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Wednesday, 5 August, 2020

AnalysisFT Alphaville
Further reading
SaaSy business; Airline troubles; Print newspapers.
Monday, 3 August, 2020

AnalysisFT Alphaville
Further reading
Xi’s panopticon; Neil Ferguson vindicated; SPACs as IPOS.
Wednesday, 29 July, 2020

Geopolitics
Antique Chinese bonds are now in play
Speculators and politicians are eyeing ways to use pre-communist debt to put pressure on Beijing
Wednesday, 22 July, 2020

AnalysisFT Alphaville
Further reading
GPT-3; immigration attitudes; unnatural wealth
Monday, 20 July, 2020

AnalysisFT Alphaville
Further reading
Mekong river; space murders; Twitter
Wednesday, 1 July, 2020

Social Media
Look closely at the motives of the Facebook boycotters
With advertising budgets under pressure during the pandemic, it is tempting to be cynical
Wednesday, 1 July, 2020

AnalysisFT Alphaville
Further reading
Stress-tests, container ships, antique Chinese debt.
Tuesday, 30 June, 2020

AnalysisFT Alphaville
Walled gardens versus open markets in payments
The BIS wants central banks to lure digital money users from private closed-system challengers with openness. But perhaps a better strategy is to offer guaranteed privacy.
Friday, 26 June, 2020

Bitcoin
Wirecard: the cryptocard consequences
For those who thought compliant Visa/Mastercard-networked cryptocards were too good to be true . . .turns out they probably were.
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Thursday, 25 June, 2020

FT AlphavilleBlockchain
Is our money about to spout memories?
We could be on the cusp of the biggest revolution in the way money is accounted for since the 17th century.
Wednesday, 24 June, 2020

AnalysisFT Alphaville
How Covid-19 has reframed the war on cash
Until the pandemic the demise of cash was very much customer led. Now, however, the push seems to be coming from vendors.
Monday, 15 June, 2020

FT AlphavilleMedia
Why I can’t write
Is something strange happening to journalists?
Friday, 5 June, 2020

Foreign exchange
Suddenly one Spring
The BoE’s Andrew Hauser on March’s market madness.
Thursday, 4 June, 2020

Airlines
Holidaymakers need to think like futures traders
Buying an airline ticket has become a form of investing in options
Tuesday, 2 June, 2020

AnalysisFT Alphaville
Making sense of nonsensical Covid-19 strategy
Before criticising their Covid-19 response, we should try to at least understand why the government acted as they did. We take a look at the latest SAGE minutes in an attempt to do so.
Wednesday, 27 May, 2020

AnalysisFT Alphaville
Censortech strikes again
Rather than censoring lockdown critics, perhaps we should encourage them to forge special economic zones where their risk-on attitude can be exploited for the benefit of the country.
Thursday, 21 May, 2020

AnalysisFT Alphaville
Is Covid-19 a nosocomial infection?
The preponderance of deaths linked to care homes and hospitals raises the question of whether Covid-19 is a nosocomial infection.
Thursday, 21 May, 2020

Exchange traded funds
USO: Uncleared and present danger
To lose one clearer might be considered careless, to lose the capacity to be cleared entirely is presumably downright reckless.
Friday, 15 May, 2020

AnalysisFT Alphaville
Tour operators are experiencing a run on deposits
A 2018 EU directive that forced tour operators to honour refunds within 14 days has inadvertently turned them into undercapitalised banks.
Tuesday, 12 May, 2020

FT AlphavilleCensorship
From Fahrenheit 451 to ‘censortech’
Why we shouldn’t be enforcing the equivalent of digital social distancing just because content is going viral
Wednesday, 6 May, 2020

AnalysisFT Alphaville
Stablecoins as a collateral sinkhole
There’s a chronic paradox at the heart of stablecoin-based payment systems that will render them cost-prohibitive.
Monday, 4 May, 2020

AnalysisFT Alphaville
An absolutely enormous output gap is forming
Policymakers need to understand that lockdown losses are likely to be permanent not temporary.
Tuesday, 28 April, 2020

Coronavirus pandemic
Private sector rationing of open spaces may be on the cards
As the coronavirus lockdown continues, one golf course is allowing families to book walking time slots
Monday, 27 April, 2020

AnalysisFT Alphaville
Is USO an actively managed fund now?
Exchange traded products that can self-determine whether they trade passively or more actively introduce all sorts of new risks for investors and the wider market.
Thursday, 23 April, 2020

AnalysisFT Alphaville
How hedge fund shorting triggered the USO’s epic AUM growth
Contrary to popular belief, the explosive growth of the United States Oil Fund’s assets in recent weeks was most likely driven by sophisticated investors’ short positioning.