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Zen and the art of expectation maintenance
FT Alphaville’s main takeaways from the secretive trading firm’s bond prospectus
Top-tier asset, cheap pricing, savvy tactics. And balloons
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Controversial things come in low-value packages
Driven to distraction
Chinese cars; private equity; Fidelity; Adani; publishing; education; co-ops; childbirth; and website T&Cs
Chatham House Misrule
While Investor Relations just want to top up their tans
Return to the £3.66mn Cellar: The Plonky Version
Yes, you probably have to care about this one
Why now, why not earlier, why ever, at what price, and what it might mean for fertiliser production in North Yorkshire
Chartbeats (José González version)
Stupidity; Soho; Stiglitz; and spam
Scar tissue that I wish you saw
Reservation scalping; flame-throwing robot dogs; Russian reserve accumulation and Taylor Swift fandom
The UK Takeover Panel wants less to do
Meet Ben F orgers (we wish we were making this up)
An accidental FT Alphaville experiment
Seagull boy; nuking the moon; chief tractor officer; optimal Mario Kart
Smol bean bag
To her record label, not that much. For our SEO, quite a lot
Ten Years to Save the Bank’s Forecasts?
Book publishing; whisky blues; It’s Mostly Fiscal; the macro of mental health
Little Britain
Rollins in the deep
Lord, make me solvent, but not yet
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Legislate in haste; repent at leisure
Garden gnomes; big pharma; intelligent insects; four-day work week
Chart in a cage
Not as bad as it looks — better for the Fed to keep calm, and carry on?
Tortured streaming department
Passive; prisons; porn; post-SEO and Elon (sigh)
All borrowers are equal, but some . . .
Vorsprung durch TechNeil
Wrist rollers and Rolex flippers, your time is up
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