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    Alexandra Scaggs

    Alphaville reporter

    Alexandra Scaggs is a reporter for FT Alphaville, covering markets, finance and economics. She rejoins the blog after a stint covering personal finance and bond markets for Barron's. Before she first joined Alphaville in 2016, she covered interest rates for Bloomberg and US equity markets for the Wall Street Journal.

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    • Wednesday, 7 June, 2023
      Binance
      State’s witnesses (n.pl., fem.)

      Former Binance.US chief Catherine Coley speaks

    • Wednesday, 7 June, 2023
      FT Alphaville
      FTAV’s further reading

      “Non-recession recession”; non-strike strike; EM private equity; “craft of non-human origin”; other cursed phrases; Benihana

    • Tuesday, 6 June, 2023
      FT Alphaville
      FTAV’s further reading

      Kissinger; Calloway; Dalio; DFW; that guy who dated Taylor Swift; ghosts in the machine; etc

    • Monday, 5 June, 2023
      FT Alphaville
      FTAV’s further reading

      Plunder; a pickle; suburb shaming; two noteworthy panels; a higher-education “hallucination”

    • Friday, 26 May, 2023
      Automobiles
      What’s going on with US car insurance?

      Too much, apparently

    • Tuesday, 23 May, 2023
      Sovereign bonds
      T-bill debt ceiling watch

      Politicians negotiating, T-bill yields moving, someone please stop the ride we want to get off

    • Thursday, 18 May, 2023
      Residential property
      HELOCked and loaded

      US homeowners have dry powder

    • Monday, 15 May, 2023
      Residential property
      Bullish on the ‘burbs

      “We are at or past peak demand for urban apartments”

    • Friday, 12 May, 2023
      FT Alphaville
      FTAV’s further reading

      Bank funding; seaflooding; McMansions; hospital mergers; parasites; Hindenburg; etc

    • Tuesday, 9 May, 2023
      FT Alphaville
      FTAV’s further reading

      Post Office; prices; Something Awful; AirPods; etc

    • Monday, 8 May, 2023
      Insurance
      Taking a CLOser look at insurers

      Plus a brief introduction to the “combo note”

    • Friday, 5 May, 2023
      Banks
      Bad vibes alone don’t make a bank run

      Regionals get bid after a California bear attack

    • Thursday, 4 May, 2023
      US banks
      What’s changed for regional banks this week?

      Not that much

    • Wednesday, 3 May, 2023
      FT Alphaville
      Is ‘greedflation’ on its way out?

      Probably not but apparently you’re more likely to click if the headline is a question

    • Monday, 1 May, 2023
      US banks
      No ‘winner’s curse’ in the First Republic auction

      At least not yet

    • Friday, 28 April, 2023
      First Republic
      Anatomy of a bank panic

      Breaking down the First Republic news cycle

    • Friday, 28 April, 2023
      Financial & markets regulation
      Here’s the full Fed report on SVB

      “Textbook case of mismanagement” etc

    • Friday, 28 April, 2023
      Property sector
      Just how bad is office CRE, anyway?

      It’s not great, but Barclays thinks worries are overdone

    • Tuesday, 25 April, 2023
      Consumer trends
      The US consumer . . . wins again?

      It depends on which consumers you mean, really

    • Wednesday, 19 April, 2023
      US banks
      All quiet on the Western Alliance front?

      It’s added deposits since last month’s bank run, and that’s good enough for shareholders

    • Wednesday, 19 April, 2023
      US banks
      Peering through the window into US offices

      Regional banks’ secret power may be . . . regionality

    • Monday, 17 April, 2023
      FT Alphaville
      FTAV’s further reading

      Solar power; CZ; Shaq; 1971; blunders; ice cream; etc

    • Friday, 14 April, 2023
      US banks
      Even the safest mortgage bonds could see SVB fallout

      Banks won’t be short your house, but they might be less long your house

    • Friday, 14 April, 2023
      FT Alphaville
      FTAV’s further reading

      Crypto-evangelism; climate risk; a German myth; a false promise; a grand delusion; good ideas; @dril

    • Wednesday, 12 April, 2023
      Banks
      The US is not “over-banked”

      Not anymore, at least

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