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Dropped passes and missed tackles are absurdly common.

Wow this #wine was good. Delicious white from the Rhone. Honeyed like a Condrieu. Congrats to @thewinesociety.bsky.social Reorder incoming!

CEO or not, it’s got a long way to go before it reaches fair value!

That’s true in the sense that relative poverty will always be a thing (there’s always a poorest 10%). Definitions of absolute poverty (Rowntree) have evolved over time … what would it be now? Can’t afford a takeaway? No satellite tv?

(Rhetorical) if only the market realised they were being played … tune out the cr*p etc and THINK Have spent a life around markets thinking: why can’t people ignore noise like this, and just look at fundamentals/ reality. (I realise you can’t. Follow the money etc). Frustrating!

Reminiscent of Steve Hansen back in the day. It’s easier to make changes when you’re losing … only after the (relative) success of the last two games at RWC 2003 did his preferred XV emerge, or shd I say select itself.

I agree - two of us set up an advisory boutique precisely because we saw new issues as an emerging oligopoly and hence wanted to offer independent advice to issuers. That was 1995! And the exact issue arose for us when MStan took on a conflicting lead mandate, in our client’s sector. Its real!

Maybe syndicate managers have upped their game since my day - they need to understand the valuations and engage in a debate - rather than just parrot what their peers at other houses say to them. I used to be in ECM and there was a lot of ‘creative tension’ between us, syndicate & the sales team.

Would it be that the advisory teams have to be walled off, but the syndicate manager and primary sales are perfectly capable of telling them what the market will bear?

At last someone’s said it!

Hahaha do you mean make people buy stuff they know nothing about? C’mon …

Kingsley Amis will be a name for some - I haven’t done 20 by him (nor, I suspect, by anyone else) but many will have.

Is that Nathan Grey (now in jail as a Russian collaborator) behind NF?

Seriously - is this the classic ‘Treasury puts a shot across the new man’s bows to show them who’s boss’?

Cleared the decks for us to win a grand slam within six months!

Chin up

Cheers, enjoy Le Tour 🚲

Does ‘sans carte de presse’ mean freelance (as opposed to employed/ attached)?

I hoover all the Apremont possible during my annual ski week. Delicious (some fruit there) and inevitably great value.

I didn’t know that, thanks - my plan B was: A goes 2-1 up, next goal counts double and 2 mins left - so one team always ahead …