GENEVA — While the Amazon burns and bond yields do things that make central bankers reach for the Maalox, the planet’s most ambitious act of collective imagination is quietly re-shuffling its hierarchies. Fantasy football rankings dropped Tuesday, and from Dakar to Dublin the faithful are parsing spreadsheets like Talmudic scholars on amphetamines. Somewhere, a Syrian…
Tigers Game Today: A Feline Farce Played on the World’s Cheapest Stage By Diego Serrano, Senior Correspondent, Dave’s Locker Detroit—If you squint past the rust-flaked Ambassador Bridge and the slow-motion bankruptcy that is the Michigan sky, you can just make out Comerica Park, where the Detroit Tigers will today attempt to convince 30,000 freezing optimists…
PCE Report Today: Inflation’s Global Family Reunion Ends in a Food Fight Geneva—Around 7:00 a.m. local time, the Bureau of Economic Analysis released the latest Personal Consumption Expenditures index, colloquially known as “the Fed’s favorite inflation thermometer.” By 7:03, the world’s money changers, bond vigilantes, and algorithmic day-traders had already declared the patient either feverish…
S&P 500: The World’s Favorite American Soap Opera By Our Correspondent in the Departures Lounge, Somewhere Between Frankfurt and Existential Dread The S&P 500 closed at yet another all-time high last week, prompting champagne corks in Greenwich, polite golf claps in Geneva, and a low, guttural groan everywhere else. From the bodegas of Buenos Aires…
A Dodgers Game, Globe-Style: When Nine Innings Become a Geopolitical Rorschach Test Los Angeles—On any given summer evening, Dodger Stadium resembles the United Nations if the General Assembly had tailgates and sold $19 micheladas. Flags from Seoul, Mexico City, Caracas, and Manila flap from rental sedans in the parking lot, each one a polite reminder…
The first thing to understand about baseball standings is that nobody outside the contiguous 48 really cares—except, of course, the Japanese, the Koreans, the Dominicans, the Venezuelans, the Cubans who defected, the Canadians who politely pretend, and the Dutch who somehow snuck into the last World Baseball Classic with a roster of Caribbean passport-holders named…
