‘the International Monetary Fund said it was concerned about the UK government adding £45bn of tax cuts to £150bn of spending. With almost £200bn added to the UK’s debt pile over the next four years under this plan’

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/sep/28/what-bank-of-england-doing-pound-dollar-uk-economy-interest-rates-bonds

Fixing systemic problems is more difficult than spewing moralism

https://www.economist.com/open-future/2019/06/28/globalisation-is-dead-and-we-need-to-invent-a-new-world-order

 

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/09/pandemic-intuition-nightmare-spiral-winter/616204/

The American dream of Humanity, empathy and capitalism with a conscience is alive and well, but alive and well in Canada

 “from:@profgalloway #hottake” on Twitter. 

WeWTF

https://www.profgalloway.com/wewtf

worth a listen The missing Cryptoqueen

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07nkd84

when that narrative cracks, going Galactic

https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2020/02/18/1582025119000/Virgin-Galactic-is-rocketing--when-s-it-returning-to-earth-/

We Decided to Run Our Core Services Without Blockchain

https://digitalasset.live/2020/02/11/fsight-christian-kern-interview/

https://heated.medium.com/you-should-be-eating-more-canned-fish-bbf84969b063

https://www.quimetquimet.com/

How McKinsey Destroyed the Middle Class

Technocratic management, no matter how brilliant, cannot unwind structural inequalities.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/02/how-mckinsey-destroyed-middle-class/605878/

50 Cognitive Biases in the Modern World

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/50-cognitive-biases-in-the-modern-world/

https://www.fark.com/

https://www.crunchbase.com/

japan chat

https://boingboing.net/2020/01/15/25-useful-japanese-words-for-e.html

best of MIB

https://ritholtz.com/2020/01/mib-best-of-2019/

you're probably bored today

Vid

• The best TV episodes of 2019. (theringer.com)
• The 10 best TV shows of 2019. (slate.com)
• The best TV shows of 2019. (theringer.com)
• The 10 best TV shows of the past decade. (esquire.com)
• The best non-Netflix shows now on Netflix ($NFLX). (variety.com)
• The 25 best episodes of TV from the past decade. (buzzfeednews.com)
• The most popular TV shows visualized from 1986 to 2019. (kottke.org)

MUSIC

• The best songs of 2019. (gq.com)
• The best albums of 2019. (variety.com)
• The best albums of 2019. (theringer.com)
• The best albums of 2019. (nytimes.com)
• The 50 best albums of 2019. (pastemagazine.com)
• 21 of our favorite albums of 2019. (gq.com)
• The best music of 2019 (and the decade). (newyorker.com)
• The 100 best albums of the 2010s. (rollingstone.com)

Is a bank about to go bust? repo explanations..

The risks behind foreign banks’ dollar funding

https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2019/10/16/1571257521000/The-risks-behind-foreign-banks--dollar-funding-/

A story about a liquidity regime shift
https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2019/09/17/1568721798000/A-story-about-a-liquidity-regime-shift/

The Real Story Of The Repo Market Meltdown, And What It Means For Bitcoin

https://www.forbes.com/sites/caitlinlong/2019/09/25/the-real-story-of-the-repo-market-meltdown-and-what-it-means-for-bitcoin/#1146d3057caa

really

We’ll you’ve got a quirky sense of ironic detachment, or you’re just commenting on what’s going on. Or perhaps you’re not going to make a joke , but signal that a joke is being made without actually making one

Adam and Louis

Ethereum Is No Longer a Monopoly Platform for Stablecoins

https://cointelegraph.com/news/ethereum-is-no-longer-a-monopoly-platform-for-stablecoins

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-30/silicon-valley-calls-summit-to-disrupt-ipos-bankers-not-welcome

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/sep/20/the-men-who-plundered-europe-city-of-london-practices-on-trial-in-bonn

mog

https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2019/09/12/1568281802000/No-deal-Brexit-is-not-a-hedge-fund-conspiracy/

https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2018/02/08/2198570/jacob-rees-moggs-huge-personal-windfall-after-brexit/

https://www.ft.com/content/d9f42362-aea0-11e7-beba-5521c713abf4

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2016/07/boris-johnson-peddled-absurd-eu-myths-and-our-disgraceful-press-followed-his

‘With a few honourable exceptions – such as the Financial Times, the Timesand the Guardian – the referendum coverage was merely a supercharged version of what had gone before. It was led by the biggest broadsheet (the Telegraph), the biggest mid-­market paper (the Mail) and the biggest tabloid (the Sun).’

The Times…hmm, worth looking at the Times on the 4^th of June, great pic of David Cam rejoicing the Brexit party results (small note  he was at the footy)

James Montier: 'How Do I Get Paid for Owning This Asset?'

https://the-long-view.simplecast.com/episodes/james-montier-how-do-i-get-paid-for-owning-this-asset

According to Montier, some 83 per cent of IPOs this year have come to market with negative EPS
https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2019/03/15/1552664233000/GMO-s-Montier-on-the-rise-of-the-dual-economy/

ESG investing.

https://www.pragcap.com/my-view-on-esg-investing/

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/against-the-rules-with-michael-lewis/id1455379351

Michael Lewis’s podcast, Against the Rules.

‘Formula 1 – Drive to Survive’ on Netflix

Dark on Netflix

The bill would exonerate workers under the age of 26 from Poland's 18 percent personal income tax for those whose gross earnings don't surpass 85,500 zlotys (20,000 euros, $22,500) per year.

https://www.france24.com/en/20190705-poland-moves-exempt-young-workers-income-tax

Best Drummers Of All Time: 100 Legendary Musicians You Need To Know

https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/best-drummers-in-music/