Sunday, June 10, 2018

Will We See Izabella Kaminska's Byline at FT Alphaville This Week?

Inquiring minds want to know.

It's been almost six five months (seems longer) since she posted "Fintech as a gateway for criminal enterprise"—which garnered a belated 'Climateer Line of the Day' award, and despite a couple encore posts, I'm jonesin' for a fix and thinking it's time for her to poke the bitcoin bros., or Goldman, or some SillyCon Valley hypester, or....

For now though we'll have to make do with a look back at a piece unique in the Financial Times archives:


Explaining the commodity warehouse trade with scripture
This is Joseph. He is a well known commodity forecaster.

This is Pharaoh:

Pharaoh is worried about future scarcity of commodities because he’s been listening to Joseph’s scary dream-based forecasts.

This is despite the fact that there is a helluva lot of wheat around today....MORE
...so much more