The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics recently reported that the U.S. Consumer Price Index (“CPI”) had risen 5.3% in August from August of last year.

Our commentary on the economy and the financial markets for the quarter ending December 31, 2020.

In Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, Gulliver visits Lagado, the metropolis of the fictional island of Balnibarbi where he is given the privilege to examine the works of the Grand Academy’s scholars called Projectors.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was not a particularly prolific writer. The genesis of his magnum opus took over 30 years.

One of the most acclaimed role-playing video game from the genre’s golden era is Fallout.

Franz Kafka’s novel The Metamorphosis is about a travelling salesman who wakes up one day inexplicably transformed into a large insect.

This is what one of the protagonists in Hemingway’s 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises responds when asked how he went bankrupt.

In 1951, American author George Stewart was awarded the first International Fantasy award for his novel, Earth Abides.

One of our objectives in 2020 is to engage more frequently with our stakeholders when an event that is perceived to have a significant impact on global capital markets takes place.