Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

It's obvious that there's some unaccounted for cash out there, in coat pockets and behind

couch cushions, but there's so much more than you probably think, 50 billion pounds worth

in Britain alone, so why does no one seem to care about it?

And for a good many years, if you were to write to Sherlock Holmes at his fictional address on Baker Street in London,

you'd actually get a considered reply.

We meet the man who unwittingly became Holmes' secretary.

First up, though.

When they sensed the timing was right, they found a way to open the door that was closed and blocked,

filed silently to the path that they have chosen to follow, and quickly left the place that they were held, despite the fact that numerous guards were close by.

A dozen missionaries from an American church are free this week, the last of a group that was kidnapped by Haitian gangs in October.

With God's help, protection, and leading, they quickly made their way through the night.

They walk for possibly as much as 10 miles, traveling through woods and thickets, working through

thorns and briars.

Their freedom is a rare bit of good news from Haiti.

The country has been plagued by political turmoil, poverty, and natural disasters for years,

but troubles have piled up in 2021.

All right, we've got some breaking news to report.

The AP reporting that Haitian President Juvenel Mouise is dead.

In July, President Jovenel Mouise was assassinated.

His killers still haven't been found.

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