In the Blind Spot (Ponzinomics, Mortgages, PayPal)
Markets, Business, Finance etc: Google CEO has asked employees not to ‘equate fun with money’ in a sign that budgets are tightening. Paul Mizen chairs a reflective talk on the 25 years of the Monetary Policy Committee attended by Mervyn King, Paul Tucket and Jagjit Chadh. A contrarian thread by Paul Krugman on the oddities […]
Spot Markets Live Transcript: 26/09/22
Today’s Spot Markets live session is with Anjuli Davies, formerly of the Telegraph and Reuters, Davies’ last posting was as Senior City Editor for the Telegraph, moving there from her role as Acting Chief UK Financial Correspondent for Reuters. Commenter identities have been pseudonymised. Izabella Kaminska10:58 Hello and welcome to Spot Markets Live… We’re off […]
EQE and the Conditionality Risk in the Energy Markets Financing Scheme
There were many ways to commemorate the 30-year anniversary of Black Wednesday this week, the day the UK crashed out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism and sparked a sterling crisis. Neil Collins and Jonathan Ford, hosts of the A Long Time in Finance podcast, chose to do it in a three-part series that ran […]
ALTIF Transcripts: Remembering Black Wednesday, Part Three
In the final episode on Britain’s 1992 currency crisis, Neil and Jonathan look at the consequences of Black Wednesday with Jonathan Portes, Sir Paul Tucker, both of whom had ringside seats in the Treasury and Bank of England respectively, and economic historian Duncan Weldon. Presented by Jonathan Ford and Neil Collins. With Duncan Weldon and Jonathan […]
Bed, Bath and Beyond Saga; The Plot Thickens
This is the third part in our series analysing this summer’s meme stock favourite, BBBY. Our first instalment went into a previously-unknown element behind the rise of GameStop (GME) stock in late 2019 (unknown to the mainstream at least). This noted that a user called ‘namsilat’, who also appears to operate TheCorporation subreddit, had provided […]
Spot Markets Live Transcript: 23/09/22
Today’s Spot Markets live session is with Anjuli Davies, formerly of the Telegraph and Reuters, Davies’ last posting was as Senior City Editor for the Telegraph, moving there from her role as Acting Chief UK Financial Correspondent for Reuters. Comments addressing audience questions have been put in bold. Izabella Kaminska 11:58 Hello and welcome to […]
In the Blind Spot (Prop Crypto Trading, Adam Curtis, Resistors)
Business, Econ, Markets etc… The zinc market is stuck between both weakened demand and decreased supply. One of the world’s most powerful oil & gas traders may be created as Abu Dhabi Oil Giant discusses purchasing Gunvor. Apple will move 25 per cent of its entire iPhone production line to India by 2025, seeking to […]
Blind Spot Training Day
The Blind Spot is getting into the journalistic training business. Woo hoo. Why? Because as we scale up and deal with ever more freelancers and contributors, we want to ensure they share our core journalistic values and apply the same quality controls to their work as we do. Also, we have 20 years of accumulated […]
The Blind Spot Podcast: NFTs Take on Beanie Babies with Artist Simon Denny
In episode six of The Blind Spot podcast, Junseth and Izzy chat NFTs, apocalypse bunkers and beanie babies with the amazing Simon Denny. For those who don’t know, Denny is a contemporary artist based in Berlin, who makes sculptures and installations based around technological themes. Denny’s subject matter has included the redesign of the New […]
Voice Notes: Reflections on CBDCs
(On the beat in London…OTRB) FIRST DRAFT Voice Note: Settlement Costs Factoid: The Riksbank apparently decided to plug into the European T2S settlement system rather than develop its own system as it was more cost-efficient to do so. This is despite the Swedish krona obviously not being in the eurozone. I did not know that. […]