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Central Banks Monetize Land
Plus! A Slower Return to Normal; Fast-Follower Industrial Policy; Capex; Unconstrained Venture; Ambient Data Collection
FinanceInsurgency Economics
Plus! Stealth M&A; Big Tech Sees Like a State: Vaccine Passport Edition; A New Login Layer;Sleepover Quarantines and Correlated Risks; Summer Jobs and Human Capital
EconomicsNew Communications System Developed STOP Market Structure Changes Imminent STOP
Plus! Inside the E-Commerce Ad Business; Evergrande and Real Estate; Inflation Hedges;Consumer Lending at Zero Interest; Fake Reviews
TechVolatility-Shifting and Volatility Destruction
Plus! Fundraising and Dogfooding; Streaming and Two Kinds of Scale; Companies as Financial Conduits; Turkey and Business Mafias; Education: Catching Up, Pulling Ahead
FinanceThe Great Depression in a Major Key
Plus! Egress; Last-Foot Delivery; Shadow Banking; Great Quarter; Reducing the Variance in China Tech
FinanceA Normal Country?
Plus! Negative-Marginal-Cost Billboards; Spillovers; Piecemeal Privatization; Financial Protectionism
EconomicsMade in USA 2025?
Plus! Proper Social Media Deportment; Semi-Open; Responsive Spying; Open Auctions; Sanctions Inversion
TechAlibaba and State-Owned Enterprises
Plus! Tech Nationalism; Globalizing Accounting; Restaurant Elasticity; 15%
TechBuilding Parallel Financial Systems
Plus! Tethers and Dollars; The Hotel Shortage; The Credit Reopening; Ransomware Acceleration; Churn, Margins, and Habits
FinanceTrapped by the Wrong Inflation Stories
Plus! Amazon's Triumph of Investor Relations; The Scaling Problems Aren't Obvious; Money- and Time-Weighting; Coinbase Comp
FinanceTaiwan and Supply Chain Frenmity
Plus! Airline Green Zones; Short Sellers and the Supply Chain of Information; Housing and Pull-Forward Demand; Facebook and Visa Arbitrage
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