In the Blind Spot (How Brussels missed its opportunity to dominate finance)
Dear Subscribers, I want to start this weekend’s newsletter with a historic tale of sour financial grapes that has had a huge bearing on how the City is regulated and how it will continue to be regulated in the near future. It starts like this. Earlier this year I sat down with the inimitable Andrew […]
In the Blind Spot (What do psychedelics have to do with power politics?)
Greetings and salutations. Turn on. Tune in. And drop out. A phrase first spoken by counterculture radical Timothy Leary in 1966. But, as Leary also noted, “In the United States in the next five, 10, 15 years, you’re going to see more and more people taking LSD and making it a part of their lives. […]
In the Blind Spot (Russell Napier on the inevitable financial repression to come)
Plus, why the Wegovy boom is a false dawn for obesity, the alleged media conspiracy impacting the Polish central bank and former central bankers trash talking those who replaced them.
In the Blind Spot (The whole economy is Fyre Festival)
Dear subscribers, September is upon us. For a lot of people that means “back to school” season. And I, for one, am delighted by the prospect since it means some stability with childcare and the return of a predictable routine. Non-parents should also be pleased since it means their colleagues who are parents might finally […]
In the Blind Spot (BoJ tweak, Uber non-profits, Wind crisis)
Dear Subscribers, Thank you for your patience while I was away. We’re back to normal programming this week. This edition of the Blind Spot newsletter was compiled as usual by me with the help of Dario Garcia Giner. Economics, business, finance and more: Following the NatWest-Farage row, the heads of Britain’s largest banks committed to […]
In the Blind Spot (Another parallel universe holiday edition)
Dear Subscribers, This is another ‘lite’ (and therefore free) edition of the newsletter as I finish off my annual leave. Thanks to Dario Garcia Giner for putting the bulk of it together. We will be back with proper analysis and commentary next week. For those curious about my thoughts on the Farage affair, you can […]
In the Blind Spot (The *Lite* summer holiday edition)
Dear Subscribers, Surprise! I know we said we would be off for two weeks but Dario Garcia Giner has kindly put together a light edition for this week just to make sure we keep the blind spots at bay. Here’s a short and sweet selection of the stories that need more attention this week. We’re […]
In the Blind Spot (Nato innovation fund — Chinese influence ops — MMF reform)
Dear Subscribers, As usual, this week’s edition of the Blind Spot newsletter has been compiled by Izabella Kaminska and Dario Garcia Giner. But the big news this week is that this newsletter will be on a two-week hiatus as of next week so that I can take my first proper holiday since starting the Blind […]
In the Blind Spot (Taliban’s heroin crackdown — A useless FATF — Fiscal moral hazard)
Dear Subscribers, Yes, yes. It’s another noon send out, but as ever it’s been a busy week and I’ve been working on a very special story that will be released on Monday, July 10 — which I’m hoping will more than compensate. If there’s a specific theme that runs through this week’s newsletter it’s my […]
In the Blind Spot (Dragnets — Ze Germanz — CBDCs)
Dear Subscribers, Welcome to the weekend, and hopefully — for the first time in a while — a relatively timely (but, no doubt, format-muddled) send-out. Sadly, until we find an alternative newsletter management system, we are stuck with the clunky and format-limited Mailchimp service, which seems to ensure that almost every week something looks awful. […]