A 'performative' utterance is not true or false， but happy or unhappy.

Once in a while the phenomena we exploit are particularly present. We like a reasonable amount of volatility. In our business we want some action. “Tumult is usually good for us. We don’t have credit lines of any significance. We don’t do a lot of leveraged-type financing.

"We are all time travelers, moving through the past, present, and future in our minds."

Climate change is not just a threat to agriculture; it's a call to reinvent it.