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if I conducted a mock interview with a fictional head of a foreign sovereign creditor of the US using the Socratic method.
Luke Gromen • The Mr. X Interviews
The Mr. X Interviews Volume 2: World Views from a Fictional US Sovereign Creditor
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My firm, “Forest for the Trees,” or FFTT for short, is an investment research firm that occupies a unique niche on Wall Street, putting together a variety of publicly-available datapoints in an unconventional manner to identify developing investment trends.
Luke Gromen • The Mr. X Interviews

Chinese proverb says wisdom begins with calling things by their right name.
John Rubino • The Money Bubble
“The wise man doesn’t give the right answers, he poses the right questions.” —Claude Lévi-Strauss
Gillian Tett • Anthro-Vision
“Events can go from impossible to inevitable without ever stopping at improbable.”
Luke Gromen • The Mr. X Interviews
Inflation, Interest Rates, The War in Ukraine & Commodity Prices, Labor Markets and The Great Repricing