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Attempting and failing to reset relations with China now part of the British Political Tradition™

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Treasury seizes the £5bn for a new strategic bitcoin reserve on my 2026 bingo card
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I suspect in part a traditional aversion to allowing the integration of defi with tradfi. But I guess this is also part of the commercial logic behind tokenising real world assets.
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Agree this is mainly about competition for high net worth individuals
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I’d forgotten about this characteristically punchy Adam Curtis documentary from 1996
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A reminder that what might look like a dash for fintech is often just the UK playing catch up with the US and EU
UK moves to allow tokenisation of investment funds
FCA’s proposals would bring Britain into line with fund administration hubs in Ireland and Luxembourg
www.ft.com
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Just how much of this survives Trump’s departure, AI / crypto winter 2.0, parliamentary arithmetic, and gilt market fragility remains to be seen
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Less appreciated is just how quickly Trump and Farage have shifted the Overton window on finance and regulation
Nigel Farage tells crypto conference ‘I am your champion’
Reform UK leader touts plans to create a state-owned bitcoin reserve
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Old enough to remember varieties of capitalism
JPMorgan backs ‘America First’ push with up to $10bn investment
Chief executive Jamie Dimon says US too dependent on ‘unreliable’ sources of materials ‘essential’ to national security
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1/ Who are the globalists? Right wing, Christian group from US seeks to transform UK politics. The latest in a string of transnational moves by the far right to shift the global political debate. Welcome to the nationalist international.
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They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.
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by James Scott

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The Reinhart/Rogoff bargain here is that generational deregulation > crisis > bailouts = the price of credit creation, creative destruction, etc. But it relies on a logic of mean reversion for central bank balance sheets and public debt that we left in 2008. So next time probably will be different.

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Looking forward to Basel 666
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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 5d
Conservative tech lord Thiel said tighter financial regulations “were a sign that a singular world government has begun to emerge that could be taken over by an Antichrist figure who could then use it to exert control over people.” Via WashPost
Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction
In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.
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Conservative tech lord Thiel said tighter financial regulations “were a sign that a singular world government has begun to emerge that could be taken over by an Antichrist figure who could then use it to exert control over people.” Via WashPost
Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction
In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.
www.washingtonpost.com
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If AGI is possible in the future, wouldn’t it have found a way to manipulate the present to avoid a bubble? 🧐

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see also SPMG Maths
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PE: ‘Lacks enthusiasm’

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British PE equipment as postwar political economy:

The Apparatus - peak Thatcherism, shiny and new, novelty soon wore off

The Horse - solid postwar settlement with impending sense of danger
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Opposing perspectives on the UK’s macro predicament, but both of which echo postwar left and right narratives about declinism rooted in pathologies of the British state, ie. BOE orthodoxy vs Westminster politics
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Fama: ‘Bitcoin is going to zero within 10 years…or we’ll need to start all over with monetary theory’
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Why This Nobel Economist Thinks Bitcoin Is Going to Zero, with Eugene Fama | Capitalisn't
In December 2024, Bitcoin, one of the earliest cryptocurrencies and undoubtedly the most famous, hit $2 trillion in market capitalization, bigger than Tesla, Meta, and Saudi Aramco. In this episode, N...
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‘Treasury officials privately queried the size of the potential windfall…but the OBR does not score asset seizures in its forecasts and crypto assets are not recorded as financial assets for the purpose of fiscal statistics, one Treasury official said.’ 🙁
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UK seeks to keep £5bn bitcoin haul after money laundering convictions
Complex legal battle over seized assets could run for years
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Onto central bank balance sheets presumably
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Wasn’t the entire point to move risk away from banks? Now we want to move risk away from NBFI too? Where will it go? To NNNBFI (Non-NBFI Non-Bank Financial Institutions)?
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 12d
Christine Lagarde calls for tougher rules on ‘darker corners’ of finance on.ft.com/3VKr7BF
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Wasn’t the entire point to move risk away from banks? Now we want to move risk away from NBFI too? Where will it go? To NNNBFI (Non-NBFI Non-Bank Financial Institutions)?
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 12d
Christine Lagarde calls for tougher rules on ‘darker corners’ of finance on.ft.com/3VKr7BF
Christine Lagarde calls for tougher rules on ‘darker corners’ of finance
ECB president wants regulation beefed up for non-banks such as hedge funds, private equity and insurers
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London calling 🚨
Turbocharging stablecoins 🤝 DeFi-ing the digital pound?
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...

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Christine Lagarde calls for tougher rules on ‘darker corners’ of finance on.ft.com/3VKr7BF
Christine Lagarde calls for tougher rules on ‘darker corners’ of finance
ECB president wants regulation beefed up for non-banks such as hedge funds, private equity and insurers
on.ft.com
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This line right at the end of Bailey’s stablecoin piece seems the most significant and radical idea to me: “we will set out that widely used UK stablecoins should have access to accounts at the BoE in order to reinforce their status as money”.
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on.ft.com/3IQ9NYU The new stablecoin regime
The new stablecoin regime
An innovative technology must still answer old central banking questions
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