Speculations on Living (& Investing) in a Post-Truth World
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On Populism
We all live in the slipstream of the ideas of our times. President Trump is no exception, drafting behind word clouds of populism.
The Modern President
The White House wields the most effective dog whistle in today’s politics. Every ahistorical, nonscientific, or malapropistic utterance evokes a breathless rejoinder from the Media…
The Original Case for Helicopter Money
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Faust is an often cited parable about a man who trades his soul for power. Faust also is the tale of a nation oppressed by debt, the creation of fiat c…
On the Centenary of the Theory of General Relativity
One hundred years after Einstein’s grand publication, his insights remain both pervasive and paradoxical to the modern mind, somehow both elemental and elusive.
The Financial Hexaflexagon
The Great Financial Crisis jumbled the global economy. Massive public and private debt, teetering financial institutions, anemic growth, sagging labor markets—all entangled with lo…
Anatomy of a Balloon Dog
“An extreme and self-satisfied manifestation of the sanctimony that attaches to big bucks… And the result is that you can’t imagine America’s singularly depraved culture without hi…
Economics in Wonderland
One hundred and fifty years ago this summer, a frustrated mathematician and part-time nanny put the finishing touches on what would become one of the world’s most popular works of …