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The 40-year Treasury-bond bull market rested on three supports, and almost nobody explains all three, because each belongs to a different tribe of economists.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026

"People say it's shallow to want people to like you, but in the first humans it was literally a matter of life or death. If you weren't part of the tribe, you died."

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

The oldest of four brothers and one of more than 30 first cousins—“more tribe than family,” as he puts it—Mr. Coppola was an anomaly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

In many ways, his life has been spent constructing a tribe.

From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026

More troubling, her face couldn’t be painted to signal her tribe and clan—a tradition at Osage funerals.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

Angie Wade, the tribal historic preservation officer for Chickaloon Village, one of the tribes involved in the lawsuit against the mine, said rampant mining has devastated Chickaloon areas in decades past.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

The project, called Hell’s Kitchen, also failed to adequately involve local tribes in assessing the effect on cultural resources, he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

Bears Ears, which covers 1.35 million acres, was proclaimed in 2016 under then-president Barack Obama on the basis of its cultural sites sacred to Indigenous tribes.

From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026

Environmental advocates and leaders of Native tribes, who have been fighting the project, criticized the decision.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

Since tribes thus lack economic specialists, they also lack slaves, because there are no specialized menial jobs for a slave to perform.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond