Spoiler alert, this is not a trick question. Give one human $10 (about 7.5 Euros for Ms Merkel) and another, luckier one, $1,000,000. The question is which of these two will spend a larger proportion of their gift on buying stuff? Continue reading Open Letter to Bernanke, Merkel and other G20 leaders: the Upside of Inequality
The most recent lollapalooza business story in Canada has to do with a humungous bank, its largest one, no need to mention it’s the Royal bank of Canada, murdering a bunch of its employees. Continue reading The Race to the Bottom: slow motion economic suicide
Ronald Wright in his splendid “A Short History of Progress,” makes a very strong argument that human civilization, in all its manifold forms, will collapse. That is, unless something is done to stop the accelerating environmental damage from the juggernaut of opportunistic development. Continue reading The End is Nigh; for sure; perhaps, could be, unless….