BREAKING NEWS: Facebook friends aren’t experts in all things. MORE BREAKING NEWS: Zimbabweans are not paying $5000 more per bitcoin than everyone else. Zimbabwe is no longer on a U.S. [ … ]

Last year, Ankit Panda at The Diplomat noted the significance of a high-level North Korea–China meeting in June 2016. Ri Su-yong, Korean Workers’ Party (KWP) Politburo member and a former [ … ]

Cyber-security, cover-ups and this guy… Joe Sullivan was the head of security for Uber, the same title he held at his previous employer, Facebook. His major accomplishment while at Uber, [ … ]

“History stopped in 1936” – George Orwell,Looking back on the Spanish War According to George Orwell, it was during his time fighting in the Spanish Civil War for the Republican side against [ … ]

Key points The key issue is and always was the (lack of) resilience of the UK banking system. It is mathematically impossible to take a weak banking system, subject it [ … ]

Amazon is the elephant, we are the blind men gathered around it, each feeling a different part and none in agreement with ‘what it is’. I walk around it and [ … ]

November 6, 2017 Political attention often focuses on how governments spend money to reduce inequality, but direct tax systems (not including sales and other indirect taxes) do more for helping [ … ]

Last year, in the context of the political campaign, and Donald Trump’s pledge to get tough with our trade partners, Sherman Robinson, Tyler Moran, and I did some modeling of [ … ]

Time stamping my predictions for UFC 217 I’m not gonna give a whole analysis or the forensics of  how I came to my guess, because it just doesn’t matter. Either something [ … ]

A few years back perennial BS vendor Naomi Klein wrote a book called This Changes Everything. She argued, in typically economically illiterate fashion, that the threat of climate change requires [ … ]