Whisky Tango Foxtrot : The 4717 Survival Glossary

A handy glossary of concepts you are better off knowing

A field guide to the machinery behind the headlines.

There are a lot of words in business and geopolitics that make people nod thoughtfully while secretly wondering what the hell anyone is talking about. The WTF Survival Glossary explains them.

Sanctions. SWIFT. Black boxes. Coup d'état. Cost disease. Tokenization.

You know. The fun stuff.

Coup d'état v. Revolution

Coup d’état is one of those French words that was too good to not leech into English – it means, literally, “blow to the state.”

Shahed: The AK47 of the Sky

The AK47 turned every guerrilla group into an army. The drone has given every crackpot militia an air force

Baumol's Cost Disease

Some sectors get relentlessly more productive, and others… don’t. Yet wages tend to rise across the board.

What is a Black Box?

What is a "Black Box"? and why you should care.

Logic v. Psyco-Logic

Logic makes a successful engineer, but psyco-logic is what has made us a successful breed of monkey.

WTF: SWIFT Bank Messaging

What is the SWIFT system, and why do you care?