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Dear Subscribers, Yes, yes. It’s another noon send out, but as ever it’s been a busy week and I’ve been working on a very special
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Dear Subscribers, Yes, yes. It’s another noon send out, but as ever it’s been a busy week and I’ve been working on a very special

As long-term readers will know, the Blind Spot operates in collaboration with Politico, where I am senior finance editor four days a week. In that

This is the ninth essay in a series of essays by Tim Ferguson, founder of the Anacyclosis Institute, arguing in favour of rationism, a middle-class-oriented

By Izabella Kaminska, Dan Bloom · Jul 5, 2023 LONDON — Like most banks these days, the Strand offices of Coutts, one of the U.K.’s

Dear Subscribers, Welcome to the weekend, and hopefully — for the first time in a while — a relatively timely (but, no doubt, format-muddled) send-out.

Welcome to the third episode of Season Two of the Leaked Lunch podcast with economist and author Guy Standing. The recording, which you can listen

By Ben Munster · Jun 29, 2023 The ECB and other central banks famously communicate monetary policy almost entirely through covert signals and coded messaging.

Dear Subscribers, As noted yesterday, this weekend’s newsletter has been split in two to better cover breaking news elements this Sunday. One of those breaking

Dear Subscribers, We come into Saturday evening with an apparent would-be coup being unwound in Russia, but also in the grips of two other high
Note to readers: The send out of our weekly newsletter has been postponed so that we can update for recent events and upcoming news we

By Barbara Moens, Sarah Anne Aarup · Jun 19, 2023 The European Commission is preparing to ditch its long-held free-market ideals as geopolitics and U.S.-China
I’ve wasted most of my precious Saturday messing about with the world’s worst content management system in an attempt to recover a failed newsletter send-out