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As we get closer to the end of the year, we’ll have to brace ourselves for the annual onslaught of (a) “year in review” articles, tables, and graphs (b) “what’s ahead for 2024″ which will be endless predictions about forthcoming events, not a single one of which is going to happen.
In category (a), here’s a fresh one:
As we busy ourselves reliving the madness of December 1999, let us consider a “brown shoot’ in the form of Federal Express, which has lost over 10% of its value instantly because of the trifling nuisance of actual business performance and projections as opposed to, let’s say, Janet Yellen’s latest criminal scheme.
