2 November 2020
bond yields
The Great Reset
“If you’ve ever wondered which side you’d be on in 1930s Germany, now you know.” - Tweet by Creative Deduction, @CreativeDeduct, 25th October 2020.
26 October 2020
Nürnberg 2
The demon-haunted world
“We’ve arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.” - Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark.
12 October 2020
Risk parity strategy
In the mouth of madness
“I became insane, with long periods of horrible sanity.” - Edgar Allan Poe.
5 October 2020
Global financial crisis
A brief history of economic policy triumphs
“If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there’d be a shortage of sand.” - Milton Friedman.