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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
No shirt
Public disorder; liquidity; real wage growth; AI; The London Standard; bicycle physics; Greta Thunberg; AI; and recipes