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How to Make Twitter Better?

There has been a lot of commentary lately about how we can make Twitter “better”. This is understandable given the noisy mess that the service has become in recent years. It is a sad state of affairs to witness its decline.

Herd Behavior

So many absurd things become normalized over time.

Remember when it was strange that Central Banks did QE? Remember when Crypto Currencies first launched? Remember dial up Internet? When we first got these devices with glass screens with QWERTY keyboards?

Free Markets

What a joke the efficient markets hypothesis has become. Following the crisis in 2008, Central Banks worldwide have intentionally interfered in the global financial markets on the order of Trillions for the last decade.

Security Tokens are Rad

There was a minute there where it seemed like maybe this Crypto thing was going to end badly. With more than 50% of ICOs failing and CNBC hyping Ripple as it tripled, the Crypto market had seemed to have gone haywire.

#Italy

For a couple years now I’ve been tweeting about and writing about Political Risk as the main risk in the financial markets. The Reason is simple: for the last decade Central Banks have intervened in markets to suppress interest rates by keeping Sovereign Bond yields too low. By buying government debt in the market…

Getting Punched in the Mouth

Sometimes there is beauty in getting punched in the face.

As a kid, I experienced some pretty painful things. As a little boy, my half brother lived with us and was usually in some sort of trouble. By the time I was 4 my parents had split up, and when I…

V

Some think Crypto Currencies will displace our current government money. Some think autonomous vehicles will make human drivers obsolete. There are folks who speculate about human minds being uploaded to the Internet. Some even think the robots will take over the Earth.

Cuatro: Who Am I?

How long does it take to change who we are?

How long does it take to know who we are?

Who are we anyway?

Questions of identity are tough. Especially nowadays when our identities are more complex than they were in the…