We love financial plumbing, debt crises, balance sheets, margin calls, economic puns and snark.
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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
China; growth and inequality; ending poverty; workplace violence; stablecoins; frugality; and Appalachia
Shameless summer content beg 👇
Net interest margins; yen carry trades; private equity; government debt; shorts; restaurant reviews; and Creed
It’s all about the gilt tilt
40 per cent potato, 100 per cent controversial
Carry fissure
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Bottoms up
Riots; inequality; espionage; electric cables; coinage; American leadership; food delivery; Trumpcoin; and introversion
Don’t chart now
The Bank of England; libel; focus; the Cotswolds; table tennis; prime numbers; money; and New Towns
Hello uptiers, trapdoors, dropdowns, and double dips
Jobs a bad ’un