lkoro.es
Reporter for Central Banking covering Europe, reserves management, ESG, cybersecurity and fintech. I also like running, coffee and photography. Opinions are my own unless otherwise indicated.
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Ah shame - would have been good to cover :)
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This looks exciting - is it too late to ask for a press pass?
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Your website isn’t letting me check out once I enter my details - sent an email and figured I’d nudge you here too
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Big "the US will not default on its debt" energy
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I bet you leaned back in that cushioned seat. You may have even plugged your phone/laptop in to leech on free electricity provided by the rail gods. Disgusting filth.
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No. Just let me read.
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I had a very hard chuckle at someone who's a senior advisor to McKinsey recently telling the FT that the UK productivity puzzle was a result of "decades of underinvestment in equipment, research and development, training and infrastructure, by both the public and private sector"
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This looks great - would love to chat about it if you have the time?
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Can't wait - but with fewer mentions of gooning this time, please?
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(I am not one of the 16, as actually understanding bank capital accounting either drives you insane or turns you European, so I just nod and gesture vaguely at things with a meaningfully furrowed brow.)
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I probably rather say it through papers than in this format 😊
On stablecoins runs: www.bis.org/publ/work116...
On the parallel with MMFs:
www.bis.org/publ/work121...
A personal favorite (analogy with €dollars, but from diff perspective than current narrative): www.bis.org/publ/work114... 1/
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Reading Haidt's The Anxious Generation was like a journey of self-diagnosis; I'm now very consciously employing tactics to not fall down the same rabbithole
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Once I got my account back, I found that the platform auto-deleted some twenty-odd thousand tweets between 2009 and 2011.
(I posted the majority of my tweets, around 63 thousand, between 2009 and 2013.)
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These Times - with Helen and the excellent @tommctague.bsky.social - was just as good until they went on hiatus. Highly recommended!
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FWIW the taxi bit is thanks to passenger rail regulation - they must get you to your destination one way or another.
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Nothing literally exists.
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A real whopper of an article!
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Recent work from @jvtk.bsky.social and @steffenmurau.bsky.social also makes a similar point regarding Euro safe assets.
bsky.app/profile/jvtk...
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You need a better photographer. Get in touch. (Nothing personal, Mr. Ashwéurth)
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Fine.
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"Orangutan ties knot" come on, guys.
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Why not just… email me the post?
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Orderly queuing, offering and brewing proper cups of tea, making small talk about the weather for 5-10 minutes without blinking, slagging off the government or the council.