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The watery part of the world economy is yet to find its anchor.
Some views from the sellside.
If the dollar’s standing is unassailable, the temptation to weaponise the dollar more often will be enormous.
Access denied.
Modern lessons from the pound’s surprisingly slow but irresistible loss of the global reserve currency crown.
Strange things are afoot with the letter K.
Roy Keane eat your heart out.
Late Elon; European bulls; talking mushrooms
Schedule 13D numberwang
Monetary policymakers’ frameworks are no longer fit for purpose and no-one seems to have any idea what to replace them with.
FT Alphaville seeks to understand the growing appeal of Goldman Sachs’s tune-dropping CEO.
Because being a global hub for other dodgy assets has worked out so well.
... But Russia’s financial system seems to be recovering from the initial sanction shock
Jeremy Grantham on a finite world, eyecrypto, Arsenal nostalgia, Dudley vs stonks and spleens as a status symbol.
Chinese insiders, EV incentives, workplace misery, etc
Nickel; YIMBYs; the new workday and much more . . .
Pandemonium in 280 characters.
Chase Coleman won’t be the only VC tourist to have been flamed though.
Yep, you read that correctly.
But we’re not quite sure why.
Fin-fi; old debt; capturing capitalism
We’ve tried to figure out how the blue bird of British banking got it so wrong
FAWUK.
More Zoltan; r/Volunteers: steel
Who knew the US government also loves a spider diagram?
We’re pretty sure this is a first.
A cast of Big Shots; Bretsplaining; ETN scepticism; and that time someone tried to corner Treasury futs
Uncertainty is rising. That has important implications for policymakers at the Bank of England.
Dollar buttresses; green energy; WeWork chaos
But is Shapps playing gesture politics?
Bank of England stats out Monday show the use of credit cards is soaring.
Can the west keep creditors from picking away at Moscow’s frozen money?
Tooze dudes; useful idiots: stagflation and much more . . .
Finish him.
Today’s announced £450mn hit is linked to its iPath exchange-traded notes business.
Will Smith; Zelensky; Modelo and much more . . .
The twisted tale of a Scottish limited partnership that’s been placed on Washington’s trade blacklist.
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