Along the coast near Da Nang and throughout the industrial estates north of Hanoi, there is a subtle change that you can almost feel before the…
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Imagine a twenty-three-year-old filming a sixty-second video in a well-lit Los Angeles apartment, explaining why a specific cryptocurrency is going to “moon.” A plant, a few…
From a distance, a certain type of confidence appears to be nearly identical to denial. That is precisely what the European leveraged finance market had going…
Around this time of year, a certain kind of financial dread sets in. In the back of most people’s minds, there is a figure—a balance, a…
Somewhere in the boardroom of one company, a CFO is currently taking an urgent call from another. His loyalty is clear to him. He simply developed…
If you walk into any Ghanaian rural clinic on a Thursday afternoon, you’ll notice a subtle problem. Sometimes there are empty shelves where antimalarial medications should…
Watching central bank governors and finance ministers fly into Washington for their yearly meetings while oil prices surpass $107 per barrel and the Strait of Hormuz…
When two deadlines—one from a creditor and another from an international lender keeping an eye on your every move—arrive at the same time, a certain kind…
There is a chart that subtly undermines nearly everything politicians say about the US economy. It isn’t particularly striking, colorful, or dramatic. It tracks employee productivity…
Lead U.S. economist Bernard Yaros of Oxford Economics recently said something that really resonated with me: the economy expanded last year “even though it was a…