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The “game theory” in the Qanon conspiracy theory

  1. How trolltrace became a real thing
  2. Social media to make benefit glorious nation of Azerbaijan (and others)
  3. From bitcoin to QAnon: bits to qbits
  4. Who’s been editing the Ripple CEO’s Wikipedia page?
  5. Linkedin FT spoofing, a forensic analysis
  6. How fake new spreads: a real-time dissection
  7. Cognitive hacking as the new disinformation frontier
  8. Who’s been spoofing the FT?

The rabbit hole behind the rabbit hole is possibly a weaponised game.

By: Izabella Kaminska

Nigel Farage is shilling gold and silver on the internet

  1. We don’t want to call the top but . . .  (Vision Fund edition)
  2. Nikola/Hindenburg: gravitational spin
  3. Is GMO’s Montier right on ‘absurd’ US stocks?
  4. ‘Commerzbank has confirmed its top position in German equity research, sales and corporate access’
  5. Once again Kodak pivots, and the share price explodes
  6. Blockchain: it really is a tough sell
  7. Sterling has not become an emerging market currency
  8. Jeff Ubben/ESG: flip flop
  9. Is this the nuttiest risk factor of all time?
  10. The tech start-up that wants to “validate” the female orgasm
  11. It’s a great time for conspiracy theories to thrive
  12. Let’s call Trump out, but let’s get our facts straight too
  13. Today, in efficient markets
  14. We can’t blame all the indirect health damage on the lockdown
  15. Weirdly, blockchain can’t help combat coronavirus 
  16. Leading ‘UK’ start-ups want a handout too
  17. China’s PMI print doesn’t mean much
  18. Let’s flatten the coronavirus confusion curve
  19. NMC Health: presented without comment
  20. When “commission-free trading” isn’t (really) free

This is our surprised face.

By: Jemima Kelly

Further reading

The persecution of Uyghurs; the heat gap; Trump’s private virus briefings; do men really hate women; and much much more.

By: Jemima Kelly

This week

Pilgrim’s Pride receive chicken feed fine from the DoJ

The chickens did not come home to roost.

By: Jamie Powell

How trolltrace became a real thing

  1. The “game theory” in the Qanon conspiracy theory
  2. Social media to make benefit glorious nation of Azerbaijan (and others)
  3. From bitcoin to QAnon: bits to qbits
  4. Who’s been editing the Ripple CEO’s Wikipedia page?
  5. Linkedin FT spoofing, a forensic analysis
  6. How fake new spreads: a real-time dissection
  7. Cognitive hacking as the new disinformation frontier
  8. Who’s been spoofing the FT?

Why the ultimate weapon in the disinformation wars of 2020 is the perfect algorithmic Troll Hunting machine.

By: Izabella Kaminska

Further reading

Pandemic parties; protecting the Supreme Court; students; and much more.

By: Claire Jones

Further reading

Bots on reddit; Cheap solar; Settlement fails.

By: Izabella Kaminska

What if both the lockdowners and the anti-lockdowners are wrong?

Fundie John Hempton posits a different view of the Covid response.

By: Jamie Powell

We don’t want to call the top but . . .  (Vision Fund edition)

  1. Nigel Farage is shilling gold and silver on the internet
  2. Nikola/Hindenburg: gravitational spin
  3. Is GMO’s Montier right on ‘absurd’ US stocks?
  4. ‘Commerzbank has confirmed its top position in German equity research, sales and corporate access’
  5. Once again Kodak pivots, and the share price explodes
  6. Blockchain: it really is a tough sell
  7. Sterling has not become an emerging market currency
  8. Jeff Ubben/ESG: flip flop
  9. Is this the nuttiest risk factor of all time?
  10. The tech start-up that wants to “validate” the female orgasm
  11. It’s a great time for conspiracy theories to thrive
  12. Let’s call Trump out, but let’s get our facts straight too
  13. Today, in efficient markets
  14. We can’t blame all the indirect health damage on the lockdown
  15. Weirdly, blockchain can’t help combat coronavirus 
  16. Leading ‘UK’ start-ups want a handout too
  17. China’s PMI print doesn’t mean much
  18. Let’s flatten the coronavirus confusion curve
  19. NMC Health: presented without comment
  20. When “commission-free trading” isn’t (really) free

Guess who is launching a Spac?

By: Jamie Powell

PwC: blockchain potentially has LOADS of potential

  1. When the SPAC met the blockchain
  2. Getting to grips with 2020, one chart crime at a time
  3. The trinity of financial innovation: debt, equity and ICOs
  4. CNBC’s ‘v-shaped’ recovery
  5. When axes get truly evil
  6. When data viz goes psychotic
  7. Ain’t no virus gonna stop the crypto graph-ters
  8.  We need to figure out how we will reopen the economy. But not like this.
  9. A diseased pie disaster
  10. Future’s flubbed pie chart
  11. Goldman’s missing Y axis
  12. Technical analysis, blockchain litigation edition
  13. Unpicking the UBS lock
  14. ARK Invest’s enthusiastic EV predictions don’t add up
  15. This “Event Risk Radar” is a bad idea
  16. Political commentators and market wizards
  17. Tesla is worth <checks notes> $10, $250 or $500
  18. A fall in house prices would not devastate Germany’s economy
  19. When technical analysis goes rogue
  20. How not to understand money 

So let us all “seize the opportunity to explore blockchain solutions”! 

By: Jemima Kelly

Further reading

Facebook; the music industry; $16tn and much more . . . 

By: Jamie Powell

When crypto exchanges decentralise

The latest criminal charges against BitMEX pose serious questions about what might happen to the crypto universe when exchanges are forced to decentralise.

By: Izabella Kaminska

Further reading

Cambridge Analytica; Fama; Woking Leisure Centre; and much more.

By: Claire Jones

Last week

Chicken collusion? Charted!

When volatility disappears from a commodity market, something is up. And we are not too chicken-livered to say it.

By: Jamie Powell

Where is the eurozone’s labour market heading?

Conditions improved over the summer months. As caseloads surge, that’s unlikely to last.

By: Claire Jones

Further reading

Empty Manhattan apartments; dollar swap lines; Matt Levine; and much more.

By: Claire Jones

The strange IPO of Jonathan Rowland’s “bitcoin bank”

Why does an “oversubscribed” listing only have one new significant investor?

By: Jemima Kelly

Tesla aims to produce 500,000 cars, or 72 per cent of stated capacity

  1. Tesla: no comment
  2. FT Alphaville takes a Tesla out for a spin
  3. Tesla’s cash to be collected: redux
  4. Congratulations Elon, you’ve earned it
  5. Elon, u ok hun?
  6. Tesla: taking a step back
  7. Elon Musk the insurer
  8. Tesla’s coronavirus ‘competitive advantage’
  9. Elon Musk promised ventilators. These are BPAP machines.
  10. Elon doesn’t get it 
  11. Tesla’s quarter-end push has a pandemic problem
  12. Elon Musk’s SolarCity suit deposition: the highlights
  13. Tesla’s sufficient management
  14. Tesla and the question of change
  15. Tesla and the number 500,000, again
  16. Mamma Mia...
  17. The question of Tesla’s cash to be collected
  18. Elon versus the evil shorties
  19. Mad Man breaks window
  20. Tesla’s mysterious income

But in upside-down markets, anything is bullish.

By: Jamie Powell

ICO’s final report into Cambridge Analytica invites regulatory questions

A three-year inquiry into data mishandling by Cambridge Analytica by the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office has come up with diddly-squat. So now what?

By: Izabella Kaminska

Further reading

Herd immunity; WFH; inequality and much more . . . 

By: Jamie Powell

Further reading

Adtech bubble; insect farms; Estonia’s digital revolution

By: Izabella Kaminska

Tesla: no comment

  1. Tesla aims to produce 500,000 cars, or 72 per cent of stated capacity
  2. FT Alphaville takes a Tesla out for a spin
  3. Tesla’s cash to be collected: redux
  4. Congratulations Elon, you’ve earned it
  5. Elon, u ok hun?
  6. Tesla: taking a step back
  7. Elon Musk the insurer
  8. Tesla’s coronavirus ‘competitive advantage’
  9. Elon Musk promised ventilators. These are BPAP machines.
  10. Elon doesn’t get it 
  11. Tesla’s quarter-end push has a pandemic problem
  12. Elon Musk’s SolarCity suit deposition: the highlights
  13. Tesla’s sufficient management
  14. Tesla and the question of change
  15. Tesla and the number 500,000, again
  16. Mamma Mia...
  17. The question of Tesla’s cash to be collected
  18. Elon versus the evil shorties
  19. Mad Man breaks window
  20. Tesla’s mysterious income

And we thought it was just because we were special.

By: Jamie Powell

When the SPAC met the blockchain

  1. PwC: blockchain potentially has LOADS of potential
  2. Getting to grips with 2020, one chart crime at a time
  3. The trinity of financial innovation: debt, equity and ICOs
  4. CNBC’s ‘v-shaped’ recovery
  5. When axes get truly evil
  6. When data viz goes psychotic
  7. Ain’t no virus gonna stop the crypto graph-ters
  8.  We need to figure out how we will reopen the economy. But not like this.
  9. A diseased pie disaster
  10. Future’s flubbed pie chart
  11. Goldman’s missing Y axis
  12. Technical analysis, blockchain litigation edition
  13. Unpicking the UBS lock
  14. ARK Invest’s enthusiastic EV predictions don’t add up
  15. This “Event Risk Radar” is a bad idea
  16. Political commentators and market wizards
  17. Tesla is worth <checks notes> $10, $250 or $500
  18. A fall in house prices would not devastate Germany’s economy
  19. When technical analysis goes rogue
  20. How not to understand money 

Exponential love.

By: Jemima Kelly

Snap AV: another K-shaped indicator

Ross Yarrow at Baird lays it out.

By: Jamie Powell

Further reading

The First Family; Marsalek; McAfee; Qanon; and more.

By: Jemima Kelly

Deutsche Börse should forget about profits for Dax entrants

Creating a sustainable index matters more than Ebitda.

By: Jamie Powell

The total addressable market craze is detached from reality

Shifting definitions speak to wider issues in the equity market at the moment.

By: Jamie Powell

Further reading

Wokeness; @HouseofCommons; a sceptical farmer; Melbourne dollars; and much more.

By: Jemima Kelly

This month

Social media to make benefit glorious nation of Azerbaijan (and others)

  1. The “game theory” in the Qanon conspiracy theory
  2. How trolltrace became a real thing
  3. From bitcoin to QAnon: bits to qbits
  4. Who’s been editing the Ripple CEO’s Wikipedia page?
  5. Linkedin FT spoofing, a forensic analysis
  6. How fake new spreads: a real-time dissection
  7. Cognitive hacking as the new disinformation frontier
  8. Who’s been spoofing the FT?

Putting the weapon into the weaponisation of social-media propaganda.

By: Izabella Kaminska

The jobs market is far bleaker than the headline stats show

The main readings for unemployment are saying little about the state of labour conditions in the eurozone or the US.

By: Claire Jones

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