The next Florsheim to drop? www.ft.com/content/c5d0...

🚨(Almost) everything you always wanted to know about credit (but were afraid to ask) www.ft.com/content/286b...

oooh @hettieobrien.bsky.social's book on private equity is now available for pre-orders. Been looking forward to this one. www.waterstones.com/book/the-ass...

Three bad auctions this week, deteriorating market depth, dealers turning off autoquotes on Monday www.ft.com/content/2e01...

Is it socially valuable? No. Is it economically valuable? No. But is it fun? Also no. as.ft.com/r/4b8e2109-7...

🚨 Shamelessly riffing on @katie0martin.ft.com's great scoop this morning, @alphaville.ft.com asked what exactly attracts Bessent to the BoE model. www.ft.com/content/bae5...

Two NY Fed economists have studied the state-by-state effect of legalised online gambling on household financial health, and it turns out that sports betting "can have dramatic implications for household financial stability". www.ft.com/content/a8fb...

In which @bryce.lol imagines living in a sterile box for rich weirdos in the service of journalism: as.ft.com/r/41ad84d2-1...

Negotiation hopes are flagging, oil is above $100/barrel, a lot of the damage to the global economy is already being done Have 300 free clicks for this feel-good analysis of the economic and market outlook as.ft.com/r/278873f2-0...

😑 as.ft.com/r/cb6c1e56-b...

Here's a post in which the editor tried to recreate the Vince McMahon reaction meme using stock images of cows. as.ft.com/r/d847050e-5...

Temu keeps selling crap, PDD keeps hoarding cash www.ft.com/content/5a75...

Journalism as a service. @louisashworth.bsky.social has made an interactive map of OpenAI’s *many* AI industry linkages. www.ft.com/content/c26d...

Que Sora, Sora (sorry, an obvious gag but i couldnt resist). www.ft.com/content/5acd...

I think we can all agree that the original sin here is social media unwisely but uniformly adopting hearts instead of stars. www.ft.com/content/c53c...

Once more unto the Boaz as.ft.com/r/82092a13-5...

Polyouroboros. as.ft.com/r/d7570cd6-3...

At Alphaville, I consider how annoying it must be for European regulators that the USA argued for six months insisting on the "output floor" and now isn't going to implement it themselves www.ft.com/content/532b...

I can’t really explain why, but I weirdly enjoy @roberthutton.co.uk and @stephenkb.bsky.social’s ongoing “does the U.K. even have a culture secretary any longer” discourse.

Hmmmmmmmmm. www.ft.com/content/1171...

A poke around the accounts of Britishish AI champion Nscale as.ft.com/r/f5df069b-d...

A reminder that The Almighty Dollar, a product of seven years of research and writing, a book that dragged me into academia and in the direction of madness, is available on May 19th of this year. People who have read it seem to like it! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/634502...

The big question isn't why gold's down, it's why gold was up. as.ft.com/r/8d4b6dcf-d...

🥳 www.ft.com/content/360c...

Some neat Eurostat charts about guns and other things. www.ft.com/content/a892...

To paraphrase Bill Murray’s Peter Murray… Human sacrifice. Dogs and cats living together. Bank of England unanimity. Mass hysteria!

If attacking Iran was a distraction for all the Epstein headlines, what will the administration do now to distract from Iran and rising gas prices?

“If your reaction to the news last month that the US and Israel had begun airstrikes against Iran was to buy Fartcoin, congratulations, you win. Nearly everyone else lost.” open.substack.com/pub/ftav/p/f...

Fools and their money are easily parted, but there are limits. as.ft.com/r/2d063eb5-c...

Quiz. www.ft.com/content/114d...

How many emergencies can one country have? www.ft.com/content/2b00...

From bad, to worse, to worser. as.ft.com/r/4c816563-2...

Farewell Meg Ryan (not that one). www.ft.com/content/964c...

How calm are oil markets? It depends on where you look. www.ft.com/content/3201...

A reminder that hydrocarbons are uniquely “systemically inflationary”, because they are such a vital input into the production of *so many* other things. www.ft.com/content/a7db...

I see your Kessell and McEwan and raise you one Graydon Carter era Vanity Fair.

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Butter < guns www.ft.com/content/a892...

Column is here - first 300 clicks free to read as.ft.com/r/6bffcdf4-5...

While Brent — the most commonly quoted crude oil benchmark — has been surprisingly well-behaved, Gulf oil prices have gone stratospheric. And JPMorgan’s oil analysts worry this could be a harbinger for the rest of the oil market. If so, oooof. www.ft.com/content/3201...

the Norwegian campaign against enshittification is pretty great tbf vimeo.com/1168468796

🚨If problems in private credit got REALLY bad, wld it be GFC redux? The OFR ran the numbers. www.ft.com/content/742e...

🤨 www.ft.com/content/5ce9...

🚨Why have returns to Chinese stocks been so meh over the past 25yrs? @alphaville.ft.com has some answers! www.ft.com/content/b431...

What could end up being the biggest bagholder exercise of all time — the Operation Overlord of jamming retail investors with a comically overpriced IPO — is opening up on several early fronts. www.ft.com/content/59ad...

The divergence between the performance of China’s economy and its stock market has been a topic for decades. This from @tobyn.bsky.social may finally explain it. www.ft.com/content/b431...