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Algos; AMD; gambling; insurers; ‘Bullshit Jobs; laughing gas; and deliver drones
For whom the cell tolls
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And the survey said …
The UK possesses a rare global commodity: predictability
Sacked ‘whistleblowers’ launch California court action against Europe’s biggest bitcoin-miner-turned-AI-datacentre-builder
What’s pink, slimy, and loves Julio Herrera Velutini?
Chart-time lover
Plotting the Fentanyl money flows
CPI basket cases
help.it.burns
Gilt-shift
Private equity; reality TV; school shootings; pilgrimages; coconut trees; Wimbledon; ChatGPT; and Tony Blair
Barclays; socialism; liberalism; AI doomsterism; the American dream; and misreadings
Governments in retrospect; crises in retrospect; immigration; AI; AT&T; investing; London Tunnels; and Engurand
AI (applied); AI (economic effects of); Magnitsky; RFK Jr; Chile; etc
That’s your bloody GDP. Not ours
Celebrating Great British success stories
Europe; inflation; wealth taxes; drug pricing; rule of law; de minimis imports; the rot economy; Acemoglu; and trees
New minimum clothing standard just dropped
Rolling in the drums
Extreme poverty; Hayek; UK housing; political gambling; Dune NFTs or something; baby names; and Euro 2024
When a measure becomes a target . . .
Betray My Chart
Stiglitz; checkboxes; writers; maps; salt; cyborgs; and liquids
Gilt yields are ever more in the eye of the beholder
Caveat bookie
Morgan Stanley gets metaphysical
Flying; creativity; Meta; benefits; India; barbed wire; the Cybertruck; and TV archiving
Policy like it’s 1999
Or: how to make £330mn by being sub-par
An ambitious supply-side agenda has defined economic perceptions of his presidency. So have shocks
NYC; celebrity interviews; UK housing; “military grade rave tech”; “futuristic Cybertruck”; hedge fundation; the Libertarian Party; AI and climate change
How’s that?
Slang; spying; animals; Justin Timberlake; Andrew O’Hagan; fake meat; Netflix; and handbags
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Dual-class struggles
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