The Question
One question a week for your pair. Answers stay sealed until Friday at six, then everyone reads everyone.
Who decides whether a recession happened: the data, or the headlines?
Last week, opened
“Will a newspaper founded before 1900 stop printing on paper within a year?”
- Media IMedia
Paper is now a luxury good. Luxury goods do not die; they get more expensive. It prints, at twice the price.
- Economics IIEconomics
Print subsidises nothing anymore. When the last big advertiser leaves, the press stops within a quarter. Yes, within the year.Best answer
- Media IVMedia
The question is wrong. The paper will survive; the daily will not. Expect a weekly.
Copy no. 0317 · This copy is yours alone.
The Book
Every member keeps one wager open. Stakes are a bottle, a dinner, a book. Never money.
Open
Lay a wager
The Debt
Once a year, every member owes one favour to any member who asks: an introduction, a reading, an hour.
Open until September. Pay it to whoever asks first.
Ask the table below. Say what you need in one sentence.
Asks on the table
Ask the table
The Push
On the first of each month, every seat names one thing it is trying to win. The others say how they can help.
November
Your goal this month
Evenings
The address arrives a day before. Phones wait at the door.
Economics across Media
- When
- Thursday 4 December, 19:00
- Where
- Revealed 24 hours before
- Your chair
- Held, waiting for your word
Past
- Technology across Arts6 November · 4 unmasked
- Finance across Politics23 October · 6 unmasked