Serious investment thinking that doesn’t take itself too seriously.
Originally published June 2019. One cynical – but useful – view of modern technology is that it allows us to play through the scams and mistakes of the last few millennia at warp...
Originally published July 2019. That the robots are coming for all our jobs is entirely true. That this is a problem is less clear – after all, we’ve been trying to kill off jobs...
Why the legal protection of property rights needs to be considered in Sao Paolo.
Orthodox economics, we’re told more and more often these days, isn’t up to the task of dealing with a post-pandemic reality. The latest exemplar in the Observer complains, for...
According to Times columnist James Marriott, local councils should “think twice” before selling off their collections of Venetian paintings, Egyptian pots and Roman coins to...
The governmental art of calling for an independent study is making sure you’ll get the answer you want before it begins. Much of that depends, of course, on appointing the right...