To Those Just Now Waking Up—Where Have You Been? By Sean Dempsey, 3/20/25 Oh, so now you see it? Now, after decades of rampant government abuse, after endless wars, after a surveillance state that tracks your every move, after a Federal Reserve that devalues your savings into dust—now you’re realizing that the U.S. government doesn’t follow the Constitution? […]
The biggest systemic risk to markets right now. Will it be the pin to pop the “everything bubble?” The yen carry trade has long been the financial world’s favorite magic trick: borrow yen at 0%, sell it for dollars, then plow the proceeds into whatever shiny thing is booming that month: U.S. tech stocks, crypto, […]
The three volumes of The Gulag Archipelago — one continuous, extended scream of outrage — are, paradoxically, brilliant, bitter, disbelieving and infused with awe: awe at the strength characterising the best among us, in the worst of all situations. In that monumental text, published in 1973, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn conducted “an experiment in literary investigation” — a hybrid […]
