I have had the pleasure of meeting professor Tyler Cowen a few times and always left my meetings … Читать далее «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 … Читать далее «LeWeb 2013 Interview of Arnaud Montebourg»

Over the course of the last few years I resolved the cognitive dissonance between my short term pessimism … Читать далее «No Limits to Growth»

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

В последние несколько лет экономист во мне глубоко пессимистично оценивает краткосрочную и среднесрочную экономическую судьбу развитых стран, и … Читать далее «Экономика: Оптимистический мысленный эксперимент»

A few months ago, I started writing an analysis of our global economic situation that I wanted to … Читать далее «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 … Читать далее «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 … Читать далее «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 … Читать далее «Cameron Rules, Sarkozy Sucks!»

I recently wrote how the world is less globalized than we suspect it is and how we now … Читать далее «Why India is behind China!»

  As I was reading The Upside of Irrationality, Dan Ariely’s sequel to the brilliant Predictably Irrational, I … Читать далее «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 … Читать далее «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 … Читать далее «Summit Series Speech: The Pessimistic Optimist»

I argued in a prior post that the best way to deal with a deflating bubble was not … Читать далее «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. … Читать далее «Cognitive dissonance be damned: I am a pessimistic optimist!»