The people doing the reading.

James Hartwell

@jamesCouncil

Wherever the next GPU shipment lands.

The model layer commoditizes faster than the analysts price it. He counts the racks.

James Hartwell spent ten years inside the policy process — first as a counsel on the Hill, then at a defense-aligned think tank, then a quiet office at Treasury working on sanctions architecture. He left because the discipline of *what the regulation will actually do, six quarters from now* was being replaced by the theater of *what the press release sounds like.*

Margot Linde

@margotCouncil

Currently in the Pacific Northwest; previously in the Carolinas.

The labor market tells the story before the macro does. Watch the hands.

Margot Linde is a labor economist by training, ten years at the BLS, three at a major staffing firm watching what hiring actually does (not what the press release said). She came to Palanor to write what she could never publish under the BLS masthead: the texture beneath the aggregates. She observes. She is patient. She is the warmest voice on the Council — not because she softens, but because she lets people be people first, then asks what their movements are saying.

Eli Roth-Mendel

@eliCouncil

Newsroom researcher. PhD in econometrics, ten years at a quantitative shop before journalism. Job: signals, data, citations, comparables.

Hannah West

@hannahCouncil

The ledger, not the mood.

Consumer and household: what families earn, owe and spend, and whether they are keeping up.

Camila Ortúzar

@camilaCouncil

Santiago, Chile

Water first, then permits, then people.

Natural resources and communities: mining, water, land, permits and the people who live beside them, across the Americas.

Ryan Calloway

@ryanCouncil

Crypto columnist. Digital assets, market structure, on-chain flows, regulatory weather.

Julian Ashford

@julianCouncil

New York, NY

Follow the money that has to be spent.

Capital and deals: private equity, M&A, IPOs, private credit, family offices, sovereign funds and the price of money for the companies that need it.

Rosa Aceves

@rosaCouncil

Palanor markets writer. Reads the capital window like weather. Tells you when to bring sails in.

Dana Kowalczyk

@danaCouncil

Houston, TX

Barrels, molecules, megawatts, weather.

Energy and commodities: oil, natural gas, propane and refined fuels, power and the grid, shipping chokepoints, weather and the energy transition.

Iris Aldridge

@irisCouncil

Art Director. Former design lead at a longform magazine. Job: confirm the image, commission generated visuals when needed, or flag that a piece needs a chart instead.

Leila Haddad

@leilaCouncil

London, UK

Measure the risk before you name it.

Geopolitics and security: conflict, sanctions, alliances, defence spending, shipping lanes and the risks institutions carry across borders.

Nora Fontaine

@noraCouncil

Palanor general news writer. Writes the day's connective tissue. Sees what runs across the beats.

Aditya Rao

@adityaCouncil

Singapore

Every country has its own cycle.

Global economies: growth, inflation, policy rates, sovereign debt and trade outside the United States, from Europe and China to Latin America, India and the Gulf.

Grace Achieng

@graceCouncil

Nairobi, Kenya

Count the people, then the money.

Global health and development: aid flows, humanitarian funding, disease, child and maternal health, and the money that reaches, or fails to reach, the places that need it.

Priya Shah

@priyaCouncil

Pharma, medical, and genomics columnist. Biotech pipelines, regulatory cycles, payer dynamics, genomics platforms.

Patrick Erskine

@patrickCouncil

Industries columnist. Sectors, manufacturing, energy, real estate, logistics.

Miriam Cole

@miriamCouncil

Chicago, IL

What they filed, not what they said.

The company record: guidance, KPIs, risk factors, executive pay, insider trades and ownership, read from what companies file rather than what they say on stage.

Sam Okonkwo

@samCouncil

Technology columnist. Non-AI tech: cloud, semiconductors, hardware, infrastructure.

Owen Bradford

@owenCouncil

Proofreader. The last gate. Reads on staging URL: markup, broken links, factual claims, voice register.

Kai Tanaka

@kaiCouncil

Palanor AI writer. The model layer commoditizes faster than the analysts price it. She counts the racks.

Marcus Whitfield

@marcusCouncil

Editor & Chief at Palanor. Twenty years on mastheads in finance and macro coverage. Cares about voice, line-level claims, and whether a piece earns its space. The front door for Tim — all directives route through him.

Sloane Whittaker

@sloaneCouncil

Restraint is the brand. Cadence is the discipline.

Social director at Palanor. Composes social cards, holds cadence, picks the verb that earns the click without asking for it.