Predictions should be short, any narrative is an opportunity to back out. Either you’re predicting the refrigerator light will turn on when you open the door, or that it won’t. [ … ]

I have a simple rating system: DON’T SEE IT, SEE IT, WHATEV. Here’s some examples of each… Orange is the new black: WHATEV – look, women love the show and if [ … ]

Japan has managed to offset decades of deflationary dynamics, but at a cost that is hidden beneath the surface of apparent stability. Do we implode in a deflationary death spiral [ … ]

Politics is a nasty business, there are a lot of ethical and moral compromises to win, and more to stay ‘won’. A No BS review. Get me Roger Stone I [ … ]

Woe to the unfortunate person uncaring, uncompassionate, undisciplined, unfair, ‘un’ everything else you can hurl at them, who lets slip that the United States is massively in debt with no [ … ]

“Governments cannot reduce their debt or deficits and central banks cannot taper. Equally, they cannot perpetually borrow exponentially more. This one last bubble cannot end (but it must).” I often [ … ]

This worthy and public-spirited column seldom dives into the thickets of military hardware, which it regards as excessively technical. However, the arms race between China and Washington is of enough [ … ]

Central planning based on central-bank inflated debt-asset bubbles works until it doesn’t. A media mini-industry touts Scandinavia’s “happiness” as the result of its high-tax, generous welfare state-capitalism. This mini-industry conveniently [ … ]

The system is disintegrating, and slapping a “reformist” coat of paint over the dryrot cannot renew the structural timbers that have rotted to their very core. I confess to being [ … ]

Continuing in the Il Sole series on Italy and the Euro, Alberto Bagnai writes that the euro is a “big defeat for the economics profession” here in English, here in [ … ]