Sadiq Khan does seem to have done a u-turn on road charging - below is what he told the NYTimes in June 2022 . I had hoped he would bring in road charging to offset impact of increased traffic on many boundary roads of LTNs. nytimes.com/2022/06/29/cli…

Singapore's GIC beat out Jane Street to win the FT Alphaville pub quiz.

Looks like private credit themed teams struggled mightily. Take that for what you will.
ft.com/content/bdcc4a…

🚨 Passive funds track the market, but who decides what the market is? And what if they change their mind (a lot)?

Was tempted to quote Lewis Carroll's Humpty Dumpty.
on.ft.com/4aQxWXT

Today is publication day for Isabel Berwick
A taster in the article - buy the book!

ft.com/content/9c58de…

Mobile phones and map apps have made travel so much easier. Here is another example: photo translation. You take a photo with the app and it translates the words. Not perfect but very useful for menus etc. see this example of a poster I saw today

Abrdn CIO says mocking name is ‘corporate bullying’ fnlondon.com/articles/abrdn… via Financial News

Another cherry blossom photo for the timeline. This one from Kyoto

Is Wall Street too focused on league tables….my FT piece…
ft.com/content/d38911…

Arsenal fans tonight — and all through this year — showing big love for The Wall Street Journal reporter and massive gooner Evan Gershkovich, unjustly jailed for a year in Russia.

We know he sees this and it lifts his spirits.
#COYG
#IStandWithEvan

Abolishing AT1s would be a serious mistake - Jerry del Missier oped here on the Dutch govt’s move to consider ditching the capital instrument ft.com/content/69e5e6…

great piece of writing here by Joe Miller on the downfall of Sam Bankman-Fried

ft.com/content/302615…

Stunning front page of the The Wall Street Journal

Given what we learnt during his trial about SBF’s political ambitions, this by ⁦Gillian Tett⁩ on how crypto lobbyists are on manoeuvres makes for sobering reading
on.ft.com/4agNh46

Really hope company HR departments read this powerful column from Margaret Heffernan on how job searches have been made dehumanising and unhelpful by automated application processes - and how it is having big impact on young people ft.com/content/4b16c3…

EXCLUSIVE:

US and UK probing $20 billion+ of crypto transactions that passed through a Russia-based exchange

Authorities believe it could be one of the biggest breaches of Western sanctions on Russia

Story from Jennifer Jacobs Alberto Nardelli and me

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Excellent piece by Toby Nangle on why Singapore has lessons for countries worrying about debt ft.com/content/0ea2bc…

So sad to hear of the death of the great Danny Kahneman. I've had the privilege of interviewing many of the greats in social science (Becker, Schelling, Thaler, Levitt, Duflo and others) but Kahneman is the one who took up residence in my subconscious...

An essay by Richard H Thaler and yours truly on Danny Kahneman and Amos Tversky, his greatest collaborator.
newyorker.com/books/page-tur…

Amlo’s showdown with a billionaire - fine Christine Murray column on the clash between the Mexican president and Ricardo Salinas Pliego, third richest man in the country ft.com/content/89c323…

'Polls show RFK Jr would draw most of his support from Biden. The fact that Tim Mellon, a big Trump donor, has given him $20m backs that up. You wouldn't waste that kind of cash on a hopeless cause without a larger aim.' Me on the potential Nader of 2024 ft.com/content/7d7076…