X-Men 97 Is To Return
Somehow slept on the news that the fabled 90s version of X-Men is returning. Trailer.
Somehow slept on the news that the fabled 90s version of X-Men is returning. Trailer.
Jemima Kelly for the FT.
The reality is that the embrace of crypto by the world of traditional finance, or “TradFi”, as crypto types like to call it, is just as hypocritical as crypto’s embrace of institutional investors. I heard one of the hosts of another bitcoin-focused podcast, the Wolf of All Streets, say recently that “TradFi is just as degen” — a crypto word describing a reckless (and degenerate) gambler — “as the crypto community is” and this, unfortunately, is not wholly unjustified.
With the advent of bitcoin ETFs, what was once a relatively clear boundary between crypto and conventional finance has been broken down for good. And the world of TradFi has shown the emptiness of its talk of learning the lessons of the financial crisis. It has shown that — like the world of crypto — it is really just as greedy as ever.
Temu’s sister app Pinduoduo already dominates China. When it still published such numbers, PDD reported more than 870mn active users in the country supplied by over 13mn merchants who, it claimed, together generated a third of all parcel traffic in the country, tens of billions of packages a year.
why do US investors have so much confidence in an opaque operation whose financial statements seem to lack much pattern or explanation, and whose operations, management, auditors, and regulators sit in a distant untouchable jurisdiction?
No mystery here. These are the same geniuses who loaned Musk billions to purchase Twitter. Greed and stupidity are a powerful force.
China’s consumer prices fell at their fastest pace in 15 years in January, as the world’s second-largest economy sank deeper into deflation amid weakening demand.
China’s economy first entered deflation last summer, with prices falling at a faster pace since then. Its factories have also cut prices, with the latest producer price index pointing to a 2.5% drop in annual prices in January, after a 2.7% fall in December.
When your internal market fails, you flood external markets to keep the factories working.
A bank group spearheaded by Morgan Stanley held discussions with Elon Musk and his team about refinancing a roughly $12.5 billion debt package that supported the tech billionaire’s take-private of the social media platform X, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
A group of seven banks, led by the New York-based lender, has been stuck holding the debt since 2022. They’ve repeatedly renewed an agreement not to individually offload their holdings, with the goal of coordinating a sale when X — formerly known as Twitter — is on firmer financial footing with stable advertising revenues, subscription growth and further traction from a planned peer-to-peer payments platform, one of the people said.
Good luck with that. Via Bloomberg.
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