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Nuclear weapons are now ESG compliant 💥 www.ft.com/content/f789...
Nuclear weapons are now ESG compliant
Boom times in EU sustainable finance
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January 14, 2026 at 7:19 AM
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[FREE TO READ] Street Fed
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January 12, 2026 at 6:17 PM
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FTAV’s Friday charts quiz
Another round of chartreuse
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January 10, 2026 at 1:35 PM
Hey look, it's Friday.

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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
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
The secret ingredient isn't crime.

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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
MSCI kicks the crypto can

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Strategy’s stay of exclusion
[FREE TO READ] MSCI chickens out (for now)
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January 7, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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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
A warning to Venezuela noteholders from recent history.

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A four-letter word that spells doom for Venezuela’s creditors
[FREE TO READ] Bondholders could get Bakerised
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January 6, 2026 at 2:09 PM
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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...
January 6, 2026 at 10:26 AM
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
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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
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.1: what's Robert Bonnier been up to lately?

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Dotcom tycoon to bankruptcy court: the fall and fall of Robert Bonnier
[FREE TO READ] Amid claims of AudioBoom share price manipulation, a judge found Bonnier lied to secure investment from Nick Candy
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December 24, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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
'Tis the seasonal filler content.

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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