Global | The Property Chronicle

Forget about nut cases, let’s talk about what’s real

by Garrison Keillor | Apr 12, 2022 | The Storyteller, zOtherDiversions

The world is treacherous, my darlings, and if some ambitious person were to interview everyone who ever knew you for 10 minutes or more and offered them anonymity, he could paint a bleak picture of you that you wouldn’t recognise. There’s a lot of gossip and envy and...

Bonds behaving badly

by Jasmine Yeo | Apr 11, 2022 | The Fund Manager, zOurWriters1

Do conventional bonds still deserve a place in portfolios? Total return on 10-year US Treasuries, adjusted for US CPI inflation % Global Financial Data, Refinitiv, US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Ruffer calculations, 24 month rolling total return, data to March 2022....

The battle for 1.5° of warming is already lost, so what’s Plan B?

by James E Hanley | Apr 11, 2022 | The Professor, zLead Article, zNewsletter

Climate activists’ current stated goal is to limit global warming to 1.5° Celsius compared to pre-industrial levels. To achieve this goal, according to the latest IPCC report, atmospheric CO2 levels must peak by 2025. But this battle is already lost, so what’s...

Tony Soprano’s critique of identity politics

by Robert E. Wright | Apr 7, 2022 | The Professor, zEditor's pick, zLead Article

Tony Soprano, the eponymous fictional antihero of HBO’s iconic series about organised crime syndicates in northern New Jersey, tends to evoke images of cigars, strip clubs and guys getting their teeth bashed in or even ‘whacked’, because they disrespected...

Is bitcoin simply unlicensed gambling?

by Bob Seeman | Apr 7, 2022 | The Analyst, zOurWriters1

Promoters claim that bitcoin is a new type of money, reduces transaction costs by abandoning intermediaries and will become a safe asset that they call ‘digital gold’. The bitcoin network, in fact, is a game of chance subject to existing gambling...