The Accidental Ambulance Chasers: How Injury Attorneys Became the World’s Dark Tourists of Disaster By the time the ambulance arrives in São Paulo, the WhatsApp group titled “Global Slip-and-Fall Avengers” has already exchanged 47 voice notes in four languages, two memes comparing the pavement to Swiss cheese, and one GIF of a lawyer diving into…
Phoenix Group Stock: A Global Funeral Director’s Guide to Outliving Everyone By our man in the trenches, still wearing yesterday’s suit DUBLIN—If capitalism has a sense of humor, it’s probably the kind that books you a front-row seat at your own wake. Phoenix Group Holdings—Europe’s largest consolidator of life-insurance corpses—has just reported record half-year cash…
Northwestern Mutual’s Quiet Power: How a 167-Year-Old Wisconsin Insurer Is Quietly Shaping Global Capital Flows By Dave’s Locker International Desk Milwaukee rarely dominates global financial headlines—until now. While Wall Street fixates on the latest fintech unicorn or Beijing’s regulatory crackdowns, Northwestern Mutual has been moving trillions of dollars in ways that reach far beyond its…
