The ECB’s digital euro team is coming apart (POLITICO)
The ECB’s digital euro team is coming apart By POLITICO Pro Staff · Dec 21, 2023 It’s not just political enthusiasm that’s waning for the digital euro. Staff are abandoning the project too. POLITICO has learned that around 30 percent of the team planning the minting of virtual euro banknotes and coins have left the […]
Spot Markets Live, 15/12/23 (Review of the year and learnings, etc.)
JR = Julian Rimmer (Resident Boomer and former EM markets pro turned writer.) IK = Izabella Kaminska, Mother of Blind Spot Dragons. 10:30 JR: Good morning, Aloha and greetings fellow market wizards And so it came to pass that this was the last Spot Markets Live of 2023 I balanced all, brought all to mind/ […]
Spot Markets Live, 14/12/23 (Powell’s palumbine, Ethereum vs. Bitcoin, Ammo crisis)
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.) ChatGPT Provided TLDR Fed’s Rate Castaways: Market reactions to the Fed’s bond decisions. Powell’s Policy Perspectives: Rate cuts, yield curve analysis, oh my! […]
Europe’s bonfire of the vaccines (POLITICO)
By Carlo Martuscelli, Hanne Cokelaere · Dec 14, 2023 “Be prepared,” goes the scout motto. The European Union is discovering there is such a thing as being too prepared. An analysis by POLITICO reveals that at least 215 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines purchased by EU countries during the pandemic now lie in landfills across […]
Spot Markets Live, 13/12/23 (Houthi cont’d, House-less Gen-Z, Japan Bonds)
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.) ChatGPT Provided TLDR: Julian and Dario’s Market Banter: Julian Rimmer and Dario Garcia Giner engage in morning market banter, sharing their experiences and […]
Spot Markets Live, 12/12/23 (Bitcoin, Undersea Cables, Venezuela-Guyana)
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.) ChatGPT Provided TLDR Casual Banter: Julian Rimmer and Dario Garcia Giner engage in banter about various […]
Spot Markets Live, 11/12/23 (Spotify, Staged AI’s, Chinese Imports & Exports)
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.) ChatGPT Provided TLDR: Spotify’s Sour Sounds and NFT Clowns: JR & DGG riff on Spotify’s low payouts and NFT confusion, a market’s fusion […]
In the Blind Spot (A wind of change at the National Bank of Poland)
Dear Subscribers, Before we commence, a little bit of housekeeping. We are, as ever, eternally grateful to our subscribers for their support and patronage. We hope you have enjoyed our coverage and insights this year and plan to stick around next year. It’s been great working with Dario Garcia Giner for another year. He has […]
Spot Markets Live, 08/12/23 (Japanese YCC, Candles as commodities, Glapinski)
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.) IK = Izabella Kaminska, Mother of Blind Spot Dragons. TLDR: ChatGPT Summary: Travel and December Whirlwind: IK recounts a hectic week, […]
Spot Markets Live, 07/12/23 (Queen Mary cyberattack, Fertility crisis, Hard economic landings)
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. Good morning, Dario and welcome to Thursday 7th December […]