The political problem

Several years ago, immediately post-crisis, I wrote a short article for Nature exploring new ideas about modelling economic and financial ...

The War on Reality

If you're at all disturbed (I am) by the various recent revelations over massive data trolling by government agencies, you should read t...

Secrets of Cyprus...

Just something to think about when scratching your head over the astonishing developments in Cyprus, which seem to be more or less intention...

Strategic recklessness

Some poignant (and infuriating) insight from Chris Arnade on Why it's smart to be reckless on Wall St. : ... asymmetry in pay (money for...

For banks, nothing is illegal

This would be literally unbelievable, except that we've all become desensitized to the double standard of our justice system -- enforcem...