Science and Money in the Climate Change Debate
… if we had one
There is no public debate about climate change. On Medium, where I post my texts, there are thousands of articles about climate change. I read many of them and wrote...
Will Artificial Intelligence save the labor market?
To show that the question in the title can be answered affirmatively, I am going to explore the way smart technologies help resolve social problems. The problems include an aging labor force gradually leaving...
Using Mobile to Help Eradicate Child Labor on Ivorian Cocoa Farms
West African farmers use child labor to cost-effectively scale production of the cocoa used by chocolate companies to make chocolates. Out of the sights and minds of consumers, this matter is often unable to...
Is Amazon Going to Fail?
Amazon has changed the world for retail. But has it ever occurred to you that one day it might fail?
In 1893, Richard Sears had the idea to create a brand new departmental store called...
Ukraine: Politics, Business, and Corporate Feudalism
The world's political landscape is constantly changing. Throughout centuries the rules of engagement have shifted from monarchy to social totalitarianism, consequently further into what we currently witness, i.e., corporate Feudalism. The most vulnerable of...
Nordic social program to welfare state capitalism
Two resorts distant from free-market capitalism
The society or the world at large is the quintessence of every human being. As a spirited social existence, humans have an innate tendency to aggregate by inhabiting jointly...
Pacific Gas & Electronic: A silent Partner in the Unsustainable Golden State Economy of...
The state of California, with the 39.56 million in Population and Area of 163,696 square miles, has a net worth over $6 trillion or about $160,000 per resident. The Golden state keeps up 17...
Market, Economy, and Cycles, Part 2
In the previous article, we gave an overview of the emergence of crisis. Next, we will further illustrate how cycles should be dealt with in light of Ray Dalio's analysis of the economic system,...
Socialism will Only Make Income Inequality Worse
A few weeks ago, the New York Times ran an article regarding the implementation of a “Wealth Tax.” Both Sanders and Warren are fans of this type of levy which would tax the accumulated...
The God of Small Things
Using RCTs, Evidence-Based Action and Economic Plumbing to Understand How Charitable Organizations and Research Groups can Help Solve Global Poverty
The Devil in The Details
It’s been a long time since we’ve bandied around the devastating...
Secret of Capitalism’s Success, from Data Science’s Perspective
Data scientists perceive the world as data-processing systems, and this view is being increasingly adopted in economics and politics: after all, we think of the economy not as consisting of a myriad of individual...
Market, Economy and Cycles, Part 1
In this sharing, we look to better understand the essence of a free-market economy from a more fundamental viewpoint of the market interactions. We also look to understand the cyclic patterns of the economy...
Not All Protection is Bad
One thing that we overlook in the dialogue around the trade war narrative that has become a partisan issue is that not all protection is bad. The problem is that if you look at...
Fossil Fuel Subsidies: Environmentally Dangerous & Economically Counterproductive!
The recent wildfires in the Amazon are not only a burning injustice with long-term socio-economic and ecological implications, it marks a lack of urgency in addressing the anthropogenic causes of climate change despite several...
Are You Ready for the Periodic Inflection Point? Part 1
We get used to the present situation easily over time and use the current logic to predict the future – Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates
U.S. stocks plummeted with the Federal Reserve's announcement of interest rate...
Fed Monetary Policy Consider Financial Stability Risk More Broadly, Not Embolden the Trade War!
The Federal Reserve effectiveness is unjustifiably tested by President Trump, who blames data-dependent monetary policy for a stronger dollar rather than a strong U.S. economy, record low unemployment and a bond bias, driven by...
We Take Economic Decisions Like It was 1919 and It must Stop!
Today, we live in a world of abundance, and people are dying for no good reason.
No. I’m not being dramatic. Our insistence on keeping things the way they are is killing people. Right now,...
The Truck Driver Shortage
Why we have this problem, how it threatens our entire economy, and what we can do to solve it
The U.S. Department of Labor recently published a provocative report. They asked, “Is the US labor market...
We Need to Stop Confusing Social Programs with Socialism
The United States has always had a problem with accepting a true capitalistic, market-driven economy.
Americans love to sing the praises of free markets but loathe allowing them to work as intended. We state over...
An Observation on Crypto Cycles: Is there still a Future for the Token Economy...
We look at surviving or thriving in this cycle, bitcoin and altcoins adoption, and how gold will be the best investment option for the next paradigm shift. We conclude with our thoughts on the...
