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‘Ponzi-like schemes’ (opens the original)
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Perhaps the most interesting thing about Turkey’s stock market crisis was how long it took to arrive. Everyone saw it coming. Market gains over the past couple of years were so obviously ridiculous that shenanigans were the only rational explanation: <img alt=""
Frites don’t fail me now (opens the original)
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FT, January 29 2026 - “Das glut: why Germans are handing out free potatoes”.Thanks to the right combination of rain and sunshine through the summer, farmers across Germany experienced a bumper harvest. According to the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture, the national yield totalled 13.4 million tonnes — more than two million tonnes above the average, and the highest harvest in 25 years. The glut far exceeded the sector’s processing capacity, l
Nothing is certain except death and robotaxis (opens the original)
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It’s exhausting, honestly, to be told so often that a higher intelligence will want us dead.As well as being quite rude, death threats don’t match our conventional understanding of intelligence. Book-smarts and murder have a negative correlation. Intellectuals don’t often talk about their perceived inferiors as a pestilence (though, undoubtedly, there are some in the fields of science and technology who do).You’ll already know why we’re talking apocalypse aga
Is Stephen Miran... right? (opens the original)
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Why are bond yield climbing? This is evidently an easy question to answer, because we have a lot of them. Just pick whatever answer best fits your priors. Some say inflation fears are the main culprit. Others say rate fears — either that rates are too low to contain inflation, or going to go higher to contain inflation. Then there are <a href="https://www.wsj.com/economy/the-bond-market-issues-wo
To err is humanoid (opens the original)
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The period when robots moved like people doing the robot took decades to arrive, was brief, and is already over. Technologists accelerated past anything anticipated by interpretive dance. Doing the robot, once appreciated as science fiction, has quickly become a historical reenactment. You’re reading Alphaville’s weekly newsletter. Register on the FT website for daily blog access and sign up f
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