13 Mar 23 Monday Briefing

A roundup of five things I found interesting in the past week

• Is it taxpayers’ responsibility to bail out yet another miscreant? Yellen thinks not.

• When the society you grow up in constrains the way you think about romantic love, choosing an ostensibly safe outlet should be no surprise at all. Also, GL is a rapidly expanding market, if the success of Thailand’s first GL series Gap is anything to go by.

• Could the world’s self-appointed policeman also be a scaredy-cat?

• An utterly fascinating article about Singapore’s stone tools

• We’ve gone from near-shoring to… friend-shoring? What a world.