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Don’t buy an electric car this year

by Dan Channer | Sep 27, 2022 | Golden Oldie, Technology

Originally published June 2021. Prices are too high, availability too low, and the charging network is a dog’s breakfast. Hold your horses – or just get a bike. Tackling climate change makes fixing the pandemic “look easy”, according to Bill Gates, and change is upon...

Kharkiv offensive has shown the West that Ukraine can win

by Frank Ledwidge | Sep 27, 2022 | The Analyst, zLead Article, zNewsletter

Most people outside Ukraine, even military analysts, have never heard of Oleksander Syrski. But Colonel General Syrski has a claim to being the most successful general of the 21st century so far. The success of this week’s operation in eastern Ukraine – which he...

The state of crude oil

by Matein Khalid | Sep 27, 2022 | The Fund Manager, zOurWriters2

Brent crude was grossly overvalued at 124 in June and black gold has come down as supply angst is replaced by the very tangible reality of a China where 7% GDP growth is not going to come back for the rest of the decade. Thus demand destruction in the petroleum...

October is coming, prepare to be bold

by Garrison Keillor | Sep 22, 2022 | The Storyteller, zOtherDiversions

She told me out of the blue that she adores me. I was there, in a chair, listening; she was standing by the grandfather clock. She didn’t sing it, but she said it clearly. This should answer any remaining questions. But Mister Malaise and Madam Miasma are ever on our...

Ukrainians are not willing to give up territory or sovereignty – new survey

by Janina Dill, Carl Muller-Crepon and Marnie Howlett | Sep 21, 2022 | Investor's Notebook, zLead Article, zNewsletter

Kyiv’s counteroffensive in the north-east of Ukraine appeared to take everyone by surprise, not least Russia’s war planners who had been moving troops south to meet an offensive in the Kherson region which Ukraine had been trumpeting about for several weeks. Ukraine’s...