Soros and Reflexivity
George Soros is the economics equivalent to Stephen Wolfram and physics. Wolfram is a wealthy businessman who discovered a big idea independently of others, that isn’t new or original but that appears...
View ArticleFelix Salmon Scotches the Kanjorski Financial Armageddon Myth
Remember the point last September where treasury secretary, Paulson delivered a ’secret’ message to congress that was designed to scare them into action? Many people have now seen the infamous clip...
View ArticleGoodbye Dubai
Short of opening a Radio Shack in an Amish town, Dubai is the world’s worst business idea, and there isn’t even any oil. Imagine proposing to build Vegas in a place where sex and drugs and rock and...
View ArticleBreaking the American Oligarchs
External Video link – Bill Moyers Interviews Simon Johnson America likes democracy and i’m quite fond of it too. But a portion of America’s interests are controlled by the equivalent of Oligarchs – the...
View ArticleFrontline: Inside the Meltdown
Frontline is the only documentary series on American television where the information density doesn’t leave you feeling you are watching something in slow motion. They don’t disappoint with this solid...
View ArticleCNBC – House of Cards
The first batch of documentaries featuring analysis of the financial meltdown has started to appear on TV screens. Following Frontline, here is CNBC’s take, by David Faber. Commentary cannot keep up...
View ArticleJon Stewart’s Defining Moment.
Sometimes truth is no stranger to fiction. America’s only serious news comes from a comedy channel. US network and cable news are an embarrassment, a children’s view of the world based upon...
View ArticleKramer vs Kramer vs Kramer vs Everyone vs Cramer vs Stewart
What is it with these Kramer people?
View ArticleDarwin in the Financial Markets
If you can overcome the fact that Niall Ferguson seems to have slowed his metabolism to alter his rate of speaking to avoid any exertion whatsoever in the summer heat that this talk was delivered,...
View Article3rd Avenue El
A short film made in the 1950s about the elevated rail line that travelled from the base of Manhattan, up the Bowery and 3rd Avenue, up to Gun Hill Road in the Bronx.
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