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“Freshman,” said a father in the stands, his buddies all laughed. I did too. “Who’s going to tell that kid this ain’t eighth grade anymore?” I smiled, the outsider. It was Jackson’s first game, and he came out hot. “Kid has no chance in hell to score from that far out until he’s got a 100mph shot,” said another father, certain. “He’s got 85mph at best,” mumbled someone. We all nodded, standing together, reliving high

Hope all goes well… “Where’s the beef?” bellowed Biggie Too. “Health care, regulation reform, tax cuts – where’s it at?” continued the Chief Global Strategist for one of those too big to fail affairs. “You boys were always gonna face this moment,” barked Biggie, sliding into a slow groove. “But here’s the thing brotha. The market doesn’t care about health care – you know that. Poor people care about health care

Overall: “You cannot spend all the money on drinks and women, then ask for help,” said some Dutch dude with an utterly unpronounceable name, trying on a little Trump, just to see how it feels to call it as you see it. “Dijsselbloem lost a great opportunity to be quiet,” responded Italy’s failed former prime minister Renzi. “Dijsselbloem’s European vision is evident in the union’s policies: a presumed economic, moral

“You know what I dislike about my own argument?” asked the CIO. “I sound defensive, like I can’t accept I’m wrong.” We all know that guy, and rarely want to be him. “No one ever truly believed in my thesis,” he said, describing it: A growing dominance by the global economic elite shapes policy to deliberately asphyxiate dynamism. Because dynamism and its fraternal twin – volatility – are the only real threats t

Overall: “The end result was that levels came down and down and down and we’ve seen levels lower now than we have ever seen before,” stammered the scientist, excited like a child, quite obviously not referring to global temperatures, carbon emissions, sea levels, or mass extinctions. Nor was he talking about implied volatility. Though he could’ve been. Because volatility is collapsing, despite so many things happenin

Hope all goes well… “I suck,” he said with a sigh. “But I think my family still loves me,” he continued, trying to make himself laugh but failing. “I got absolutely killed in January. Then I turned it around after that Trump speech in Feb.” He paused, a long one. I hugged him through the phone. We’ve all been there, it’s brutal. “Then I don’t even know what went wrong. Which admittedly doesn’t make sense. Because I r

Overall: “Some people blindly invested offshore and were in a rush to do so,” explained China’s central bank chief, justifying his recent capital controls. “Some of this outbound investment was not in line with our own policies and had no real gain for China.” No doubt he’s right. The tycoons fleeing Chinese capital markets have done so selfishly. “So to regulate capital flows, I think it is normal,” concluded the ce

“Things come and things go, they rise and fall, it is the same thing all the time,” he said. We looked out across the valley. I’d returned to an old friend, seventh-generation high altitude mountain guide. “Glaciers advance, retreat. You see this yourself, no?” The Glacier d’Argentiere ended in a blue ice tumble, far above where I’d left it in 1998. “Someday they will advance again. Maybe in very many years. Nobody c

Hope all goes well… “My father was born in 1900, and lived through the great depression, hyperinflation, two world wars, a Russian prison camp, and so forth,” said the German in perfect English, over lunch, looking out across the river Limmat, from Zurich’s Hotel Storchen, established 1357. “He would tell me and my brothers, the world does not wait boys, it does not stop turning.” Swans paddled against the current, m

Overall: “Fly me to the moon… OK,” tweeted Elon Musk, an American original, an immigrant. “This should be a really exciting mission that hopefully gets the world really excited about sending people into deep space again,” said Musk, announcing plans to send the world’s first two private citizens on a journey they’ll never forget. Nor will we. Because it’s the breaking of boundaries that propel us forward. Inspi