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Leyla Boulton @leylaboulton.bsky.social · 6h

Calling @financialtimes.com subscribers: join us 23 October 1300 UK (1200 GMT) to discuss central banks, bonds, and the risks ahead. Register now and put your question to Lael Brainard, Fidelity's Salman Ahmed, @chrisgiles.ft.com, @katie0martin.ft.com, and @senojerialc.bsky.social. Go to ft.com/edge

Pictures of panelists appearing at this webinar for Financial Times subscribers

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 5h

Leveraged ETFs are bad for your wealth. Tesla’s can be deadly. Features some very FTAV illustrations. www.ft.com/content/f34c...

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 6h

"An essential condition today for entry into the upper echelons of Conservative party politics is being willing to at least pretend that you think taking Britain out of the EU was a good idea. This is a never-ending lobotomy for the Tories." www.ft.com/content/a65f...

How Brexit drained the Tories’ talent pool

The party can’t keep expecting successful people to pretend that leaving the EU was a good idea

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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 10h

Kraft werk.

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Citadel’s new German power gambit

[FREE TO READ] Commodities are so hot right now

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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 21h

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 23h

You gotta say “fair enough”. on.ft.com/4nHML5G

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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 1d

Thing by me on today's Econ nobel in @alphaville.ft.com : www.ft.com/content/b8aa...

Idealist and/or materialist theories of economic growth

[FREE TO READ] Nobel committee: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 1d

Keep rollin' rollin' rollin' rollin'

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Checking in on Trevor Milton

[FREE TO READ] Nikola? I hardly even…

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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 1d

A bit like Soccer Saturday but with more Markov chains.

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Alphaville’s Nobel Prize for economics live blog

Welcome to the FTAV hot take factory

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 1d

The argument is that we had lots of innovation and new technologies for centuries without much measurable economic growth, up until ca 17th-18th century, when things started to change. I think that's the main focus of Mokyr's work at least.

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 1d

And the winners are Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt! For "having explained innovation-driven economic growth”, in the words of the committee.

Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 1d

The Nobel Prize for economics is due to be announced soon, and Alphaville is running a live blog to mark the occasion. www.ft.com/content/f392...

Alphaville’s Nobel Prize for economics live blog

Welcome to the FTAV hot take factory

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 1d

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 1d

Thato is all of us.

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 1d

The Nobel Prize for economics is due to be announced soon, and Alphaville is running a live blog to mark the occasion. www.ft.com/content/f392...

Alphaville’s Nobel Prize for economics live blog

Welcome to the FTAV hot take factory

www.ft.com

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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 6d

Riskless business means not much business.

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Get ready for another round of regulatory shadow boxing

[FREE TO READ] If the non-banks are banks, who banks the unbanked?

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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 4d

Here's this week's Nobel Prize for Charts entry form:

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FTAV’s Friday charts quiz

Chart for charts’ sake

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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 3d

@secondmentions.bsky.social Can I get recognition for "the oleaginous legume" as second mention for soyabeans?

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 3d

I love living in a boring country, but French politics is so messy now it’s delightful. Lecornu is literally this Simpsons meme now on.ft.com/3ITyu6U

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Robert Smith @bondhack.ft.com · 4d

Jefferies reassured investors in its Point Bonita fund earlier this week: you don't primarily have exposure to First Brands, but its often IG-rated customers such as Walmart.

But when is a Walmart invoice not a really Walmart invoice?

@ericgplatt.ft.com and I explain: www.ft.com/content/dfb3...

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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 4d

Here are some nice, not particularly conclusive charts on graduate unemployment.

www.ft.com/content/4b59...

Jobpocalyse Now? Really?

Graduates are actually doing fine in a lot of countries

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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 5d

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BlackRock’s big fat bitcoin haul

[FREE TO READ] Stacking sats like a champ

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 4d

The weekend is soon here! And that means fun with charts. on.ft.com/3IE86xR

FTAV’s Friday charts quiz

Chart for charts’ sake

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 4d

Actually a very good question. Because of annoying fiddly technical reasons, some people still hit the paywall when they try to read Alphaville, not the reg wall, so some articles we make completely free so that there is no registration or paywall whatsoever.

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