This is my second day of writing. My schedule for the day included waking up late after a PE recruitment talk, getting my hair cut, tutoring for 2.5 hours, a rowing outing (the last one pre-bumps!), then rushing to get to a networking event in London. I will be showing up very late, hopefully will still make something of it. I planned on doing some off-cycle applications today, I doubt I will have much time, will try and get one done on the train. The Bristol Tracker will become one of my coming year’s holy texts I am sure.

I want to write something on a couple topics in finance. In future something more in depth will appear here for each of these. Here is a provisional list for now:

Topics:

• Economy and political landscape in Kazakhstan

• Economy and political landscape in Russia

• Economy and political landscape in Germany

• Historical piece on the Fed and interest rates

• The offshore dollar market

• The Gold Standard