CBDCs - utopia, dystopia, or both?
"What is going on!?" the three-year-old exlaimed at the breakfast table the other day. And it's indeed a valid question. Energy and food pric...
"What is going on!?" the three-year-old exlaimed at the breakfast table the other day. And it's indeed a valid question. Energy and food pric...
Truth be told, investing legend Hugh Hendry had a point when he [recently](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2022-09-15/-the-fed-doesn-t-know-what-it-s-doing-says-eclectica-founder-...
The financial system / the banking sector has arguably increasingly been used as a political tool over the past several years, sometimes an extra-legal one. And not only against various "a...
When you're one step ahead of the crowd, you're a genius. When you're two steps ahead, you're a madman
-- Shlomo Riskin
I was recently asked by a former colleague why I had increased...
Claims that we need greater centralisation, more EU, or more globalisation are pre...
Why is inflation so high, and what does the powers that be plan to do about it? Let's start our attempt at answering these questions by look...
In contrast to the PhD's in charge, the US yield curve (i.e. the difference between the 2y yield and the 10y yield on US Treasury bonds) has a fairly long history of being predictive of economic recessions. M...
Is technology political? The answer is a resounding yes! All technology is political, though some technologies are more political than others...
In society, we see a trend of increased polarization, there is talk about filter bubbles, and more and m...
US inflation has recently been surging and is now "trotting". From Gerald Feldman's description of Germany's inflationary episode a century ago, one is struck by many similarities with today...
US CPI inflation recently hit 7.9% - not only is this a 40-...