The Action Slav's gamble

Thinking that the game has fundamentally changed, some Eastern European countries are shorting Tesla with their life savings. That's the best read, the alternative is that they're beyond rationality.

90s Vienna: bohemian, libertine, civilised yet it has a streak of Balkan messiness that made it such a memorable backdrop to Before Sunrise (1995), a movie that implanted most Westerners’ impression of the place. Did you get the feeling that, as this story took place (and the movie itself was shot), the genocidal civil war right next door, in Yugoslavia…