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A very British bitcoin treasury company
The right’s fight against bank reserve remuneration has gone transatlantic
Chartic monkeys
Balyasny Asset Management’s head of quantitative research talks algos, hedge funds, correlations and cats
Bullion bull
Desperate times call for desperate measures
Dolly Parton trains; Greek GDP warrants; AI lawsuits; nitpicking Gladiator; 1960s pop music
A cunning plan we don’t recommend
QT stays in the the MPC’s hands… for now
Profit senator accounting
After the fall
My Own Private IPO
RIP Brian Wilson; Dragon Age debacle; a garden of monsters; cowboy LARPing; BIC FTW
Hideo Kojima’s fight with time; Andrew Tate’s fight with leverage; LLMs’ fight with legal exams; Oasis’ fight with quality
Big movies; big splashes; big markets; big theft; big oldies; and big bigness
Hiring Israeli corporate spooks was all in a day’s work for a Microsoft-backed AI firm
Tee distribution
QTful ones
Finally, news you can use (in Brazil)
Cowboy Charter
China; centrism; tacoism; financial exchange archaeology; hard sums; slaughterhouses; and newts
Kicking the tyres of buy-now-pay-later
Could the GENIUS Act succeed where regulators failed?
An AI darling faces its dusky interregnum
Section 899; Nimbyism; Doge; demographics; housing; ketamine; medicine men; and AI guys
The City gets road rage
Rolling in the deep
Every day we stray further from God’s light
AI; overnight returns; basic capital; basis trades; Japanese debt; feudalism; anarchist property development; and AI
Dedicated to their X
Shares in a traditional Chinese medicine company pop, uh, 15,000 per cent
SOFR? I hardly knew her
AA XXX; rule of law; private credit; home bias; AI and copyright; immigration; and animal cloning
Call of QT: Bank ops
Please, just stop chasing trophy IPOs
Teed up