Category: ideas

I hope he’s right: Second, on the question of the environment. There is no question that the internal combustion engine is at the heart of the climate cri...

Bucephalus Bouncing Ball. It gets better and better as the years pass.

I marvel at how well Barack Obama performs. For quite a few years now, the bar for American performance has been lowered in so many ways. “Heckuva job, Br...

Glenn Greenwald is not feeling it: What is more intrinsically corrupt than allowing people to engage in high-reward/no-risk capitalism — where they reaped...

I guess the plan is to use the U.S. armed forces to deter creditors from collecting.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb channels Socrates to disparage (now obviously flawed) financial models and the abuse of statistics in general: Go to a bookstore, and look...

this is one of the most compact representations of our financial crisis I’ve come across: it’s over a year old. i’m sorry i hadn’t seen ...

While on a garden tour it occurred to me that gardens have four components: sight, smell, temperature and time. Time, because as living organisms, they look, sm...