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Taking the journey towards understanding, together
A former Odey Asset Management economist writes
OK?
US rates are going to rise slower, but for longer
Dispatches from a strange island
Feat. Tenreyro limbo
Style drift FTW
Placebo pivots; Ferrari fugitives; hot planes; weird cars; lumpy sofas; bad gifts; bitcoin miners; fake dogs; and Dobby’s grave
BlackRock and Vanguard want to give ordinary investors a say
High water everywhere? If only.
“At least 3 years of relevant working experience”
Are investors the mark, or in on it?
MPC; DSGE; Uber; gas; weather; polycrisis; Covid; Glencore; James Milner; and infinite hell with Herzog and Žižek
Happy Fed Day everyone! Buckle up.
FOMC; trade imbalances; chief remote officers; metaverses; gas stoves; cryptography; methane; Pong; and Ouija boards
Equity analysis, Instagram-style
Plus: A Dick and a Johnson walk into a blockchain symposium
Get set . . . Go ask your fund managers how they’re marking their books, says BI
Even CDS indices indicate little serious stress
BP versus the world; momentum factor investing; Meta; China; crypto; big tech; labour trends; and befriending crows
It’s a journey
The UK needs less nostalgia for its imperial history – and just get on with it
Only Built 4 Curbing Linkers
Seriously sloppy wording ahoy
Ocado anecdotes; an ECB pivot; China’s market crash; Musk; Zuckerberg; Tarantino; Tett; scientific stagnation; and wine
Capital flight vs capital fight
Portfolio history lessons from BofA and Berenberg
BOOO!
TLTRO; TINA; currency wars; leaky Reuters; hydroelectricity; that Liz Truss book; crypto; Cramer; China; and Windows 93
But only if the election results are clear and undisputed
Big Tech has some Big Problems. Big #congrats to Twitter though!
A few annotations on Elon’s Dear Advertisers memo
(Just don’t ask what happens if it falls below $18k)
Social media bets big on shorts as digital advertising is taken to the woodshed
Swiss Re sees potential for GFC-scale shakeout
One style to rule them all, and in the alpha bind them
The sink; European QT; crypto boiler rooms; the East India Company; bilingual brains; healthy exercise; and naughty nuns
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