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Delisting dangers
Diagrammstein
Guess whose Spac?
Passive flows rule everything around me
Navigating a bancassurance accounting loophole
What you don’t publish can’t hurt you
Trade wars; the US exodus; exorbitant privilege; a metaverse startup; San Francisco; sex work; long 1990s; and gang tattoos
Donation nation
Teed off
’Round our hometown / memories better be fresh
Dissecting a dead-cat indicator
$JAAArgh
Tariffs; euro adoption; Palantir; Stem brain drain; tax avoidance; political culture; 4Chan; and Gàidhlig
Corporate profits; trend quant investing; maga uniforms; disorder; tariffs; dreck; and Hitler
Contrarianism; trade wars; social media; lottery cornering; options trading; disease; and AI-enabled Henry Blodget
A battle; a protester; an estimator; a dream; a saint; a gambler; a samurai; and a Toby Carvery
Dare Iz A Chartside
Are there foreign covered bonds in your buffer?
College; Musk and the mums; Nintendo v Atari; liquidity; free trade; plot; ‘equity’; and a big squid
Grifters gonna grift
Tax; social networks that make you go hmmmm; more tax; aliens; reality TV; and ‘SWAT’ nerds
Shock and AWE
But fresh credit remains weirdly healthy
It’s certainly novel
Bloomberg vs Bloomberg; cars; OpenAI; devs; chewing; buffer ETFs; and growth
The world’s reserve currency gets a sharp shock
Chart Laffer
Mortgages; Max Romeo; markets; Broadway; Howard Lutnick; Monty Python; teeth; and nuclear power
Whatever happened to that 7% growth rate?
An end-of-week inbox raid
Two of Alphaville’s favourite topics finally cross over
Chartificial intelligence
A new Fed facility?
Cheese-tapping; Argentina rising; China’s economic weapons; BTFD
Swapsmageddon or a Basisclysm?
Musk cyberbullied; Labour’s straitjacket; crypto pump and dumps; Trump vs documentaries
And a thank you from FT Alphaville