Please pass the ice cream

 January 26, 2022 |Mark Ryan
With Love from Canada This week, a spec of incredulity was flung high above the others – and there was some stiff competition there. As omicron spread across the earth like an Alberta grass fire, a singular Beijing citizen among the Olympic host’s 21...
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Pleasing Xi's he's

 January 24, 2022 |Mark Ryan
I attended an excellent portfolio management conference all last week -- another covid-impacted event, from so many kitchen tables, and all brilliant thinkers no less. Yet some of them looked oh so very young. One presenter’s mom actually interrupted...
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Our Big Yellow Moment

 January 17, 2022 |Mark Ryan
cab’s outside.” That was the darkish Friday morning humour at the bank in the mid-90’s. It stemmed from a painful round of layoffs in 1992 (when we wrote off some ugly real estate loans in New York and London). The first on scale since the Great Depression...
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