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Buchheit and Gulati paper on how to restructure Venezuelan debt; Koning on dictionary money; Trump's missing infra plan; the Mooch steps up; brosectomies; "I'm glad that girl's lemonade stall got shut down"; other stuff.

"Like, not 'hello'."

In this guest post, regulator and academic Marcello Minenna warns about the potential impact of new MREL rules on the Italian banking system.

This man had real world form before discovering "perpetuated wealth creation" in gaga crypto land

New documents show the former tech unicorn was owed millions by related parties when it went into administration.

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New research shows how "technocratic" forecasters are terrible at a key part of their job.

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Season 3 of Alphachat starts next week, but today we’re re-upping a wonderful conversation we had with Angus Deaton in October 2015, just after he’d won the the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — or just the economic Nobel, to the non-pedants among you.

Notes from the alternate universe where Hillary Clinton won; meanwhile in this universe the Mooch may be the new WH Comms director; more Shkreli; interest rate humility; vol sellers branch out; lemonade stand shut down; other stuff.

Legal enforcement authorities have shut down two of the biggest criminal marketplaces on the dark web, Alphabay and Hansa, in an operation of unprecedented international scale. But will the Feds be able to keep up once the market evolves, as it surely will, into entirely decentralised form?

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Unilever serves up growth (of the non orange variety). FT Opening Quote, with commentary by Matthew Vincent, is your early Square Mile briefing. You can sign up for the full newsletter here.

Shkreli update involving ploughing all of a fund's cash in a strip-club stock; the T2 risk in a rapid unwinding of the ECB’s APP; disappearing Wall St brokers; investor accused of punching out teen at ritzy Hamptons bash; snail slime hits mainstream; other stuff.

ICO PR spin is achieving new heights of creativity.

Chinese credit tightening not even in second place.

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BHP digs more iron ore, Drax digs biomass. FT Opening Quote, with commentary by Matthew Vincent, is your early Square Mile briefing. You can sign up for the full newsletter here.

Uber's culture of fear; the quest to bury Bloomberg; facts, frictions and 'mainstream' economics; the word's first emoji translator; husband pod; suicidal robot; other stuff.

Ratesetter has stepped in to protect investors -- and its Provision Fund -- from losses on a £12m loan.

There are no interest rates in the cryptocurrency world, and that's a problem for gauging any sense of fair relative price.