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Wednesday, 4 December, 2024

Equities
Nobody wants to be short this market: “equity repo” edition
Cozzie livs? More like cozzie levs
Wednesday, 4 December, 2024

EU business regulation
City’s new bonus rules will be better for bankers than banks
Gifts for the risk takers and rainmakers
Wednesday, 4 December, 2024

FTAV’s further reading
Tay-Tay; headlights; lost bitcoin; Y Combinator; Japanification
Tuesday, 3 December, 2024

Sovereign debt
Sovereign investment dispute resolution is broken
(for everyone except the lawyers, naturally)
Tuesday, 3 December, 2024

FTAV’s further reading
Divine Comedy; Truss in America; financial conditions; Coppola says sorry
Tuesday, 3 December, 2024

Capital markets
The ESM ❤️ electronic bond trading
A European vibe shift?
Monday, 2 December, 2024

Enron Corp
Enron is posting on social media now
Birds Aren’t Real, but Enron is
Monday, 2 December, 2024

And the FTAV charts quiz winner is…
Beau-tee-ful nightmare?
Monday, 2 December, 2024

Visual Arts
The FT Alphaville chart art show needs YOU
Coming to a medieval church, soonish
Monday, 2 December, 2024

Books
FTAV’s further reading
Brain rot; hotel art; lichen sex; Aristotle; the science of gift-giving
Friday, 29 November, 2024

FTAV’s Friday charts quiz: nightmare edition
The Lost Chart Of Keeping A Secret
Friday, 29 November, 2024

Bank of England
How to modernise central bank balance sheets: no notes
Should we call time on the anachronism of classifying banknotes as liabilities?
Friday, 29 November, 2024

FTAV’s further reading
Influencers; hurricanes; Thanksgiving; most wanted; subway surfing; copper; and orca fashion
Thursday, 28 November, 2024

Bank of England
Bernanke Review: No fan
What’s the scenario?
Thursday, 28 November, 2024

FTAV’s further reading
Fans; commodity currencies; weekends; postures; IVF; undertaking; religion; and fractals
Wednesday, 27 November, 2024

Management consulting
Britain’s biggest export sector is, or possibly isn’t, in trouble
Time to see a consultant?
Wednesday, 27 November, 2024

US trade
Prepare for extra traffic at US ports
What happens when the US signals a trade war months in advance
Wednesday, 27 November, 2024

FTAV’s further reading
Cyberia; CamScanner; quants; Machiavelli; AI investment; Haruki Murakami; journalism; and Tether
Tuesday, 26 November, 2024

UK economy
FISIM (with excitement)
Red-pilling national economic accounting methodology to avoid backing down
Tuesday, 26 November, 2024

Thames Water
Who takes charge when Thames Water has no shareholders?
Not literally, but effectively
Tuesday, 26 November, 2024

FTAV’s further reading
Employee performance; INCREF; Scott Bessent; pilgrims; more Scott Bessent; banknotes; loneliness; and safe assets
Monday, 25 November, 2024

US immigration
Immigration affects care work, too
An obligatory reminder
Monday, 25 November, 2024

Repo market
The US dollar repo Eurotrash trade is back
A transatlantic regulatory arbitrage resurfaces in short-term money markets
Monday, 25 November, 2024

And the FTAV charts quiz winner is…
Tee to a you
Monday, 25 November, 2024

Barosaurus fined after dropping challenge over tar-pit payments
FCA says the dinosaur’s conduct 145mn years ago was ‘reckless and lacked integrity’

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