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Seasonal bonus content pt.2: microcap flour-to-crypto thing with a Trump association is doing a stablecoin backed by Burkina Faso gold apparently.
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December 24, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Seasonal bonus content pt.2: microcap flour-to-crypto thing with a Trump association is doing a stablecoin backed by Burkina Faso gold apparently.
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Possibly the dorkiest Christmas quiz of the year. www.ft.com/content/2245...
FTAV’s Christmas charts quiz
On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love sent to me twelve charts a’charting
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December 23, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Possibly the dorkiest Christmas quiz of the year. www.ft.com/content/2245...
The best of FT Alphaville, 2025 edition
TL;DR: lots and lots of navel-gazing
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December 22, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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It's never truly Xmas till the @alphaville.ft.com Person of Interest list arrives
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Person of Interest 2025: the longlist
A 12th annual celebration of cancellation
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December 19, 2025 at 3:06 PM
It's never truly Xmas till the @alphaville.ft.com Person of Interest list arrives
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The new way to lose money gambling is very similar to the old way to lose money gambling.
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Prediction markets barely make money; sportsbooks make money
Kalshi’s ‘truth machine’ is financialising differences of opinion (about sports)
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December 19, 2025 at 3:09 PM
The new way to lose money gambling is very similar to the old way to lose money gambling.
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Person of Interest 2025: the longlist
A 12th annual celebration of cancellation
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December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Happy Friday, we got you a long read on where Handel, Keynes, Newton, Turner and Darwin might day-trade if they'd been born in a different century and chosen to waste their lives.
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Which genius from history would have been the best investor?
FTAV goes hedge fund headhunting through the ages
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December 19, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Happy Friday, we got you a long read on where Handel, Keynes, Newton, Turner and Darwin might day-trade if they'd been born in a different century and chosen to waste their lives.
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Private market marks, say hello to public markets
[FREE TO READ] Ouch
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December 17, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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🚨A new angle on private equity’s volatility laundering
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Here’s a new angle on private equity’s volatility laundering
Long and invariable lags FTW
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December 16, 2025 at 7:30 AM
🚨A new angle on private equity’s volatility laundering
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Loved this update on Invesco's increasingly desperate attempts at getting shareholders to OK the overhaul of its money-spinning QQQ exchange-traded fund. www.ft.com/content/0dba...
Invesco’s QQQ outreach will continue until consent improves
If you don’t at first succeed, try and try and try and try and try and try and try and try and try and try again
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December 15, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Loved this update on Invesco's increasingly desperate attempts at getting shareholders to OK the overhaul of its money-spinning QQQ exchange-traded fund. www.ft.com/content/0dba...
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The downfall of Do Kwon
FTAV watched on in court as a New York judge eviscerated, then explained, the Terraform Labs co-founder’s dramatic rise and fall
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December 13, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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In October, Renaissance Technologies suffered a nightmare, with its two public hedge funds abruptly losing about 15%, before soaring back in November. Yet for a lot of other big quantitative investors, the autumn was mostly plain sailing. Why? on.ft.com/4aGVxNG
December 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
In October, Renaissance Technologies suffered a nightmare, with its two public hedge funds abruptly losing about 15%, before soaring back in November. Yet for a lot of other big quantitative investors, the autumn was mostly plain sailing. Why? on.ft.com/4aGVxNG
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December 12, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Bloody hell, the SEC’s Caroline Crenshaw is not leaving the organisation quietly.
She says there is a “rapacious” appetite to deregulate, and warns that “the darkest depths of winter still lie ahead for America’s capital markets”. www.ft.com/content/7027...
She says there is a “rapacious” appetite to deregulate, and warns that “the darkest depths of winter still lie ahead for America’s capital markets”. www.ft.com/content/7027...
December 12, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Bloody hell, the SEC’s Caroline Crenshaw is not leaving the organisation quietly.
She says there is a “rapacious” appetite to deregulate, and warns that “the darkest depths of winter still lie ahead for America’s capital markets”. www.ft.com/content/7027...
She says there is a “rapacious” appetite to deregulate, and warns that “the darkest depths of winter still lie ahead for America’s capital markets”. www.ft.com/content/7027...