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Shook Ones, Ct. II
Taxing times
But I repeat myself
Second to none, or maybe two
‘The future of work’, meet the past and present of work
On this evidence, maybe less than he believes
Wikipedia; more Wikipedia; AI inference; dashcams; Renfrew Christie; the Free Speech Union; and a plan
The strategy now accounts for over 6% of the US government bond market, according to Morgan Stanley
Peeling back the layers of the ambiguously-regulated US prediction market
Boom times in EU sustainable finance
A taxonomy of the engorged and utterly systemic US repurchase market
Street Fed
Animal Crossing; Venezuela; Wikipedia; monkeys; Kamala Harris; Grok; Wells Fargo; Green Lantern; and vapes
Japan; AI; gilts; Gas Town; green death; vaccines; and Gourmet
The Fed; private lending; GoFundMe; post; illbeing; macOS; Reform UK; and white dating
Tee Boone Pickens
A closer look at the Trump administration’s energetic Mini-Me
AI slop, tech vs lit; immigration; Venezuela; Kafka; Masahiro Sakurai; Nicolai Tangen; and Markdown
Meme reversion
Data forecasting made easy
Another round of chartreuse
Warhammer; digitising nerddom; clicktatorship; UBS on the dangers of being single
The Localised Growth Impacts of a Showgirl
Smaller than you might’ve thought
China pivots its digital currency strategy
Gavin Newsom; AI debt; UK outlook; Grok; Zohran Mamdani; digital AI dolls
About those efficient markets…
MSCI chickens out (for now)
Pink power; blue-collar jobs; post-American internet; baldness
Big and getting bigger
Bondholders could get Bakerised
A look inside Elon Musk’s big tent
Supreme Court; fund performance; Norway wonderland; Victorian shoe mystery
With US megadeals in the pipeline, the fight for investor attention is going to get tougher
‘ . . . with our change in view having been quickly overtaken by events . . .’
‘Twas the season to be charty
Making up something to get worried about