Robin Wigglesworth
@robinwigglesworth.ft.com
Editor of FT Alphaville. Norwegian, despite the Harry Potteresque name.
Did you ever see an elephant fly
Well I seen a horse fly
I seen a dragon fly
I seen a house fly
I seen all that too
I seen a peanut stand
And heard a rubber band
I seen a needle that winked its eye
But I've been, done, seen about everything
When I’ve seen snow fall in New York before Oslo.
Well I seen a horse fly
I seen a dragon fly
I seen a house fly
I seen all that too
I seen a peanut stand
And heard a rubber band
I seen a needle that winked its eye
But I've been, done, seen about everything
When I’ve seen snow fall in New York before Oslo.
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Did you ever see an elephant fly
Well I seen a horse fly
I seen a dragon fly
I seen a house fly
I seen all that too
I seen a peanut stand
And heard a rubber band
I seen a needle that winked its eye
But I've been, done, seen about everything
When I’ve seen snow fall in New York before Oslo.
Well I seen a horse fly
I seen a dragon fly
I seen a house fly
I seen all that too
I seen a peanut stand
And heard a rubber band
I seen a needle that winked its eye
But I've been, done, seen about everything
When I’ve seen snow fall in New York before Oslo.
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Rating the rating data of credit raters
Deep-diving into Form NRSRO Exhibit 1 filings
on.ft.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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A controversial, low-conviction, Austrian-lite argument about money markets and central bank balance sheets on a Friday afternoon.
In other words, classic alphaville clickbait. on.ft.com/4oWd4W3
In other words, classic alphaville clickbait. on.ft.com/4oWd4W3
Maybe some repo ructions could be a good thing?
A defence of even more quantitative tightening
on.ft.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:40 PM
A controversial, low-conviction, Austrian-lite argument about money markets and central bank balance sheets on a Friday afternoon.
In other words, classic alphaville clickbait. on.ft.com/4oWd4W3
In other words, classic alphaville clickbait. on.ft.com/4oWd4W3
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Sweet gig covering venture capitalists —> job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/financialtim...
West Coast Financial Correspondent
San Francisco
job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io
November 7, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Sweet gig covering venture capitalists —> job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/financialtim...
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🚨Why are people being mean about Egan-Jones?
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Why are people being mean about Egan-Jones?
Private credit ratings under scrutiny
on.ft.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:16 PM
🚨Why are people being mean about Egan-Jones?
on.ft.com/47shez1
on.ft.com/47shez1
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‘Best way to describe the market is bonkers’ on.ft.com/4qK7lV3
November 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
‘Best way to describe the market is bonkers’ on.ft.com/4qK7lV3
Shocked — SHOCKED — to discover that Neom might always have been a pile of baloney. ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
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November 6, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Shocked — SHOCKED — to discover that Neom might always have been a pile of baloney. ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
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2,506 takeover candidates: ranked!
[FREE TO READ] Sort of, but not really
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November 5, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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We’re doing a pub quiz, in New York City, on 11 November. Get your tickets NOW!
Back in quizness
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November 5, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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The private credit equivalent of autopilot disengaging one second before the crash.
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on.ft.com/4ohUaZM
Blackstone’s alternative narratives
[FREE TO READ] Three private credit bosses walk into a committee room…
on.ft.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:07 AM
The private credit equivalent of autopilot disengaging one second before the crash.
on.ft.com/4ohUaZM
on.ft.com/4ohUaZM
From this summer, apropos of nothing. on.ft.com/3ZPr6P3
Palantir is nuts. When’s the crash?
An AI darling faces its dusky interregnum
on.ft.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:43 PM
From this summer, apropos of nothing. on.ft.com/3ZPr6P3
'I could smell the onions and the mustard'
November 4, 2025 at 5:18 PM
'I could smell the onions and the mustard'
We made @dsquareddigest.bsky.social read all the “living wills” of US banks so you don’t have to. on.ft.com/47Mi48W
Living wills and the ‘Continuum of Crisis’
How willing are big banks to look into the abyss?
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November 4, 2025 at 12:01 PM
We made @dsquareddigest.bsky.social read all the “living wills” of US banks so you don’t have to. on.ft.com/47Mi48W
Various AI companies are in the process of building or planning data centres with 46 "bragawatts" of capacity — which will (if they are all completed) consume as much energy as over 44mn American homes.
That's almost three times California's entire housing stock. www.ft.com/content/2b84...
That's almost three times California's entire housing stock. www.ft.com/content/2b84...
How many ‘bragawatts’ have the hyperscalers announced so far?
A: Forty-six DeLorean time jumps
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November 4, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Various AI companies are in the process of building or planning data centres with 46 "bragawatts" of capacity — which will (if they are all completed) consume as much energy as over 44mn American homes.
That's almost three times California's entire housing stock. www.ft.com/content/2b84...
That's almost three times California's entire housing stock. www.ft.com/content/2b84...
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My take on the largest London IPO since 2021 — the flotation of Princes Group. Free to read at @alphaville.ft.com : www.ft.com/content/4141...
November 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM
My take on the largest London IPO since 2021 — the flotation of Princes Group. Free to read at @alphaville.ft.com : www.ft.com/content/4141...
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Is David Solomon’s DJ-ing career getting scratched out?
[FREE TO READ] Dark night of D-Sol
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November 3, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Is the difficulty of Alphaville's chart quiz really as volatile as a shitcoin? @tobyn.bsky.social set out to find out, and naturally produced some beautiful dataviz in the process. www.ft.com/content/3998...
And the FTAV chart quiz winner is . . .
Getting shirty
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November 3, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Is the difficulty of Alphaville's chart quiz really as volatile as a shitcoin? @tobyn.bsky.social set out to find out, and naturally produced some beautiful dataviz in the process. www.ft.com/content/3998...