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The real estate of China’s economy
A journey into activist short selling, analysts’ long shots, big data, and small worlds
Lessons from the UK’s near-meltdown
Probably, says Barclays
Roberto Perli is the new SOMA supremo
Playing dirty with clean energy subsidies
The last 747; Georgian dollarisation; Santos vs Costanza; and a belated RIP for Jack ReVelle
Peer quits Elara Capital role following FTAV questions
European stock markets have further to rally, argues GS
On the sacred and the mundane
Withdrawals have almost trebled since October
Solvency theatre; lying ChatGPT; the mirage of active success; and the “inane, moronic, irrational, exploding human appendix ****show that is the debt ceiling”
Your guess is as good as theirs
A big $28bn bet on a dirty future
The flight to shite
Benchmarking time
The QE flipside — red ink everywhere
Patti Smith on Tom Verlaine; horny rhinos; the end of M&A stars; and Diana, Princess of Wales’s Eagles jacket.
Price war time!
It looked like a duck. It quacked like a duck . . .
About the platinum coin and the US Constitution
Well done everyone, trebles all round
Billy McFarland, management consultant; Citadel’s powerlifting risk chief; the last mustard maker of Dijon
Why Adani’s underwriters can’t heed Ackman’s call to withdraw
What’s up with the down volatility index?
The world according to BEAPFF
It’s not what you pay, it’s what you own
Lord make me a free-marketer, but not yet
Adani’s full response; Marie Kondo gives up; lycanthronomics‚ wealth taxes and an exhaustive taxonomy of the font of Dune
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Adani vs Hindenburg
Ted Cruz is the worst
Once, twice, three times a Brady
BuzzFeed; Gorkamorka; Yellen; housing; convexity; Adani; etc
StanChart gets cheeky
Or: how to get Covid out of your system
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