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It’s a little bit more complicated than that

The environmental impact of agricultural crops

Politics is broken, I mean, really

US fiscal folly could create big, beautiful debt spiral

Is macroeconomics a mature science?

To hedge or not to hedge, and how to hedge

Kleptocracy Inc.

I want it to matter, but it doesn’t

How masculine is your portfolio?

It’s a good thing to have several suppliers

Investment heuristics cage match

When looking at private investments, the past is prologue

Equity investors seeking clarity should be careful what they wish for

Green investing with a vengeance

STFU

Four minutes

Exactly how damaging is fiscal policy uncertainty?

Casting doubt on risk preferences

Poor regions suffer more from extreme weather

Popes are good for business

Repost: Armed conflict investor survival guide

Removing crash risk from the carry trade

Companies don’t wait for tariffs to come into effect

European defence supercycle means scrapping deficit fears

Longer, then faster

Migrate to survive

Nerds have an advantage

Nerds are better investors

When brain drain kills

Explaining overnight returns in the US

Getting grandpa back to work…

The least surprising way to increase revenues when you are an influencer

Trump tariff reprieve could create more risk in Treasury market

The true information is in the words, not the numbers

Corporate site visits are a win-win

Tripping up sentiment indicators

The evolution of pizza

Using discount to NAV to forecast listed private equity

What makes an asset ‘safe’?

This is going to be the most boring post of the year

Everyone’s a little bit racist…

The Golden Age of lawyers

What do you do when there is no fundamental value?

How flows change factor performance

Forget Trump. A UK deal with the EU is what matters

The long shadow of the Weimar hyperinflation

Traditional and ESG investors are not that far apart

When anxiety becomes too pervasive

Do lower rates lead to cheaper mortgages? Kind of

Is the Fed left- or right-leaning?

Finding the economic engines of a country

This post will change your life

Which employer pays best?

Trade wars don’t work: The case of export restrictions

Investors could exit tariff purgatory only to enter a capital controls inferno

Investment firms should hire more quants

How not to deal with Chinese EV imports

Chinese fund managers and their superstitions

Five mistakes investors make

Which taxes hurt?

Hedge funds still aren’t worth the money: Third time lucky?

Why day trading doesn’t work

Nervos belli, pecuniam infinitam

Good vs. bad inflation

Why are Germans so reluctant to invest in stocks?

Is dollar weakness a panic signal or healthy rebalancing?

The limits to growth… are coming closer

The evolution of overconfidence

Like being a cow in an understocked McDonald’s

Hedge funds still aren’t worth the money: Part 2

When banks rescue the government

Invert, always invert – the tariff edition

How not to close the gender pay gap

I really needed to hear that

Geopolitics doesn’t matter, until it does

Hedge funds still aren’t worth the money: Part 1

How AI revolutionized investment decisions at a major asset manager

The activists focusing on smaller companies

If I ran a gym, I'd be worried

Europe’s fiscal rules need a makeover

People become more selfish during good times

The inflation impact of fiscal stimulus in Europe

Hedge fund managers tell you when they underperform

Fighting Russia with renewable energy

Good news: Happiness isn’t everything

Good news: Skew, for lack of a better word, is good

Good news: The Fed may have tamed the cycle

Good news: Public investment is remarkably effective

Europe’s fiscal splurge could herald decade-long bull market

Good news: ESG funds are cheaper

Societal collapse

The machines are winning…

The long-term war premium in stock markets

Words speak louder than acts

Are ESG funds subsidised by their non-ESG siblings?

Bread and circuses, canals and monuments

Import tariffs reduce exports as well

The index inclusion effect is dead

China can teach Europe how to become geopolitically independent

Short-term vs. long-term investors

Environmental vs. disaster fear

These Oscar-nominated movies are soooo disappointing

NextGenerationEU works

Why are analyst forecasts so optimistic: Growth assumptions

The returns of venture capital are different

We can deal with floods, but not with droughts and heatwaves

We all deserve to be rich

Higher bank capital requirements work

Ambiguity is worse than risk

Private equity: Resilient, but not immune

Trump tariffs won’t easily derail euro zone recovery

The anti-climate lobby is winning

You don’t bring me flowers, anymore

Index funds and the rise of mega caps, redux

The price of deglobalisation

Deglobalisation: Diversification rather than decoupling

Let the sunshine in

Trump-coloured glasses

Political stability is necessary to attract investments

When index funds make the market riskier

Tech vol could pull European investors back home

If you get a takeover offer, fight

Children are bad for your career, unless you are a man

Capitalism creates inequality: Stone age edition

Philosophical economics: Shameless robber barons

Can monetary policies inflate a stock market bubble?

Politicians care about (some) debt

California’s electricity conundrum

Considerable overlap

Philosophical economics: The golden calf of business and finance

Can we measure soft power?

Analyst do not read across enough

The impact of renewable energy on electricity costs

Coffee makes men more sociable and women better looking

Philosophical economics: From individualism to libertarianism

Germany will struggle to loosen its debt break

A watershed moment for bond yields

What happens to stocks after an inflation shock?

Can carbon capture work?

Are you kidding me?

Philosophical economics: Status anxiety

European stocks offer earnings stability in surprising places

Bad year? Increase risk. Good year? Do the same.

The UK’s failed Annual Investment Allowance

YIMBY to windfarms

Let me fix those forecasts for you

It's 2025 and life is still messy