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Unimportant answers to unimportant questions
Cellar’s remorse
Regard numbers, acquire garments
Moar leverage!
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Everything you never wanted to know about central clearing in the world’s benchmark market
Crab consciousness; SBF; Binance; King Charles; sweet potatoes; Google; money; and Chinese anonymity
Maximising the freelance-rider problem
Well that was a let-down
Short manager syndrome
When the Office for Budget Responsibility gets nasty
New challenger approaching
Yes, we have one
The Pope; incognito mode; Taco Bell sex party; liberalism; mansion blocks; Harry Maguire; and China
Shiti just got real
Inflation; more inflation; Richard III; cities4techies; offshore wind; Milei; Musk; and Netflix
Binance founder said to catch charges
What the IMF gets wrong about the global trade rebound
Magnificent momentum jockeys
Accounting fraud; cocaine hippos; waste; housing; publishing; maths; college grads; and trees
Catching up with Wall Street’s most wired analyst
Like “watching paint dry”, but if the paint was the US banking system
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ChatOAP
CoT strikes back
Aliens; CTE; sovereign debt; Cajun turtles; money; Sephora; neoliberalism; vocal fry; and Chile
Look What You Made Me Do, Kostin.
Label these lines to win a drip tee
This season of goodwill impairment, give them something to value
Some bad things happened and they’re not going to happen again, maybe, hopefully
The Managed Fund Association bravely stands up for its members
DJ Ponzi; UK courts; George Santos; hot rocks; Eric Adams; FDIC fallout; André 3000; etc
Why aren’t they getting spent?
The Crogh flies (away)
Did price-gouging really contribute meaningfully to inflation?
Bees! BEES!
Your Honour . . .
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