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View MoreChristopher Altman saw it in the same way that most small business owners do: in the quiet of an inbox that used to fill up on its own, rather than all at once. His Oakland tree-trimming crew scheduled three weeks off for years without his involvement. Then, the reservations simply…
The atmosphere changed somewhere between a half-empty diesel station outside Hamburg and the screens of a London trading floor. Like these things often do, it happened quietly. In January, Brent crude was trading at about sixty dollars. It was close to 120 by the second week of March. Ten weeks.…
There is nothing particularly noteworthy about the entrance to Bender’s Cave. This sinkhole is located in Comal County, Texas. It is one of hundreds that are dispersed throughout the Edwards Plateau, where the limestone bedrock has been eroding and collapsing for millions of years. As a result, the area is…
When you open the financial news on a Monday morning and discover that the US economy grew at a 4.3% annual pace in the third quarter of 2025—the fastest in two years—and then spend the remainder of the day observing people in your industry silently circling their LinkedIn profiles as…
When data comes in that doesn’t fit the theory, a certain silence descends upon a room full of astronomers. Not panic—scientists are usually too cautious for that—but a kind of focused silence that suggests we might need to reconsider something significant. As the James Webb Space Telescope continues to return…