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Egypt…

by Bill Blain | Jan 26, 2022 | Golden Oldie, Investor's Notebook

Originally published November 2021. Back in the mists of my own pre-history, I was given the The Big Book of Egypt on an early birthday. It was full of drawings, diagrams and maps of excavations. Egypt fascinated me then and still does today. I learned of pharaohs,...

Inflation will probably melt away in 2022

by Brigitte Granville | Jan 25, 2022 | The Economist, zLead Article, zNewsletter

Central banks will do far more harm trying to tackle it. It remains to be seen whether the Omicron variant will shift Sars-CoV-2 towards becoming manageably endemic. But as and when this happens, there will still be long Covid to contend with. The latest headlines...

Russia-Ukraine tensions

by Marcin Kaczmarski and Kasia Kaczmarska | Jan 24, 2022 | The Analyst, zLead Article, zNewsletter

Power posturing or trouble on the home front for Putin? There is a pressing need to understand what’s behind Moscow’s growing threat to use military force against Ukraine. The real motivation for Russia’s aggression will largely determine the West’s room for...

The economics of Megxit

by Alys Denby | Jan 24, 2022 | Golden Oldie, The Analyst

Originally published March 2021. I’m sure you have your mind on higher things than the soapier side of the royal family, but I love it. I have a collection of commemorative china, my mum’s knitting me a copy of one of Princess Diana’s jumpers, I cried at Meghan and...

Meditation while waiting for coffee to brew

by Garrison Keillor | Jan 24, 2022 | The Storyteller, zOtherDiversions

I was in Clearwater Beach, Florida, the morning of the 31st, listening to coffee drip, looking out the picture window at a parking lot, and saw a squirrel sitting on top of a telephone pole at eye level 15 feet away, looking at me. On the beach, men with metal...

Egypt…

The economics of Megxit

Meditation while waiting for coffee to brew

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