Mike Bird

Mike Bird

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Asia business & finance editor @TheEconomist. Co-host of our Money Talks podcast. Just a lad from Leeds with a lust for markets, economics and history.

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Despite all of the excitement about stablecoin use outside of crypto, the size of the market for them seems to be at the least unable to grow when the speculative end of crypto is in the doldrums

Just throwing the Penn World Tables to Claude and giving it a smidgen of context about my interests and desires and getting this back. It's never felt so good to be a wordcel

One fun upside from all of this: you're going to be able to bore people when you're old about how you grew up with completely unregulated social media, like the people who grew up in the Edwardian era and got Harrods cocaine in their hampers and school lunch boxes. twitter.com/Birdyword/status/2...

5-year returns to the S&P 500 are getting very close to beating the 5-year returns of bitcoin for the first time since early 2023

You really have to enjoy the fact that during the period in which the debasement suddenly became a point of regular discussion among investors, this is what the price of bitcoin did

I believe that we will get a piece of reported news in the 2028 election cycle that a presidential candidate/their speechwriters have used Joe's app, or some copycat, to try and oralise their speeches. Bookmark this. twitter.com/Birdyword/status/2...

Quite a funny one-two of trending timeline topics here

MY COLUMN THIS WEEK: The animating story of global markets today (and for the last year) has been a tug-of-war between American decay and American dynamism. Over the last year, dynamism has mostly won. If it ever falters, the rotation from America will be quick and violent.

New pattern during these political panic moments: stocks sell off, gold rallies. Moment of madness ends, stocks surge, gold stays flat

Political speechmaking has generally degraded to the point that there's no reason to read them, rather than simply how they're reported, but Carney's Davos speech is a rare exception. "The old order is not coming back. We should not mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy."

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