
Hindsight Capital's Special First-Half Report
Halfway through an extraordinarily eventful year, let's pay an early visit to the offices of Hindsight Capital, my imaginary hedge fund that places big macro bets at the start of the year, with the benefit of knowing what will occur. There was money to be made from politics so far, but not in the way that might have been expected.
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