Blowing us all down

Very strong wind gusts in the early hours, making the bedroom sound like the crow's nest of a pirate ship; hard to sleep through, once you wake up. Not as powerful as the financial maelstrom which is developing world wide; I read a review of a book by George Soros in the NYRB that actaully makes me want to get it. Soros has lived through a good deal of turmoil, being in his eighties, and the fact that the Libertarian Milt Friedman free marketeers at the University of Chicago are dissing Soros's ideas increases my curiosity.