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Robin Wigglesworth
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Editor of FT Alphaville. Norwegian, despite the Harry Potteresque name.
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 21h
Prop Will Eat Itself

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Are we approaching peak prop trading?
[FREE TO READ] Maybe! Maybe not!
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 1d
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Aston Martin will keep paying you to take their cars away
[FREE TO READ] The 112-year-old marque that burns cash like an AI startup
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 1d
Not if it's for this banger. www.ft.com/content/d811...
ARK Invest’s ‘seemingly outlandish’ economic forecasts
AI caramba
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 1d
Why are people getting excited about the “Nobels”? Everyone knows that the only REAL one is the Sveriges @riksbank.se Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. The others are just self-aggrandising PR set up by Nobel himself.
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Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 1d
🚨 Do macro releases really matter to stock punters?

Turns out yes, or at least some of them.

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 1d
Fire up your nerdiest group chat — the FT Alphaville Pub Quiz returns to London later this month. on.ft.com/47j6xxF
The FT Alphaville Pub Quiz returns to London on October 23. Here’s how to get tickets
Strictly quizness
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 2d
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IMF vs SRT: Let’s get systemic
[FREE TO READ] Once more unto the funky securitisation breach
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 1d
Seriously impressive. www.ft.com/content/55a5...
And the FTAV chart quiz winner is . . .
Shirt Up and Dance
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 2d
OpenAI — the human centipede of AI. on.ft.com/3VR0B9G
OpenAI targets 10% AMD stake via multibillion-dollar chip deal
Latest circular transaction aims to make ChatGPT maker central to the effort to build a huge AI infrastructure
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 5d
Each weekday, FT Alphaville picks a dozen or so articles from elsewhere.

Here's today: on.ft.com/4nsHAXf
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Wednesday: on.ft.com/4pTL6vc
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How to read FT Alphaville for free
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 5d
"With the advent of private credit, institutions are putting money into this magical machine that gives you equity rates of return for senior debt exposure, which again should be the first red flag. We rarely get to see how the sausage is made."

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FTAV Q&A: Jim Chanos
[FREE TO READ] Wall Street’s most famous short seller on the First Brands fiasco, Enron and the “magical machine” in private credit markets
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 4d
You think you've seen it all. Then Theo Fennell starts fashioning necklaces out of Elton John's patellas to advertise the World Gold Council.

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Elton John takes the knee, and the World Gold Council takes the p___
[FREE TO READ] AU the humanity . . .
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 2d
So. Jealous.
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Levente Koroes @lkoro.es · 4d
I love my friends so much, they got me the #1 fashion accessory for my birthday.

(Also thanks @robinwigglesworth.ft.com / @alphaville.ft.com)
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Robert Smith @bondhack.ft.com · 5d
Full chat transcript here

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FTAV Q&A: Jim Chanos
[FREE TO READ] Wall Street’s most famous short seller on the First Brands fiasco, Enron and the “magical machine” in private credit markets
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 3d
Trollope had a solution to this. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fix...
The Fixed Period - Wikipedia
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 4d
Can someone explain to me the fear about falling human reproduction rates, ie aside the impact on pension systems etc? Global population has roughly doubled just since i was born, so all the chatter — and not just from Musk and the like — just seems bizarre to me. Genuinely curious.
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 4d
TFICQ

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FTAV’s Friday chart quiz
Graph, and the world graphs with you
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 4d
I just remembered that a few years BC (Before Children) I subscribed to Foreign Affairs and had time to actually read it cover to cover. Today that feels like a fantastical feverish dream, like it wasn’t even real.
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Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 6d
🚨 Hadn’t appreciated quite how awful US manufacturing productivity numbers have been on.ft.com/48KmDT4
Line chart showing rebased time series for labour productivity of US private business sector and US manufacturing sector. Since 2009 US manufacturing labour productivity growth has been negative.
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 5d
Here's a post about spacecraft economics that probably applies to lots of other things too.

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In space, nobody can hear you budget
SpaceX and Blue Origin are no more efficient at building spacecraft than NASA. But that’s not the point of them
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 5d
Are YOU a bright markets reporter in London who would like to make ME look clever?
Well... Wisely or otherwise, I'm joining up with @robarmstrong.bsky.social on the Unhedged newsletter and I'm looking for someone with bright ideas and data skills.
Job ad:

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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 7d
[Deep, existential sigh]

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An AI chart crime compendium
[FREE TO READ] Looks like everyone’s been doing lines
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Doug Rediker @dougrediker.bsky.social · 6d
@heidirediker.bsky.social and I wrote this for @alphaville.ft.com - US intervention in Argentina sends a worrying signal about politicizing US financial firepower. Are Fed swap lines next? IMF quotas should be increased to prepare for the next crisis. on.ft.com/4pPdCOz
Preparing for politicised dollar liquidity
The time to act is now
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 6d
It's all the fault of techbros and accountants.

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The curious death of manufacturing productivity
[FREE TO READ] A case of counting in the wrong place?
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 6d
I genuinely laughed out loud at this point of @peterfrankopan.bsky.social’s analysis of Hegseth’s speech. open.substack.com/pub/peterfra...
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