Sharing is Caring

Sharing is Caring

Don’t you just love it when, at the end of a soap opera season, it turns out that the four side-stories are connected, and the manager from the corner store is the long-lost twin* of the heir to the billion-dollar empire, and they will now have to share the fortune...
Situationships

Situationships

There used to be some correlations we could rely on; when you didn’t bring your umbrella it rains, they announce a new smartphone the week after you bought the latest one, and when the dollar is up, gold and oil are down. So far in 2024, the gold price has gained more...
Squirrel!

Squirrel!

For those still holding their breath: yes, the headline inflation rate did come down, and yes, we are back on ramp to interest rate cuts soon, and yes, soon is firming up to mean September. And soon needs to be soon because there are debt burdens starting to throw...
Stick the Soft Landing

Stick the Soft Landing

We were so close! The economic floor routine to stick a soft landing—taming inflation with high rates without causing a recession—seemed on track and within reach and expectations were running high and then a few things happened in rapid succession: BoJ hiked their...

Old(er), Underserved, and Not That Smart

A couple of weeks back, Hurricane Beryl pummelled her way from the Caribbean, through the Yucatán peninsula, and onto the Gulf Coast of the US. The current death toll is 64. Damages are estimated to $6.2 billion. Beryl made its US landfall in Texas, and Houston was...