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Last time he got what he needed instead
Asbestos; US dollar; nuclear fusion; forex; basal melt rates; trade strategy; risk sensitivity
An inconvenient truth
Shirt happens
It’s a family affair
Arini; tax; the art market; parenting; Powell; orchestras; AI bands; AI shopkeepers; British management; Staley and Epstein; London
How an Italian fugitive used diplomatic immunity to work with Dubai royalty and Liberia’s fallen hero
Sketches for My Sweet Chart the Drunk
The Numis co-founder and GOAT media analyst talks London markets, sell-side research, loyalty, local papers, and tennis
Stablecoins; Wisselbank; class war; catastrophe bonds; AI therapy; execution; McDonald's; and Eurovision
When the world’s dullest industry gets very exciting
Living in the past, it’s a new regulation
Autocallable ETF; AK-47; antitrust; Iranian concrete; Indy astroturfing; Hims; time; Julie Burchill; and Tracy Thorn
And are parallels to the era of Free Banking any good?
Ethena goes
A feature, not a bug
Stagflation; Aa+; debt mutualisation; rare earths; Substack; NYC; superfans; and the making of a janky canal boat game
Is $9.3bn a lot of money?
Using cutting-edge language analysis techniques and quantitative reasoning, we prove nothing
Big Byrd FTW
American tourism; generic drugs; immigrants on immigration; very hard maths; HS2; and Jeremy Clarkson
Just another Swiftie?
And who could have anticipated this turn of events apart from literally anyone?
Tee-hee
And he has some hot IPO takes for us