Kate Duguid

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Unaffordable Housing Impacts How Americans Consume, Work and Invest As housing prices climb out of reach, discouraged Americans may be reaching for crypto and other risky investments.

Terrific and extremely depressing piece: "Without a credible future target to discipline their choices, people start to spend their money on other things, such as luxury goods, crypto investments or other unreliable stores of value." www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Susquehanna-backed crypto lender BlockFills halts client withdrawals Move comes during period of sustained volatility in digital asset markets

ICYMI yesterday, a big scoop from George and Jill that tells us something about the state of the crypto market www.ft.com/content/73e5...

Big Balls vs big balls www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

also I genuinely think this is true though not sure whether Conor was joking here or not bsky.app/profile/cono...

ok, 1, I think your work is v valuable because you ask and answer questions in ways that haven’t been done before, which def counts as news, 2, guess maybe I’m thinking specifically of our audience, but believing press releases can be really really expensive

It can’t make public new non-public information though - isn’t that where we come in?

Nikkei Group names Tsuyoshi Hasebe as chair Nobuhisa Iida to become president of FT’s owner while Naotoshi Okada will be corporate adviser

Nikkei Group names Tsuyoshi Hasebe as chair ft.trib.al/2umu8dV

Alphabet lines up 100-year sterling bond sale Deal comes as Google parent steps up AI borrowing rush with $15bn sale of dollar bonds

After Argentina and Austria, investors look to juice duration in Alpha Bet. www.ft.com/content/3260...

Renfeild: I booked your passage on the Demeter, master
Dracula: thankfs. dont foret the box of,, dert

Brad Karp to step down as Paul Weiss chair after Epstein revelations Files released by US Department of Justice detailed his relationship with the child sex offender

FT had the scoop on this one www.ft.com/content/7001...

curious to know who do you think is doing this best? bbg? nyt?

a fête worse than death | becca rothfeld | Substack rantings and ravings about b00ks i like and dislike, articles i write and read, and whatever else i feel like, at totally irregular intervals. Click to read a fête worse than death, by becca rothfeld,...

Don't think she updates her substack much, but it is here: afeteworsethandeath.substack.com

Becca Rothfeld is without question the best nonfiction book critic working at the moment. Awful decision to close the section. Hope someone smart snaps her up instantly.

Tether retreats from $20bn funding ambitions after investor pushback CEO Paolo Ardoino downplays the scale of $185bn stablecoin group’s capital raise

Jill gets the scoop on Tether's scaled back fundraising ambitions www.ft.com/content/3f7f...

deffo. my issue is also like - if you’re Bryan Johnson what are you living for? assume all his time and brain space is spent tracking peptides and planning his next transfusion. you wanna live an extra seven (? idk) years to spend them doing that?

it was such a bummer. and made me feel so alien from the people in question

I spend hundreds of dollars a week on unregulated, grey-market Chinese research chemicals to inject myself with so that I can focus better at my job using an LLM to do PR for an LLM

taking 30 vitamins a day to pass your time compiling a shopping newsletter smh

all the people I’ve encountered who are obsessed with longevity spend their time doing the stupidest shit imaginable

Exclusive | Trump Jokes About Suing Warsh if He Doesn’t Lower Interest Rates The president later said he didn’t extract any concessions from the Federal Reserve nominee.

One day after announcing Kevin Warsh as his choice to run the Fed, Trump joked during a speech on Saturday night that he would sue Warsh if Warsh doesn’t lower rates. 

Warsh had been on the guest list of attendees at the elite Alfalfa Club dinner.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Kevin Warsh’s desire to shrink Fed’s balance sheet sets up clash with Trump, say investors [FREE TO READ] Long-term yields ticked up after president nominated former governor to lead US central bank

“Until you get fiscal under control and inflation under control, you are not going to be able to aggressively reduce interest rates and shrink the [Fed’s] balance sheet”

Big bond investors on competing priorities for Trump’s Fed nominee
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as a non-claude user I found this a useful read mattbruenig.com/2026/01/19/s...

Stanley Druckenmiller says Kevin Warsh is not a permanent policy ‘hawk’ Fed chair nominee ‘believes you can have growth without inflation’, according to his longtime mentor

From earlier this am: Amelia got the first interview with Druck after Warsh's nomination www.ft.com/content/4ec8...

FTAV’s Friday chart quiz Take chart

Toby's done the chart quiz this week, so difficulty is turned up to 11.

www.ft.com/content/a9b1...

Donald Trump preparing to nominate Kevin Warsh for Federal Reserve chair US president says he will announce nominee to replace Jay Powell on Friday morning

We now have it too: www.ft.com/content/e227...

I would like to speak with the manager

I was told I owned an uncorrelated store of value

High yield spreads have widened a touch. I banged the side of my monitor to make sure it was real.

Great FT opening for a correspondent covering Taiwan and Asia regional security job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/financialtim...

‘I wouldn’t dare take these drugs’: how China supplies untested peptides to the west The success of weight-loss drugs has driven demand for injectable compounds that claim to improve everything from sleep to skin

Some followup peptide content www.ft.com/content/b154...