The price of everything

The hike before Christmas

‘Twas the hike before Christmas, and all over the shop   
Short end traders were waiting for prices to drop.
Bloomberg and Reuters, the FT all there
To capture the moment – if Powell would dare..

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Identity crisis

Two science fiction classics have a bearing on our current political predicament. The earlier of the two is John W Campbell Jr.’s Who Goes There ?, a 1938 novella that would be made into films in the guise of The Thing in 1951, 1982 and 2011. The second is Jack Finney’s 1954 novel The Body Snatchers, which similarly would make its way onto the silver screen in the form of Invasion of the Body Snatchers in 1956, in 1978, and again in 1993 and 2007. Good ideas have a tendency to be refreshed (that is to say, stolen) by subsequent generations.

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