Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 Presidential election. That’s a fact. Why she lost is not a matter of fact but of interpretation. Maybe she screwed up. It’s comforting to attribute all life outcomes to individual choice and effort. She should have made more appearances in Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania. Shoulda, woulda,…
Donald Frump began his campaign inveighing against Mexicans, promising to build a wall, and threatening to abrogate the North American Free Trade Agreement, in place now for some twenty years. Punitive tariffs have been threatened on Mexican exports. Nothing hidden or covert there! After Frump won, the Mexican stock market…
I had a sleepless night November 8th. I went to bed after 12:00 California time, knowing all was lost to Trump, and writhing the more, knowing that markets had plunged across the globe. Too late! No way to get out. No way to preserve my little wealth before the tsunami…