Theory: leaving aside the seeming lack of much read through to productivity, backwards US retail banking has been bad for the world.
No backwards US retail banking = no PayPal = no PayPal Mafia.
Continually amazed how much US FinTech is offering something absolutely standard in European banking.
Amen, brother. Amen bsky.app/profile/smtu...
also: it tried to load a local newspaper website, and the sheer volume of ads caused a datacentre in North Virginia to catch fire
Heard from a reliable source that Mythos, a system capable of cracking any software system, stealing the nuclear codes and watching Putin while he takes a shower, is still reduced to a blubbering, incontinent wreck by the website of our Office for National Statistics, and this makes me damned proud
Stuff and Money in the FR is both sublime and gripping. Strong recommend. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
Duncan Weldon
Giles Wilkes
Brendan's should DEFINITELY on any summer reading list (and we'll soon drop our own pod with him, albeit just discussing the genesis of the silver thaler).
