Can’t believe it’s only a few days since the inauguration.

FT stock picking contest: who were the big hitters of 2024? The winners of last year’s competition revealed — plus how you can sign up for the 2025 contest

FT stock picking contest: will 2025 be the year when shorting Tesla FINALLY pays off? ft.com/content/71f4... via @financialtimes.com

Ask Shrimsley: what will be the key trends for 2025? Some non-committal and unfalsifiable predictions for the year ahead

Ask Shrimsley: what will be the key trends for 2025? ft.com/content/c9a6... via @financialtimes.com

The alarming contradictions awaiting Donald Trump’s dollar [FREE TO READ] Big tax cuts and tariff hikes will prevent any new Plaza Accord to manage currencies

My Trade Secrets today. Two of Trump's big policy pledges - tax cuts and tariffs - run directly counter to a third, weakening the dollar to improve competitiveness.

Managing currencies is fiendishly hard (the Plaza Accord didn't do that much tbh) and Trump will fail if he tries.

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A lesson for oligarchs: politics can be deadly The emergence of a powerful tech elite close to Donald Trump has jarring echoes with Russia

A lesson for oligarchs: politics can be deadly ft.com/content/503c... via @financialtimes.com

Britain's growth problem in 2 sentences: ft.com/content/8178... via @financialtimes.com

Trump’s threat to US liberal democracy We must hope that the American people will not lightly abandon the enlightenment traditions of their country

Four years of "incompetence and malevolence". Or more, if the US constitution does not hold ft.com/content/49de... via @financialtimes.com

No gatekeepers, no costs, and no consequences: everything that is wrong with social media www.ft.com/content/917c... via @financialtimes.com

Lunch with the FT: Peter Thiel The billionaire investor and libertarian thinker believes that in a world of government surveillance, more technology is the answer

From this excellent Richard Waters lunch

A time for truth and reconciliation Trump’s return to the White House augurs the ‘apokálypsis’ of the ancien regime’s secrets

Inside the mind of a Silicon Valley fanatic. Peter Thiel makes Orwellian analogy bwtween today’s liberal democracy and South African apartheid - and calls for a truth and reconciliation commission to uncover the crimes of America’s “ancien regime”. Beyond nuts www.ft.com/content/a46c...

Alphaville LLC issues new research report on Greenland A sell-side icebreaker

Alphaville LLC issues new research report on Greenland www.ft.com/content/f6f9... via @financialtimes.com

Musk’s grooming onslaught shows politics needs a new playbook [FREE TO READ] Online distortions obscure the true nature of public outrage — democracies must adapt to the age of X

this is very good, by @robertshrimsley.bsky.social

Politicians must find a new way to deal with the online rage factories
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Appropriate mix of headlines. Climate change accelerates, while the business world, under pressure from US conservatives, abandons any attempt to stop it

The uncomfortable truth about social media networks It may be impossible to run an uncensored network while presenting an environment where anyone can feel safe

The uncomfortable truth about social media networks www.ft.com/content/c0ef... via @financialtimes.com

Free speech advocate tells Keir Starmer to stop accurately describing what she did ft.com/content/c95a... via @financialtimes.com

The Musk threat to European democracy Free speech push, now backed by Meta’s Zuckerberg, risks spread of disinformation

The Musk threat to European democracy ft.com/content/f1de... via @financialtimes.com

McGlashan on England’s World Cup draw. No idea what made me think of this today 🤔 From Absolutely and the OG @mrjackdocherty TikTok video by Allaster McKallaster

World Cup qualifying groups 2026 have been drawn...
www.tiktok.com/@mckallaster...

At the FT Banking Summit, Francesca Carlesi, UK CEO of Revolut, says: "Consumers are ready for instant gratification, real-time data assessment, and real-time insights. Slick works as well. All of these, in Gen AI, can enable that today."
banking.live.ft.com/page/3356986...
#FTBanking

Trump-linked crypto founder eats $6mn banana on stage Justin Sun hails US president-elect’s support of industry amid spectacle at Hong Kong event

Is this headline the shortest "sell" note ever written?
www.ft.com/content/7628...

Heidi Alexander’s appointment as transport secretary means the cabinet is now 100% state-educated for the first time in history - great stat from @georgeeaton.bsky.social

Trump Management 101: trade bullshit for bullshit
www.ft.com/content/d077...

Some tariffs are worse than others Policymakers need to update their approach if they are to use trade measures to protect industry

Tariffs: It's the complexity, stupid!
www.ft.com/content/d950...

‘Incompetent’ FCA slammed by MPs Report calls for overhaul of UK regulator after three-year probe heard from whistleblowers and former staff

‘Incompetent’ FCA needs to be overhauled - MPs www.ft.com/content/bb42...

The ultimate guide to the UK’s sovereign wine fund Data! Accountability! Plonk! The whole wine yards

The UK has a strategic Latour reserve.

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