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  1. Little platoons of small boats?

    Published: Sat 18 March 2023
    Updated: Mon 20 March 2023
    By steve

    In Markets.

    2023-03-18

    Small boat crisis

    Rishi Sunak made a pitch for the next election by making five promises. Four of them are the sort of vague political promises that are so familiar that it’s impossible to exactly what they were. I’m sure that making everyone better off, and giving …

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  2. Budget Day!

    Published: Wed 15 March 2023
    Updated: Wed 15 March 2023
    By steve

    In Markets.

    Good news for the rich and the old

    I’ve been too busy to pay much attention to the budget, but I did hear that the chancellor has abolished the upper limit on pension savings. My instinct is that people who already have a million pounds are so in pension …

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  3. Time to steepen?

    Published: Tue 14 March 2023
    Updated: Tue 14 March 2023
    By steve

    In Markets.

    Is this the time for a steepener?

    The markets have had a wake-up call with demise of Silicon Valley Bank (and Signature Bank, although that’s more of a crypto side show). For the last year or so we’ve seen the most vicious inversion of US yields on record …

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  4. Yeah, it’s a bailout

    Published: Tue 14 March 2023
    Updated: Mon 20 March 2023
    By steve

    In Markets.

    Silicon Valley Bank, RIP

    Well, it’s happened. A biggish bank has exploded (well, two, but Signature Bank was mainly a crypto play, it seems). It’s deja vu all over again. The Fed insists that what is clearly a bailout is not a bailout. Although shareholders of SVB have …

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  5. Oh, yeah, vim-ledger

    Published: Tue 07 March 2023
    Updated: Thu 16 March 2023
    By steve

    In Markets.

    Vim-ledger

    Vim-ledger plugin for vim (‘vi improved’) is a terrific bit of software. Some guy has given this plugin to the world, to help people like me get more out of plaintext accounting tools like hledger.

    I urge you to take a look at plaintext accounting, if you have any …

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  6. Digital Signatures

    Published: Thu 02 March 2023
    Updated: Thu 02 March 2023
    By steve

    In Markets.

    2023-03-02

    Digital Signatures

    When I used Windows, I tended to use Adobe Acrobat Reader. This allows you to import a self-signed certificate and insert a digital signature into a pdf. To me, this is much more professional than a wiggly line drawn with a mouse which looks like a five-year …

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