Brave New World

Plus ça Change: Mired in Multiple Crises, Lebanon Votes for Continuity

In a scathing indictment of the country’s political elite, Lebanon tumbled some 25 places on the annual United Nations World…

2 years ago

Crypto Jitters: Unhinged Stablecoins Add Volatility to an Already Unstable Market

The dig is impossible to resist. On Thursday, tether – the world’s biggest ‘stablecoin’ – briefly became untethered from its…

2 years ago

Power Meets Pluck: Paranoid and Haunted, President Putin Sees Nazis Everywhere

In President Vladimir Putin’s book everybody not excitedly cheering his ‘special military operation’ to liberate Ukraine is a Nazi. If…

2 years ago

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity – A Non-Linear Anarchist Reading of World History

It’s an ideology that inspires fear and loathing in equal measure. Anarchism or the conviction that the state – and…

2 years ago

Crash by Stealth: Investors Head for the Hills to Find a Valley of Tears

In a bear market, nobody can hear you scream. Equity markets are suffering a crash by stealth with reality nibbling…

2 years ago

Corporate Earnings Fine, Markets Not So Much: Seesawing Stock Markets Rattle Investors

And just like that… the party was over. Wednesday’s stock market rally, sparked by the dovish comments of US Federal…

2 years ago

The Tale of the Squawking Dove: US Federal Reserve Moves with Cautious Resolve

Markets may have disliked what Jay Powell had to say before; however, what he does now proves a bullseye hit…

2 years ago

From Bear to Bull: Warren Buffett Casts a Vote of Confidence in US Stock Market

A perennial favourite of investors, the snowclone ‘What Would Warren Do?’, has an answer. Warren buys oil and other blue…

2 years ago

Unfriending Europe: President Putin Turns the Screw

This is perhaps not the time to tell the Germans ‘told you so’ as the nation deals with the fallout…

2 years ago

Illusory Visions of Strategic Autonomy: Emmanuel Macron Wins France, Loses Europe

This Sunday, most French voters held their nose as they granted President Emmanuel Macron a second term in office. Faced…

2 years ago