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Stop Doomscrolling, and Start Stress-Testing: How Geopolitics Hits the Economy and Your Wallet
On Saturday, my phone didn’t just buzz… it practically tried to achieve orbit!
I had actually managed to fall asleep like a responsible adult who swears they’re “cutting back on news,” and then woke up to an avalanche of alerts about a major geopolitical rupture in Venezuela. You know, the kind of headlines that makes you blink twice and think, “oh, geeze… not again! Not another one!” Somewhere in my brain, the Chris Farley meme was already putting on its awful, brown tie and reporting for duty: “Getting pretty tired of living through historical events.”
That joke may be doing an irresponsible amount of emotional labor right now. And for that, I apologize.

