Economy

As the S&P 500 continues to creep perilously higher with each passing week of 2025, I’ve been reading a lot about AI and thinking equally as much about the late Joan Didion, one of the most famous women in the grand tradition of putting words on paper. This may seem a strange, spontaneous association, but […]

I spent the weekend in a cabin just south of Breckenridge that appeared to be constructed with Lincoln Logs. It was a gumdrop surrounded by towering fir trees, the lighting soft and warm. Aspens tore peels of shimmering gold into the mountainside. Exploring the cabin’s cozy insides, I felt like one of the claymation figures […]

“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Rich Boy, 1926 “You know how people who come into money suddenly look better?” I texted my friend the other day as I breached the threshold of the grocery store’s automatic doors. “How does that […]

I love being lied to by beautiful, rich women on the internet. Not just any influencer will do—my preferred shared hallucination is the business influencer, over whose sprawling imperial colonies the digital sun never sets. Recently, I’ve taken to watching a woman who I’m pretty sure is a scammer; one of those “coaches coaching coaches” […]