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FT AlphavilleJemima Kelly

PayPal is shilling crypto on the internet

Censor-resistant money, censored.

Further reading

Life beyond Covid; CBDCs; Tesla’s new self-driving software; and much more.

The great MMT debate, again

Round 1: fight!

AnalysisCoronavirus pandemic

The pandemic model that’s spooking the UK government

Turns out there was one model that predicted the future more accurately than others.

Further reading

Inside GCHQ; The permanence of your browser data; Martin Bashir; plus more . . .

FT AlphavilleClaire Jones

How reliable is a millennium of macroeconomic data?

Can we really measure what GDP was when the Magna Carta was signed? And do we really need to care?

Public Service Announcement: It’s not you, it’s us

Someone is elsewhere on the internet.

The USA vs. Google

The first big tech antitrust lawsuit has landed.

FT AlphavilleClaire Jones

Does a digital euro challenge the dollar’s global dominance?

The ECB is keen on giving foreigners access to a digital euro. That could make the single currency far more commonly used globally.

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Snap AV: the great Biden stock trade

UBS takes a look at which European companies will benefit from a Blue Wave.

Further reading

Challenges for central banks; the art of awkward; critical race theory; progress; and more.

Inside LondonJamie Powell

Tesco needs evolution not revolution

In the unsexy world of big box retail, being described as ‘dull as dishwater’ is an endorsement of the current strategy

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