Tony Tassell
@tonytassell.bsky.social
Financial Opinion Editor at the FT. I have views. A spotter of things in markets, companies, world affairs. Also interested in food and climbing.
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Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Star of The Harder They Come had hits including You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now
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November 24, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
The One Nation party in Australia led by Pauline Hanson - who has just reprised a stunt of wearing a burqa and mini-skirt in parliament - is doing much better in the polls than i had realised www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
November 24, 2025 at 11:01 AM
The One Nation party in Australia led by Pauline Hanson - who has just reprised a stunt of wearing a burqa and mini-skirt in parliament - is doing much better in the polls than i had realised www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
This is really worth your time - a podcast with @gideonrachman.bsky.social and Timothy Garton Ash that is such great distillation of where we were are in the world. www.ft.com/content/0988...
Europe’s triple shock: Putin, Trump and Xi
The ‘holiday from history’ is over
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November 24, 2025 at 9:02 AM
This is really worth your time - a podcast with @gideonrachman.bsky.social and Timothy Garton Ash that is such great distillation of where we were are in the world. www.ft.com/content/0988...
Chart of the day - from a Lex in Depth by Nick Megaw on the UK's ongoing credit crunch and the need to stimulate bank borrowing. Of 41 countries measured by the OECD, only seven have a lower rate of SME borrowing as a proportion of GDP. www.ft.com/content/4c03...
November 24, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Chart of the day - from a Lex in Depth by Nick Megaw on the UK's ongoing credit crunch and the need to stimulate bank borrowing. Of 41 countries measured by the OECD, only seven have a lower rate of SME borrowing as a proportion of GDP. www.ft.com/content/4c03...
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It’s been a long time coming, but FT Alphaville is finally on Substack. You can subscribe and read for free, here: on.ft.com/49D7nIl
November 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM
It’s been a long time coming, but FT Alphaville is finally on Substack. You can subscribe and read for free, here: on.ft.com/49D7nIl
Less talk about the cricket here this morning
November 22, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Less talk about the cricket here this morning
Trump needs to tackle housing supply, not mortgage rates - very good Sheila Bair column. "Housing affordability continues to be driven by supply shortages. Lower rates will increase demand, making housing inflation worse." www.ft.com/content/e8d6...
Trump needs to tackle housing supply, not mortgage rates
A focus on cutting interest costs only fuels home price inflation, hitting working families
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November 21, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Trump needs to tackle housing supply, not mortgage rates - very good Sheila Bair column. "Housing affordability continues to be driven by supply shortages. Lower rates will increase demand, making housing inflation worse." www.ft.com/content/e8d6...
FT Europe Editor Ben Hall explains here why Trump's Ukraine proposal is seen as highly favourable to Russia in a video accompanying this annotation of the text www.ft.com/content/44d1...
Annotated: the full text of Donald Trump’s 28-point Ukraine-Russia peace plan
Draft agreement has shocked Europe and is unlikely to satisfy Kyiv or Moscow
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November 21, 2025 at 5:14 PM
FT Europe Editor Ben Hall explains here why Trump's Ukraine proposal is seen as highly favourable to Russia in a video accompanying this annotation of the text www.ft.com/content/44d1...
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19 wickets in Day 1 on a pitch that rally had no demons in it suggests a combination of good bowling and a fair bit of bad batting #Ashes
November 21, 2025 at 9:51 AM
19 wickets in Day 1 on a pitch that rally had no demons in it suggests a combination of good bowling and a fair bit of bad batting #Ashes
Larry Summers’ extraordinary fall from grace - read here on his career and controversies www.ft.com/content/ed97...
Larry Summers’ extraordinary fall from grace
The reputation of one of America’s leading economists is in tatters since the emergence of emails to Jeffrey Epstein
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November 21, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Larry Summers’ extraordinary fall from grace - read here on his career and controversies www.ft.com/content/ed97...
Apple will need to move on from the Tim Cook gravy train - Richard Waters column here www.ft.com/content/718d...
Apple will need to move on from the Tim Cook gravy train
Tech group’s next chief must convince shareholders it is time to expand the scale of the company’s bets
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November 20, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Apple will need to move on from the Tim Cook gravy train - Richard Waters column here www.ft.com/content/718d...
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now this is the kind of data-crunching I like to see
70 teaspoons placed in tearooms around the institute & observed weekly over 5 months. 80% of spoons disappeared; spoon halflife~81 days. Communal room halflife lower than in specific labs. 250 spoons annually required to maintain 70 spoon population.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
The case of the disappearing teaspoons: longitudinal cohort study of the displacement of teaspoons in an Australian research institute
Objectives To determine the overall rate of loss of workplace teaspoons and whether attrition and displacement are correlated with the relative value of the teaspoons or type of tearoom. Design Longitudinal cohort study. Setting Research institute ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
November 20, 2025 at 9:37 AM
now this is the kind of data-crunching I like to see
who is OpenAI's auditor? @louisashworth.bsky.social on the mystery for @alphaville.ft.com. www.ft.com/content/3cff...
Who is OpenAI’s auditor?
Just asking
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November 20, 2025 at 7:06 AM
who is OpenAI's auditor? @louisashworth.bsky.social on the mystery for @alphaville.ft.com. www.ft.com/content/3cff...
"It’s hard to overstate how unlikely it is that a business with almost $200bn of annual revenue would grow at a rate of over 60 per cent. Yet such are the fantastical finances of Nvidia." from an excellent FT Lex note www.ft.com/content/bd6f...
Nvidia’s AI supremacy is a weapon that cuts both ways
While the chipmaker is the big winner from the booming technology, it is singularly exposed to changing expectations
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November 20, 2025 at 7:00 AM
"It’s hard to overstate how unlikely it is that a business with almost $200bn of annual revenue would grow at a rate of over 60 per cent. Yet such are the fantastical finances of Nvidia." from an excellent FT Lex note www.ft.com/content/bd6f...
Larry Summers exits OpenAI board www.axios.com/2025/11/19/e...
Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI board amid Epstein revelations
Summers said this week he would step back from public commitments amid the latest Epstein news.
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November 19, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Larry Summers exits OpenAI board www.axios.com/2025/11/19/e...
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Today’s must read FT investigation exposes new clandestine ties between Russian and Iran’s nuclear programmes
From @miles-johnson.bsky.social and @maxseddon.bsky.social
From @miles-johnson.bsky.social and @maxseddon.bsky.social
Iranian nuclear experts held second covert meeting with Russian weapons institute
[FREE TO READ] US claims meeting is part of an effort by Tehran to acquire sensitive military technologies from Moscow
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November 19, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Today’s must read FT investigation exposes new clandestine ties between Russian and Iran’s nuclear programmes
From @miles-johnson.bsky.social and @maxseddon.bsky.social
From @miles-johnson.bsky.social and @maxseddon.bsky.social
Europe’s battle for control of its money - fascinating column from @olafstorbeck.ft.com. As use of physical cash declines, Visa/Mastercard have great control over payments. The ECB is planning a digital euro to offset this but banks want a private sector alternative Wero www.ft.com/content/fe65...
Europe’s battle for control of its money
Banks fear ECB plans for a digital euro will undermine a European alternative to Visa, Mastercard and PayPal
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November 19, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Europe’s battle for control of its money - fascinating column from @olafstorbeck.ft.com. As use of physical cash declines, Visa/Mastercard have great control over payments. The ECB is planning a digital euro to offset this but banks want a private sector alternative Wero www.ft.com/content/fe65...
one to keep watching for the knock-on impact on global markets - Japanese 10-year bond yields have risen to the highest level since June 2008 and the global financial crisis with investors make a "Takaichi trade” bet www.ft.com/content/d6f2...
Japan’s 10-year bond yields at highest since global financial crisis
Bond prices fall amid concerns over the prime minister’s plan for a fiscal stimulus
www.ft.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:16 AM
one to keep watching for the knock-on impact on global markets - Japanese 10-year bond yields have risen to the highest level since June 2008 and the global financial crisis with investors make a "Takaichi trade” bet www.ft.com/content/d6f2...
So Australian national and Manchester City footballer Mary Fowler says when she left French club Montpelier she was given bananas while other players being farewelled were given flowers. 7news.com.au/sport/soccer...
Mary Fowler shocks with new bombshell claim: ‘We just sat there’
‘I’ve tried to justify it in many different ways.’
7news.com.au
November 19, 2025 at 7:08 AM
So Australian national and Manchester City footballer Mary Fowler says when she left French club Montpelier she was given bananas while other players being farewelled were given flowers. 7news.com.au/sport/soccer...
@johngapper.bsky.social seems to be having a lot of fun writing on UK companies - this time on the revival of Mr Kipling's cakes including a vox pop from the aisles of a Manchester supermarket www.ft.com/content/50fa...
The great British revival of Mr Kipling cakes
A nostalgic brand invented by an advertising agency in the 1960s has led Premier Foods’ recovery
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November 18, 2025 at 9:35 AM
@johngapper.bsky.social seems to be having a lot of fun writing on UK companies - this time on the revival of Mr Kipling's cakes including a vox pop from the aisles of a Manchester supermarket www.ft.com/content/50fa...
Oracle’s astonishing $300bn OpenAI deal is now valued at minus $74bn - such a great @alphaville.ft.com post from @bryce.lol. Oracle has, in effect, become OpenAI’s US public market proxy. www.ft.com/content/064b...
November 18, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Oracle’s astonishing $300bn OpenAI deal is now valued at minus $74bn - such a great @alphaville.ft.com post from @bryce.lol. Oracle has, in effect, become OpenAI’s US public market proxy. www.ft.com/content/064b...
Larry Summers faces new scrutiny over ties to sex offender Epstein - FT story here www.ft.com/content/bfd4...
Lawrence Summers faces new scrutiny over ties to sex offender Epstein
Former US Treasury secretary sought paedophile’s advice over relationship he was pursuing
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November 17, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Larry Summers faces new scrutiny over ties to sex offender Epstein - FT story here www.ft.com/content/bfd4...
Why Ireland is giving its artists money with no strings attached to create - column by @judewebber.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/15a6...
November 17, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Why Ireland is giving its artists money with no strings attached to create - column by @judewebber.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/15a6...
Quite a few reader comments on this read on the revival of deep-sea drilling in the Gulf of Mexico say just one thing - "Gulf of America" www.ft.com/content/61eb...
The revival of deep-sea drilling in the Gulf of Mexico
New technologies and regulatory reforms have boosted the offshore industry, 15 years after the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe
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November 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Quite a few reader comments on this read on the revival of deep-sea drilling in the Gulf of Mexico say just one thing - "Gulf of America" www.ft.com/content/61eb...