Arnim

"The risk metrics that look quiescent and favoring idiosyncrasy may in fact be a chimera much more vulnerable to a macro shock than implied currently," said Arnim Holzer, global macro strategist at EAB Investment Group.

And, speaking of books that became movies, I always love pointing people toward “The Enchanted April” by Elizabeth von Arnim, in which four not-very-well-acquainted women band together for a dream vacation in an Italian medieval castle.

“Humility, and the most patient perseverance, seem almost as necessary in gardening as rain and sunshine,” wrote the novelist Elizabeth von Arnim.

Von Arnim also identified something else that a gardener needs, something far more vital than any illusory green thumbs: hope.

The heaviest team fines were levied against Chicago and Portland, both of which were put on the market late last year after their respective owners, Arnim Whisler and Merritt Paulson, were implicated in the scandals.