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Fiscal R* and fiscal-monetary tensions
Roblox; CEOs; neutrino detection; quants; temple of Artemis
Barf bags ready
Happiness is an amended and up-to-date Schedule 13D
Look over here, like I live in hell? I’m running wild like rats in Taco Bell
Drum switch engage
Whatever that means
It might be soon — but that would leave tenants on a painful plateau
We apologise for any inconvenience caused
We need to retire State Street
The Fed needs to jack up rates NOW
‘Traditional lenders like banks usually won’t offer this kind of loan . . . But we’re different’
Gamer looks; mourning Twitter; NOK, brat bonds; bananapocalypse
The Chart Of Your Ending (41st Side)
Consciousness; wealth; memories; Apple; UK MonPol; Google; and Diablo
Caveat creditor
Vermeer; Android; Sonia; antiquity; Mark Zuckerberg; Sahmesque Rules; private credit funds; the Stevensons; and a cannon
Savoury relief
What’s CECL trying to tell us?
Pond prices move inversely to yields
National Geographic; ex-bananas; cheapflation; a cow; Parkinson’s disease; central bank reserves; LLM politics; Ozempic; geoengineering; and Sweden
Small caps, small consequences
Checking in on the graviton particle of economics
How to make sense of this year’s stop-start rally in US small caps
BofA; AI bubbles; handedness; writers; yen; Spotify; gardening; and US recession
VIXed feelings
The subtle art of giving a shirt
The real American ‘superstonks’
David Solomon; the ‘strategic bitcoin reserve’; humanities; nuclear power; the CIA; riots; Stapler; AI music; and OpenStreetMap
Rules are made to be broken
Chart Garfunkel
JPMorgan loves to say they told you so
Going with the flows
China; SpaceX; a boiler room script; home advantage; new video games; old video games; and fossils
And we have the charts to prove it
Sahm; Intel; the US trade deficit; Swiss francenstein’s monster; AI slop; empathy punishments; and Winamp skins
It’s over. Maybe