Tony Tassell
@tonytassell
Financial Opinion Editor at the FT. I have views. A spotter of things in markets, companies, world affairs. Also interested in food and climbing.
Thought this was an interesting reader comment under @elerianm.bsky.social's column on Burnham's need to go beyond short-term spreadsheets to develop national policy and to give the Treasury more of a growth mandate www.ft.com/content/b2be...
Love a tenuous World Cup promo. Not sure what David Beckham is doing here presented in Belgian colours though
Am onboard with this - @urbandirt.bsky.social makes the case for wearing shorts. Even in Japan it is gaining support from the Tokyo Metropolitan Govt (1st 300 clicks free) as.ft.com/r/17088187-8...
Private equity is changing youth sports in America with rising costs, fees and concerns over inequality - writes @sindap.bsky.social here. www.ft.com/content/e6be...
Gilt investors shouldn’t think so much about British politics - Duncan Weldon column here. "UK politics has been unusually dramatic over the past decade. Sometimes this drama has spilled over into asset prices, but most of the time it has not. " www.ft.com/content/8aa0...
From Keir Starmer's premiership in charts by @amyborrett.ft.com www.ft.com/content/be86...
What would a stablecoin run look like? @profhilaryallen.bsky.social oped here points out most retail holders can't redeem stablecoins, only sell. That means institutions are more like to lead a run. And if more assets are tokenised, this risk rises www.ft.com/content/7a19...
In a research note on the Everton-Burnley case, credit rating agency Morninstar DBRS warns the delays over the Manchester City case is "a systemic risk catalyst". Any players considering City should take note
- @helene-rey.bsky.social here why global imbalances need not lead to trade wars. Chair of the G7 expert group on global imbalances, she will be economic adviser and head of the monetary and economic department of the BIS from Sept. www.ft.com/content/0e78...
From the recent speech by Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah at the Vatican on AI www.anthropic.com/news/chris-o...
also from the live blog - the numbers on whether Musk can become a trillionaire www.ft.com/content/0972...
- @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social on Andy Burnham in today's edition of the Inside Politics newsletter www.ft.com/content/926d...
Musk should go more boldly with fantastical SpaceX projections - a Lex note here argues against the scepticism of its prospects www.ft.com/content/a600...
The ‘new joule order’ is here. The west is last to realise - Jeff Currie argues here www.ft.com/content/2f13...
We will need a new tax code for the wealth AI creates - really interesting oped here from VC veteran Vinod Khosla including a call to eliminate preferential capital gains treatment and tax it as ordinary income. www.ft.com/content/b277...
There are fans and then there are super fans like Mamdani - fabulous. Maybe should have been 49th Street though
Quite the quote from Stephen Yaxley-Lennon on why he went to Russia where he met with Elon Musk's father www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
The Fed might yet again take the punch bowl away - really excellent column by the always eloquent Richard Bernstein (who went went against the consensus for 2026 predictions in December, forecasting the Fed might not be able to cut rates as quickly as investors expected) www.ft.com/content/7cac...
Great chart in that column via @raydouglas.bsky.social - and importantly Sinder points the earnings have been strong outside the AI giants www.ft.com/content/81dc...
And more on AI - an FT Big Read by @tim.fo on the race to build AI that can improve itself. Many believe that AI powerful enough to train itself with little to no human input will arrive in as little as two years. www.ft.com/content/7cc7...
Coming to football - watching games with a VR headset, according to Florentino Pérez in this interview www.ft.com/content/cf47...
"AI has inevitably unleashed a competition among businesses and governments. My assumption is that anything such a technology can do will then be done. So, we are going to see competitive races for both the boons and the banes." - Martin Wolf. Some potential impacts: www.ft.com/content/7cbc...
America’s AI boom is carrying more than investors admit - eloquent distillation in this column by long time markets watcher Chris Watling of Longview Eonomics. He argues economy, the profit cycle and the market narrative are all leaning on the same narrow pillar www.ft.com/content/d62d...
this is a really strong column from Ruchir Sharma on the truth about the American profit machine www.ft.com/content/362c...