Goodbye journalism, and thanks for everything you taught me

I’d been wandering through some residential neighbourhoods in Buenos Aires, pulling away from the noisy banging of the pots and pans that defined the political crisis in the streets. I’ve spent 30 years covering the area where economics, public policy, business and politics intersect: 24 federal budgets, four prime ministers, seven finance ministers, a decade of Parliament Hill bureau-chiefing. The Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s and the ripple effects felt later in Argentina showed us that contagion is just not rational. The Great Financial Crisis is a case in point. Your respectful participation in the conversation is what makes for better ideas, better policy and better journalism.