About this time sixteen years ago, Worldwide and I were embarking on our belated honeymoon. We flew from Skopje to Vienna, spent a few days drinking punsch and seeing the sights, and then took an overnight train to Venice, where we spent the better part of a week.
At the airport (I think) Worldwide bought the Holiday issue of a magazine called the Economist, which I had never heard of. Not long after, I was deep into articles comparing the internet with electricity and analysis of the political unrest in Madagascar. I loved everything about it: the scope of the coverage; the economics; the wry British humor; and the succinct writing style.
When we returned to Skopje, we found a bookstore that carried it, and every Saturday, on our way to the Green market, we would pick up the latest edition. I became a subscriber when we returned to DC, and have been ever since.
I don't read every article (although I did from 1997-2009), but I can confidently say that I have read more than 90% of everything published in the last 16 years. I downloaded the current holiday issue this morning, and very much enjoyed the look back at World War 1 on the centennial of its beginning and the selection of the Country of the year, which just legalized gay marriage and cannabis, and whose president reportedly drives a Volkswagen Beetle to work. I'm looking forward to reading about the real Ozymandias and Indian mothers-in-law, and to another year of news and insight. It's not cheap, and it takes an investment of your time, but it has definitely changed the way I look at finance and economics and at the same time helped me become far more attuned to what's happening around the world.
At the airport (I think) Worldwide bought the Holiday issue of a magazine called the Economist, which I had never heard of. Not long after, I was deep into articles comparing the internet with electricity and analysis of the political unrest in Madagascar. I loved everything about it: the scope of the coverage; the economics; the wry British humor; and the succinct writing style.When we returned to Skopje, we found a bookstore that carried it, and every Saturday, on our way to the Green market, we would pick up the latest edition. I became a subscriber when we returned to DC, and have been ever since.
I don't read every article (although I did from 1997-2009), but I can confidently say that I have read more than 90% of everything published in the last 16 years. I downloaded the current holiday issue this morning, and very much enjoyed the look back at World War 1 on the centennial of its beginning and the selection of the Country of the year, which just legalized gay marriage and cannabis, and whose president reportedly drives a Volkswagen Beetle to work. I'm looking forward to reading about the real Ozymandias and Indian mothers-in-law, and to another year of news and insight. It's not cheap, and it takes an investment of your time, but it has definitely changed the way I look at finance and economics and at the same time helped me become far more attuned to what's happening around the world.
I'm sure I just bought it to impress you.
ReplyDeleteI first heard of it in 1984, when I took my first economics class. The instructor pronounced the Economist basically the only reliable source of information in the world.