Waiting for Godot at the Foothill of History: The Market and the Wilderness of Mirrors
Vladimir and Estragon are still waiting for Mr. Godot as the curtain falls in one of the greatest plays written by Samuel Beckett. Who is really Mr. Godot and why doesn’t he ever appear in the play? And why is the slave owner blinded and the same boy keeps coming to...Necessary but Insufficient: Monetary Boogeymen and Valuations
Over 200 years after the fall of Genghis Khan his empire was in tatters, split up among warring factions divided by tribalism and nominally ruled by outsiders in China and the Middle East. The title of “Khan” was still sought after for the status and privilege it...TIGER and False Prophets: Economic Recovery (diachronic vs. synchronic in Herodotus’s tradition) at the Dawn of 2021
The Great Wall of Steroids (a.k.a. China), in their propaganda war to subjugate other countries into their own illiberal image (see our posting of April 14th), wants us to believe that they are growing and that their economic indicators are now higher they have ever...Fertilizers in the Market’s Vineyard: From Delos to Athens and the Skepticism of Montaigne
It has become common belief and even market strategy the dogma “don’t fight the Fed”. Once the Fed decided to follow an expansionary accommodative policy (at the onset of the 2008 financial crisis), the market has been on an upswing that defies fundamentals and,...Where Corporate Profits Come From: Deficits and COVID-19
There are a number of variables, factors, and principles that overlap between both Microeconomics and Macroeconomics: interest rates, wages, investment, taxation, among many others. Millions of students around the world will explore these ideas and drivers as they...Sign Up for Our Publications
