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Property sector

What about Blackstone’s $50bn credit fund?

BREIT contagion candidates

The hottest US export is the dollar

If only central banks could keep track of it

Asia-Pacific economy

India takes off?

Morgan Stanley’s new fave EM

Passive Investing

Fido (hearts) ETFs

Damascene conversions

Treat the finance geek in your life* to FT Alphaville merch

*buying stuff for yourself is fine

Recession watch: manufacturing edition

Labour markets look good. US manufacturing does not.

Further reading

Credit Suisse; immaculate disinflation; safety deposit boxes; quitting Russia; Chinese marriages; and virtual communism

Fund management

Relax though, this isn’t the summer of 2007

Where in the world is Sam from Alameda?

Moron Risk Premium is canon, kind of

The BoE-approved method

All those 2023 economics and markets outlooks, distilled

An axes of evil compendium

Cryptocurrencies

Posting through it, crypto-Lehman edition

“I didn’t ever try to commit fraud on anyone”

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Friday, 2 December, 2022

Further reading
BREIT; Tether; El Salvador; food security; Ukrainian memes; long Covid; disengagement; lost animals; and nihilism
Thursday, 1 December, 2022

Asia-Pacific equities
The Great Wall (Of Indifference)
Is China actually, truly, really uninvestable?
Thursday, 1 December, 2022

Further reading
Geopolitics; FTX; Telegram; England’s water utilities; inflation and aging populations; executive off-sites; and MSM bias
Wednesday, 30 November, 2022

Property sector
The uncomfortable two-way trade in making money from homelessness
Charity begins at Home Reit
Wednesday, 30 November, 2022

Bitcoin
Bitcoin’s ‘artificially induced last gasp before the road to irrelevance’
The ECB takes no prisoners
Wednesday, 30 November, 2022

Global Economy
The World Bank’s guarantee debacles
Adventures in super-seniority
Wednesday, 30 November, 2022

Further reading
Crypto regulation; Operation Twist; auditors; EU energy; Palantir; cannabis; Amazon; SBF on sex, lies; and videotape
Wednesday, 30 November, 2022

Economic forecasting
Neural stonks predictions
Reversion-to-the-mean machine
Tuesday, 29 November, 2022

Sovereign bonds
FUD and the Ghana 2030 Bond
When guarantees lead to a guaranteed headache
Tuesday, 29 November, 2022

Robin Wigglesworth
What if everything is going to be OK?
Serenity prayer time
Tuesday, 29 November, 2022

Further reading
SBF; Nexo; BCCI; Tesla fake news; the market for misinformation; tech regulation; and cardboard
Tuesday, 29 November, 2022

Pharmaceuticals sector
How big a threat is Zantac really?
A story of cancer scares, secretive short sellers, psychological tape bombs and post-investment stress disorder
Monday, 28 November, 2022

Digital currencies
The Crypt, updated
There but for the grace of common sense go we
Monday, 28 November, 2022

IPOs
The IPO outlook in one word
#PrayforIPOs
Monday, 28 November, 2022

Property sector
Blackstone’s BREIT defence
They love their $145bn property trust, and think you should too
Monday, 28 November, 2022

Further reading
China protests; Poland; obvious frauds; Canadian risk tolerance; Big Pharma astroturfing; and splash-free urinals
Monday, 28 November, 2022

Financial services
FTAV comment gold
A readers digest
Friday, 25 November, 2022

Exploring Elon Musk’s Semaformantics
Because somebody has to, we suppose
Friday, 25 November, 2022

Bitcoin
What does crypto look like after FTX?
CeFi > DeFi, says JPMorgan
Friday, 25 November, 2022

Further reading
UK housing; FTX; Greece; taxes; mystery gold whales; the Great Depression; problem trees; snow crabs; and Ridge Racer
Friday, 25 November, 2022

Hedge funds
For sale: heavily worn multi-strategy hedge fund
No returns, please
Thursday, 24 November, 2022

Digital currencies
What’s a $1.8mn private jet bill between Spac friends?
Austerity, bitcoin-style
Thursday, 24 November, 2022

Currencies
Bill Ackman, macro tourist, is back
Short peg in a long-term hole
Thursday, 24 November, 2022

Blockchain
FTX: The Wallet Inspection
(Picture unrelated)
Thursday, 24 November, 2022

Further reading
Michelle Mone; Nigel Farage; Alexa; Sam Bankman-Fried; Jay Powell; Elon Musk; Mukesh Ambani; and airport price gouging