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Saving the planet is easier to say than do.
Giuliani; Heike Pauls; Bitcoin; and much more.
Just another day in crypto-paradise.
But does it matter?
“The Line”; Elon and China; fishy delays; magic internet money; and much more.
Some policymakers at Threadneedle Street now appear keen on the policy, years after other central banks tried it.
Unbelievable Jeff.
Global liquidity will continue to pour into the world economy. But how will that impact asset prices and the recovery?
You couldn’t make it up.
All-time highs.
The sellside have heard a bum note, or four.
Today, in totally normal markets.
Surviving a Chinese “re-education” camp; coronapolitics; lost bitcoin keys; and much more.
Tesla lottery tickets; Capitol attacks; William Basinski and much more . . .
Capitol attacks; chaotic proofs; magic mushrooms; and much more.
Madness on the Hill; K-shaped recovery; art.
Time for some realism.
At times an uber-dove on monetary policy, Yellen has been more restrained in her views on fiscal spending. In the near-term, however, yawning deficits are a given.
Capitol Hill; Tesla; questionable kids’ TV; and much more.
Whether it’s goldbugs or crypto bros, the hard money types just can’t help themselves.
The EU’s vaccine blame game; the lab-leak hypothesis; inflation doomsayers; parasitic stablecoins; and much more.
“Let he who is without sin cast the first stone, after you who’s last? It’s DOOM he’s the worst known”
Speaking fees are a funny way to buy influence.
Google union; MF Doom; immigration and much more . . .
Tech censorship; the pandemic year two; the Spectocracy; the Great Bucatini Shortage; and much more.
An annual celebration of cancellation
Merry Christmas to all and a good riddance to 2020.
How a crypto company became its own central bank.
Pandemic weddings; Trumpian legacies and the end of airlines.
Why it doesn’t pay for pharma companies to profit from the pandemic in the long run.
How the SEC’s case against Ripple Labs knocks crypto’s establishment dreams.
Crypto’s own Theranos; China’s Taiwanese ambition; Britain’s PPE scandal exposed.
“It’s not just Grinch-worthy, it’s shocking. It’s an attack on the entire crypto industry and American innovation” (!)
Boris and Carrie could still legally have a rather merry Christmas if they wanted to.
The vaccine planning disaster; the mutant virus disaster; Britain’s farming disaster; the Covid censoring disaster; and much more.
The journalist and the pharma bro; the future of towns; the right to offend; psychedelics; and much more.
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