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FTAV’s Friday charts quiz
Another round of chartreuse
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January 10, 2026 at 1:35 PM
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Investing with gifs: a visual guide
[FREE TO READ] Meme reversion
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January 9, 2026 at 5:36 PM
OK so Trump seems to have front-run jobs data on his own website and either no one noticed, cared, or believed him.
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If a jobs report leaks on a social media platform no one uses, does it move the market?
Data forecasting made easy
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January 9, 2026 at 5:19 PM
OK so Trump seems to have front-run jobs data on his own website and either no one noticed, cared, or believed him.
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Here's a compilation of what we've been doing and reading this week.
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The AI backlash has already begun
Plus: Venezuela, gold price predictions, quality stocks, tokenised banking, cheap TVs, expensive RAM chips, Warhammer, woke hacking, and Taylor Swift
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January 9, 2026 at 12:12 PM
Here's a compilation of what we've been doing and reading this week.
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Interest-bearing CBDCs? Sort of(ish)
[FREE TO READ] China pivots its digital currency strategy
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January 8, 2026 at 8:52 AM
That’s NumberHuang!
[FREE TO READ] About those efficient markets…
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January 7, 2026 at 9:04 PM
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Prime index construction nerdery IMO.
January 7, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Prime index construction nerdery IMO.
Strategy’s stay of exclusion
[FREE TO READ] MSCI chickens out (for now)
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January 7, 2026 at 2:00 PM
State-controlled investors own a quarter of private credit
[FREE TO READ] Big and getting bigger
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January 7, 2026 at 8:46 AM
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Who benefits when big tech takes up all the bandwidth, asks @thekrazykobra.bsky.social
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The outlook for IPOs in 2026: oversized and over there
[FREE TO READ] With US megadeals in the pipeline, the fight for investor attention is going to get tougher
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January 6, 2026 at 7:39 AM
Who benefits when big tech takes up all the bandwidth, asks @thekrazykobra.bsky.social
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Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter.
Featuring illustrations by Grok, because “pixels 🟰 zero harm” apparently. www.ft.com/content/ad94...
Featuring illustrations by Grok, because “pixels 🟰 zero harm” apparently. www.ft.com/content/ad94...
January 6, 2026 at 10:26 AM
Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter.
Featuring illustrations by Grok, because “pixels 🟰 zero harm” apparently. www.ft.com/content/ad94...
Featuring illustrations by Grok, because “pixels 🟰 zero harm” apparently. www.ft.com/content/ad94...
Who benefits when big tech takes up all the bandwidth, asks @thekrazykobra.bsky.social
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The outlook for IPOs in 2026: oversized and over there
[FREE TO READ] With US megadeals in the pipeline, the fight for investor attention is going to get tougher
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January 6, 2026 at 7:39 AM
Who benefits when big tech takes up all the bandwidth, asks @thekrazykobra.bsky.social
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Over at Alphaville, I explore the boundary between bank supervision and speculative fiction.
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The ECB gets speculative
Making up something to get worried about
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January 5, 2026 at 10:41 AM
Over at Alphaville, I explore the boundary between bank supervision and speculative fiction.
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Seasonal bonus content pt.2: microcap flour-to-crypto thing with a Trump association is doing a stablecoin backed by Burkina Faso gold apparently.
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December 24, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Seasonal bonus content pt.2: microcap flour-to-crypto thing with a Trump association is doing a stablecoin backed by Burkina Faso gold apparently.
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Possibly the dorkiest Christmas quiz of the year. www.ft.com/content/2245...
FTAV’s Christmas charts quiz
On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love sent to me twelve charts a’charting
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December 23, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Possibly the dorkiest Christmas quiz of the year. www.ft.com/content/2245...
The best of FT Alphaville, 2025 edition
TL;DR: lots and lots of navel-gazing
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December 22, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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It's never truly Xmas till the @alphaville.ft.com Person of Interest list arrives
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Person of Interest 2025: the longlist
A 12th annual celebration of cancellation
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December 19, 2025 at 3:06 PM
It's never truly Xmas till the @alphaville.ft.com Person of Interest list arrives
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The new way to lose money gambling is very similar to the old way to lose money gambling.
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Prediction markets barely make money; sportsbooks make money
Kalshi’s ‘truth machine’ is financialising differences of opinion (about sports)
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December 19, 2025 at 3:09 PM
The new way to lose money gambling is very similar to the old way to lose money gambling.
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Person of Interest 2025: the longlist
A 12th annual celebration of cancellation
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December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Happy Friday, we got you a long read on where Handel, Keynes, Newton, Turner and Darwin might day-trade if they'd been born in a different century and chosen to waste their lives.
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Which genius from history would have been the best investor?
FTAV goes hedge fund headhunting through the ages
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December 19, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Happy Friday, we got you a long read on where Handel, Keynes, Newton, Turner and Darwin might day-trade if they'd been born in a different century and chosen to waste their lives.
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