog
Friday, 19 May, 2023

Passive Investing
Fido’s money hoover wins again
Battle of the S&P 500 index funds
Friday, 19 May, 2023

LFS labour’s lost
National statistics might have a sampling problem
Friday, 19 May, 2023

Professional services
Alphawave: omegawhoops
Fabless, erroneous and semi detached
Friday, 19 May, 2023

FTAV’s further reading
Bank regulation; inflation; Conservative losers; the Industrial Revolution; rubbish; OpenAI; Bilderberg; and movie posters
Thursday, 18 May, 2023

Residential property
HELOCked and loaded
US homeowners have dry powder
Thursday, 18 May, 2023

Credit default swaps
Credit Suisse CDS: déjà vu all over again
If at first you don’t succeed . . .
Thursday, 18 May, 2023

Artificial intelligence
AI is the new ESG
Automation bifurcation agitation
Thursday, 18 May, 2023

EU economy
Thinking beyond public debt
Savings, salaries and systemic stability
Thursday, 18 May, 2023

THG PLC
Audit matters at THG
Why EY identified “a potential risk of bias or fraud through management manipulation by manual adjustments”
Thursday, 18 May, 2023

FTAV’s further reading
UK equities; Greek economics; risk awareness; Kissinger; stablecoins; Manhattan is sinking; AI; Musk; more AI; and pehs
Wednesday, 17 May, 2023

ASOS PLC
Of Ashley, Asos, and unconventional sources
Blogwatching the tag-trade rumourtrage