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US Publication date! See what the Financial Times, New Statesman and other quality British publications thought was so interesting about a new revival of cybernetics for economics and management! amazon.com/dp/B0CRHXG4L4/…


daft banker war stories (with no moral, that might come later). backofmind.substack.com/p/secrets-of-s…


in which, I get on a high horse about systems thinking in planning backofmind.substack.com/p/canaries-and…


The project of the last 40 years has been to replace a significant problem of "miss-selling" with a much more severe and ubiquitous problem of "non-selling"

The UK’s markets need a reset We’ve been regulating for safety, not growth — and it shows. Retail participation is at record lows, IPOs at 30-year lows, listings drifting away A wholesale change in regulatory philosophy is needed for UK markets. My latest @ft 🧵

huwsteenis's tweet image. The UK’s markets need a reset

We’ve been regulating for safety, not growth — and it shows. Retail participation is at record lows, IPOs at 30-year lows, listings drifting away

A wholesale change in regulatory philosophy is needed for UK markets. 

My latest @ft

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"The root of the UK’s malaise is not the rules around IPOs, but the over-regulation of intermediation” of savings, argues Simon Gleeson, visiting Prof at Oxford Successive reforms have left ordinary savers herded into mass-market investment products and cut off from direct 3/

huwsteenis's tweet image. "The root of the UK’s malaise is not the rules around IPOs, but the over-regulation of intermediation” of savings, argues Simon Gleeson, visiting Prof at Oxford

Successive reforms have left ordinary savers herded into mass-market investment products and cut off from direct

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in which, I try to give the YIMBYs a present to make up for all the mean things I've said about them backofmind.substack.com/p/sopppps-and-…


I re-enter the lists on the question of planning, and the inadvisability of just removing judicial review without doing anything else ... backofmind.substack.com/p/the-stakes-a…


Stafford Beer had some very "silicon valley" views on 10x programmers and the like backofmind.substack.com/p/the-greatest…


at the 'stack, I start asking uncomfortable questions about management and AI, and implore readers with more LinkedIn clout than me to bother their friends... backofmind.substack.com/p/middle-manag…


Lots of people seem to make idiots of themselves in interviews with Isaac Chotiner, and that's sad but I'm better than that, perhaps even better than the gods.


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Not just up, it crushed the target.


they interview Mark Spitznagel twice in every market cycle, once on the way up and once on the way down. wsj.com/finance/stocks…


It is an absolutely fantastic origin story by the way - bondholders in Banco Popular got absolutely hosed when it was acquired by Banco Santander, International Financing Review sent Gareth to Madrid and it turns out that when you start pulling threads in Spanish banking...

It is kind of strange that if you want honest reporting on the Vatican, you have to go to a guy from Wigan who I used to talk to about bank capital trades but... (Buy Gareth's book, it's really good)



in which, I ponder the treatment of "unknown unknowns" in your annual accounts backofmind.substack.com/p/subtle-and-u…


a weird question of causation, which turned into a £10m insurance court case backofmind.substack.com/p/analysing-th…


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Britain is the most centrally planned state in the rich world. That is the main reason our state doesn't work well. In our new @LabourTogether paper, @PeterHyman21 and I argue that the left must pursue radical state reform or lose our right to govern.

morgan_wild's tweet image. Britain is the most centrally planned state in the rich world. That is the main reason our state doesn't work well.

In our new @LabourTogether paper, @PeterHyman21  and I argue that the left must pursue radical state reform or lose our right to govern.

a little bit of good natured blog beef, in which I say that @beenwrekt.bsky.social and @leifw.bsky.social are more right than wrong about the state of polling, contra @andrewgelman.bsky.social backofmind.substack.com/p/you-cant-tak…


on the 'stack, more reminiscences of odd things people say in financial markets backofmind.substack.com/p/songs-my-por…


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