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Sofa, so good
Private equity; AI factors; AI’s limits; intergalactic AI; AI in the building; insurance; Icelandic UX; Hermes; music; and rocks
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
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
Chinese cars; private equity; Fidelity; Adani; publishing; education; co-ops; childbirth; and website T&Cs
Chartbeats (José González version)
Stupidity; Soho; Stiglitz; and spam
Why now, why not earlier, why ever, at what price, and what it might mean for fertiliser production in North Yorkshire
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 . . .
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