There are many reasons to start up a website. Most of them are not serious. Plenty of people have started up their own blogs, but few of them last longer than 6 months. Almost none last more than a year. As it happens, very, very few people have the discipline and the...
Whenever anyone mentions “Russia”, the mental image that springs into most people’s heads tends to be rather mysterious and perhaps even a little frightening. Most people still associate Russia with the Cold War, the Hell-Times of Communism, and the...
When future economic (and regular) historians will look back over the past century of financial crashes and panics, one wonders what they will conclude. They may argue that we sowed the seeds of our own fiscal and financial destruction. If so, they will certainly be...
Modelling complex phenomena is as much an art as it is a science. The past twenty years have given us a number of examples where models have gone very badly wrong. These examples serve to demonstrate very clearly the inherent dangers of taking models too seriously....
Everyone suffers severe losses at some point in his or her life. In my personal opinion, three of the absolute worst kinds of loss are: the death of a child; divorce (especially for men, who are very often blindsided by them); and losing your job due to a layoff. Each...
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