Pearls [China’s String of]
China now owns/controls many ports along the Belt and [maritime] Road. Gwadar, in Pakistan; Piraeus, in Greece and in 2018,…
Mobile Pay
Mobile Pay – paying for goods and services by phone – is just one of the many ways that China…
Guns and Butter?
China has two overarching and interrelated imperatives. Provide improving economic and personal opportunities for its citizens, and reestablish its historic…
China’s Perspective
China remembers its former greatness. Magnificent civil engineering projects: the Dujiangyan Water Project still functioning after 2400 years; the Great…
Chinese Credit
The Chinese banking system has long been afflicted by massive lending to State Owned Enterprises (SOEs), organizations whose purposes did…
Made in China 2025
The formalized industrialization component of the grand ambition, now well under way: including the Belt and Road initiative, the String…
South China Sea
The United States Energy Information Administration has estimated that 11 billion barrels of oil and 190 trillion cubic feet of…
Promising Youth Protests
Benjamin Franklin, assessing the newly written constitution prophesied that the American experiment: “can only end in Despotism, as other forms…
Transitioning Economists
In an essay on the intellectual bankruptcy of standard (and particularly Central Banker economics), Whithered Economics, I asked the question: …
Behavior Explained
Review of Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, originally published in The Financial Pipeline. Kahneman is must for every…
Develop your Palate
Who knew? Robin Dando, Cornell University Sensory Evaluation Facility, explains that taste buds have a lifespan of about ten days…
Doubles
So, 39 different “Doubles” according to The Bridge Guys, all of them requiring Partnership Agreements and Full Disclosure to those…
Employee Wristbands
Amazon considering use of electronic sensors on wristbands to “track the movement of workers’ hands as they fulfill orders.” Contrast…
Online Retail
This long video shows the astonishing power unleashed at the collision point of Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Sensor Technologies, Cloud processing…
Responses to 1 No-Trump
You mostly control. Partner has 16 points (+/-) and fairly balanced distribution. You decide what level you will play at,…
Iran’s Youth
don’t want to be saddled with the dogmas of the aged clergy. Change is coming. Stay tuned!
Cycle to Knowledge
Thomas Kuhn, The structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), elucidates the process by which new information is transformed into knowledge. The…