A Learning Curve

The Dunning-Kruger Effect

Originally published in the Informanté newspaper on Thursday, 1 October, 2015.

If you’ve browsed the comment section of a website, viewed some of the comments left on Facebook, or encountered them in your…

China Syndrome

Emerging Market Contagion

Originally published in the Informanté newspaper on Thursday, 8 October, 2015.

In nuclear physics, China Syndrome refers to a hypothetical loss of coolant accident that causes a severe meltdown of the core of…

Riding a Tiger

The Emerging Market Bezzle

Originally published in the Informanté newspaper on Thursday, 15 October, 2015.

After the 1929 stock market crash, the world was dumped into chaos. For years, the Great Depression lingered, and once…

Ex Astris Scientia

From the Stars, Knowledge

Astronomy is the oldest of the natural sciences. When mankind decided that lifting their eyes up to the hills wasn’t enough, and aimed higher for truth, there they were — the stars. Our quest for knowledge about that which we…

Times They Are A-Changin’

A Neo-Malthusian Tale

In 1779, Thomas Malthus noted,

“The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that…