Spy Stock: When the World’s Second-Oldest Profession Meets Its Youngest Obsession By Our Man in Geneva, still waiting for his expense-account martini to arrive GENEVA – From the mirrored towers of La Défense to the dim sum parlors of Sheung Wan, a quiet consensus has emerged among the people who move real money: the only…
London—A city that once convinced half the planet that fog was romantic and rationing was patriotic—has now managed to export a new marvel: the idea that water itself can be a speculative asset class. Thames Water, the private monopoly sloshing through 15 million British bathtubs, is circling the drain so elegantly that financiers from Sydney…
The Name That Quietly Rules the World By Our Correspondent in Transit Between Time Zones Somewhere above the North Atlantic, seat 14B is occupied by a mid-level trade attaché who still believes his job matters. Somewhere below, a container ship named *MSC Crawford* glides past Gibraltar carrying 19,000 units of everything from Ukrainian sunflower oil…
