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What is the truth behind the inequality campaigner’s Citigroup memoir?
Deficits; technical analysis; ageing companies; Mars colonisation; philosophy; mental health; and Bluey
Small caps, big problems
American inflation is down. Employment might be next
Wall Street cop channels Plato in fresh stay-safe ad blitz
Don’t take everything on Truss
A look at some pesky rebalancing flows
Accelerating cash flows is no silver bullet
Interest rate cuts; Tether; Marx; jobs; Pascal's wager; more Marx; and QE
And lets have a European SEC while we’re at it
Living the Nvidia loca
Shirt hits fan
Finance; economics; short selling; social skills; job ads; grocery inflation; EV batteries; and Disney
Efficient markets; Googling; tweeting; Shein; AI; Swiss gold; cosmology; Hitler; and a chart quiz
Volatility is here to stay
We hardly knew ye
Solutions for searching
Ready to chart
Mars; words; dating; cash; AI vs the workers; mean reversion; children’s literature; food dye; and Valve
Whatever happens, buy everything
Baiyu Holdings takes a well-timed tumble
Brands; climate change; Ozempic; finance; ‘spy whale’; landfills; Werner Herzog; and tennis
Dispatches from the MPC alumni network
Department for Tortured National Statistics
The trend is not your friend
Coffee; forecasting; Intel; tax; efficiency; video games; Moleskins; and blue
Buy now, or pay later?
The Fed; 3.5mm sockets; European (endless); grades; fraudsters; learning; and pollen
Soar spots
Don’t all click at once
T+1 settlement
Bolt; 1066; pennies; inflation; hedge funds; AI investment; Einstein; and academia
Pavel Durov’s company has been coining it in
Could do better. C–
Stop Crying Your Chart Out
Local news; public investment; NFTs; immigrant restaurants; El Salvador; AI; modern policing; and clever bot makers
Another highly concentrated discharge from the TapCos