Wife wants to watch Harry Potter movies. Gonna be a long Halloween night

10/31 happy whitepaper day

Lovely departure out of Frankfurt

Lagarde to leave the ECB in February.

Why is Anthropic even IPOing?

Damn Brazil, what’s happening?

Certainly the guillotine will make a comeback.

I dont believe we will vote ourselves out of this mess.

Germany's savings banks have finally rolled out crypto trading for retail clients. The Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe, Germany's largest financial services group, ~340 banks serving 42 million customers, has switched on crypto trading directly in its banking app. The entire product is powered by DekaBank, the group's securities arm. Clients at the first five participating Sparkassen can now trade selected crypto assets, including Bitcoin. 30–40 more banks are expected to activate the offering each month.

Is it best to stay completely offline now? Asking for a friend

Europe’s fatal decisions of the recent past are unraveling right in front of our eyes.

German economic and business publication Handelsblatt reports on the changes in ten-year government bonds (US, Germany, France, and Japan) over the last year. The charts give the impression that rates are flat. You must zoom out at least ten years to see the real rate of change. Things are not fine.