The phrase "groupthink circle jerk" came to my mind just then. Not sure why. (View Post)

Just to cheer everybody up on a Sunday night in March, the usually reliable and cautious Preston Stewart is saying that the Russians are afraid of a "large Ukrainian breakthrough" soon beca… (View Post)

Largely meaningless poll as "World War 3" is a very vague term. Is it the US Navy vs the Chinese Navy over Taiwan in the Pacific? Or is it an all-out nuclear exchange between America and Ru… (View Post)

Terrible. I doubt I'd have agreed with him on anything whatsoever but a friend recently died from brain cancer and it is an awful way to go. RIP. (View Post)

Yes though they are very different. Carney, having worked inside the economic establishment, at Goldman Sachs, then twice as a central banker, will have two characteristics: he will never stray far f… (View Post)