Independent thinking for complex markets and current events
We lived in Seattle for 4 years. The police definitely enable the criminals. This is what the Seattle PD posted during the "No Kings " protests/riot: pic.twitter.com/DAwu2gwfue — KrisNVnmiP (@SophieMae1022) August 3, 2025
On the morning of June 13, 2025, the South China Sea was struck by sudden chaos as Typhoon Wutip, the first named tropical cyclone of the year, surged toward Hainan Island with powerful winds and torrential rains. Formed just days earlier over the warm waters east of the Philippines, Wutip intensified rapidly into a strong …
Charity is better because those giving can judge the worthiness of those receiving and it is not effectively an entitlement. My husband convinced me to get pregnant. I had the baby, got laid off, and left him — I’m happy with all of my decisions. “I let strangers — an immigrant family — live in …
We’re supposed to believe that other politicians don’t say “whatever it takes to fulfill [their] desires and thirst for power.” I don’t like the way the abnormalization of Trump has come at the cost of stifling our capacity to critique other politicians. The others may be more “normal” than Trump, but since when is …
by Michael Why are so many historic natural disasters suddenly hitting us one after another? For a moment, I would like for you to think about what we have seen over just the past several weeks. The wildfires on Maui were the deadliest in the entire history of the United States. Then Hilary absolutely pummeled …
The Long, Destructive Shadow of Obama’s Russia Doctrine: A series of bad decisions during the Obama years prepared the ground for Vladimir Putin’s war. In an interview with Times Radio in May, Richard Dearlove, the former head of Britain’s MI6, observed that “the policy that [U.S. President Barack] Obama followed in 2014, when there was this initial Russian invasion …
