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Disposal? Negative
Battle lines are drawn over inheritance tax on London’s junior stock market
Why is the Golden State shedding companies?
Pain and SOFRing
Why only help when bankers are in trouble?
Algos versus humans
The Borg; Gustav Klimt; childcare; costs x benefits; endowments; cosmic ballet; sayings; MrBeast; churnalism; time; and road signs
K pops
Les gros fromages
Forever and ether, amen
Voice 🤜🤛 electronic
Probably not, but that’s where you come in
SPIVA; lostwave; GDocs tabs; obesity drugs; sharing; longevity; and witches
Colours; Big Tech; polls; Viktor Bout; chief metaverse officers; journalism; and Gears of War
ABCs of Evil
Whale-spotting in Macau
Investors need to see (much) more for this to be sustained
T+1 settlement
Arctic shenanigans; World of Warcraft; privacy; a ghost ship; X; Grenfell; Forbes; and ETFs
Somewhere in my chart there is a star that shines for you
The spaghetti cannon shoots again
Immigration; exotics; AI ambulance chasing; AI mediocrity; and lunch; and brunch
Drag show
Bailey; Trump; Ellison; Coates; tariffs; deportation; Russia; nonbanks; and tunespotting
Senior management at UK’s premier Covid loan-arranger neobank were worse than useless, FCA finds
Everyone loves having their priors confirmed
Sand; Internet Archive; US political polarisation; sovereign debt reform; books; and main character syndrome
Rate expectations
We’re not gonna lie, we love it
The first rule of working for Icahn: do not talk about working for Icahn
Cerebras Systems needs a dose of initial public scepticism
Inflated expectations, blown away, losing altitude, full of hot air, free float; pump-and-dump, strings attached, etc
The market giveth, and the market taketh away
Social security; UMich; China; sports betting apps; SoftBank; AI; research fraud; griefbots; and scenes from a nerd quiz
Wall Street regulator Finra has yet to respond to questions about its dwindling fines
All the uncertainty — in five charts
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