This is how Alphaville increases headcount. 🎉

Seagull Boy is my new spirit animal.

Betteridge’s Law strikes again.

What internal devaluation looks like: —> on.ft.com/3UxMTIS

A local regulator for local people on.ft.com/3wi3h6S

The kind of deep insight that you can only get from a SUPERCOMPUTER. 🫡

Ignore the negativity, Britain’s future is scintillatingly bright with kids like this. bbc.com/news/uk-englan…

Love that a couple of FTAV posts became accidental experiments to see whether people actually read the fine print of what they’re buying.

Haters gonna hate hate hate, we’re just gonna post post post. on.ft.com/3Uu9dTC

Cc Lina Khan

“Many readers have told us that the ideal number of stories about Taylor Swift in the financial media is zero. Those people are not having a good month and, apologies, we’re about to make it worse.” on.ft.com/3Uu9dTC

What’s a new Taylor Swift album worth? on.ft.com/3Qh9sz4

My thing in FT Alphaville on the Bernanke Review of the Bank of England models and forecast: ft.com/content/f76c54…

Bridgewater’s investment engine, ca 1980.

Is the boom in private credit losing steam?

'In Q1 24, banks clawed back just over 1/2 of the $20bn that shifted in favour of private credit last year'

But 'private credit could be the Ozempic to help banks on yet another diet'

My latest for @ft 🧵

ft.com/content/bd3c91…

The DOJ collected data on 58,000 titles published by major publishers in a year for the PRH case and discovered that 90 percent of them sold fewer than 2,000 copies and 50 percent sold less than a dozen copies. That is.... astonishing. elysian.press/p/no-one-buys-…

FT Alphaville's Louis Ashworth has been digging through the US proxy filings again .. This is superb: Meet the pest-control boss with the $140,000 dining perk
on.ft.com/4dbiTtx