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Labor markets look good. US manufacturing does not.
Relax though, this isn’t the summer of 2007
Trabucco!
The BoE-approved method
An axes of evil compendium
“I didn’t ever try to commit fraud on anyone”
Is China actually, truly, really uninvestable?
BREIT; Tether; El Salvador; food security; Ukrainian memes; long Covid; disengagement; lost animals; and nihilism
Charity begins at Home Reit
The ECB takes no prisoners
Adventures in super-seniority
Geopolitics; FTX; Telegram; England’s water utilities; inflation and aging populations; executive off-sites; and MSM bias
Crypto regulation; Operation Twist; auditors; EU energy; Palantir; cannabis; Amazon; SBF on sex, lies; and videotape
Reversion-to-the-mean machine
When guarantees lead to a guaranteed headache
Serenity prayer time
SBF; Nexo; BCCI; Tesla fake news; the market for misinformation; tech regulation; and cardboard
A story of cancer scares, secretive short sellers, psychological tape bombs and post-investment stress disorder
There but for the grace of common sense go we
#PrayforIPOs
They love their $145bn property trust, and think you should too
China protests; Poland; obvious frauds; Canadian risk tolerance; Big Pharma astroturfing; and splash-free urinals
A readers digest
Because somebody has to, we suppose
CeFi > DeFi, says JPMorgan
UK housing; FTX; Greece; taxes; mystery gold whales; the Great Depression; problem trees; snow crabs; and Ridge Racer
No returns, please
Austerity, bitcoin-style
Short peg in a long-term hole
(Picture unrelated)
Michelle Mone; Nigel Farage; Alexa; Sam Bankman-Fried; Jay Powell; Elon Musk; Mukesh Ambani; and airport price gouging
If you weren’t one of the 600-plus people watching on Zoom, we have you covered
Finally
Not your father’s trading shop
Wrong-way risk squared
A terrible, horrible, no-good year for equity hedgies
International Edition