Robin Wigglesworth
@robinwigglesworth.ft.com
Editor of FT Alphaville. Norwegian, despite the Harry Potteresque name.
Finance Bluesky needs to lift its game. With a bit of work we might even surpass vibrancy of the Wynonna Earp Fandom Community. bluesky-map.theo.io
February 9, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Finance Bluesky needs to lift its game. With a bit of work we might even surpass vibrancy of the Wynonna Earp Fandom Community. bluesky-map.theo.io
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Here comes the great American bitcoin-mining-to-AI pivot
[FREE TO READ] New kids off the blockchain
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February 9, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Happy birthday to @katie0martin.ft.com who is turning old. Please send her your OAP top tips.
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ALT: a man is dancing in front of a laptop with the words make gifs at gifsoup.com on the bottom right
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February 9, 2026 at 10:34 AM
Happy birthday to @katie0martin.ft.com who is turning old. Please send her your OAP top tips.
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‘Exactly what Africa needs’
[FREE TO READ] Presented without comment
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February 9, 2026 at 9:28 AM
"Taken together, our results highlight a substantial gap between political rhetoric and reality." www.nber.org/papers/w3479...
ICE Arrests across Trump's First and Second Terms: Variation in Targeting, Method, and Geography
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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February 9, 2026 at 9:29 AM
"Taken together, our results highlight a substantial gap between political rhetoric and reality." www.nber.org/papers/w3479...
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🚨Japan LLC has been trading its way out of a fiscal hole www.ft.com/content/f7d3...
Japan LLC has been trading its way out of a fiscal hole
Long stocks, short yen, chillax
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February 9, 2026 at 6:45 AM
🚨Japan LLC has been trading its way out of a fiscal hole www.ft.com/content/f7d3...
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Agentic AI is everyone's problem
Plus: art lending, sanctions evasion, US inbound tourism, Covid, online dating, blue-collar work, and Gesamtkunstwerk
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February 6, 2026 at 1:23 PM
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Ariane de Rothschild ousted her husband as CEO of his family’s storied bank, negotiated a big DOJ settlement and examined several mergers
Behind every move was none other than Jeffrey Epstein, who had found his backdoor into one of Europe’s most powerful banking dynasties
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Behind every move was none other than Jeffrey Epstein, who had found his backdoor into one of Europe’s most powerful banking dynasties
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How the house of Rothschild became entangled with Epstein
Swiss private bank Edmond de Rothschild was in trouble. Ariane de Rothschild turned to Jeffrey Epstein
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February 7, 2026 at 12:03 PM
Ariane de Rothschild ousted her husband as CEO of his family’s storied bank, negotiated a big DOJ settlement and examined several mergers
Behind every move was none other than Jeffrey Epstein, who had found his backdoor into one of Europe’s most powerful banking dynasties
www.ft.com/content/0d70...
Behind every move was none other than Jeffrey Epstein, who had found his backdoor into one of Europe’s most powerful banking dynasties
www.ft.com/content/0d70...
Norwegian winters are 👌
February 7, 2026 at 1:05 PM
Norwegian winters are 👌
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February 6, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Move over US Treasuries. There are some new “bonds” in town. 😑 www.ft.com/content/3382...
How prediction market traders reinvented the bond
Betting against the Second Coming or buying US Treasuries?
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February 6, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Move over US Treasuries. There are some new “bonds” in town. 😑 www.ft.com/content/3382...
Absolute scenes. substack.com/@ftav/note/c...
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Absolute scenes.
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February 6, 2026 at 12:17 PM
Absolute scenes. substack.com/@ftav/note/c...
Do smart people have better taste in food? That's what @tylercowen.bsky.social reckons, so he thinks you should eat more around DeepMind and XTX's Kings Cross offices. www.ft.com/content/c39f...
Do smart people eat better?
Economists can have a little marginal gain, as a treat
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February 6, 2026 at 11:57 AM
Do smart people have better taste in food? That's what @tylercowen.bsky.social reckons, so he thinks you should eat more around DeepMind and XTX's Kings Cross offices. www.ft.com/content/c39f...
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So what does Bill Gurley make of Figma’s IPO now?
[FREE TO READ] We love relitigating the past
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February 6, 2026 at 7:16 AM
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February 5, 2026 at 5:54 PM
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In modern Hollywood’s neverending reheating of old material I’m surprised no one has tried to remake The Neverending Story. Would very much be up for a new take on Atreyu, Sebastian and Falkor.
February 5, 2026 at 4:16 PM
In modern Hollywood’s neverending reheating of old material I’m surprised no one has tried to remake The Neverending Story. Would very much be up for a new take on Atreyu, Sebastian and Falkor.
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If you're in the market for a history of the dollar this spring, consider the history of the dollar that doesn't think the strong dollar was necessarily a good thing, and that often successful global currencies left local buyers and sellers poorly served
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/634502...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/634502...
The Almighty Dollar by Brendan Greeley: 9780593138885 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
In this ambitious and groundbreaking history of the dollar, financial journalist and economic scholar Brendan Greeley makes a new argument about the origins of our money—and the people and nations...
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February 5, 2026 at 3:35 PM
If you're in the market for a history of the dollar this spring, consider the history of the dollar that doesn't think the strong dollar was necessarily a good thing, and that often successful global currencies left local buyers and sellers poorly served
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/634502...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/634502...
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Stumbled over Charlie Chaplin’s closing speech in The Great Dictator while doing some bond research (really!) Unnervingly contemporary. www.charliechaplin.com/en/articles/...
February 5, 2026 at 12:35 PM
Stumbled over Charlie Chaplin’s closing speech in The Great Dictator while doing some bond research (really!) Unnervingly contemporary. www.charliechaplin.com/en/articles/...
“EXTRAPOLATION IS NOT PERMITTED!”
February 5, 2026 at 11:33 AM
“EXTRAPOLATION IS NOT PERMITTED!”
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Extreme views on the next US jobs report
[FREE TO READ] A tale of two tails
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February 4, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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in which ... I summarise me and @himself.bsky.social 's paper for the @britishacademy.bsky.social on the global dollar system, suggesting that it explains the fascination with the digital Euro (a set of EU payment rails that's independent of the US and can't be acquired). www.ft.com/content/5b9a...
The juice, the squeeze and the digital euro
Finally, a question for the answer to a question nobody asked
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February 4, 2026 at 1:43 PM
in which ... I summarise me and @himself.bsky.social 's paper for the @britishacademy.bsky.social on the global dollar system, suggesting that it explains the fascination with the digital Euro (a set of EU payment rails that's independent of the US and can't be acquired). www.ft.com/content/5b9a...
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Why, for the past 50 years, have US labourers been getting worse at building stuff?
www.ft.com/content/2ae2...
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You can see the computer age everywhere but in the construction industry
Making less with more
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February 3, 2026 at 12:55 PM
Why, for the past 50 years, have US labourers been getting worse at building stuff?
www.ft.com/content/2ae2...
www.ft.com/content/2ae2...
As someone with a profound but unrepentant emdash addiction it is driving me mad seeing commenters yell “AI slop!!!” whenever there is even a single — anywhere in the copy.
February 4, 2026 at 2:31 PM
As someone with a profound but unrepentant emdash addiction it is driving me mad seeing commenters yell “AI slop!!!” whenever there is even a single — anywhere in the copy.