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Do you ever have déjà vu, Mr Steiner?
Big Tech could soon learn some tough lessons about comp
A hitchhiker’s guide to the housing market
Registry data reveals that Frasers, the Sports Direct owner, has taken a punt on Britain’s biggest frock shop
(not literally)
Del Monte; book tours; supply chains; AI; Japan; languages; wells; Reddit; and bank losses
We’re weeping, laughing, cheering and dancing
’Til death do us debt?
Trapped, metaphorically, by metaphor
Inside LumRisk’s rather odd struggle with a noteholder
Sleeping QT
Masayoshi Son; corporation tax; Two Sigma; dollar stores; hashing; video game controllers; academic fraud; Post Office bonuses; messaging apps; and subreddits
Private equity; lettuce; bats; dads; Meta; Apple; isonomia; and ELO
Nate Silver; inflation; software; multiverses; drip pricing; analysts; ‘Catholic priests’; graphic design; and MrBeast
UK swaps have gone weird
Refreshing the parts IFRS can’t reach
ESG gaspers; Bidenomics; a new European recovery programme; communist decay; OpenAI; and Rubik joy
Old world, new tricks
We’re selling a fking sentient digital asset, bro
Learning how to cope with gilts
Pakistan; US industrial policy; paying it forward; venture capital; circular mRNA; the NHS; Reddit; and cocaine hippos
Right venue, wrong price
“Don’t make me come back there!”, Powell sternly and metaphorically said to confused journalists
Robot-free* insights
Consider the median, mean, mode and midrange
Our new favourite market makes a strong showing in May’s inflation report
The chore of work; waning faith in capitalism; productivity; child labour; disillusionment; rubbish; and Cormac McCarthy
Stick now, maybe twist later
(In addition to all the other things it got wrong)
Fed skipping; Nike kicking; Musk backtracking; Coinbase grasping; Google plagiarising; and the retroverse
Find out later today
(Does this mean AI isn’t going to save us after all?)
... not the usual ones though
If a Chinese property market falls in the forest, could it not make too much of a noise?
Bank accounting; greedflation; AI protectionism; dictatorships; fake science; office jerks; creepy cameras; and automatic jokes
Ranching: not just gunfights and rodeos
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