RickChasey
@rickchasey.bsky.social
Still a City worker, still following cycling too much like a religion.
Now has more opinions on ESG & sustainable investing than your average.
Now has more opinions on ESG & sustainable investing than your average.
Pity the Delta One trader, explaining how it all works to the new grad on the desk
Honestly believe that using 'alpha' like this is a foolproof Shibboleth for douchebaggery.
Normal human beings in finance (all three of them) do not do this.
Normal human beings in finance (all three of them) do not do this.
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Pity the Delta One trader, explaining how it all works to the new grad on the desk
Genuinely impressed with the number of takes on such a bang average film franchise
November 11, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Genuinely impressed with the number of takes on such a bang average film franchise
We’re all agreed that while listening to books is fine, it’s also not the same as reading?
You can’t interrogate and get under the skin of the text in the same way.
There’s a difference between, for want of a better word, ‘consuming’ literature and engaging with it.
The latter is for reading.
You can’t interrogate and get under the skin of the text in the same way.
There’s a difference between, for want of a better word, ‘consuming’ literature and engaging with it.
The latter is for reading.
November 11, 2025 at 10:34 AM
We’re all agreed that while listening to books is fine, it’s also not the same as reading?
You can’t interrogate and get under the skin of the text in the same way.
There’s a difference between, for want of a better word, ‘consuming’ literature and engaging with it.
The latter is for reading.
You can’t interrogate and get under the skin of the text in the same way.
There’s a difference between, for want of a better word, ‘consuming’ literature and engaging with it.
The latter is for reading.
Lotta BBC handwringing.
Colour me naive; pretty sure the BBC has a long history of reporting it like it is and when the subjects, including world leaders, complain, telling them politely to fuck off?
Colour me naive; pretty sure the BBC has a long history of reporting it like it is and when the subjects, including world leaders, complain, telling them politely to fuck off?
November 11, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Lotta BBC handwringing.
Colour me naive; pretty sure the BBC has a long history of reporting it like it is and when the subjects, including world leaders, complain, telling them politely to fuck off?
Colour me naive; pretty sure the BBC has a long history of reporting it like it is and when the subjects, including world leaders, complain, telling them politely to fuck off?
All jokes aside (it’s a terrible name for the race) as a Brit who watches the Flandrian coverage of these races; they do really and obviously value and respect the British, French & other Entente nations for their war efforts.
It clearly runs deep too.
It clearly runs deep too.
Gent-Wevelgem rebranding to 'In Flanders Fields - from Middelkerke to Wevelgem' will undoubtably be given the same reception as the Critérium du Dauphiné turning into Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (bad)
November 10, 2025 at 8:58 PM
All jokes aside (it’s a terrible name for the race) as a Brit who watches the Flandrian coverage of these races; they do really and obviously value and respect the British, French & other Entente nations for their war efforts.
It clearly runs deep too.
It clearly runs deep too.
If I were some Reaganite Uber-free-market-deregulate guy, I’d use cycling as my case example for how well meaning rules & regs can destroy value.
With all the safety requirements, emissions calculations, it is soon becoming a sport that is just not possible to run unless it’s the top top tier.
With all the safety requirements, emissions calculations, it is soon becoming a sport that is just not possible to run unless it’s the top top tier.
🇮🇹 Filippo Pozzato believes paid ticketing is the financial solution in cycling
"I think it's the only solution we have to survive in the future. We are the only sport that does not have a model with ticketing,"
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📸 Cor Vos
"I think it's the only solution we have to survive in the future. We are the only sport that does not have a model with ticketing,"
📰 domestiquecycling.com/en/news/pozz...
📸 Cor Vos
November 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
If I were some Reaganite Uber-free-market-deregulate guy, I’d use cycling as my case example for how well meaning rules & regs can destroy value.
With all the safety requirements, emissions calculations, it is soon becoming a sport that is just not possible to run unless it’s the top top tier.
With all the safety requirements, emissions calculations, it is soon becoming a sport that is just not possible to run unless it’s the top top tier.
Since I’m feeling quite unpopular:
I think boycotting companies of founders for supporting political parties is ridiculous.
Unless it’s criminal, and even then, send the founder prison for braking the law; doesn’t mean the product isn’t good.
I think boycotting companies of founders for supporting political parties is ridiculous.
Unless it’s criminal, and even then, send the founder prison for braking the law; doesn’t mean the product isn’t good.
November 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Since I’m feeling quite unpopular:
I think boycotting companies of founders for supporting political parties is ridiculous.
Unless it’s criminal, and even then, send the founder prison for braking the law; doesn’t mean the product isn’t good.
I think boycotting companies of founders for supporting political parties is ridiculous.
Unless it’s criminal, and even then, send the founder prison for braking the law; doesn’t mean the product isn’t good.
The need to *win the votes* probably superseded the need to be accurate.
The entire election was hinged on how terrible tax rises were gonna be.
Labour had lost some absolute sitter elections; they, not unreasonably, figured this was a better sequence of events for them.
The entire election was hinged on how terrible tax rises were gonna be.
Labour had lost some absolute sitter elections; they, not unreasonably, figured this was a better sequence of events for them.
The need was obvious at the time the pledges were made, and pointed out at the time the pledges were made - "Labour's manifesto offers no indication that there is a plan for where the money to come from to finance this." Labour made a choice to promise change without money. Now they pay the price.
November 10, 2025 at 9:36 AM
The need to *win the votes* probably superseded the need to be accurate.
The entire election was hinged on how terrible tax rises were gonna be.
Labour had lost some absolute sitter elections; they, not unreasonably, figured this was a better sequence of events for them.
The entire election was hinged on how terrible tax rises were gonna be.
Labour had lost some absolute sitter elections; they, not unreasonably, figured this was a better sequence of events for them.
NGL shoes are in bad shape even post polish.
How likely do we think the cracks & holes around the toe-bend creases are fixable?
How likely do we think the cracks & holes around the toe-bend creases are fixable?
November 8, 2025 at 1:13 PM
NGL shoes are in bad shape even post polish.
How likely do we think the cracks & holes around the toe-bend creases are fixable?
How likely do we think the cracks & holes around the toe-bend creases are fixable?
I mean, just…no?
Just because materials have moved on doesn’t mean we have it better?
Just because materials have moved on doesn’t mean we have it better?
Almost universal across the west. Voters have never had it so good. But they feel more was promised. And isn't just the cost but the difficulties of life, and the sense of a class that doesn't face these.
Difficult to sort in low-growth times. www.ft.com/content/7913...
Difficult to sort in low-growth times. www.ft.com/content/7913...
November 8, 2025 at 7:12 AM
I mean, just…no?
Just because materials have moved on doesn’t mean we have it better?
Just because materials have moved on doesn’t mean we have it better?
Shit week, bring on the weekend
November 7, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Shit week, bring on the weekend
This screen name of mine was always supposed to be Dick Chasey; a cross between Dick Tracey and Dick Cheney, who, at the time, was a terrible shot (and thus amusing when playing shooters; at least, when you’re 14)
yes, this. It drives me mad when people don't use my actual name. I'm Kate, not Katie.
I have unfollowed people on social media who have called me Andy. It’s not my name. I am not an Andy. You might as well call me Ronald. Call people by the name they want.
November 7, 2025 at 11:20 AM
This screen name of mine was always supposed to be Dick Chasey; a cross between Dick Tracey and Dick Cheney, who, at the time, was a terrible shot (and thus amusing when playing shooters; at least, when you’re 14)
Have they not seen Alex Karp’s behaviour this week?
Bro’s gonna end up in rehab via a public, dramatic and humiliating breakdown.
Bro’s gonna end up in rehab via a public, dramatic and humiliating breakdown.
If the hype surrounding AI fades, the company’s stock will have a lot further to fall. Even if that happens, though, its business will survive
Why Palantir’s success will outlast AI exuberance
Its valuation looks bonkers. Its business isn’t
econ.st
November 7, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Have they not seen Alex Karp’s behaviour this week?
Bro’s gonna end up in rehab via a public, dramatic and humiliating breakdown.
Bro’s gonna end up in rehab via a public, dramatic and humiliating breakdown.
Mad to see as here, plenty of school kids can’t get into their local school and have to travel dozens of miles to their allocated spillover school
"Number of unfilled primary school places in England hits record high". Link: on.ft.com/47GtJWJ
We should get used to seeing this story once a year!
We should get used to seeing this story once a year!
November 6, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Mad to see as here, plenty of school kids can’t get into their local school and have to travel dozens of miles to their allocated spillover school
Tbf this isn’t exclusive to women, given the amount of times I’ve been assaulted on the bike.
Women deserve the freedom to move - yet many still feel unsafe cycling
No one should have to choose between a busy road or a dark path. When cycling’s safer for women, it’s safer for everyone 🚲
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No one should have to choose between a busy road or a dark path. When cycling’s safer for women, it’s safer for everyone 🚲
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November 6, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Tbf this isn’t exclusive to women, given the amount of times I’ve been assaulted on the bike.
I’ve met more billionaires and hyper successful business leaders than most and I cannot tell you how uncorrelated their understanding of the world is to their success.
They’re no better leaders than other significantly less successful leaders, either.
It’s a function of what industry & luck.
They’re no better leaders than other significantly less successful leaders, either.
It’s a function of what industry & luck.
November 6, 2025 at 9:34 AM
I’ve met more billionaires and hyper successful business leaders than most and I cannot tell you how uncorrelated their understanding of the world is to their success.
They’re no better leaders than other significantly less successful leaders, either.
It’s a function of what industry & luck.
They’re no better leaders than other significantly less successful leaders, either.
It’s a function of what industry & luck.
It is remarkably difficult to report criminal activity you notice but are not a victim of.
I, for one, object to my local neighbourhood being used for more and more blatant drug dealing.
Wednesday school pick up; regular like clockwork.
Impossible to report. Just get sent in circles.
I, for one, object to my local neighbourhood being used for more and more blatant drug dealing.
Wednesday school pick up; regular like clockwork.
Impossible to report. Just get sent in circles.
November 5, 2025 at 3:52 PM
It is remarkably difficult to report criminal activity you notice but are not a victim of.
I, for one, object to my local neighbourhood being used for more and more blatant drug dealing.
Wednesday school pick up; regular like clockwork.
Impossible to report. Just get sent in circles.
I, for one, object to my local neighbourhood being used for more and more blatant drug dealing.
Wednesday school pick up; regular like clockwork.
Impossible to report. Just get sent in circles.
Which tracker is up 25% since June??
My wealth has increased by 25% since June. I have done absolutely nothing to earn this. I just put it in a tracker fund. I will be taxed on that gain at a lower rate than during the Thatcher government.
I’d pay more tax to make this country better and stop Putin in his tracks.
I’d pay more tax to make this country better and stop Putin in his tracks.
November 5, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Which tracker is up 25% since June??
Don’t know much about this NY mayor stuff, but two thoughts
1) nice to see Republicans lose
2) given how toppy the cycle is, and how reliant NYC is on the finance sector, being a lefty “free stuff for everyone” person will become very tricky very soon.
1) nice to see Republicans lose
2) given how toppy the cycle is, and how reliant NYC is on the finance sector, being a lefty “free stuff for everyone” person will become very tricky very soon.
November 5, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Don’t know much about this NY mayor stuff, but two thoughts
1) nice to see Republicans lose
2) given how toppy the cycle is, and how reliant NYC is on the finance sector, being a lefty “free stuff for everyone” person will become very tricky very soon.
1) nice to see Republicans lose
2) given how toppy the cycle is, and how reliant NYC is on the finance sector, being a lefty “free stuff for everyone” person will become very tricky very soon.
I’ll say it as the FT has lawyers, so won’t.
Gunvor is a money laundering exercise for Russian oligarchs & the illegal side of the state.
Lukoil is a state owned oil driller, disguised as a private company, that also launders money for oligarchs.
That’s how Tornjorn & Gunvor “afford it”
Gunvor is a money laundering exercise for Russian oligarchs & the illegal side of the state.
Lukoil is a state owned oil driller, disguised as a private company, that also launders money for oligarchs.
That’s how Tornjorn & Gunvor “afford it”
Gunvor warns of fuel shock as $22bn Lukoil deal prompts concern over Russia ties
Swiss trader’s audacious swoop on Russian group’s overseas assets revives industry speculation over Kremlin links
www.ft.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:33 AM
I’ll say it as the FT has lawyers, so won’t.
Gunvor is a money laundering exercise for Russian oligarchs & the illegal side of the state.
Lukoil is a state owned oil driller, disguised as a private company, that also launders money for oligarchs.
That’s how Tornjorn & Gunvor “afford it”
Gunvor is a money laundering exercise for Russian oligarchs & the illegal side of the state.
Lukoil is a state owned oil driller, disguised as a private company, that also launders money for oligarchs.
That’s how Tornjorn & Gunvor “afford it”
At this point, any train past 8am is more reliably delayed than not.
Fuck sake
Fuck sake
November 4, 2025 at 3:14 PM
At this point, any train past 8am is more reliably delayed than not.
Fuck sake
Fuck sake
Spotted Michael O’Leary in town so presumably it’s Ryanair numbers day?
Carrying two coffees, natch - no lackeys available to do that for him 🙃
Carrying two coffees, natch - no lackeys available to do that for him 🙃
November 4, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Spotted Michael O’Leary in town so presumably it’s Ryanair numbers day?
Carrying two coffees, natch - no lackeys available to do that for him 🙃
Carrying two coffees, natch - no lackeys available to do that for him 🙃
He was half of the inspiration for this pseudonym
Time for a birdshot salute in his memory
*DICK CHENEY DEAD AT 84: PUNCHBOWL
November 4, 2025 at 11:18 AM
He was half of the inspiration for this pseudonym
Basic analysis missing: Ukraine was never part of NATO.
It needed a revolution to remove Pro-Kremlin leadership.
key military leaders absent in the first days of the war correlated with Russian plans for UKR military capitulation, suggests rightly Russian interference was strong; hence no NATO
It needed a revolution to remove Pro-Kremlin leadership.
key military leaders absent in the first days of the war correlated with Russian plans for UKR military capitulation, suggests rightly Russian interference was strong; hence no NATO
My views on this are contingent on the timeframe: I understand why countries want to join Nato now, but it’s very hard indeed to believe that post-Soviet Russia policy was good and smart, as evidenced by it being a horrific disaster where decades of strategy had to be torn up overnight in 2022.
November 3, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Basic analysis missing: Ukraine was never part of NATO.
It needed a revolution to remove Pro-Kremlin leadership.
key military leaders absent in the first days of the war correlated with Russian plans for UKR military capitulation, suggests rightly Russian interference was strong; hence no NATO
It needed a revolution to remove Pro-Kremlin leadership.
key military leaders absent in the first days of the war correlated with Russian plans for UKR military capitulation, suggests rightly Russian interference was strong; hence no NATO
Isn’t swimming frustrating.
Worked on the catch/arm position in the pull.
Start going noticeably faster.
Try it out in earnest over 200m.
Final 50m, body goes “yeah, you’re too tired for this new fangled technique. Have the old one”
15s faster than previous PB, but still.
Worked on the catch/arm position in the pull.
Start going noticeably faster.
Try it out in earnest over 200m.
Final 50m, body goes “yeah, you’re too tired for this new fangled technique. Have the old one”
15s faster than previous PB, but still.
November 3, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Isn’t swimming frustrating.
Worked on the catch/arm position in the pull.
Start going noticeably faster.
Try it out in earnest over 200m.
Final 50m, body goes “yeah, you’re too tired for this new fangled technique. Have the old one”
15s faster than previous PB, but still.
Worked on the catch/arm position in the pull.
Start going noticeably faster.
Try it out in earnest over 200m.
Final 50m, body goes “yeah, you’re too tired for this new fangled technique. Have the old one”
15s faster than previous PB, but still.