Where finance and media intersect with reality.
Hot off the presses from the UK’s ONS on Wednesday: The Consumer Prices Index (CPI) rose by 9.0% in the 12 months to April 2022,
It’s good to be back! Finance, economics, markets etc: The second part of “A Long Time in Finance’s” interview with Paul Tucker. Worth listening
Elon Musk wants to use a fairly crude sampling methodology (which draws on the wisdom of crowds) to reveal the true scale of bot penetration
There’s an important story in the FT about the drop in UK gas prices resulting from massive LNG imports over the past couple of months.
The day of reckoning so many naysayers warned the stablecoin market would eventually experience has finally arrived. In some respects, the shakeout is probably a
I’m really pressed for time but I wanted to get this out as it’s important. Here as a result is the longish thread-based reply I
The diesel situation is dire. What policymakers seem to be missing is that it’s not just the market’s capacity to provide for today that is
Housekeeping note. I have been traveling this week (and am currently in Poland for a conference) hence the giant content hole. Finance, economics, markets etc…
My former colleagues Jonathan Ford and Neil Collins have bagged an absolute must-listen interview with Paul Tucker, formerly of the BoE, now a fellow at
One of the great questions of our time is whether central bank independence is really still a thing. Yes, of course, in principle it still
Apologies for light content this week. I have been doing a lot of ‘old school’ news gathering (i.e. face-to-face). In that capacity I recently met
“The scriptwriters of Game of Thrones could not have made this up.” When Stefano Marani, CEO of South Africa-based Renergen, began exploring for gas in