I have had the pleasure of meeting professor Tyler Cowen a few times and always left my meetings … Continuer la lecture de « How Technology Could Help Fight Income Inequality »

Loic Lemeur asked Jeff Clavier and me to react to Arnaud Montebourg’s presentation at LeWeb and ask him … Continuer la lecture de « LeWeb 2013 Interview of Arnaud Montebourg »

Over the course of the last few years I resolved the cognitive dissonance between my short term pessimism … Continuer la lecture de « No Limits to Growth »

Dominic Barton, the managing director of McKinsey, recently gave an insightful speech at Stanford Business School. I encourage … Continuer la lecture de « Great speech on the five trends reshaping the global economy »

Ces dernières années, l’économiste en moi s’est montré profondément pessimiste quant à la destinée économique à court et … Continuer la lecture de « L’économie : Une expérience de pensée optimiste »

A few months ago, I started writing an analysis of our global economic situation that I wanted to … Continuer la lecture de « Is the Euro zone crisis by design? »

I just came across this very well thought through article on everything that could go wrong for the … Continuer la lecture de « Must read article on America’s 21st century collapse! »

My good friend Auren Hoffman posited that existing nation states would benefit from a little bit of creative … Continuer la lecture de « The Ultimate Startup: Creating a New Country »

Over the last two weeks I had the pleasure of attending the eG8 Summit in Paris at the … Continuer la lecture de « Cameron Rules, Sarkozy Sucks! »

I recently wrote how the world is less globalized than we suspect it is and how we now … Continuer la lecture de « Why India is behind China! »

  As I was reading The Upside of Irrationality, Dan Ariely’s sequel to the brilliant Predictably Irrational, I … Continuer la lecture de « How to minimize human misery in recessions or the macroeconomic implications to hedonic adaptation »

I was shocked that the statistics I came across in a recent article in The Economist which presented … Continuer la lecture de « Globalization is more fragile and less entrenched than you think! »

I wanted to share with you something that has been on my mind lately as I have been … Continuer la lecture de « Summit Series Speech: The Pessimistic Optimist »

I argued in a prior post that the best way to deal with a deflating bubble was not … Continuer la lecture de « Mortgage modifications have done more harm than good »

Over the past few years I have often felt like Cassandra with my dire and pessimistic economic predictions. … Continuer la lecture de « Cognitive dissonance be damned: I am a pessimistic optimist! »