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Can’t believe it’s only a few days since the inauguration.
January 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM
FT stock picking contest: will 2025 be the year when shorting Tesla FINALLY pays off? ft.com/content/71f4... via @financialtimes.com
FT stock picking contest: who were the big hitters of 2024?
The winners of last year’s competition revealed — plus how you can sign up for the 2025 contest
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January 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Ask Shrimsley: what will be the key trends for 2025? ft.com/content/c9a6... via @financialtimes.com
Ask Shrimsley: what will be the key trends for 2025?
Some non-committal and unfalsifiable predictions for the year ahead
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January 17, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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My Trade Secrets today. Two of Trump's big policy pledges - tax cuts and tariffs - run directly counter to a third, weakening the dollar to improve competitiveness.

Managing currencies is fiendishly hard (the Plaza Accord didn't do that much tbh) and Trump will fail if he tries.

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The alarming contradictions awaiting Donald Trump’s dollar
[FREE TO READ] Big tax cuts and tariff hikes will prevent any new Plaza Accord to manage currencies
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January 16, 2025 at 12:50 PM
A lesson for oligarchs: politics can be deadly ft.com/content/503c... via @financialtimes.com
A lesson for oligarchs: politics can be deadly
The emergence of a powerful tech elite close to Donald Trump has jarring echoes with Russia
ft.com
January 16, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Britain's growth problem in 2 sentences: ft.com/content/8178... via @financialtimes.com
January 16, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Four years of "incompetence and malevolence". Or more, if the US constitution does not hold ft.com/content/49de... via @financialtimes.com
Trump’s threat to US liberal democracy
We must hope that the American people will not lightly abandon the enlightenment traditions of their country
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January 15, 2025 at 9:30 AM
No gatekeepers, no costs, and no consequences: everything that is wrong with social media www.ft.com/content/917c... via @financialtimes.com
January 14, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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January 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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From this excellent Richard Waters lunch
Lunch with the FT: Peter Thiel
The billionaire investor and libertarian thinker believes that in a world of government surveillance, more technology is the answer
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January 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Inside the mind of a Silicon Valley fanatic. Peter Thiel makes Orwellian analogy bwtween today’s liberal democracy and South African apartheid - and calls for a truth and reconciliation commission to uncover the crimes of America’s “ancien regime”. Beyond nuts www.ft.com/content/a46c...
A time for truth and reconciliation
Trump’s return to the White House augurs the ‘apokálypsis’ of the ancien regime’s secrets
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January 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Alphaville LLC issues new research report on Greenland www.ft.com/content/f6f9... via @financialtimes.com
Alphaville LLC issues new research report on Greenland
A sell-side icebreaker
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January 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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this is very good, by @robertshrimsley.bsky.social

Politicians must find a new way to deal with the online rage factories
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Musk’s grooming onslaught shows politics needs a new playbook
[FREE TO READ] Online distortions obscure the true nature of public outrage — democracies must adapt to the age of X
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January 10, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Appropriate mix of headlines. Climate change accelerates, while the business world, under pressure from US conservatives, abandons any attempt to stop it
January 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
The uncomfortable truth about social media networks www.ft.com/content/c0ef... via @financialtimes.com
The uncomfortable truth about social media networks
It may be impossible to run an uncensored network while presenting an environment where anyone can feel safe
www.ft.com
January 10, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Free speech advocate tells Keir Starmer to stop accurately describing what she did ft.com/content/c95a... via @financialtimes.com
January 9, 2025 at 11:51 AM
The Musk threat to European democracy ft.com/content/f1de... via @financialtimes.com
The Musk threat to European democracy
Free speech push, now backed by Meta’s Zuckerberg, risks spread of disinformation
ft.com
January 9, 2025 at 9:11 AM
World Cup qualifying groups 2026 have been drawn...
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McGlashan on England’s World Cup draw. No idea what made me think of this today 🤔 From Absolutely and the OG @mrjackdocherty
TikTok video by Allaster McKallaster
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December 13, 2024 at 3:20 PM
At the FT Banking Summit, Francesca Carlesi, UK CEO of Revolut, says: "Consumers are ready for instant gratification, real-time data assessment, and real-time insights. Slick works as well. All of these, in Gen AI, can enable that today."
banking.live.ft.com/page/3356986...
#FTBanking
December 3, 2024 at 1:24 PM
Is this headline the shortest "sell" note ever written?
www.ft.com/content/7628...
Trump-linked crypto founder eats $6mn banana on stage
Justin Sun hails US president-elect’s support of industry amid spectacle at Hong Kong event
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November 29, 2024 at 3:11 PM
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Heidi Alexander’s appointment as transport secretary means the cabinet is now 100% state-educated for the first time in history - great stat from @georgeeaton.bsky.social
November 29, 2024 at 3:02 PM
Trump Management 101: trade bullshit for bullshit
www.ft.com/content/d077...
November 26, 2024 at 7:23 PM
Tariffs: It's the complexity, stupid!
www.ft.com/content/d950...
Some tariffs are worse than others
Policymakers need to update their approach if they are to use trade measures to protect industry
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November 26, 2024 at 9:59 AM
‘Incompetent’ FCA needs to be overhauled - MPs www.ft.com/content/bb42...
‘Incompetent’ FCA slammed by MPs
Report calls for overhaul of UK regulator after three-year probe heard from whistleblowers and former staff
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November 25, 2024 at 5:34 PM
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The UK has a strategic Latour reserve.

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The ultimate guide to the UK’s sovereign wine fund
Data! Accountability! Plonk! The whole wine yards
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November 25, 2024 at 8:14 AM