Julia McFarlane
speaker
503 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 16 Jan
Julia McFarlane’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Appearances
Of course, not everyone's a pessimist.
Look, I mean, I've covered tech stocks since the 90s, and this is not a bubble.
This is a spending cycle unlike we've ever seen.
The investor and AI enthusiast Dan Ives, who scorns the naysayers, the bears, as he calls them.
And look, the bears, they're always going to yell fire in a crowd theater saying it's a bubble.
Whichever side you're on in this debate, the problem is partly the complex nature of the financing of some of the new investments.
Tech giants are pumping billions into each other right now to support the sector's growth, and that makes it hard to identify what, if anything, is genuinely profitable.
The confusion is neatly summarised by the BBC's North America technology correspondent, Lily Jamali.
The BBC's Lily Jamali ending that report by Ed Butler.
And you can hear more on that story on Business Daily, wherever you get your BBC podcasts.
And finally, they are some of the most celebrated areas of real estate in the French capital, Paris.
And now the city's residents are being offered a chance to occupy their own part of them.
I'm talking about three of the most famous and most overcrowded cemeteries, including Père Lachaise, the resting place for such artistic superstars as the singers Edith Piaf, Jim Morrison, the playwright Oscar Wilde and the writer Marcel Proust.
The city of Paris has launched a lottery which will give winners the chance to pay for repairs to existing graves and monuments in exchange for the chance to be buried alongside such starry company.
Simon Cooper, a Paris-based journalist for the Financial Times, explained to my colleague Tim Franks why these cemeteries are so revered.
I think they're revered mostly for the people who are in them.
So Belashez, which is the most famous one, has famous for Anglos Jim Morrison and Oscar Wilde.
But it also has Edith Piaf, Marcel Proust, Balzac, and so many great people.
And you go there to see their great graves.
And in Montparnasse, there's Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir and so on and so on.
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