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The fiscal elephant in the room

SocGen quant tackles monetary policy space

Property sector

Blackstone’s plan to juice BREIT

Basically, aggressively ratchet up rents and restart evictions

Goldman’s guide to the rest of your life

FTX Trading Ltd

Revealed: the Alameda venture capital portfolio

A look inside Sam and Caroline’s grab-bag of crypto, etc.

Passive Investing

The (American) age of ETFs

Goldman thinks good news is good news again

Hard landing cancelled

Further reading

Zantac; Roubini; Tesla’s Berlin hub; Twitter HQ beds; Amazon spyware; the last Boeing 747; TikTok famous; and 99 problems

Property sector

What about Blackstone’s $50bn credit fund?

BREIT contagion candidates

The hottest US export is the dollar

If only central banks could keep track of it

Asia-Pacific economy

India takes off?

Morgan Stanley’s new fave EM

Passive Investing

Fido (hearts) ETFs

Damascene conversions

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