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Dual-class struggles
Tee + 1 settlement
The US labour market is probably weaker than the non-farm payroll numbers imply
Only love can break your chart (Andrew Weatherall mix)
Living on the wrong side of the tenure track
Oh, Canada . . .
Medium friends; maps; white America; The Economist; European banks; Montreal; traffic noise; and celibacy
X marks the plot
Investors can't be sold the ‘Permira discount’
The case for a case
Could stability already be ‘priced in’?
Want a slice of the Barclay Brothers’ empire? You might just be able to have it, thanks to a kooky German investor
AI; worker scarcity; mobile game ads; pay-to-play academia; plastic recycling; and Yanks abroad
BREIT; property management; inflation; Ukranian nuclear power; explosives; AI; bicycle theft; and time travel
China; war; banking; productivity; suspiciously round numbers; coding school; social media; and Wu-Tang
Congestion charges; inheritance tax; labour; fund flows; octopus inflation; intelligent life; and Tube journeys
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ChatGPT; AI retrenchment; monetary policy; foot-and-mouth; Asda; bootleg vinyl; tax; and paywall mortality
Poisonous charts
China; pop music; G7; boomers; 40 acres; Amazon; photography; motherhood; childhood; more childhood; and classics
Scrap creditor sequencing and let them talk
Avid Bioservices made a blunder
Neil Woodford; tinfoil hats; Tories; arena tours; economics; medieval games; and movies
Simply the pest
A little bit of trade war, as a treat
Corporate needs you to find the differences . . .
Music; voting; Australia; Max Kelly; US potential growth; Norway; carbuncles; and book bans
Sorry — you’re going to have to have a view
The sickness at the heart of US GDP
The economy; high streets; telepathy; meritocracy; meat smoothies; Koo; service fees; yen; Matt Moulding; and Judith Jones
Don’t greenback in anger
Prepare for the worst economic discourse ever
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Ferns; hallucinogens; the Internet Archive; stamp duty; Monzo; culture; solar power; and incest
Chart me up
A year of rejection notices from the Companies House censorship department
Misinformation; surveillance; secondaries; newsworthiness; cities; a bad bridge; Russians; and relatable superheroes
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