Jamesian Philosophy Refreshed

What have been the biggest stories in business/financial news over the last year? Quite synchronistic of you to ask: I was just about to address the point.   Breaking the answers down by month as usual, is tricky this year, since one of the big stories -- involving Elon Musk and Twitter, seemed to pop up in headlines in every month from April onward. I've crammed all the twists and turns of that saga into the single April entry.    There are two other key things to know about this list before you dig in. First, it is a very U.S. centric list. More so than the earlier items in this series. Second, the war in Ukraine has left a big mark on it. Indeed, every item on the list that follows is either US based or Ukraine War related. There are s even of the former and five of the latter.  This selectivity is of course absurd. There was lots of rest-of-the-world finance news that had little to do with the Ukraine war. In the United Kingdom, for example, Liz Truss had ...

I generally ask myself at this time of year what were the biggest stories of the past twelve months, in business/financial news. Of course, I choose the ones I do largely because they illustrate an important theme, and in the list below I'll spell out and italicize the theme. Yet the theme itself isn't the story. Further, I don't rank them, as in a top ten list. I assign one top story to each of the twelve months. All that said, here is this year's list. January: Continuing Recession.  Iconic chemicals-and-photography company Kodak files for bankruptcy. February:  Eurozone tensions . Europe manages a restructuring of Greek debt -- private bondholders take a deep haircut. [Speaking more broadly, there has been a change in tone over the course of 2012. The year began with a lot of talk about the breakup of the common currency zone. Greece might have withdrawn and started printing drachmas. For better or worse, there is much less of such talk now.] March...