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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.…
When the fear gauge begins to rise, a specific type of anxiety descends upon a trading floor or, more frequently these days, over a home office with an excessive number of open browser tabs. The S&P 500 fell 1.33% in a single week late in March, partly due to BlackRock…
If you’ve ever had the good fortune to snorkel over a reef, picture it from memory rather than from a nature documentary. The first thing is the color. Fish threading between coral heads with a kind of lazy confidence that comes from living inside a functioning system, impossible blues, yellows,…
There is a forest in northern Myanmar’s Hukawng Valley that is still alive in the only way a forest that old can be. It did not endure through seeds, roots, or other biological means. It survived in resin, a thick, slow-moving sap that dripped from towering araucarian conifers in the…