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Horn today, gone tomorrow
SocGen’s Albert Edwards on bad mojo, mad charts and the ghosts of 2007
Two bouts of intellectual torture in one year 🥰🥰🥰
Too bad they didn’t bring any big guns
Flies and tigers alike are being swatted
Bank of America takes a very long view on short rates, and lots of other stuff
The trend is not always your friend
Drumroll
Pokégogh; GS equity outlook; Sacklerama; CDS, Loro Piana
Or, how generative AI might be useful in asset management
Things we lost in the fire sale
Floreat hedge fundi
US banks; toxic plastics; central bank losses; Mozilla’s midlife crisis
Linda Yaccarino; recessions; China; American English; cats; local journalism; and places
After landing; Kansas crypto scam; PE destruction; Sacklers; Fat Bear Week; etc
The definition of insanity
TFIF
Carbon credits; REDACTED; Chadlington; Vegas; self-driving trucks; etc
Maybe it’s capitulation, maybe it’s time for tin hats
Measuring the value of virtue
Google’s antitrust secrecy; food; productivity; and another softball SBF profile
“Our industry does seem to love complexity and to abhor simplicity”
It didn’t have to happen this way
🤔
Or: a vibes-based discussion about international public sector accrual accounting for inflation-linked bonds
Altman; Musk; Swift; the BoE; the Pope; lab meat; vaporwave; etc
Almost everyone except Goldman Sachs, it seems
Carpe nulla diem
Bond doc adventures
WGA strike; “rewards”; Keir Starmer; inheritance tax; Russian tropics; etc
“We were therefore unable to reduce the risk of material fraud or error to an acceptable level”
Fall is in the air, financial criminals beware
Sløk Time
That shrinking feeling
Cricket; Denmark; neanderthals; love; circles; Studio Ghibli; the discount window; media innovation; and ‘The Rat’
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