Reader thoughts on a Substack migration for The Blind Spot?
I’ve wasted most of my precious Saturday messing about with the world’s worst content management system in an attempt to recover a failed newsletter send-out this weekend. The final insult is that the email still went out with ridiculous spacing errors, half-eaten or garbled text and suboptimal text distribution … If I have to wait […]
In the Blind Spot (Travel deposits — Trussonomics redux — Digital pound)
Dear Subscribers, welcome to another Blind Spot newsletter. This week, I’m afraid to say, has proven a bit of a comedy of errors on my end. Maybe it’s the heat? It all started to go pear-shaped earlier this week, after a nightmare speaking engagement where I was asked to give a U.K. economic outlook to […]
Non-performing banker: The mysterious swindling of the EU and the Bank of Italy (POLITICO)
By Ben Munster · Jun 16, 2023 ROME — Italian courts are nearing the end of a puzzling and long-running drama around an elusive former Bank of Italy economist who plundered hundreds of thousands of euros while advising an EU committee. From 2009 to 2012, the economist, referred to here as “G.” as his name […]
