AI boom poised to be ‘massively disinflationary’, Northern Trust says Head of financial services group’s $1.4tn asset management division expects new tech to unleash huge productivity gains

Northern Trust says AI could be massssssively disinflationary, and the Fed should be on hold til we know what's going on www.ft.com/content/7ec2...

there was probs a boston marriage joke to be made, but it felt too contrived

Why Is Everyone Wicked Obsessed With This Boston Globe Reporter?

lol I love the NYT keeps calling her haircut “punk” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/s...

US private credit firm backs loans for World Cup ticket flipping Eagle Point Credit Management to capitalise on high prices and demand of football fans to attend the tournament

everything you could want in a story: FIFA, private credit, Trump, world cup ticket price gouging www.ft.com/content/234f...

Trump nominates Pimco executive to lead international affairs at the US Treasury department Bond giant’s head of asset allocation tapped to conduct negotiations with organisations such as the G7

Trump nominates Pimco executive to lead international affairs at the US Treasury department—Browne’s nomination comes at a time when Washington’s relations with multilateral organisations have been strained by… www.ft.com/content/b42b... @kateduguid.bsky.social @financialtimes.com

Norway’s $2tn sovereign wealth fund has ‘no plans’ to reduce US assets Finance minister plans to maintain high concentration of American exposure despite high debt and Middle East war

sure it’s hard to invest $2tn without exposure to the US, but given the mood in Europe and at NATO, this statement still seems significant www.ft.com/content/d302...

Trump nominates Pimco executive to lead international affairs at the US Treasury department Bond giant’s head of asset allocation tapped to conduct negotiations with organisations such as the G7

Scoop from yesterday: Pimco’s Erin Browne is headed to the Treasury department for a job once held by Tim Geithner, Larry Summers and Lael Brainard www.ft.com/content/b42b...

Trump nominates Pimco executive to lead international affairs at the US Treasury department Bond giant’s head of asset allocation tapped to conduct negotiations with organisations such as the G7

SCOOP: Pimco's Erin Browne is heading to the Treasury department for a role held by the likes of Tim Geithner, Larry Summers and Lael Brainard www.ft.com/content/b42b...

Trump nominates Pimco executive to lead international affairs at the US Treasury department Bond giant’s head of asset allocation tapped to conduct negotiations with organisations such as the G7

lil scoop: www.ft.com/content/b42b...

Japanese media attempts to explain Taco 🌮 Trump.

FT Correction: Researcher Brené Brown was misquoted in an interview published on April 6. She described herself as “solidly in my fuck it era” rather than “solidly in my fucking era”.

Within you there are two eras. www.ft.com/content/5269...

My Quest to Solve Bitcoin’s Great Mystery

can't find any sort of smoking gun in here. maybe I'm missing something? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/b...

Fed economist Phelan is front-runner to become top Trump economic adviser His potential nomination comes as the president's approval rating on the economy is falling to new lows, particularly since gas prices have been driven up by the war.

Politico reports Minneapolis Fed adviser Chris Phelan on track may become new Trump economic advisor, filling slot Miran finally surrendered. A central banker moving to work for Trump now is notable given how hard the president has tried to break Fed independence.

FT Exclusive: The idea for a pause in fighting, under which Iran would reopen the Strait of Hormuz, originated from Donald Trump's team, even as the US president escalated threats against the Islamic republic. ft.trib.al/WzzTmSO

has there been anything good written about the typos in Some Living American Women Artists? haven't been able to find anything

Health Care Workers Are Reshaping the US Labor Market Fresh data on the US labor market and new research from the Federal Reserve suggest that the conventional wisdom around employment growth being sluggish is wrong. Rather than healthcare being the only...

Me in @opinion.bloomberg.com: If:

-the labor force isn’t growing
-healthcare adds at least a couple hundred thousand jobs a year

then:

-non-healthcare industries (85% of the labor market) have to be constantly shedding a modest number of jobs

www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

The Total Wreckage of Trump’s Energy Policy The U.S. and Israel’s war of choice has already destroyed many things, including the president’s domestic energy strategy.

“Donald Trump may hate decarbonization, but few have done more than him to make it attractive.” heatmap.news/energy/trump...

“We had another SAE” — serious adverse event — “today in which a child developed profound metabolic acidosis while on the study fortifier,” White wrote. The severity was “unlike what we would see in most children with these issues.” A manager at Abbott replied that the company was “taking your concerns very seriously.” The study continued for almost a year.

some great reporting from KFF here kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Perplexity AI Machine Accused of Sharing Data With Meta, Google Perplexity AI Inc. was accused in a lawsuit of surreptitiously sharing the personal information of its users with Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google in violation of California privacy laws...

“As soon as users log into Perplexity’s home page, trackers are downloaded onto their devices, giving Meta and Google full access to the conversations between them and Perplexity’s AI Machine search engine, according to the proposed class-action complaint filed Tuesday in federal court…”

One year on from dismantling of USAID, study projects that global aid cuts could lead to 9.4 million deaths by 2030 | CNN It’s been one year since the Trump administration dismantled the US Agency for International Development (USAID), with aid cuts leading to the closure of HIV clinics in South Africa, the termination o...

www.cnn.com/2026/02/04/w...

can't wait :)

lol. not even joking I'm sure there's at least one person who uses the heart rate data to inform when they place trades

also lol

I have used neither but agree that sounds annoying

the number of conversations I've had with big bond guys about their Whoop data is nuts

this has gotta be skewed by that all the guys who would invest, underwrite, advise, whatever are obsessed with their Whoops right?

Foreign central banks sell US Treasuries in wake of Iran war International official holdings at New York Federal Reserve fall to lowest level since 2012

This is not a straightforward "sell America" story, but it does complicate an already extremely bad month for bonds www.ft.com/content/1c41...

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this looked better in draft

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