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So both PMs have now weighed in…

Coming this fall: NUMBER GO UP The story of the greatest financial mania the world has ever seen – and an epic two-year investigation that stretches from Miami to Italy, El Salvador, the Philippines, Cambodia, and SBF’s penthouse in the Bahamas. NumberGoUpBook.com

Cricket has arrived in the US! Whoohoo bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Asia’s best bar? It’s Coa in Hong Kong for a third straight year, according to ⁦⁦50BestBars⁩ - but Singapore had a good night too and ⁦Jigger and Pony⁩ was #2 bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Congrats to Jigger and Pony

An ETF that says it offers 100% downside protection on the SPX, buying/selling puts & calls to cushion against market volatility… I think the algorithmic stablecoin builders need to chat with these people 😁 bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Asia’s 50 Best Bars 2023: Coa of HK is tops once again, with Singapore’s Jigger & Pony second. Singapore had the most names in the top 50, with 11. Plus lots of new names on the list 50BestBars bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

A $500 billion corporate-debt storm is building over the global economy: “You’re going to see a lot of defaults” bloomberg.com/news/features/…

Ouch: Wall Street’s biggest banks laid off 21,000 people in the first half of the year bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Food inflation worries return: wheat is up 14% this week. The US warned that Russia has laid mines at Ukrainian grain ports, after Russia said all ships sailing to those ports would be considered military vessels bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Billionaire bargain-hunting investor Barry Sternlicht sees the “Category 5 hurricane” of higher interest rates creating investment opportunities bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Is NYC’s congestion-pricing plan a “brazen money grab”? One of New Jersey’s Senators thinks so. NJ is suing the federal government to stop it, saying it’ll burden crossings not included in the plan bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Hey, rich people: check out these secret places to stay - if you’re in the know bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

It's #WorldDrowningPreventionDay, and I'm glad to share how Bloomberg Philanthropies is working around the globe to save lives.

An explanation from Daniel Moss of why the scandals in Singapore are such a thing bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

A spot in Barcelona was just named the World’s Best Bar. And shout out to NY's Double Chicken Please, No. 2! bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Pursuits 50BestBars Lisa Fleisher Joanna Ossinger

I talked to Anthony Scaramucci at the SALT iConnections conference today about what’s next for SkyBridge bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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Stocks just had a huge November gain in the US and globally. And check out the S&P 500’s closing level for the month - 4,567.8. Numerical sequence! bloomberg.com/news/articles/…