Bewildered, bemused, besotted, be outraged. How to explain and understand Populism, Tribalism, Brexit, Trump, Victimization, Political Correctness, Cultural Appropriation, unwillingness…
If the hypothesis proposed last June [https://gapthinking.ca/an-hypothesis/] remains tenable, and I think it does, interesting questions result. The observed change…
Context stimulates creative endeavour. When Shakespeare was writing, Queen Elizabeth was aging, frail and without a successor; Spain continued to…
Scheidel, Walter. The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stome Age to the Twenty-First Century. 2017.…
China now owns/controls many ports along the Belt and [maritime] Road. Gwadar, in Pakistan; Piraeus, in Greece and in 2018,…
Mobile Pay – paying for goods and services by phone – is just one of the many ways that China…
“Animal Spirits” ran out of gas in January, 2018. From Investopedia: “Animal Spirits is a term used by the famous…
China has two overarching and interrelated imperatives. Provide improving economic and personal opportunities for its citizens, and reestablish its historic…
Henry Kissinger, eminent historian, philosopher and statesman, has joined the crowded debate over the long term threat to humanity posed…
An Oxymoron: Governments make investments for their citizens. Investment decisions by committee are a direct route to impoverishment. Exponential wealth…