Im Not Dead!

A great line from a great Monty Python movie, and another crisp cover from The Economist:

• 13 Dec, 2016

  Shock, Part 3 (The End of Pax Americana)

  We are all trying to make sense of the election of Donald J. Trump to the presidency, and a few weeks ago I outlined the ...

• 5 Jan, 2016

  AprÃs moi le déluge

  In more ways than one.We greeted the new year with an actual deluge, at least here in California, as the long-promised ...

• 24 May, 2016

  Floating Oil

  Oil has had a nice recovery this year (see graph for Brent, YTD), up about 18% to over $48/barrel today. Of course, this ...