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Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 4m

🚨 It's CPI day 🥳
But there's no CPI print 😢
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It’s CPI day — where’s CPI?

Searching for alternatives

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Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 13m

Really interesting post on the economics of the QQQ ETF on.ft.com/3WDaoQZ

Inside the knotty economics of the world’s most profitable ETF

And why they might soon change

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Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 28m

“When we look at the cyber domain, Poland is now in a state of war [with Russia], it’s not a state of threat any more,” Cenckiewicz said.
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Russia pays Europe’s saboteurs in crypto, says Polish official

Warsaw’s national security chief says Moscow is also using a shadow fleet to launch drones into European airspace

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Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 5h

Still, even if it's not strictly central banks (who knows?), someone's been buying @katie0martin.ft.com's pet rock. And it seems likely govts are involved.

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Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 5h

How do the WGC go about estimating 'unreported' central bank purchases?

Turns out THIS IS NOT SOMETHING THEY EVEN DO.

(Though Metals Focus, an independent consultancy, do estimate CB + SWF + other supra purchases on the back of off-the-record chats)

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Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 5h

Most central banks purchases are NOT in the official data. The World Gold Council has them in its 'unreported' series (reproduced by the ECB, the Fed, everyone)

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Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 6h

🚨 Central banks’ gold purchases are MASSIVE, they just go to a different school on.ft.com/4nUd1tM

Central banks have been buying a squillion tonnes of gold, promise

Are the numbers real?

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Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 15h

I was so sad to hear this news today. Michael supervised my MPhil dissertation, and was both brilliant and charming.

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Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 23h

Love that you can buy a golden tinfoil hat for €150
www.johannesadele.com/shop/tinfoil...

Tinfoil hat — Johannes Adele

Padded golden hat with logo morse stitches Made in France Main 100 % lambskin recovered with survival blanket Linning 100 % tencel Padding 100 % polyester

www.johannesadele.com

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Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 1d

Just looked up Anthony Michael Hall, and it's not that he's aged badly, but no way I would've recognised him.

Anthony Michael Hall in 1985 Breakfast Club, and in 2024.

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Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 1d

I learnt a lot reading these 750 easy-to-digest expertly-written words on why these guys won their Nobel prize.

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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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 2d

It’s kicking off in the Economics live blog

Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 2d

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 · 2d

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...

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Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 2d

Had understood that it was common language, and people to tweet at when America is asleep.

So less that UK is woke, and more just that it's awake.

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Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 2d

Fascinating explainer on Alzheimer’s, and the obesity drugs being tested to maybe treat it.

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Novo Nordisk’s ‘lottery ticket’: can obesity drugs help treat Alzheimer’s?

Results are due soon from two studies using semaglutide to treat thousands of people with the disease

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Dan McCrum @mccrum.bsky.social · 3d

This isn’t funny. Judges only speak to the press when they’re in extreme distress

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 4d

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 3d

"Now, we know what you’re thinking: this is all very stupid and funny. And we agree."

Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 3d

Oh no 💎 🙌 😔 😢 😭
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Behold the trash crash

Pray for Dogecoin

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Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 3d

Oh no 💎 🙌 😔 😢 😭
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Behold the trash crash

Pray for Dogecoin

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Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 4d

People will have different reasons for believing London is the best city in the world. This is Tristram Hunt’s: on.ft.com/4q5g4AF

Don’t move to Dubai — this is still the place to be

Better to buy the dip and celebrate the UK as an enduring cultural behemoth

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Josh Spero @joshspero.ft.com · 4d

SCOOP! Billionaire hedge fund manager Sir Chris Hohn’s charitable foundation has stopped giving grants to US NGOs on.ft.com/4ohEfdJ with @costasmourselas.bsky.social @joemillerjr.ft.com @tobyn.bsky.social

Chris Hohn’s foundation blames ‘policy environment’ as it stops giving to US charities

[FREE TO READ] Billionaire hedge fund manager’s CIFF has focused donations on issues such as climate change

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 5d

Absolute banger of a blog post from Dallas Fed economist Anton Cheremukhin who estimates breakeven payrolls have fallen to *30k* thanks to rapid declines in population growth.
www.dallasfed.org/research/eco...