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Don’t all click at once
T+1 settlement
Pavel Durov’s company has been coining it in
Could do better. C–
Another highly concentrated discharge from the TapCos
Hello 300%!
Bolt; 1066; pennies; inflation; hedge funds; AI investment; Einstein; and academia
Does a not-very-new paper vindicate the ex-PM?
An FTAV frontline dispatch: Bubble guns, beer and a whole lot of dudes
Wah-pah!
An FTAV Jamaicawatch update
Fight the power law distribution
Stop Crying Your Chart Out
Local news; public investment; NFTs; immigrant restaurants; El Salvador; AI; modern policing; and clever bot makers
Sino trade; bitcoin mining; horse race wagers; jet fighters; paleontology; Poltergeist; and Minions
Opioids; underwater comms; volatility laundering; AI doomsters; false columns; pleasant phrases; and raccoons
Oh, the humanitAI
Hometown heroes, assemble!
‘The dollar’s depreciation will likely be non-linear’
Prepare for the wurst
Welcome to the crown show
Inflation; clearinghouses; onion futures; scientific fraud; longevity; cooking by AI; content mills; and guillotines
But is it big enough for tax authorities to care?
*cue triumphant music*
China; economists; RFK Jr; US hegemony; Y2K; the Black Death; and advice from strangers
Looking Sharpe
Making a molehill out of a mountain
Lord of the returns
A Dream is a Wish Your Chart Makes
Ackman’s summer of discontent; looking for a man in finance; Tim Walz is a gamer
If Nokkie stops flopping around, mind
Economics: not vibes, but also not not vibes
(And it’s got worse)
Crowding down; density up
Snails; forgery; Japan; Teflon; a free château
We need to talk about VRIs
Offshore finance; SPR; Nintendo; Ezra Klein, the terminal