Spot Markets Live Transcript: 19/12/2022
Izabella Kaminska10:59 … Hello and welcome to the last SML of the year. We will be taking a break now until January, when we will be back with renewed vigour and insight. Today I’m joined by Betaville’s Ben Harrington, as you can see. Hello Ben Ben Harrington11:00 Morning! Izabella Kaminska 11:00 Ben has to go […]
In the Blind Spot (Roubini, JFK, TTF)
This late edition of the Blind Spot Wrap (due to illness) was compiled by Izabella Kaminska (IK) and Dario Garcia Giner (DGG). Business, Econ and Finance etc: Nouriel Roubini’s quasi-apocalyptic take on the ‘unavoidable crash’ shaking our economy, resulting from our ultra-loose monetary policy, together with major negative supply shocks. Do check out my own […]
ALTIF Transcripts: A Nation Deep in Debt (Part One)
“Let us be, say I, a free Nation deep in Debt.. rather than a Nation of Slaves owing nothing.” So wrote a pamphleteer in 1720 about the remorseless rise of Britain’s National Debt. At a time of mounting concern about the public finances, we launch a two-part series on the National Debt, starting with its […]
The Great Kitchen Exodus: Why All the Fine Dining Staff Quit in 2022
By Robert Stevens, exclusively for The Blind Spot “Hell” – that’s how one Spanish chef described his time at one of London’s three-Michelin starred restaurants. The experience saw the junior chef squirt gelatins and primp vegetables with ungodly precision from six in the morning until well past midnight, five days a week, for a monthly […]
In The Blind Spot (City Regulation, Coal, Anon Archaeology)
This week’s edition of the Blind Spot Wrap was compiled by Izabella Kaminska (IK) and Dario Garcia Giner (DGG). Business, Econ & Finance: Walmart’s CEO claims they could shut stores and hike prices due to the spate of thefts at their stores, stating that prosecutors’ lax’ approach towards thieves needs to harden. The Bank for […]
ALTIF Transcripts: Bulb Failure
It’s not often when a start-up fails that taxpayers end up getting a bill for £6.5bn – equivalent to a penny on income tax. But that’s what happened with Bulb, a venture that tried to bring the economics of Deliveroo and Uber to the staid business of selling power to domestic customers. Energy expert Nick […]
Spot Markets Live Transcript: 05/12/22
Izabella Kaminska 10:58 … Good morning! Happy nearly St. Nicholas day. Hope you’ve all got your advent calendars on the go. This, of course, is Spot Markets Live, the daily tour around the markets. Today I’m joined by my trusty partner in pixel crime, Anjuli Davies. Hello Anjuli. Anjuli Davies 11:00 Greetings Festive nearly St […]
In The Blind Spot (Temasek, BlackRock, Poland)
This week’s edition of the Blind Spot Wrap was compiled by Izabella Kaminska (IK) and Dario Garcia Giner (DGG). Business, Econ & Finance etc: Did the Fed just admit that inflation may be non-transitory? Oh to remember the good old days when the fintwit community was so sure all inflation would be transitory. Even now, […]
The Nuclear Renaissance Faces Many Hurdles Yet
This is a guest contribution from Ed Castorina, an attorney with over a decade of experience in the power generation field. Bill Gates can have his opinion published by The New York Times any time he chooses (we would think). But, noblesse oblige, he does not abuse the privilege. Only a handful of Gates’ opinion […]
ALTIF Transcripts: The City Contra Mundum
The US politician Dean Acheson once said of Britain that it had lost an empire but not found a role. Could the same be true of the City of London? Out of the EU, it needs to find a new mission to retain its slot as one of the world’s top financial centres. Neil and […]