Sinful sledgers, poisonous needles and precious metals

This newsletter is a four-minute read

Dear Reader,

Firstly, apologies im Vorraus for the morose tone of this first newsletter of the year. Reading the news after two weeks spent with friends and family - time taken up with music, laughter  and games - is a sobering experience. Once again, one enters a world where the human experience is reduced to a series of numbers, charts and indexes. 

The…