Where finance and media intersect with reality.

Spot Markets Live, 04/12/23 (Tether, Oil and Saudi Arabia, Cybersecurity)

Comments in bold addressed to audience members JR = Julian Rimmer (Resident Boomer and former EM markets pro turned writer.) DGG = Dario Garcia Giner (Resident Zoomer and former corporate investigations pro turned meme stock watcher and in-house drone expert.) TLDR: ChatGPT summary: Bitcoin and Crypto: Dario mentioned a 1.2% gain in Bitcoin but contemplated selling. Highlighted […]

In the Blind Spot (Go F*** yourselves. Err, no, not really.)

Dear Subscribers, Since the Blind Spot doesn’t have any advertisers (funded as we are by subscribers), we, alas, can’t indulge in an impulse to tell them to “go fuck themselves” if they disagree with our editorial slant or want to impose their slant on us. But what we can and have pre-emptively committed to is […]

Spot Markets Live, 30/11/23 (Rapid Liquid Printing, Recession warnings, Essequibo heats up)

TLDR: ChatGPT summary: Greeting: Mentioned UN approval for the Jewish state, birthdays of Jonathan Swift and Churchill, and the passing of Henry Kissinger. 3-D Printing Breakthrough: DGG introduces Rapid Liquid Printing (RLP), a groundbreaking 3-D printing technique, highlighting its advantages over conventional methods. The discussion touches on its potential applications and challenges. Electric Vehicle (EV) […]

Spot Markets Live, 29/11/23 (Gamestop, Chinese IPOs, European periphery growth)

Comments in bold addressed to audience members JR = Julian Rimmer (Resident Boomer and former EM markets pro turned writer.) DGG = Dario Garcia Giner (Resident Zoomer and former corporate investigations pro turned meme stock watcher and in-house drone expert.) 10:30 JR: Good morning, Aloha and greetings fellow market wizards This morning’s forum is brought […]

Spot Markets Live, 28/11/23 (Russian woes, OpenAI continued, Egypt)

NOTE : **SML WILL NOT BE ON THIS FRIDAY** Comments in bold addressed to audience members. JR = Julian Rimmer (Resident Boomer and former EM markets pro turned writer.) DGG = Dario Garcia Giner (Resident Zoomer and former corporate investigations pro turned meme stock watcher and in-house drone expert.) 10:30 JR: Good morning, Aloha and […]

Spot Markets Live, 27/11/23 (UBS rumours, Black Friday, Taiwan)

Comments in bold addressed to audience members. JR = Julian Rimmer (Resident Boomer and former EM markets pro turned writer.) DGG = Dario Garcia Giner (Resident Zoomer and former corporate investigations pro turned meme stock watcher and in-house drone expert.) 10:29 JR: Good morning, Aloha and greetings, fellow market wizards Today’s nugget from my goldmine […]

In the Blind Spot (Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do)

Dear Subscribers,   A short greeting today as I have to get ice-skating.I will leave you with one thought to ponder for the weekend: If a public-domain AI really has the capacity to be as powerful as all the techno billionaires say, consider what might happen if, by some weird osmosis or intelligence, it started […]

Spot Markets Live, 23/11/23 (Lillium EVTOL, Dutch elections cont’d, India)

Comments in bold addressed towards audience members. Below is our new format – let us know what you think! JR 10:30 Good morning, Aloha and greetings fellow market wizards Happy Thanksgiving Day to everyone, especially my geopolitical zoomer down there in the south of Spain, dario… DGG 10:31 Hello all!! JR 10:31 some Turkey talk […]