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Commence the drumroll
‘What we want is reliable information’
Revisiting Ricardo
Sorry, still not the real deal
There’s no fight for your rights
Copy/paste/delete 20 years of sovereign debt drafting work
ESG; Rockefellers; minstrels; Mexico; Dutch; men; Google; and mesoeconomics
Has your token been taken?
The Chart Part ?
World: doomed
Notes on notes on notes
Past performance is indicative of nothing
‘Merica; Mario Kart; AI/Onion; Roman emperor dinner parties
Consumer confidence; index funds; goodwill accounting; private credit; bitcoin; AI hype; decluttering; eerie England; and plucking
Things can only get better, worse, or stay roughly the same
Bank runs; monetary easing; stupidity; Taco Bell art theft; Chinese property; streaming services; cults; and Swiftenomics
For his stamp collection, that is
why tho?
Four mildly interesting updates
Facile hurdles undermine a good idea
Union power; financial regulation; stablecoins; psychedelic drugs; forgery; psychiary; and Counter-Strike
With XP Power comes not much responsibility
Not great. Not terrible either though
Taxes; bad vibes; influencers; dumbphones; link rot; Emma Walmsley; Mike Skinner; shrimp; and gaming
Work demands an even more human touch as machines take jobs
Putting the tosh in Satoshi
Hit ’em in the prawns
The CFTC’s veerrrry broad definition
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FX; Chinese energy; Chamath; Norway (🙄); identity theft; futurology; weaponised AI; and Friends
Game over
Don’t phunk with my chart
A handy bit of sleight of hand
17 Mai; VC friends; leverage; used Teslas; elephant greetings
Raspberry Pi: a bit cool, a bit weird, but maybe not that cheap
Would the proposed legislation even help?
Rat summit; small-caps; bad websites; tradwife cooking
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