How Long Can the U.S. Bull Market Last?
The U.S. economy is currently in the tenth year of its expansion and investors and policymakers alike are wondering what will trigger the next recession. Despite the U.S. stock market is overvalued with a...
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...
Could Modern Monetary Theory Save America?
I Become President For A Day To Apply Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) To The US Economy
Politicians and academics are making dramatic claims about MMT. I apply it to the 2018 US economy and learn...
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...
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...
Visualizing the first decline in Global Wealth & HNWIs since 2011
5 Charts showing the Declining wealth trends in 2018 after seven years of growth
Following a slump in Global Equities in late 2018 and the subsequent slow down in the Global Economy, 2018 was marked...
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...
The U.S. China Trade War May Cause Multipolarity Instead of Deglobalisation
The U.S.- China trade, technology, and possible currency war suggest a continued escalation beyond rhetoric, with negative implications for trade in an already slowing global economy. Following the bout of tit-for-tat tariffs, talks of...
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...
A Fully Automated Economy–How Can It Work?
Imagine we go through the disruptive transition between an economy where we need to work to make a living, to one where we don’t. It is hard to imagine because in North America; we...
Argentina – a warning to the United States and China
One can wonder why it is that North America is prosperous, but Latin America has fallen far behind. After all, about 500 years ago both started from the same point. Why did some end...
Four Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Trust China’s GDP Data
China’s economic growth in recent decades has been truly spectacular, with an average rate of more than 6.5%, and now it is one of the primary sources of global economic growth, despite the recent...
Unconditional Basic Income Is All Good, Despite What the Nay-Sayers Tell You
I’m a little miffed. I read a lot of comments on social media and published articles about universal basic income. There is a lot to like about it. I follow the information because, as...
Crisis? 3 Ways VCs Adapt
There is a global crisis going on as I write this article. It’s not the first, it won’t be the last. A lot has been written about how startups should manage themselves in a...
In the Digital Economy You are For Sale
Today, the world’s economies increasingly rely on the production of intangible goods. So, what should businesses do to become more competitive in an information-driven world? And, just (if not more) importantly, how can we...
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...
Cash is king, more potent than we think
On March 12, 2020, on the eve of President Trump declaring COVID-19 a national emergency, the New York Times reported that something weird had happened on Wall Street as traders ran for cash. They...
What’s the Minimum Bitcoin’s Price to Make Mining Profitable?
The first time I had contact with the concept of bitcoin mining was in November 2017 and they were websites that used online mining, which ended up being SPAM. It was one of the...
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...
A Novel Economic System To Respond To The Novel Coronavirus?
Economics is not governed by laws of nature or the physical universe but rather by rules created by human beings to organise their lives. It is an emergent system not directly constrained by base...
