Kate Duguid
kateduguid.bsky.social
Kate Duguid
@kateduguid.bsky.social
I'm the US markets editor at the Financial Times
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After Argentina and Austria, investors look to juice duration in Alpha Bet. www.ft.com/content/3260...
Alphabet lines up 100-year sterling bond sale
Deal comes as Google parent steps up AI borrowing rush with $15bn sale of dollar bonds
www.ft.com
February 9, 2026 at 4:48 PM
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Renfeild: I booked your passage on the Demeter, master
Dracula: thankfs. dont foret the box of,, dert
February 5, 2026 at 3:49 AM
curious to know who do you think is doing this best? bbg? nyt?
February 4, 2026 at 8:11 PM
Becca Rothfeld is without question the best nonfiction book critic working at the moment. Awful decision to close the section. Hope someone smart snaps her up instantly.
there isn’t a better Books desk in the country than the one at the Washington Post. I’m not really sure there’s anything else to say
February 4, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Jill gets the scoop on Tether's scaled back fundraising ambitions www.ft.com/content/3f7f...
Tether retreats from $20bn funding ambitions after investor pushback
CEO Paolo Ardoino downplays the scale of $185bn stablecoin group’s capital raise
www.ft.com
February 4, 2026 at 2:48 PM
deffo. my issue is also like - if you’re Bryan Johnson what are you living for? assume all his time and brain space is spent tracking peptides and planning his next transfusion. you wanna live an extra seven (? idk) years to spend them doing that?
February 3, 2026 at 2:36 AM
it was such a bummer. and made me feel so alien from the people in question
February 2, 2026 at 5:22 PM
I spend hundreds of dollars a week on unregulated, grey-market Chinese research chemicals to inject myself with so that I can focus better at my job using an LLM to do PR for an LLM
February 2, 2026 at 5:05 PM
taking 30 vitamins a day to pass your time compiling a shopping newsletter smh
February 2, 2026 at 4:59 PM
all the people I’ve encountered who are obsessed with longevity spend their time doing the stupidest shit imaginable
February 2, 2026 at 4:57 PM
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One day after announcing Kevin Warsh as his choice to run the Fed, Trump joked during a speech on Saturday night that he would sue Warsh if Warsh doesn’t lower rates. 

Warsh had been on the guest list of attendees at the elite Alfalfa Club dinner.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Exclusive | Trump Jokes About Suing Warsh if He Doesn’t Lower Interest Rates
The president later said he didn’t extract any concessions from the Federal Reserve nominee.
www.wsj.com
February 1, 2026 at 12:15 PM
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Among the batch of newly released emails from Jeffrey Epstein: Epstein telling Peter Thiel he would “gladly share…expenses for the Gawker suit.”

This was sent the day after @rmac.bsky.social and @mattdrange.bsky.social reported in Forbes that Thiel was behind the lawsuit that would bankrupt Gawker
January 31, 2026 at 8:25 PM
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“Until you get fiscal under control and inflation under control, you are not going to be able to aggressively reduce interest rates and shrink the [Fed’s] balance sheet”

Big bond investors on competing priorities for Trump’s Fed nominee
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Kevin Warsh’s desire to shrink Fed’s balance sheet sets up clash with Trump, say investors
[FREE TO READ] Long-term yields ticked up after president nominated former governor to lead US central bank
as.ft.com
January 31, 2026 at 9:12 AM
as a non-claude user I found this a useful read mattbruenig.com/2026/01/19/s...
Some Thoughts on AI – Matt Bruenig Dot Com
mattbruenig.com
January 30, 2026 at 8:47 PM
From earlier this am: Amelia got the first interview with Druck after Warsh's nomination www.ft.com/content/4ec8...
Stanley Druckenmiller says Kevin Warsh is not a permanent policy ‘hawk’
Fed chair nominee ‘believes you can have growth without inflation’, according to his longtime mentor
www.ft.com
January 30, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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Toby's done the chart quiz this week, so difficulty is turned up to 11.

www.ft.com/content/a9b1...
FTAV’s Friday chart quiz
Take chart
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January 30, 2026 at 11:22 AM
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I would like to speak with the manager

I was told I owned an uncorrelated store of value
January 29, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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High yield spreads have widened a touch. I banged the side of my monitor to make sure it was real.
January 29, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Great FT opening for a correspondent covering Taiwan and Asia regional security job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/financialtim...
Greater China Correspondent
Taipei
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January 29, 2026 at 6:50 PM
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👂POD TIME👂

Me and @robarmstrong.bsky.social on gold + silver going cray cray

Featuring:
- fear! 😱
- greed! 🥳
- winter fashion ❄️
- Rob being wrong 😵
- bitcoin bros also being wrong 🤣
- Melania, the movie 🫣

www.ft.com/content/8f30...
How does a gold rush end?
Gold and silver are racing to records. What could stop that?
www.ft.com
January 28, 2026 at 12:26 PM
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“.. This is part of a structural shift where bonds don’t rally in risk-off,” Wiltshire said.

@financialtimes.com #$GLD
www.ft.com/content/6fcd...
January 28, 2026 at 1:24 PM