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...Now, I adore grass running right up to a pool’s edge. Much, much nicer than sad stretches of concrete or just a tad too many tiles....
...I heard one of the hosts of another bitcoin-focused podcast, the Wolf of All Streets, say recently that “TradFi is just as degen” — a crypto word describing a reckless (and degenerate) gambler — “as the...
...We’ll draw one correct entry at random for the prize of an FT Alphaville exclusive, not-available-in-the-shops-except-sometimes-Oxfam “I ❤️ Charts” t-shirt. Good luck, we’re all counting on you....
...I can’t go out now without someone mentioning, as though pointing out the dampness of water, that Donald Trump is a shoo-in to return as president. He isn’t. He has an even chance, perhaps a tad more....
...As for Germany, its economic model, always a tad overpraised on Britain’s credulous left, turns out to have bet on Russian inputs and Chinese demand....
...Whether you’re running a marathon or not, I’ll be back next week....
...Because he overdid the violence a tad, Bret Easton Ellis doesn’t get due praise for capturing this cast of mind — this need for speed — through the character of Patrick Bateman in American Psycho....
...I admit to having felt a tad sceptical about how Starck’s sleek modernism would translate within the framework of such a beloved period property....
...I have always found patterned bed linen a tad tricky; I tend to prefer the “cleanness” of block colour. However, Swedish brand Magniberg might have changed my opinion....
...Functional, durable and just a tad offbeat, these 21st-century reworkings have an individual, even edgy quality to them. And don’t feel you have to stick with plain blue or camel....
...“I don’t like to boast,” he added, a tad unconvincingly....
...Asked if she agreed with fellow ECB governing council members who have signalled a rate cut is expected this summer, Lagarde said: “I would say it is likely too, but I have to be reserved.”...
...I’ll hold my applause....
...It is with a heavy heart that I must announce that the Reddit traders are at it again....
...I was dubious and a tad overwhelmed at first, but even managed to fall asleep while she struck a metal bowl just centimetres from my head....
...Roll forward and the S&P is now a smidgen above my selling price again, so I’m looking a tad less clever....
...When I asked Isabela why she loved it here, she answered simply: “The silences.”...
...Thanks to some weaker jobs numbers this week, prices have recovered a tad. Shorter-dated securities avoided most of last month’s decline but my foray into US bonds has hurt....
....* My inbox tells me that I’ve personally received over 100 emails mentioning “private debt” or “private credit” since September 24, and that doesn’t even include the ones I summarily delete....
...I will read Christopher Clark’s Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848-1849 despite the ill-founded analogies to the present day in Munro Price’s review (Life & Arts, April 29)....
...In fact, I got in the habit of dialling into some of these characters’ Twitter spaces after the GME short squeeze happened....
...In 2014 I paid a visit to Ardian boss Dominique Senequier’s office in Paris’ Place Vendôme. On the mantelpiece, stood a framed picture of then CIC chair Ding Xuedong who had recently visited....
...I mean, you can literally see why. He presents as: smarty-pants, urban, a tad vain and, for a French president, brazenly anglophone. Even the slightly mod sideburns “place” him....
...Calling Asean a ‘talk shop’ may be a tad harsh, but at least it brings heads of state together for dialogues. I suspect a similar fate lies in wait for the UN . . . ” — Nicholas Chia...
...Ethan WuLastly, Jonathan, and this one might take a tad bit of explanation, you say stock analysts are hedgehogs — you know, an animal with a single conceptual framework for the world — rather than foxes...
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