yes it is possible to bet in prediction markets against those who believe Jesus will return in 2026 but is it really worth it - great @alphaville.ft.com blog from @stephistacey.ft.com www.ft.com/content/3382...

"The Muskverse — the constellation of companies over which Elon Musk exerts control — is in serious need of recapitalisation." - Richard Waters column here www.ft.com/content/282c...

The Arsenal needs to follow suit

This is a great chart by the @economist.com summing up Kevin Warsh using LLMs and over 200 speeches/op-eds. I did a similar exercise showing same result (Warsh v FOMC) but with less data www.economist.com/finance-and-...

Not sure KMPG has thought this one through - if it is pressing its auditor to lower fees because of AI, does not that encourage its own clients to do the same? rpt here by @stephenfoleyft.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/c891...

This photo by Charlie Bibby in this column on the Bank of England was taken during snowfall last month but captures the current mood in the city www.ft.com/content/2da2...

- @stephenkb.bsky.social says Starmer's leadership is in a terminal phases www.ft.com/content/22bc...

Two non-FT reads I thought were really interesting this week - the @economist.com on China's military surge and the return of "Pekingology"into vogue www.economist.com/china/2026/0...

"Investors’ love affairs with growth, risk, and doubling down on whatever has been working are over. Previously unpopular, low-growth, defensive stocks are on top." @robarmstrong.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/78e5...

The Treasury market is treading in dangerous waters, argues financial plumbing expert Manmohan Singh. He writes that bank balance sheets lack capacity to intermediate the surging amount of trading in the US government bonds www.ft.com/content/c122...

In the most important news today, @nigella.bsky.social is joining @ftweekend.com as a food and drink columnist! She joins @harrietfl.ft.com's shock and awe roster of @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social @jayrayner1.bsky.social, Tim Hayward and Jancis Robinson aboutus.ft.com/press_releas...

Fascinating stuff from @joshspero.ft.com

Can Tesla make its own chips? the always excellent June Yoon on why it will be challenging for Musk. History suggests such a venture is particularly prone to value destruction www.ft.com/content/51ea...

Enjoyed that - particularly the griping over what was a professional performance. Maybe Chelsea should have tried attacking more in the first half

Odey firm’s internal probe unearthed 46 allegations against founder www.ft.com/content/73b1...

Personally looking forward to seeing a DCF analysis of a sentient sun

Trump and his allies raised a record $429mn in donations last year, as tech billionaires and companies lobbying for policy changes helped build a war chest ahead of the midterm elections. rpt by @joemillerjr.ft.com Ian Hodgson and Paul Caruana Galizia www.ft.com/content/5038...

This is what a proper Brexit looks like - well written argument here from Nick Thomas-Symonds, UK minister for the Constitution and European Union Relations www.ft.com/content/3be7...

Say what you like about AOL and Time Warner, but they never promised their merger would make a sentient sun to understand the Universe. www.spacex.com/updates#xai-...

Not all the chief executives had agreed on a figure. More still were confused by what exactly they had signed. “It was a total pantomime. I’ve never seen anything like it" www.ft.com/content/78d1...

The rise of Lucky Saint non-alcoholic beer and its roots in a marketing family dynasty - @johngapper.bsky.social column here www.ft.com/content/6ec3...

Jeffrey Epstein asked for Snow White costume weeks before Jes Staley email www.ft.com/content/6a76...

Inside Moltbook: the social network where AI agents talk to each other - fascinating @melissahei.bsky.social read. An early sign of the impending "singularity" or an AI slop feedback loop? www.ft.com/content/078f...

"Financial markets have often tested previous new Fed chairs. Kevin Warsh should prepare for his hazing." - Ed Yardeni oped here www.ft.com/content/f7ec...

Top Apollo Global Management executives including chief Marc Rowan held wide-ranging discussions over the firm’s tax arrangements with Jeffrey Epstein throughout the 2010s www.ft.com/content/092d...

If this is representative of American eating habits, it is pretty extraordinary. H/t @helenebismarck.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/d...

How China scales genius - really fascinating read from Zijing Wu on the country's extraordinary system to identify and develop extremely bright people, one factor behind its rise in AI www.ft.com/content/68f6...

Wowsers look at what happened to posts on Twitter/X about London crime after monetisation of posts was introduced… economist.com/britain/2026...

How the world fell in love with climbing - FT read from @joshnoble.bsky.social looking at Alex Honnold and the explosion of interest in climbing around the world in recent years www.ft.com/content/0223...

I'm not prone to exaggeration but this is probably the biggest scoop I've ever been involved in Mandelson's partner took £10,000 from Epstein to pay for his osteopath course while Mandelson was de facto UK deputy prime minister, according to new files more to follow www.ft.com/content/c950...

Stanley Druckenmiller says Kevin Warsh is not a permanent policy ‘hawk’ - scoop by @pollard.bsky.social. The billionaire investor is a long time mentor of Warsh (and also Scott Bessent) www.ft.com/content/4ec8...

What FT commentators think of Kevin Warsh as Fed chair - Martin Wolf, @katie0martin.ft.com @alanbeattie.bsky.social @robinwigglesworth.ft.com @martinsandbu.ft.com and @chrisgiles.ft.com here www.ft.com/content/fe8a...

Kevin Warsh will bring conviction economics to the Fed and a shift away from a data-dependent approach to policy making - oped here from @chrisgiles.ft.com www.ft.com/content/167c...

a tale of two opeds - Kevin Warsh in the WSJ in 2017 and last November. First the earlier one www.wsj.com/articles/ame...

ING's Frantisek Taborsky says the expected pick of Kevin Warsh as Fed chair is the dollar lifeline, for now

The big overnight news - Trump preparing to nominate Kevin Warsh as Federal Reserve chair www.ft.com/content/e227...

Tesla's results overnight clearly signal the company's future lies in equipping and running a global fleet of driverless taxis and in selling humanoid robots - column here from Richard Waters www.ft.com/content/6a6c...

Germany has a potato problem - a glut so huge, they are being given away on masse, with plans to offload some 4mn kg of them www.ft.com/content/1554...

Exceptional work by FT commentators here - h/t Niki Blasina, the author of this piece on millennial cringe and her pilgrimage to see the Backstreet Boys in concert www.ft.com/content/d50d...

SpaceX is weighing a June IPO timed to planetary alignment and Elon Musk’s birthday www.ft.com/content/0ee3...

good read here on how Silicon Valley trained AI by buying, scanning and destroying millions of books www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

meanwhile from @banxtoons.bsky.social

Anthropic's Dario Amodei warning here on AI and biological terrorism, saying a genius in everyone’s pocket could essentially make everyone a PhD virologist who can be walked through the process of designing & releasing a biological weapon www.darioamodei.com/essay/the-ad...

includes cool viz from @jonathanvincent.bsky.social on past FX interventions by Japanese authorities www.ft.com/content/76fd...

We ran this column by silver historian William Silber when the metal hit $50 an ounce in late Oct to explain its meteoric rise. Today it hit $110, up 59 per cent ytd. Silber pointed out the historical record shows that silver is about twice as volatile as gold www.ft.com/content/7181...

Sad news www.jamaicaobserver.com/2026/01/26/l...

Arsenal's record against the current top six Won 2 Drawn 3 Lost 3 To play: Man City away, Chelsea at home. Arsenal's record against the rest: Won 13 Drawn 2 Lost 0 To play: 13 games

Some examples of how people are using Claude Code - am fascinated about how this is spreading. Any great examples out there? www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/t...

A good counterpoint to some of the worries on AI here from Ruchir Sharma - As population decline accelerates, the big risk is labour shortages, not mass unemployment from AI. "It’s always easier to see which jobs are at risk now than to imagine the jobs of the future" www.ft.com/content/6cfe...

Winning the premier league title was never going to be easy. Very tough league this year. Great for the neutral