I have had the pleasure of meeting professor Tyler Cowen a few times and always left my meetings … Leggi tutto “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 … Leggi tutto “LeWeb 2013 Interview of Arnaud Montebourg”

Over the course of the last few years I resolved the cognitive dissonance between my short term pessimism … Leggi tutto “No Limits to Growth”

Dominic Barton, the managing director of McKinsey, recently gave an insightful speech at Stanford Business School. I encourage … Leggi tutto “Great speech on the five trends reshaping the global economy”

Negli ultimi anni l’economista che c’è in me è stato profondamente pessimista sul destino economico a breve e … Leggi tutto “L’economia: Un esperimento di pensiero ottimista”

A few months ago, I started writing an analysis of our global economic situation that I wanted to … Leggi tutto “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 … Leggi tutto “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 … Leggi tutto “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 … Leggi tutto “Cameron Rules, Sarkozy Sucks!”

I recently wrote how the world is less globalized than we suspect it is and how we now … Leggi tutto “Why India is behind China!”

  As I was reading The Upside of Irrationality, Dan Ariely’s sequel to the brilliant Predictably Irrational, I … Leggi tutto “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 … Leggi tutto “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 … Leggi tutto “Summit Series Speech: The Pessimistic Optimist”

I argued in a prior post that the best way to deal with a deflating bubble was not … Leggi tutto “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. … Leggi tutto “Cognitive dissonance be damned: I am a pessimistic optimist!”