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September 20, 2024Yet something alerted him; he pricked up his ears and stopped, rooted to the spot, feeling a vague sense of unease.
Europe Held Hostage
September 13, 2024“The EU faces structurally higher energy and raw material costs.”
The Global Scan
September 1, 2024My desire to reconcile my family’s communist background with my own capitalist ambitions had brought me to Russia, but, naively, I never imagined that this pursuit would result in a human tragedy.
The Coming Shifts
August 26, 2024The blood-dimmed tide is loosened, and everywhere/The ceremony of innocence is drowned.
Weighing the Tails
August 23, 2024A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.
The Big Forces
August 15, 2024So compelling is the evidence of our own eyes and ears, so swift is your mind to assume your own version of the story, that one of the hardest things in this world is to understand there’s another way of seeing things.
Notes on the Market Action
August 5, 2024I talk to myself, as many of us do, for much of the day—admonishing myself (“Your fool!, Where did you leave your glasses?”), encouraging myself (“You can do it!”), complaining (“Why is that car in my lane?”), and, more rarely, congratulating myself (“It’s done!”).
Politics and Pricing
August 1, 2024A declaration of war by Japan could not be reconciled with reason. I felt sure she would be ruined for a generation by such a plunge, and this proved true. But Governments and peoples do not always take rational decisions.
The Kamala Correction
July 25, 2024Democracy is predicated on the belief that the majority makes better decisions than a ruling elite.