Huge currency zones don’t work – we need one per city “This focus on cities as the true engines of economics neatly explains both eurozone and pre-euro failures. European national currency zones were already too big – the eurozone made something already oversized even worse. The US is rich despite having one currency, and it […]
Monthly Archives: January 2016
In Sweden, a Cash-Free Future Nears – The New York Times
2016.01.06 – 16:37
In Sweden, a Cash-Free Future Nears – The New York Times “Bills and coins now represent just 2 percent of Sweden’s economy, compared with 7.7 percent in the United States and 10 percent in the euro area. This year, only about 20 percent of all consumer payments in Sweden have been made in cash, compared […]
Tweet by USSM_Marc
2016.01.06 – 00:17
My timing sucks, but I wrote about another M's CF, Dave Henderson: https://t.co/Wu4eZvSkdb. I'll be the last to write about the Kid soon. — Marc W (@USSM_Marc) January 6, 2016 via https://twitter.com/USSM_Marc
Democracy’s Destabilizer: TMI
2016.01.03 – 09:53
Democracy’s Destabilizer: TMI “We are in the very early days of what he calls the Fifth Wave. Institutions that developed in the age of industrialized, top-down mass media are losing legitimacy while new arrangements have yet to evolve. The challenge is to manage the hazardous transition to a new stage without falling into nihilistic chaos […]
Tweet by trengriffin
2016.01.02 – 09:48
My new blog post "A Dozen Things I have Learned About Business from Rza (the founder of Wu-Tang Clan)" is now up at https://t.co/ygiOPSsljm — Tren Griffin (@trengriffin) January 2, 2016 via https://twitter.com/trengriffin
Introducing Guesstimate, a Spreadsheet for Things That Aren’t Certain — The Guesstimate Blog — Medium
2016.01.01 – 13:37
Introducing Guesstimate, a Spreadsheet for Things That Aren’t Certain — The Guesstimate Blog — Medium “This is why I’ve made Guesstimate, a spreadsheet that’s as easy to use as existing spreadsheets, but works for uncertain values. For any cell you can enter confidence intervals (lower and upper bounds) that can represent full probability distributions. 5000 […]