Christoph Hargreaves-Allen

Christoph Hargreaves-Allen

Christoph Hargreaves-Allen is a journalist and screenwriter working in London and Los Angeles. He grew up in South East Asia, was educated in England, and is a devoted skier and traveler.

Ketamine & Well-Being

"€œIt blew the doors off what we thought we knew about depression treatment."€ So said psychiatrist James Murrough of New York's Mount Sinai Hospital, in reference to a chemical named ketamine. Forty percent of human beings will experience at least one depressive episode in the course of ...

Nygard Residence, Nassau

Wilderness: For Sale?

The Bahamas"€”A calm swath of turquoise sea protected by a hundred-mile string of islands and cays delimit the Atlantic's blue-dark depths, to the east: an organic barrier as thin as 30 feet wide in places. The nearly unbroken chain of islands is equally sheltered, to the west, from the chilly ...

Last Exit From Brussels

"€œThe peculiar essence of our financial system is an unprecedented trust between man and man; and when that trust is much weakened by hidden causes, a small accident may greatly hurt it, and a great accident may almost destroy it."€ "€”Walter Bagehot, Lombard Street (1873) Bagehot's ...

Narco Liquidity

"€œNarco money is the foundation of the modern financial system."€ These are the words of Viktor Ivanov, head of the Federal Drug Control Service of Russia. In a speech given in Moscow in 2014, he pointed the finger at Operation Enduring Freedom (the banner for the U.S.-led global war on ...

The Resort That Was Too Big to Fail

Since 2008 the world has seen a good number of corporate catastrophes. So many, in fact, that a new subgenre of journalism called financial disaster tourism was invented by financial journalist and nonfiction author Michael "€œThe Big Short"€ Lewis. We"€™re talking here about corporate ...

The First-and-Last Commodity

A quick look at last week's global financial news might easily mislead a reader to panic under the overriding negative sentiment of a sector not yet able to forget the nightmare of the 2008 subprime crisis. However: A behavioral fallacy in investors"€™ thinking may be exaggerating the risks and ...

Your Best Bet Is Volatility

In a week of uniformly bad news for the capital markets, certain keywords repeated across the media. Signifiers like contagion, fear, or shock linger in the mind like echoes of a catastrophe. Only, the catastrophe is yet to come, aside from the Chinese economic slowdown, and the fall in oil, ...

Ferrari or Supertanker?

January 2016. A hard landing for world markets and the world economy. Leading indicator the Baltic Dry Index, which measures the cost of chartering a cargo ship, fell to an all-time low last week. The cost of hiring a 335-meter ship has dived, by over 90% since last August, to around $1,500 per ...

Xinjiang, China

Clash of Civilizations: 2016

Twenty years ago, Samuel Huntington published his game-changing book The Clash of Civilizations. A Jan. 8, 2016, analysis by Stratfor correspondent Eugene Chausovsky shows that the book is as relevant now as it was in 1996. While Huntington got many forecasts about the post"€“Cold War era wrong, ...

Joaquín

Bring Me the Head of El Chapo

In 1974, the legendary Western director Sam Peckinpah made a small masterpiece entitled Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia. El Jefe, a Mexican "€œboss man"€ protected by a private army, addresses his gunmen lined up on either side of a banqueting table whose length spells power: I will pay ...


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