Wartime Economy Flak

The geoeconomic impacts of several wars are creating "risk on" opportunities for volatility.

A. The healing and self-expressive power of (private) journaling. Julia Cameron’s Write For Life (London: Souvenir Press, 2023) is very helpful.

B. The Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion has found that counterterrorism intelligence funding in Australia has fallen.

C. Your digital life can disappear. Free advice from my therapist: choose immersive experiences instead.

D. The new PBS Frontline episode on immigration arrests in the United States.

E. SCOTUS guts the Voting Rights Act. The majority opinion in Louisiana v Callais.

F. Acting on women’s rights.

G. The rumoured Ukraine-Al Qaeda link in West Africa.

H. An update on quantum computing - AUKUS Pillar 2 relevant.

I. The Strait of Hormuz in 8 charts.

J. Mobilising for war.

K. A wartime economy would be different this time.

L. Today’s MIT OCW free course is Modeling and Assessment for Policy created by Professor Noelle Selin.

M. The digital-democratic doom loop.

N. Paul Tudor Jones II on current trends.

O. Andy Warhol & William S. Burroughs on the Chelsea Hotel.

P. Classicist philosopher and Alexandr Dugin translator Michael Millerman on the Palantir Manifesto.

Q. Venture capitalist John Doerr on why execution trumps having just business ideas.