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Izabella Kaminska

Former FT Alphaville Editor
Izabella Kaminska was the editor of FT Alphaville. She joined FT Alphaville in October 2008. Before that she worked as a producer at CNBC, a natural gas reporter at Platts and an associate editor of BP’s internal magazine. She has also worked as a reporter on English language business papers in Poland and Azerbaijan and was a Reuters graduate trainee in 2004.

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  • Wednesday, 30 March, 2022
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    Remembering the great meme power wars of 2022, a retrospective time capsule of the El Hodlador fracas.

  • Friday, 28 January, 2022
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    Lessons for crypto from Libor-bros

    Beware the possibility of backwards-looking regulations

  • Friday, 28 January, 2022
    So long Izzy, we’ll miss you

    A post celebrating some of Kaminska’s greatest hits.

  • Thursday, 27 January, 2022
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    Robot slaves will have to compete with cheap human labour, not the other way around.

  • Tuesday, 25 January, 2022
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    All digital creations are NFTs. We just don’t know it yet.

    Why NFTs may soon have to compete with cash flow-generating content hosted on more conventional platforms.

  • Friday, 21 January, 2022
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    The regulatory threats to crypto are mounting

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  • Wednesday, 12 January, 2022
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  • Thursday, 6 January, 2022
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    Kazakh uprisings; Djokovic detention; Britain’s future

  • Wednesday, 22 December, 2021
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  • Thursday, 16 December, 2021
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  • Monday, 13 December, 2021
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    Daylight overdrafts must lose their stigma

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  • Friday, 10 December, 2021
    FT AlphavilleMilitary technology
    Do portfolios have a UAP risk?

    The truth is out there, and markets probably need to begin accounting for it.

  • Wednesday, 8 December, 2021
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  • Monday, 6 December, 2021
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  • Tuesday, 30 November, 2021
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  • Saturday, 27 November, 2021
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  • Wednesday, 24 November, 2021
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  • Wednesday, 17 November, 2021
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  • Thursday, 11 November, 2021
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    On a long enough timeline is all inflation transitory?

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  • Wednesday, 10 November, 2021
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    Metaverse issues; Celebrity chefs; Labour wages

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