MarketWatch has written up a overdue sanity check by Moody’s on Amazon’s supposed clout. It find that there’s a big disconnect between stock market enthusiasm and the Seattle firm’s real world [ … ]

Consumerism is a simulacrum of real economic agency. The more capital you have, the greater your power to influence or change your circumstances. The less capital one has, the less power [ … ]

What do all those people in the CIA, NSA and every other Get Smart agency do all day? Can’t almost the entire thing be cardboard boxed up and sent home. [ … ]

Every sports contest has people who are convinced, and occasionally convincing, that they predicted the outcome. I am timestamping my predictions for McGregor v Mayweather. I’m not gonna give a [ … ]

GCSE results day was today; A level results have already past. The fuss surrounding them shows just how the first quarter of our life is so dominated by the pursuit [ … ]

I started the Uber post-mortem 6 months ago, long before it was vogue. Now it is coming undone and the threads will keep getting pulled. The car crash happened, I [ … ]

Over the past few years compelling evidence has come out suggesting that housing policy errors are behind slow productivity growth, wealth inequality, and the cost of living crisis. But a [ … ]

Dearest Petunia, I remember when I brought you home, you were adhered to my shirt. As soon as you met your new home you ran around. Nancy and I sat [ … ]

Explaining how to play baseball can be a bit tedious for the explainer and the explainee. Bitcoin and blockchain are like this also. It is complex, but, once you get [ … ]

Amazon gotta be Amazon’ing Many companies use tax havens, or impossible but true tax arbitrage schemes to underpay taxes to the country where it should be owed. What sets Amazon [ … ]