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Hope all goes well… Wishing you and your families a healthy, happy, and prosperous 2024. Filled with adventure, challenge, volatility, introspection too. Dusted off an anecdote from 2011 that I reflect on at the dawn of each year, in preparation for what’s to come (see below). All the very best, E Week-in-Review: Mon: Christmas Day, Iran says Israeli airstrike in Syria killed top Rev Guard commander (Moussavi), PBOC

Hope all goes well… Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah. To you and your families. Resurrected one of my favorite little memories, an opening note from Christmas past… Christmas Day 2013: “Santa slipped down the chimney. Left big boot prints in the ash that spilled across our hearth. And the jolly fella stuffed stockings. Built a train set too. Sprinkled magic everywhere. Moments before the kiddies emerged, sporting thei

Hope all goes well… Fresh off yesterday’s exciting football game (Army 17- Navy 11), our family divided, dusted off a 2018 anecdote from a Marine Force Recon veteran about applying combat principles to investing (see below). Taking the rest of December off from writing, to gather the forces for what is sure to be an exciting 2024. Wishing you a little recharge too. All the very best, E Week-in-Review: Mon: ECB’s Cent

Anecdote: “My great grandfather and his family lived in the desert, in tents,” said the Emirati, a young man, soft spoken, with a quiet confidence, a calm. “My grandfather had no formal education, but he was curious, adventurous, interested in other cultures and traveled to many places, taught himself English.” Six of us ate dinner, sharing our life stories. “He brought many of the largest foreign companies to UAE an

Hope all goes well… “When I was a child, it was my greatest dream to someday own a used bicycle and ride it through my village,” said the Pakistani, whisking me through Abu Dhabi. “I was no higher than a common animal you see.” As he spoke, the fingers of his right hand drew together into the shape of a lotus, that gently opened as he completed each thought. “I knew only Pashto. Now English, with no formal education,