Month: April 2023

Mind on Money: BRICs shouldn’t be feared

Last week’s column on the fear being stoked online about the coming demise of the U.S. dollar and the reserve “petro-dollar” elicited some strong feedback, some supportive and some critical. I see the topic even creeping into the mainstream financial……

Grammar Guy: Skip to the endonym

Don’t you love when linguistics and geography collide? No, I’m not talking about the town of Noun, Alaska, where people, places, things and ideas live in harmony; I’m talking about different names for different places. Different pen strokes for differe…