Despite the tonedeaf denial of the likes of, say, Peter Diamandis or Hans Rosling, a lot of people world wide are unhappy. I would say – too man people are unambiguously despairing. We are seeing a tripling of americans dying of diseases of despair between 1995 and 2018.  If such a demise is an actual […]

(Opinion) Modernity is constructed on a precarious precipice. Unsteady ground. This inherent instability is particularly the result of the world order as created by Bretton-Woods initially, and then reconstituted by the Nixon choice to disconnect the dollar from gold. After 1971 the dollar (as much of the world’s currencies) became largely fictional means of exchange, […]