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Catch – 22

By Ben Hunt | January 12, 2015 | 0 Comments

Four times during the first six days they were assembled and briefed and then sent back. Once, they took off and were flying in formation…

The Clash of Civilizations

By Ben Hunt | December 29, 2014 | 0 Comments

Thomas Cole, “The Course of Empire: Destruction” (1836) In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western…

Now There’s Something You Don’t See Every Day, Chauncey

By Ben Hunt | December 16, 2014 | 0 Comments

Narrator: Well, today we find our heroes flying along smoothly… Rocket J. Squirrel: Flying along smoothly? Bullwinkle J. Moose: You’re just looking at the picture…

Narrative Uber Alles

By Ben Hunt | December 11, 2014 | 0 Comments

Yesterday the Wall Street Journal ran a front page story titled “OPEC Sees Less Demand for Its Oil in 2015”, as well as another article…

We Now Return to Our Regularly Scheduled Programming

By Ben Hunt | December 5, 2014 | 0 Comments

Hilsenrath Analysis: Friday’s Jobs Report Assures Global Central Banks Going in Two Directions ― Wall Street Journal, December 5th, 9:59a ET Earlier today I tweeted that “I…

Signs and Portents

By Ben Hunt | December 1, 2014 | 0 Comments

Young nanny: Look at me, Damien! It’s all for you.   [she jumps off a roof, hanging herself]  – “The Omen” (1976)   When one has…

The Unbearable Over-Determination of Oil

By Ben Hunt | November 24, 2014 | 0 Comments

Market outcomes are always overdetermined, which is a $10 word that means if you added up all of the likely causes and their likely percentage contribution to the outcome you would get a number way above 100%.

Nowhere is this more true than the price of oil.

Mike Tyson: Master Game Theorist

By Ben Hunt | November 6, 2014 | 0 Comments

Everyone has a plan until they get hit in the mouth. – Mike Tyson My long-term strategy turned into a 12-hour strategy. – “Survivor” contestant…

Wherefore Art Thou, Marcus Welby?

By Ben Hunt | October 30, 2014 | 0 Comments

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not…

Calvin the Super Genius

By Ben Hunt | October 14, 2014 | 0 Comments

People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don’t realize how hard it is to put up with all the…