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Gold bubble should prompt central banks to sell the metal

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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 4h

as Willem points out: www.ft.com/content/589d...

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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 4h

Back in 2009, Willem Buiter wrote that gold was in a 6000-year-old bubble. SInce then it has risen from $1,100 to $4000 an ounce. But he writes here is still has no intrinsic value and should be sold by central banks. www.ft.com/content/589d...

The world is thoughtless of history when it treats bullion as desirable and a store of value

Can Japan satisfy the world’s thirst for matcha?

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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 4h

Read of the day: Can Japan satisfy the world’s thirst for matcha? just a great story from Harry Dempsey and @urbandirt.bsky.social reporting from Shizuoka and Uji www.ft.com/content/be14...

Booming demand is straining a supply chain that prioritises quality and cannot expand quickly enough

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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 1d

one of the world's greatest cities

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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 1d

well just a shortage of people all around

Defence companies sound warning to the UK

Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 1d

Japan has an ‘enshortification’ problem - @urbandirt.bsky.social here on the country's shortages of practitioners with some examples here www.ft.com/content/de6a...

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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 1d

Defence companies sound warning to the UK - column here by @sylviapfeifer.bsky.social on the rising frustration of industry executives with the pace of increases on spending compared with Germany etc www.ft.com/content/dee5...

Executives say pace of spending needs to pick up to match promises to make country battle-ready

Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 1d

One of the more striking lines in that column www.ft.com/content/3474...

The flawed Silicon Valley consensus on AI

Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 1d

The flawed Silicon Valley consensus on AI - excellent column by @johnthornhill.bsky.social. "Instead of hyperventilating about AI ushering in a new era of abundance, wouldn’t it be better to drop the rhetoric and build AI systems for more defined, realisable goals?" www.ft.com/content/3474...

Serious questions remain about what will happen if we do — and don’t — replicate human intelligence

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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 1d

am envious of that train ride....would like to do it one day

Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 1d

good point..I am far from a transport expert and it is John's column, not mine. Maybe the case is clearer here - ie different end routes etc

More cross-channel rail services coming down the track | Office of Rail and Road

Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 2d

very good piece..the weight loss drugs are so transformative...at least it has been for me

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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 2d

well the rail regulator still has to issue a decision on access by competitors to Temple Mills, the depot where Eurostar stores and maintains its trains www.orr.gov.uk/search-news/...

The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) has today written to Eurostar and new applicants seeking to run cross-channel rail services, to set out next steps for assigning access to Temple Mills International ...

www.orr.gov.uk

Let’s end Eurostar’s monopoly on cross-channel rail

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 2d

Lime’s UK revenue from renting out e-bikes and scooters hit £111m last year. www.londoncentric.media/p/lime-is-ea...

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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 2d

Let’s end Eurostar’s monopoly on cross-channel rail - @johngapper.bsky.social column here calling for new entrants to revitalise and expand rail services between London and continental Europe. The UK rail regulator is set to make a key decision on the issue this month www.ft.com/content/8ea4...

New entrants could revitalise and expand rail services from London to continental Europe

UBS fund holds 30% exposure linked to First Brands

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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 2d

A scoop that should serve as a warning of the potential losses that might emerge after the private lending boom of recent years www.ft.com/content/39da...

Switzerland’s largest bank has multiple investments tied to bankrupt auto parts maker

What is happening in France may not stay in France

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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 2d

What is happening in France may not stay in France - @elerianm.bsky.social column here. Bond markets are losing patience with political paralysis. Implications for the ECB and the UK budget "will test whether London can deliver what Paris is failing to provide." www.ft.com/content/04ed...

Bond markets are losing patience with political paralysis

How Din Tai Fung Became America’s Top-Earning Restaurant Chain

Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 3d

On the Din Tai Fung phenomenon - each US location apparently now pulls $27.4mn in revenue, three times what high-end restaurant group Nobu pulls in www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

The dumpling restaurant was started in Taiwan half a century ago. Now there are 17 always-packed locations in the US, including one in Disneyland.

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A wholesale change in regulatory philosophy is needed for UK markets

Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 3d

A wholesale change in regulatory philosophy is needed for UK markets - Huw van Steenis argues here the UK should follow the US model of requiring regulators to consider not just investor protection but also “efficiency, competition and capital formation” www.ft.com/content/d280...

Policymakers may have inadvertently stifled opportunity through a focus on investor protection

Elon Musk Gambles on Sexy A.I. Companions

Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 3d

in contrast to other AI companies, Elon Musk's xAI is going down another route www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/t...

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