MP Stock: When a Tiny Indian Micronutrient Maker Becomes the Canary in Everyone’s Coal Mine By Our Correspondent, still jet-lagged in three time zones at once Mumbai—On paper, MP Stock—ticker MP Agro Nutrients Ltd., population 1,200 employees and one very excitable parakeet in the lobby—should be a footnote. The company makes chelated zinc for rice…
**The Popcorn Rebellion: How AMC Became the World’s Most Absolutist Democracy** In the grand theater of global finance, where titans of industry once played their parts with solemn gravitas, a peculiar farce has been unfolding. AMC Entertainment—purveyor of overpriced popcorn and underwhelming blockbusters to the masses—has transformed into an unlikely symbol of economic revolution, proving…
Elliot Anderson and the Sudden Global Obsession With a Name That Wasn’t Even His PARIS—Somewhere between a croissant-induced sugar crash and the third espresso of the morning, the world’s newsrooms discovered they had been chasing a ghost. “Elliot Anderson,” the supposed 19-year-old wunderkind who allegedly crashed the Tokyo derivatives desk of Sumitomo-Glencore with nothing more…
