The Week that Was
Your July Report
In a famous psychology experiment, researchers Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris ask participants to watch a short video. It’s a video of six people passing basketballs to each other. The researc…
The Original Crypto King
It’s the kind of rain that reminds you that almost all civilizations have Great Flood myths. That’s how wet it’s been this week on the high plains of Laramie. Destroying the wicked world with water r…
Ready to Rumble
Bill Bonner, reckoning today from Poitou, France... What an exciting weekend…with the fight of the century! On Saturday, the Wagnerians were on the road to Moscow to confront Puti…
Ramblin' Man
Joel Bowman, wondering about wandering from Wadi Rum, Jordan... Welcome to another installment of the Sunday Sesh, dear reader, that time of th…
Big City Blues
Bill Bonner, reckoning today from Poitou, France... When you're alone and life is making you lonely You can always go downtown When you've got…
Poverty, Drugs and Political Machines
Bill Bonner, reckoning today from Poitou, France... An old friend writes from Baltimore: I was taking a post-prandial stroll the other day, up St. Paul, a left on Read, then down …
Poverty, Drugs and Political Machines
Bill Bonner, reckoning today from Poitou, France... An old friend writes from Baltimore: I was taking a post-prandial stroll the other day, up St. Paul, a left on Read, then down …
Urban Hell
Bill Bonner, reckoning today from London, England... We took the Eurostar to London yesterday. How it brought back memories! Waking up before dawn…finding …
Towns Down
Bill Bonner, reckoning today from Paris, France... I’d rather be dead than in Philadelphia ~ W.C. Fields Zombies shuffle along the streets. Broken windows. Trash blowing through th…