Leaked Lunch with the WEF’s Adrian Monck
In this week’s Leaked Lunch I sit down with the World Economic Forum’s head of public and social engagement (a.k.a head of comms), Adrian Monck, at La Finestra restaurant in Geneva. We discuss the challenges facing modern media, what the Forum is really all about and what’s behind “the Great Reset” conspiracy movement, including whether […]
The End of the Beginning for BBBY, Rather Than the Beginning of the End?
This is the second part in our series analysing current 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 suspiciously […]
Is Coinbase the Gold Miner or the Shovel Seller?
This is a guest post by “the Data Artist”, an author who hails from the fintech world and is a believer in beautiful rather than big data. What the Coinbase Results Reveal About the Nature of its Business There has been a great deal of analysis focused on falling crypto prices and trading volumes hurting […]
In the Blind Spot (Turkey, LSE, Digital Euro)
This edition of the Blind Spot Wrap was compiled by Dario Garcia Giner (DGG) and Izabella Kaminska (IK). Econ, Finance and Markets: 16 months after Alibaba removed H&M from its Tmall following the western brands’ criticism of alleged human rights abuses in Xinjiang, H&M appears to have been allowed back in. Is Twitter a tool […]
Leaked Lunch Show Notes: George Magnus
Here are the show notes to this week’s Leaked Lunch podcast with former UBS chief economist George Magnus. https://open.spotify.com/episode/7z1yHqZaYr7J1W1q6GUkBQ Show Notes: 0:00-4:40 Introduction / Chat about Chinese food. 4:40-9:50 George’s career; start in UBS, explains his career move and how he came to focus on China. 9:50-15:25 Starts on historic Chinese FX reform drive. 15:30-18:30 […]
Leaked Lunch with Economist George Magnus
This week the Blind Spot’s Leaked Lunch podcast sits down with economist and author George Magnus at Royal China restaurant in Baker Street, London. George is the former chief economist of Swiss bank UBS and the author of The Age of Aging and Red Flags: Why Xi’s China is in Jeopardy. Izabella Kaminska chats with […]
Who Got Inflation Right and Who Got it Wrong? The Longlist
Not all inflationary price increases are created equal. Though inflation is universally understood, its underlying causes and historical manifestations continually mutate. For the Ancient Romans, a massive military apparatus weighed down on the coffers of the Empire, leading to a brutal debasement of their golden aurei, and both silver coins, the larger silver denarii and […]
In the Blind Spot (Human rights, Wikileaks, Coinbase)
This edition of the Blind Spot Wrap was compiled by Dario Garcia Giner (DGG) and Izabella Kaminska (IK). Economics, Finance, Markets etc. Alena Douhan, a UN Special Rapporteur on the impact of coercive measures on human rights, has urged banks and financial institutions not to over-comply sanctions regimes due to their impact on human rights. […]
Spot Markets Live Transcript: 15/08/22
Today’s Spot Markets live session is with Dario Garcia, the Blind Spot’s assistant editor, who formerly worked as a corporate investigator for Kroll. Comments from Izabella and Dario that address audience questions have been put in bold Izabella Kaminska 10:59 Hello everyone! Is there anybody out there? Sorry I seem to have some weird delay […]
When high profile mercenaries have opinions about markets, and more
It’s a year since the US de facto transferred power to the Taliban in Afghanistan, in an absolute shambles of an exit. Could it have been different? One man who has some opinions is Erik Prince, the founder of the private military contracting company known as Blackwater. For the most part, Prince is a man […]