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Sitting down with a music book and a pile of albums to accompany the content is analogue heaven. And when the musician has a career as rich and varied as British guitarist John McLaughlin, you can be confident the soundtrack will be both demanding and deeply rewarding. As for the book, that needs to be thoroughly researched and well-written, doesn’t it? Vinyl Connection can report that Matt…

This is priceless. The so-called “good for business” president apparently stressed out many on Wall Street with his chaotic tweets and use of his Twitter account as a “bully pulpit.”

In the closing weeks of the presidential campaign, President Trump began telling his supporters that if former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. was elected, market mayhem would follow.

“If Biden wins,” he told a cheering crowd at an airport near Reading, Pa., on Halloween, “you’re going to have a stock market collapse the likes of which you never had.”

That didn’t happen. Instead, the stock market has notched new record highs since Mr. Biden emerged as the winner, as investors celebrated both the prospect of an end to election-year political uncertainty as well as progress on Covid-19 vaccines. And as Inauguration Day approaches, Mr. Trump’s grip on the collective psyche of investors appears to be receding, too.

Investors of all political persuasions say they are ready to turn the page on what was a profitable but extraordinarily politicized and stressful period for the financial markets, where they had to contend with an unpredictable force whose pronouncements frequently moved stock prices. For the most part, investors supported Trump administration policies; it was the president’s unpredictable tweeting they found hard to stomach. In the past four years, Mr. Trump used his bully pulpit to praise and berate companies, escalate a trade war with China and signal the economy’s strengths ahead of official announcements. In the process, his Twitter account became a singular source of market volatility.

Two white rhino in the wilds of Mkhaya Game Reserve, Swaziland

One of my favourite tapings of Tim’s Vinyl Confessions dropped yesterday.  With Matt Phillips, we listed and showed our favourite albums that deserve a reissue on CD today.  These included: Albums out of print on CD for 20 years, 30 years, or more. Albums, cassettes and EPs never printed on CD. Records that deserve the deluxe treatment. Music from deluxe editions and box sets that deserve…

Ismael to continue with front three policy as Albion host Blues

Valerien Ismael will continue his front-line rotation policy when West Bromwich Albion pick up again after the international break. Five first-team players are currently competing for three starting spots in Ismael’s starting XI, while Rayhaan Tulloch remains sidelined and Kenneth Zohore, the other senior option, is currently out of the picture. From one game to the next, it feels like a bit of a…