Substack Library

Glossary

The Bust Within the Boom

“That I essentially am not in madness, but mad in craft.”

Hedging the Election

“I asked Truman for which foreign policy decision he most wanted to be remembered. He did not hesitate.’We completely defeated our enemies …,’ he remarked. ‘And then we helped them recover, to become democratic, and to rejoin the community of nations. Only America could have done that.’”

Navigating an Inverted Yield Curve

“The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal.”

Putin is Evil, But He Won’t Win

“No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.”

China’s Deflationary Down Wave

Note to my readers: I am in Florida to celebrate my wife’s birthday and attend rowing camp. As a result, no post next week unless the sky falls, in which case you will hear from me.

The Outlook in Pictures

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Would a Trump Win Move Markets?

“I will try to express myself in my art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use, silence, exile and cunning.”

Nikki in NH

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Getting Paid To Wait

“We have divided among us, like thieves, the treasure of nights and days.”

Big Forces, Asset Pricing

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