Tony Tassell
@tonytassell.bsky.social
Financial Opinion Editor at the FT. I have views. A spotter of things in markets, companies, world affairs. Also interested in food and climbing.
Enjoyed that - particularly the griping over what was a professional performance. Maybe Chelsea should have tried attacking more in the first half
February 3, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Enjoyed that - particularly the griping over what was a professional performance. Maybe Chelsea should have tried attacking more in the first half
Odey firm’s internal probe unearthed 46 allegations against founder www.ft.com/content/73b1...
Odey firm’s internal probe unearthed 46 allegations against founder
Crispin Odey has brought legal challenge against FCA decision to ban and fine him
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February 3, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Odey firm’s internal probe unearthed 46 allegations against founder www.ft.com/content/73b1...
Personally looking forward to seeing a DCF analysis of a sentient sun
Say what you like about AOL and Time Warner, but they never promised their merger would make a sentient sun to understand the Universe.
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February 3, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Personally looking forward to seeing a DCF analysis of a sentient sun
Trump and his allies raised a record $429mn in donations last year, as tech billionaires and companies lobbying for policy changes helped build a war chest ahead of the midterm elections. rpt by @joemillerjr.ft.com Ian Hodgson and Paul Caruana Galizia www.ft.com/content/5038...
February 3, 2026 at 12:43 PM
Trump and his allies raised a record $429mn in donations last year, as tech billionaires and companies lobbying for policy changes helped build a war chest ahead of the midterm elections. rpt by @joemillerjr.ft.com Ian Hodgson and Paul Caruana Galizia www.ft.com/content/5038...
This is what a proper Brexit looks like - well written argument here from Nick Thomas-Symonds, UK minister for the Constitution and European Union Relations www.ft.com/content/3be7...
This is what a proper Brexit looks like
Prosperity and security will be driven by removing unnecessary barriers that hold businesses back
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February 3, 2026 at 9:54 AM
This is what a proper Brexit looks like - well written argument here from Nick Thomas-Symonds, UK minister for the Constitution and European Union Relations www.ft.com/content/3be7...
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Say what you like about AOL and Time Warner, but they never promised their merger would make a sentient sun to understand the Universe.
www.spacex.com/updates#xai-...
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February 3, 2026 at 9:33 AM
Say what you like about AOL and Time Warner, but they never promised their merger would make a sentient sun to understand the Universe.
www.spacex.com/updates#xai-...
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Not all the chief executives had agreed on a figure. More still were confused by what exactly they had signed.
“It was a total pantomime. I’ve never seen anything like it"
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“It was a total pantomime. I’ve never seen anything like it"
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Inside Trump’s $550bn ‘shakedown’ of Japan Inc
Tokyo signed the US president’s biggest deal yet. Will the investments ever materialise?
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February 3, 2026 at 9:23 AM
Not all the chief executives had agreed on a figure. More still were confused by what exactly they had signed.
“It was a total pantomime. I’ve never seen anything like it"
www.ft.com/content/78d1...
“It was a total pantomime. I’ve never seen anything like it"
www.ft.com/content/78d1...
The rise of Lucky Saint non-alcoholic beer and its roots in a marketing family dynasty - @johngapper.bsky.social column here www.ft.com/content/6ec3...
Craft advertising lifts Lucky Saint’s non-alcoholic beer
The London brand has drawn on British marketing traditions for its irreverent image
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February 3, 2026 at 7:20 AM
The rise of Lucky Saint non-alcoholic beer and its roots in a marketing family dynasty - @johngapper.bsky.social column here www.ft.com/content/6ec3...
Jeffrey Epstein asked for Snow White costume weeks before Jes Staley email www.ft.com/content/6a76...
Jeffrey Epstein asked for Snow White costume weeks before Jes Staley email
Former Barclays chief has insisted he had no recollection of what Disney character reference was about
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February 2, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Jeffrey Epstein asked for Snow White costume weeks before Jes Staley email www.ft.com/content/6a76...
Inside Moltbook: the social network where AI agents talk to each other - fascinating @melissahei.bsky.social read. An early sign of the impending "singularity" or an AI slop feedback loop? www.ft.com/content/078f...
February 2, 2026 at 7:06 AM
Inside Moltbook: the social network where AI agents talk to each other - fascinating @melissahei.bsky.social read. An early sign of the impending "singularity" or an AI slop feedback loop? www.ft.com/content/078f...
"Financial markets have often tested previous new Fed chairs. Kevin Warsh should prepare for his hazing." - Ed Yardeni oped here www.ft.com/content/f7ec...
Markets are set to test Warsh
Persistent inflation may make it harder for Trump’s choice of Fed chair to cut rates
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February 2, 2026 at 7:00 AM
"Financial markets have often tested previous new Fed chairs. Kevin Warsh should prepare for his hazing." - Ed Yardeni oped here www.ft.com/content/f7ec...
Top Apollo Global Management executives including chief Marc Rowan held wide-ranging discussions over the firm’s tax arrangements with Jeffrey Epstein throughout the 2010s www.ft.com/content/092d...
Apollo chief Marc Rowan consulted Epstein on firm’s tax affairs
New files reveal extensive talks between disgraced financier and key decision makers at US private capital firm
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February 1, 2026 at 8:46 PM
Top Apollo Global Management executives including chief Marc Rowan held wide-ranging discussions over the firm’s tax arrangements with Jeffrey Epstein throughout the 2010s www.ft.com/content/092d...
If this is representative of American eating habits, it is pretty extraordinary. H/t @helenebismarck.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/d...
Freedom With a Side of Guilt: How Food Delivery Is Reshaping Mealtime
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February 1, 2026 at 7:31 PM
If this is representative of American eating habits, it is pretty extraordinary. H/t @helenebismarck.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/d...
How China scales genius - really fascinating read from Zijing Wu on the country's extraordinary system to identify and develop extremely bright people, one factor behind its rise in AI www.ft.com/content/68f6...
China’s genius plan to win the AI race is already paying off
A network of ultra-competitive high-school talent streams has been turning out the leading lights of science and tech
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February 1, 2026 at 8:44 AM
How China scales genius - really fascinating read from Zijing Wu on the country's extraordinary system to identify and develop extremely bright people, one factor behind its rise in AI www.ft.com/content/68f6...
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Wowsers look at what happened to posts on Twitter/X about London crime after monetisation of posts was introduced…
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January 31, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Wowsers look at what happened to posts on Twitter/X about London crime after monetisation of posts was introduced…
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How the world fell in love with climbing - FT read from @joshnoble.bsky.social looking at Alex Honnold and the explosion of interest in climbing around the world in recent years www.ft.com/content/0223...
How the world fell in love with climbing
The televised climb of a Taipei skyscraper follows an explosion of interest in the sport, fuelled by the post-pandemic boom in exercise
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January 31, 2026 at 9:54 AM
How the world fell in love with climbing - FT read from @joshnoble.bsky.social looking at Alex Honnold and the explosion of interest in climbing around the world in recent years www.ft.com/content/0223...
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I'm not prone to exaggeration but this is probably the biggest scoop I've ever been involved in
Mandelson's partner took £10,000 from Epstein to pay for his osteopath course while Mandelson was de facto UK deputy prime minister, according to new files
more to follow
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Mandelson's partner took £10,000 from Epstein to pay for his osteopath course while Mandelson was de facto UK deputy prime minister, according to new files
more to follow
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Jeffrey Epstein sent £10,000 to Mandelson’s husband, emails show
Epstein sent Reinaldo Avila da Silva payment in 2009
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January 30, 2026 at 4:34 PM
I'm not prone to exaggeration but this is probably the biggest scoop I've ever been involved in
Mandelson's partner took £10,000 from Epstein to pay for his osteopath course while Mandelson was de facto UK deputy prime minister, according to new files
more to follow
www.ft.com/content/c950...
Mandelson's partner took £10,000 from Epstein to pay for his osteopath course while Mandelson was de facto UK deputy prime minister, according to new files
more to follow
www.ft.com/content/c950...
Stanley Druckenmiller says Kevin Warsh is not a permanent policy ‘hawk’ - scoop by @pollard.bsky.social. The billionaire investor is a long time mentor of Warsh (and also Scott Bessent) 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
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January 30, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Stanley Druckenmiller says Kevin Warsh is not a permanent policy ‘hawk’ - scoop by @pollard.bsky.social. The billionaire investor is a long time mentor of Warsh (and also Scott Bessent) www.ft.com/content/4ec8...
What FT commentators think of Kevin Warsh as Fed chair - Martin Wolf, @katie0martin.ft.com @alanbeattie.bsky.social @robinwigglesworth.ft.com @martinsandbu.ft.com and @chrisgiles.ft.com here www.ft.com/content/fe8a...
What FT commentators think of Kevin Warsh as Fed chair
The implications of Trump’s choice for markets and economies
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January 30, 2026 at 1:34 PM
What FT commentators think of Kevin Warsh as Fed chair - Martin Wolf, @katie0martin.ft.com @alanbeattie.bsky.social @robinwigglesworth.ft.com @martinsandbu.ft.com and @chrisgiles.ft.com here www.ft.com/content/fe8a...
Kevin Warsh will bring conviction economics to the Fed and a shift away from a data-dependent approach to policy making - oped here from @chrisgiles.ft.com www.ft.com/content/167c...
Kevin Warsh will bring conviction economics to the Fed
Trump’s choice of chair will shift from Powell’s data-dependent approach to policy
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January 30, 2026 at 1:16 PM
Kevin Warsh will bring conviction economics to the Fed and a shift away from a data-dependent approach to policy making - oped here from @chrisgiles.ft.com www.ft.com/content/167c...
a tale of two opeds - Kevin Warsh in the WSJ in 2017 and last November. First the earlier one www.wsj.com/articles/ame...
America Needs a Steady, Strategic Fed
Kevin Warsh writes that when central bankers react to short-term data, they confuse the immediate with the important.
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January 30, 2026 at 10:42 AM
a tale of two opeds - Kevin Warsh in the WSJ in 2017 and last November. First the earlier one www.wsj.com/articles/ame...
ING's Frantisek Taborsky says the expected pick of Kevin Warsh as Fed chair is the dollar lifeline, for now
January 30, 2026 at 7:59 AM
ING's Frantisek Taborsky says the expected pick of Kevin Warsh as Fed chair is the dollar lifeline, for now
The big overnight news - Trump preparing to nominate Kevin Warsh as Federal Reserve chair www.ft.com/content/e227...
Donald Trump preparing to nominate Kevin Warsh as Federal Reserve chair
US president says he will announce nominee to replace Jay Powell on Friday morning
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January 30, 2026 at 7:04 AM
The big overnight news - Trump preparing to nominate Kevin Warsh as Federal Reserve chair www.ft.com/content/e227...
Tesla's results overnight clearly signal the company's future lies in equipping and running a global fleet of driverless taxis and in selling humanoid robots - column here from Richard Waters www.ft.com/content/6a6c...
Tesla lurches into the Musk robotics era
Future of the company lies in equipping and running a global fleet of driverless taxis and in selling humanoid robots
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January 29, 2026 at 12:16 PM
Tesla's results overnight clearly signal the company's future lies in equipping and running a global fleet of driverless taxis and in selling humanoid robots - column here from Richard Waters www.ft.com/content/6a6c...
Germany has a potato problem - a glut so huge, they are being given away on masse, with plans to offload some 4mn kg of them www.ft.com/content/1554...
‘Das glut’: why Germans are handing out free potatoes
Tracking the ambitious plan to distribute 4 million kg of surplus spuds
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January 29, 2026 at 12:13 PM
Germany has a potato problem - a glut so huge, they are being given away on masse, with plans to offload some 4mn kg of them www.ft.com/content/1554...